This is a list of individuals who have completed doctoral degrees in our department. Our graduates have gone on to flourishing careers in academia, public service, industry and many other fields.
Microfiche copies of past dissertations are available from the National Library of Canada (390 Wellington St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0N4).
Most dissertations completed within the past five years are also available through the University of Toronto Digital Library Repository.
Last Updated: November 2023
| Student Name | Dissertation Title | Convocation | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golnaz Hossein Mardi | Pottery Production at Seh Gabi in Central Zagros of Iran during the Dalma and Seh Gabi Periods (Middle Chalcolithic Period) | 2023 | Clemens Reichel |
| Ted Good | Zoroastrian Philosophy in the Islamic World | 2023 | Enrico Raffaelli, Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo |
| Lahouari Ramzi Taleb | Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (d. 1883): Mystical Hermeneutics, Theology and Metaphysics in His Kitāb al-Mawāqif (“The Book of Mystical Halts”) | 2023 | Walid Saleh |
| Kambale Nziwa | Tracking the Continuity of the Leviticus Laws of the Impurity of Genital Fluids in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature | 2023 | Tirzah Meacham, Sarianna Metso |
| Shuaib Ally | Anxieties Over the Loss of the Classics: Tracing Islamic Intellectual History through the Manuscripts of ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī’s Dalāʾil and Asrār | 2021 | Walid Saleh |
| Parisa Zahiremami | Cosmopolitanism, Poetry, and Kingship: The Ideal Ruler in Sanāʾī’s (d. 1131 or 1135 CE) Poetry | 2021 | Shafique Virani |
| Erin Ingram | O My Heart: The Role of Heart Scarabs in Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Practices | 2021 | Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner |
| Abolfazl Moshiri | The Devil’s Advocates: The Exoneration of Iblīs in Persian Mysticism | 2021 | Maria Subtelny |
| Pooriya Alimoradi | The Zand-i Vahman Yasht: A Zoroastrian Apocalypse in New Persian | 2021 | Enrico Raffaelli |
| Demetrios Alibertis | The Social and Cultural Framework of the Syriac Exegete’s World: The Dependence of Syriac Christian Commentators on Rabbinic Traditions | 2021 | Amir Harrak |
| Nima Jamali | A Study of the Interactions among Zoroastrian, Jewish and Roman Legal Systems during the 7th and 8th Centuries CE Based on a Critical Edition of Īšō‛-boḵt’s Corpus Juris with Commentary and an English Translation | 2021 | Tirzah Meacham, Amir Harrak |
| Isaac Friesen | Casual Crossings: The Muslim Attendance of Coptic Spaces in Provincial Egypt | 2021 | Amira Mittermaier, James Reilly |
| James Tucker | From Ink Traces to Ideology: Material, Text, and Composition of Qumran Community Rule Manuscripts | 2021 | Harry Fox |
| Robert Martin | Reconstructing Maritime Networks in the Bronze and Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean: A Diachronic Analysis of Canaanite and Phoenician Maritime Transport Containers | 2020 | Timothy Harrison |
| Usman Hamid | Tracing the Footsteps of the Prophet across the Indian Ocean: The Materiality of Prophetic Piety in Mughal India | 2020 | Maria Subtelny |
| Aleksandra Ksiezak | Tell el-Yahudiyeh Ware at Tell el-Maskhuta – Evolution, Character, and Function During the Middle Bronze/Second Intermediate Period | 2020 | Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner |
