CEMS grants students of the Eastern Mediterranean Studies Specialization with the best MA thesis award at the end of each academic year. We hope that the award will encourage students for conducting outstanding research and scholarly performance.
AWARDS
2024
Mustafa Ada Kök (Medieval Studies), MA thesis: The Antichrist in Purple: Ecclesiastical Invectives Against Constantius II
2023
Andrei Dumitrescu (Medieval Studies), MA thesis: The Visionary Emperor: Constantine the Great and the Archangel Michael in Late Fifteenth-Century Moldavian Representations
2022
Zeynep Olgun (Medieval Studies), MA thesis: A Sailor's Life for Me: The Middle Byzantine Sailor on Board and at Port
2021
Maria Golovina (History), MA thesis Knowledge and Reciprocal Diplomacy: Alberto Vimina’s Embassy to Moscow (1655) and Ivan Chemodanov’s Embassy to Venice (1656)
2020
Rabia Merve Demirkan Aydogan (History), MA thesis: Schools for the Holy City: Education, Imperial Loyalty and Missionaries in Late Ottoman Jerusalem, 1876-1909
2019
Cankat Kaplan (Medieval Studies), MA thesis: An Anti-Ibn Arabi (d. 1240) Polemicist in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul: Ibrahim al-Halabi (d. 1549) and His Interlocutors
2017
Mariia Telegina (Medieval Studies), MA thesis: Ceremonial representation in cross-confessional diplomacy: the Ottoman embassy of a Christian ambassador to Moscow in 1621.