Best Thesis Award

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

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.