| Tracy L. Spurrier | Navigating Sennacherib’s Égalzagdinutukua: An Architectural Spatial Analysis Study Analyzing Movement, Access, and Art in the Southwest Palace at Nineveh | 2020 | Clemens Reichel |
| Julie Frances Lowe | Legal Conceptions of Sexual Violation in Late Islamic Law and Modern Jordan | 2020 | Mohammad Fadel, Nada Moumtaz |
| Lale Javanshir | History and Literature Interwoven Yet Distinct: The Pasaname, a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Turkish Mes̠nevi on Conflicts in Rumelia and the Northern Black Sea Region | 2020 | Victor Ostapchuk |
| Mateen Rokhsefat | Modern Islamic Messianism: Eschatology to Teleology | 2020 | Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi |
| Daniel Sarlo | Heliolatry in the Hebrew Bible: An Investigation into Yahweh's Original Nature | 2020 | Robert Holmstedt |
| Shuntu Kuang | For King and What Country?: Chinggisid-Timurid Conceptions of Rulership and Political Community in Relation to Territory, 1370-1530 | 2020 | Maria Subtelny |
| Netanel Haim Silverman | Rereading Identity Cards: The Early Anticolonial Poetics of Mahmoud Darwish and their Hebrew Afterlives | 2019 | Harry Fox, Jeannie Miller |
| Jacques Boulet | A Linguistic Reappraisal of the Biblical Hebrew Accusative | 2019 | Robert Holmstedt |
| Meredith Brand | The Socio-economic Organization of Votive Pottery Production at Abydos, Egypt in the New Kingdom: A Metric Analysis Study | 2019 | M.A. Pouls Wegner |
| Silvia Zago | Conceptualizing Life after Death. The Evolution of the Concept of Duat and Related Notions in Egyptian Funerary Literature | 2019 | Katja Goebs |
| Ahmedkhaled Abujayyab | Nomads in Late Chalcolithic Northern Mesopotamia: Mobility and Social Change in the 5th and 4th Millennia BC |
2019 | C. Reichel |
| Amber Hutchinson | Provincial Cults during the Eighteenth Dynasty: A Dialectical Relationship between Royal Patronage and Non-Royal Votive Activity in Ancient Egypt |
2019 | M.A. Pouls Wegner |
| Steve Edwards | Ebla’s Hegemony and Its Impact on the Archaeology of the Amuq Plain in the Third Millennium BCE | 2019 | T. Harrison |
| Laura Hare | Gendered Speech: A Sociolinguistic Study of Conversations between Men and Women in Biblical Narrative | 2018 | R. Holmstedt |
| Mohammadreza Ardehali | THE FORMATION OF CLASSICAL IMĀMĪ EXEGESIS Rawḍ al-Jinān wa-Rawḥ al-Janān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʾān of Abū al-Futūḥ Rāzī (d. in or after 552/1157) |
2018 | W. Saleh |
| Halil Simsek | The Missing Link in the History of Quranic Commentary: The Ottoman Period and the Quranic Commentary of Ebussuud/Abū Su‘ūd al-‘Imādī (d. 1574 CE) Irshād al-‘aql al-salīm ilā mazāyā al-Kitāb al-Karīm |
2018 | W. Saleh |
| Janet James | Embodied Persons in the North Abydos Votive Zone during the Third Intermediate Period - Late Period (1069- 332BCE): Constructing Social Identities with Osteology and Mortuary Behaviour | 2018 | M.A. Pouls Wegner |
| Adam Ali | The Mamluk Army: The Decline Paradigm In Question | 2017 | L. Northrup |
| Radovan Kabatiar | Life on the Periphery, Life at the Crossroads: A Zooarchaeological Perspective on Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Animal Utilization at Kinet Hoyuk (Turkey) | 2017 | T. Harrison |
