The Humanities Council’s Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM) celebrates Ph.D. graduates in the Class of 2026. Five students earned a joint doctoral degree in IHUM. Congratulations to all our students and thank you to our faculty!
The IHUM Class of 2026 graduates are:
Kutay Onayli (Near Eastern Studies) defended his dissertation on July 28, 2025.
Dissertation title: “A Laughing Matter: Identity, Alienation, and Imperial Collapse in Ottoman Greek Popular Writing”
Dissertation advisor: M. Sükrü Hanioglu (Near Eastern Studies)
IHUM advisor: Elizabeth Davis (Anthropology)
Navjit Kaur (Anthropology) defended her dissertation on September 16, 2025.
Dissertation title: “Narrating Labor’s Remainders: A Sororal Story of Muslim Women in Indian Punjab”
Dissertation advisors: Julia Elyachar (Anthropology) and Laurence Ralph (SPIA)
IHUM advisor: Divya Cherian (History)
Julian Chehirian (History of Science) defended his dissertation on April 6, 2026.
Dissertation title: “The Clinical Studio: Art, Attention, and the Mind Sciences”
Dissertation advisors: D. Graham Burnett and Katja Guenther (History)
IHUM advisor: Elizabeth Davis (Anthropology)
Lina Abushouk (English) defended her dissertation on May 20, 2026.
Dissertation title: “Aesthetics of Underdevelopment: The African Novel, Development and Subjectivity”
Dissertation advisors: Simon Gikandi, Zahid Chaudhary, and Rob Nixon (English)
IHUM advisor: Kinohi Nishikawa (English and African American Studies)
Julia Kornberg (Spanish & Portuguese) defended her dissertation on May 20, 2026.
Dissertation title: “Poetics of Displacement: Translation, Polyglotism, and World Literature in Latin America (1968-1989)”
Dissertation advisors: Gabriela Nouzeilles and Rubén Gallo (Spanish and Portuguese)
IHUM advisor: Kinohi Nishikawa (English and African American Studies)