| Noha Abou-Khatwa | Calligraphers, Illuminators, and Patrons: Mamluk Qur'an Manuscripts from 1341-1412AD in light of the collection of the National Library of Egypt | 2017 | K. Ruehrdanz |
| Sajjad Nejatie | The Pearl of Pearls: The Abdali-Durrani Confederacy and Its Transformation under Ahmad Shah, Durr-i Durran | 2017 | M. Subtelny |
| Sait Ocakli | The Relations of the Crimean Khanate with the Ukranian Cossacks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Muscovy during the Reign of Khan Islam Giray III (1644-1654) | 2017 | V. Ostapchuk |
| Sarah Schellinger | An Analysis of the Architectural, Religious, and Political Significance of the Napatan and Meroitic Palaces | 2017 | K. Grzymski |
| Jonathan Vroom | Law, Authority, and Interpretation in the Ancient World: The Origin of Legal Obligation in Second Temple Judaism | 2017 | S. Metso |
| Odette Boivin | The First Dynasty of the Sealand in History and Tradition | 2016 | P.A. Beaulieu |
| Oscar Jarzmik | ‘Adjusting to Powerlessness’ in Occupied Jerusalem: Theodore “Teddy” Kollek, the Palestinians, and the Organizing Principles of Israeli Municipal Policy, 1967-1987 |
2016 | J. Reilly |
| Noa Shaindlinger | Remembering Past(s), Imagining Futures: The Politics of Hope in Palestine |
2016 | J. Hanssen |
| Douglas Petrovich | Building XVI at Tell Tayinat: The Religious Dimensions and Significance of a Tripartite Temple at Neo-Assyrian Kunulua |
2016 | T. Harrison |
| Khalid Dinno | The Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Periods: Crisis and Revival | 2015 | A. Harrak |
| Andrew Jones | Word Order and Information Structure in Finite Verb Clauses in Hellenistic Period Hebrew | 2015 | R. Holmstedt |
| Mustafa Banister | The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo (659-923/1261-1517): History and Tradition in the Mamluk Court | 2015 | L. Northrup |
| Hicham Safieddine | Economic Sovereignty and the Fetters of Finance: The Making of Lebanon's Central Bank | 2015 | J. Hanssen |
| John Screnock | Translators as Scribes - A Comparison of Scribal Practice and Translation Practice: Exodus 1-14 in the Hebrew Manuscript Tradition and the Old Greek | 2015 | S. Metso |
| Hamid Rezaei Yazdi | Debating Iranians: The Discursive Practice of Munāzirah and the Making of Modern Iran | 2015 | M. Tavakoli-Targhi |
| Arshavez Mozafari | An Intellectual History of Early Pahlavî Demonology, 1921-41/1299-1320 sh | 2015 | M. Tavakoli-Targhi |
| Golbarg Rekabtalaei | Cinematic Modernity: Cosmopolitan Imaginaries in Twentieth Century Iran | 2015 | M. Tavakoli-Targhi |
| Emmanuel Joseph Mar-Emmanuel | The Book of Resh Melle by Yohannan Bar Penkaye: An Introduction to the Text and Study of its Literary Genres | 2015 | A. Harrak |
| Krzysztof Baranowski | The Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan | 2014 | P-A. Beaulieu |
| Nermeen Mouftah | Building Life: Faith, Literacy Development, and Muslim Citizenship in Revolutionary Egypt | 2014 | A. Mittermaier |
| Yona Katz | From Crying Comes Light: The Impact of Post-Traumatic Stress on the Poetry of Amir Gilboa | 2014 | H. Fox |
| Nasrin Askari | The Ardashir Cycle in the Shahnama: A Study of Firdausi's Oeuvre as a Mirror for Princes | 2013 | M. Subtelny |
| Brian Janeway | Cultural Transition in the Northern Levant during the Early Iron Age as Reflected in the Aegean Ware at Tell Tayinat | 2013 | T. Harrison |
| Chad Stauber | Prophetic Scribalism: A Semantic, Textual and Hypertextual Study of the Serek Texts | 2013 | S. Metso |
| Antoine Hirsch | Ancient Egyptian Cubits: Origin and Evolution | 2013 | R. Leprohon |
| Joo-Yup Lee | The Formation of the Qazaqs and the Socio-Political Phenomenon of Qazaqlïq | 2013 | V. Ostapchuk |
| Omid Siyyid-Ali Ghaemmaghami | Seeing the Proof: The Question of Contacting the Hidden Imam in Early Twelver Shīʿī Islam | 2013 | B.T. Lawson |
| Amar Baadj | The Struggle for North Africa between Almohads, Ayyubids, and Banū Ghāniya (Late Twelfth to Early Thirteenth Centuries A.D.) | 2013 | L. Northrup |
| Ida Meftahi | Body National in Motion: The Biopolitics of Dance in Twentieth-Century Iran | 2013 | M. Tavakoli-Targhi |
| Shabir Ally | The Culmination of Tradition-based Tafsīr: The Qurʼān Exegesis al-Durr al-manthūr of al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505) | 2012 | W. Saleh |
| Birol Gundogdu | Ottoman Constructions of the Morea Rebellion in the 1770s: A Comprehensive Study of Ottoman Attitudes to the Greek Uprising | 2012 | V. Aksan |
| Shawn Flynn | When on High Yahweh Reigned: Translating Yahweh's Kingship in Ancient Israel | 2012 | J.G. Taylor |
| Anne Marie Clement | Fallāhīn on Trial in Colonial Egypt: Apprehending the Peasantry through Orality, Writing, and Performance (1884-1914) | 2012 | J. Reilly & A. Hassanpour |
| Christina Geisen | The Ramesseum Dramatic Papyrus: A New Edition, Translation, and Interpretation | 2012 | R. Leprohon |
| Murat Yasar | The North Caucasus in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century: Imperial Entanglements and Shifting Loyalties | 2011 | V. Ostapchuk |
| Maryam Moazzen | Islamic Higher Learning in Early Modern Iran: Educational Institutions in Safavid | 2011 | M. Subtelny |
| Mina Yasdani | Religious Contentions in Modern Iran, 1881-1941 | 2011 | M. Tavakoli-Targhi |
| Laura Wiseman | Lamentations of a Lovelorn Soul: Self-portraits in the Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch | 2010 | H. Fox |
| Sargon George Donabed | Iraq and the Assyrian Unimagining: Illuminating Scaled Suffering and a Hierarchy of Genocide from Simele to Anfal | 2010 | A. Harrak |
| Lynn Welton | The Use of Strontium and Oxygen Isotope Analysis to Identify Immigrants to Early Bronze Age İkiztepe, Turkey | 2010 | T. Harrison |
| Catherine Duff | Ceramic Continuity and Change at Shechem (Tell Balatâh): Assessing the Impact of Egyptian Imperialism in the Central Hill Country | 2010 | T. Harrison |
| Amy Elizabeth Barron | Late Assyrian Arms and Armour: Art versus Artifact | 2010 | T. Harrison |
| Nevin Reda El-Tahry | Textual Integrity and Coherence in the Qur'an: Repetition and Narrative Structure in Surat al-Baqara | 2010 | B.T. Lawson |
| Donna Lee Petter | The Book of Ezekiel: Patterned after a Mesopotamian City Lament? | 2009 | J.G. Taylor |
| Kent Varree Bramlett | Eastern Front: The Transjordanian Highlands in Late Bronze Age Hegemonic Contest | 2009 | T. Harrison |
| Adina Sima Leah Levin | Hosea and North Israelite Traditions: The Distinctive Use of Myth and Language in the Book of Hosea | 2009 | J.B. Peckham |
| Mohammed Rustom | Qur'anic Exegesis in Later Islamic Philosophy: Mulla Sadra's Tafsir Surat al-Fatiha | 2009 | B.T. Lawson |
| Laliv Clenman | "Is She Forbidden or Permitted?" (bSanhedrin 82a): A Longitudinal Study of Intermarriage in Classical Jewish Sources | 2009 | T. Meacham |
| Kei Yamamoto | Middle Kingdom Pottery Assemblage from North Abydos | 2009 | M.A. Pouls Wegner |
| Chad Gilbert Lingwood | Jami's Salaman va Absal as an Esoteric Mirror for Princes in Its Aq Qoyunlu Context | 2009 | M. Subtelny |
| Albert Dov Friedberg | An Evaluation of Maimonides' Enumeration of the 613 Commandments, with Special Emphasis on the Positive Commandments | 2008 | H. Fox |
| N. Feryal Tansug | Communal Relations in Izmir/Smyrna, 1826-1864: As Seen Through the Prism of Greek-Turkish Relations | 2008 | V. Aksan |
| Marica Christine Cassis | The Evolution of the Permanent Altar in the Early Christian Church | 2007 | A. Harrak |
| Eddie Halabi | The Transformation of the Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1917-1937: From Local and Islamic to Modern and Nationalist Celebration | 2007 | J. Reilly |
| Annlee Elizabeth Dolan | Wadi ath-Thamad Site WT-13: A Hermeneutical Approach to Moabite Religion | 2007 | T. Harrison |
| Laren Ruel Gaston Kurtz | The Function of the Titles of Yahweh in the Book of Jeremiah | 2007 | E.J. Revell |
| Steven Blake Shubert | Those Who (Still) Live on Earth: A Study of the Ancient Egyptian Appeal to the Living Texts | 2007 | R. Leprohon |
| Ghada Jayyusi-Lehn | The Life and Career of the Caliph Al-Mu'tasim (218-227AH/833-842 AD): A Problem in Historiography | 2007 | L. Northrup |
| Hosn Abboud | Mary, Mother of Jesus, and the Qur'anic Text: A Feminist Literary Study | 2006 | R. Al-Sayyid |
| Thomas David Petter | Diversity and Uniformity on the Frontier: Ethnic Identity in the Central Highlands of Jordan during the IRON I | 2005 | T. Harrison |
| Heather Elizabeth Snow | The Role of Metals in the Early Bronze Age Economies of North Syria and Anatolia | 2005 | T. Harrison |
| Mahdi Tourage | Phallocentric Esotericism in Jalal al-Din Rumi's Masnavi-i Ma'navi | 2005 | M. Subtelny |
| Thornton Cameron Robert Boyd-Taylor | Reading Between the Lines: Towards an Assessment of the Interlinear Paradigm for Septuagint Studies | 2005 | A. Pietersma |
| Jannes Smith | A Linguistic and Exegetical Commentary on the Hallelouia Psalms of the Septuagint | 2005 | J.B. Peckham |
| Caroline Michelle Rocheleau | Amun Temples in Nubia. A Comparative Study of New Kingdom, Napatan, and Meroitic Temples | 2005 | K. Grzymki |
| Tibor Szalontay | The Art of War During the Ottoman-Habsburg Long War (1593-1606) According to Narrative Sources | 2005 | J.R. Blackburn |
| Aaron Pace Schade | Ancient Northwest Semitic Inscriptions: A Syntactic and Literary Analysis | 2005 | J.B. Peckham |
| Stephen Denis Batiuk | Migration Theory and the Distribution of the Early Transcaucasian Culture | 2005 | T. Harrison |
| Ryan J.P. Defonzo | Iron II Judah: An Intra-Regional Study of Production and Distribution | 2005 | T. Harrison |
| Cristian Gheorghe Rata | The Verbal System in the Book of Job | 2004 | J.G. Taylor |
| Dina Ghaly | The Shari al-A zam in Cairo: Its Topography and Architecture in the Mamluk Period | 2004 | L. Golombek |
| Karljurgen Gabriel Feuerherm | Abum-waqar and His Circle: A Prosopographical Study | 2004 | R.F.G. Sweet |
| Jamie Robert Novotny | Ehulhul, Egipar, Emelamana, and Sîn's Akitu-House: A Study of Assyrian Building Activities at Harran | 2003 | R.F.G. Sweet |
| Justin Clement Jaron Lewis | Imagining Holiness: A Source-Critical, Historical and Thematic Study of Collections of Hasidic Tales with Particular Focus on the Works of Israel Berger and Abraham Hayim Simhah Bunem Michelson | 2003 | H. Fox |
| Andrew Joseph Lane | Al-Zamakhshari (d.538/1144) and Jis Qur'an Commentary al-Kashshaf: A Late Mu'tazilite Scholar at Work | 2003 | S. Guenther |
| Debra Carmen Foran | The Identification of a Mosaic Workshop in Madaba, Jordan | 2003 | T. Harrison |
| Abdulrahman Al-Ayedi | The "Ways of Horus" in the Ancient Egyptian Records and Archaeology | 2002 | R. Leprohon |
| Jennifer Elisabeth Hellum | The Presence of Myth in the Pyramid Texts | 2002 | R. Leprohon |
| Diane Kriger | A Study of the Construction of the Status of Slavery in Early Jewish Law, Particularly with Respect to the Matrilineal Principle | 2001 | H. Fox |
| Hilal Sursal | Gulten Akin, a Pioneering Turkish Woman Poet: Her Life, Poetry and Poetics within their Social, Historical and Literary Context | 2001 | R. Sandler |
| Cindy Lou Nimchuk | Darius I and the Formation of the Achaemenid Empire: Communicating the Creation of an Empire | 2001 | T.C. Young |
| Carolyn Diane Routledge | Ancient Egyptian Ritual Practice ir-ht and nt-c | 2001 | R. Leprohon |
| Dina Eylon | The Soul and Afterlife in Jewish Mysticism and Gnosticism | 2001 | L. Garshowitz |
| Suzanne Lynn Onstine | The Role of the Chantress (SM'YT) in Ancient Egypt | 2001 | N. Millet |
| Arley Alaire Loewen | The Concept of "Jawanmardi" (Manliness) in Persian Literature and Society | 2001 | M. Subtelny |
| Leanne May Mallory | Predynastic and First Dynasty Egyptian Basalt Vessels | 2001 | K. Grzymki & M. Gorton |
| Andrew McGregor | The Stone Monuments and Antiquities of the Jebel Marra Region, Darfur, Sudan c. 1000 - 1750 AD | 2000 | K. Grzymki |
| Victoria Iris Rowe | The 'New Armenian Woman': Armenian Women's Writing in the Ottoman Empire, 1880-1915 | 2000 | R. Sandler |
| Hilary Gopnik | The Ceramics of Godin II: Ceramic Variability in the Archaeological Record | 2000 | T.C. Young |
| Sabrina Roma Rampersad | The Origin and Relationships of the Nubian A-Group | 1999 | K. Grzymki |
| Diane Victoria Flores | The Funerary Sacrifice of Animals during the Predynastic Period | 1999 | D. Redford |
| Timothy John Gianotti | The Secrets of the Soul, Death and the Afterlife in Al-Ghazali's Ihya' 'Ulum Al-Din | 1998 | M. Marmura |
| Nola Jeanette Johnson | Paradisiacal Imagery in Early Islamic Art | 1998 | L. Golombek |
| Bethany Joelle Walker | The Ceramic Correlated of Decline in the Mamluk Sultanate: An Analysis of Late Sgraffito Wares | 1998 | L. Golombek |
| Peter James Brand | The Monuments of Seti I and Their Historical Significance: Epigraphic, Art Historical and Historical Analysis | 1998 | D. Redford |
| Gregory Duncan Mumford | International Relations Between Egypt and Syria-Palestine During the Bronze Age, Iron Age and Babylonian Period: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Distribution and Impact of Egyptian(izing) Artifacts and Pottery Within the Sinai and 22 Selected Sites in Syria-Palestine (circa 1150-525 BC) | 1998 | D. Redford |
| Elisabeth North Cooper | The Middle Bronze Age of the Euphrates Valley, Syria: Chronology, Regional Interaction and Cultural Exchange | 1997 | T.C. Young |
| Faysal Mohamad | Faysal iban al-Husayn and Britain: The Uneasey Alliance | 1996 | J. Reilly |
| Julie Renee Anderson | Spacial and Temporal Distribution of Domestic and Civil Architecture in Christian Nubia | 1996 | K. Grzymki |
| Paul Heger | The Development of the Incense Cult of Israel | 1996 | H. Fox |