MA Degrees Awarded to Program Majors :: Graduate Programs
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| Laszlo Szimonisz | May 1965 | An Historical Presentation and Analysis of the Emergence of Seljuk Power |
| Alan Foster Brown | June 1965 | A Compilation of Cultural Semantic Nouns in Middle Korean |
| Evan B. Ames | June 1966 | Hungarian-Slovak Relations to Trianon: The Feasibility of Revision |
| David C. Montgomery | June 1966 | Some Lexical Features of the Modern Mongolian News paper Language |
| Larry William Moses | June 1966 | The Battle of Nomonhan-Khalkin Gol |
| Ralph V. Larson | August 1966 | Finland's Constitution: Its Development from 1772 to 1919 |
| Liina Keerdoja | September 1966 | Some Characteristic Differences in the Use of Finnish and Estonian Verbs and Cases |
| William A. Yarwood | September 1966 | An Analysis of A Tardi Helyzet, The Situation in Tard |
| Charles F. Carlson | June 1967 | Native Hungarian Words of Ob-Ugric and of Older Origin |
| Matti Toivo Salo | June 1967 | Shamanic Traditions in the Ancient Finnish Poetry |
| Steven E. Hegaard | May 1968 | Some Expressions Pertaining to Death in the Kok-Turkic Inscriptions |
| William I. Pollari | June 1968 | Juhani Aho's Relationship to and Treatment of Finnish Pietism |
| G. Larry Penrose | October 1968 | A Comparison of the Oguz Legends of Abu'l-Gazi and Reshid ad-Din |
| Mikki Reynard | December 1968 | The English Equivalents of Hungarian Már |
| Thomas Clemo | June 1969 | Political Liberalization in Turkey |
| Michael G. Miller | June 1969 | Political Trends and the Imam Hatip Schools in Republican Turkey |
| Barbara M. Heinkele | August 1969 | They Lived in the Open Fields. The Tatars in Sixteenth Century English Travel Accounts |
| Charles Hartman | December 1969 | The Sino-Tibetan matrimonial Alliance of 710 A.D. |
| Gizelle T. Beke | January 1970 | Emperor Joseph II: Tragic Hero of Two Hungarian Historical Dramas |
| Charles D. Van Tuyl | March 1970 | Poems Contained in the Biography of Mila-Raspa, an Early Kargyudpa Buddhist Saint of Tibet |
| Andrew W. Marum | April 1970 | Turkish Politics in Transition: As Study of Turkish Government between August 1908 and February 1909 |
| Kathryn Zahlout | June 1970 | Explanations of the Kalevala Poetry Meter: The Role of Music |
| Larry Vernon Clark | November 1970 | Utilizing Early Turkic Linguistic Sources (Eighteenth Century Chuvash) |
| William W. Reese | December 1970 | Some Notes on the Khoy Dialect of Persian Azerbaijani |
| Marsha E. Penti | June 1971 | An Analysis of Veijo Meri's Characters |
| Bess A. Brown | November 1971 | The National Communists of Uzbekistan |
| Stanley Frye | April 1972 | The Hundred and Eight Names of Avalokitesvara and Tara (Introduction, Translation, and Commentary) |
| Lajos Kazar | April 1972 | The Idea of 'Ability' as Expressed in Hungarian and English: A Contrastive Study |
| Stephen A. Halkovic | May 1972 | A Comparative Analysis of Zaya Pandita's Bibliography of Translations |
| Bruce Lippard | November 1972 | Excerpts from the Synopsis Historiarum of Ioannes Scylitzes Concerning the Pechenegs: Translations and Commentary |
| Adrian A. Niemi | May 1973 | An Organization of Finnish Fishing Charms |
| Thomas E. Ewing | October 1973 | The Political and Economic Origins of the Mongolian Revolution: 1911 |
| Harry A. Jackendorff | January 1974 | The Secret History of the Mongols: Prolegomena to a Discussion of Mongol Socio-Legal Perspective |
| Christopher I. Beckwith | May 1974 | The Biography of the Youth Padma 'Ol 'Bar |
| Gary W. Houston | May 1974 | The bSam Yas Debate |
| Mark Logan Davis | September 1974 | An Investigation of the Pamphlet Entitled 'The Demands of the Malecontents' |
| David R. Staats | February 1974 | Studies on the Mahbubu'l-Qulub of Mir 'Ali Shir Navayi |
| Michael L. Walter | March 1975 | A Treatise on Indo-Tibetan Alchemy |
| Keith Richard Westover | May 1975 | The Library in Finland: History, Development, Types and Organization from the Earliest Times to the Present |
| Catheryn A. Stein | September 1975 | Studies in the Shangs-pa bKa'-rgyud-pa: The Biography of the Wisdom Dakini Niguma and an Excerpt from the Biography of Khyung-po |
| Mary Boros-Kazai | October 1975 | Western Travelers to Hungary in the Sixteenth Century |
| Andras A. Boros-Kazai | October 1975 | Literary Trends in Hungary During the Hunyadi Era |
| Donald Einer Bjarnson | May 1976 | A Phonemic Transcription of Lorozero (Kildin) Lappish |
| Kin Bing Wu | May 1976 | The Founding of the T'o-pa Empire |
| Kwan-po Tang | May 1976 | Political History of the Dzungar Khanate in the 17th and 18th Centuries |
| Carl Robert Erickson | August 1976 | Frigyes Karinthy: His Search for Objectivity as Reflected in Six Major Works |
| Roger Eugene Blaine | August 1977 | A Survey of Hungarian Language Teaching Materials in English |
| William Samuel Peachy. | August 1977 | Selânkî Mustafa Efendi and his History |
| Craig Earl Watson | April 1977 | An Abridged Biography of dGongs-Pa Rab-Gsal by Chos-Kyi Nyi-ma: A Critical Transcription and Translation |
| Julianna Ludanyi | October 1977 | A Grammatical Analysis of Selected Hungarian Historical Texts |
| Bill Rozycki | March 1978 | A Comparative Phonology of Dagur and Written Mongol |
| Randolph Clark | April 1978 | Rection: A Contribution to the English-Finnish Contrastive Grammar |
| Douglas Pauley | May 1978 | German Loan Translations in Estonian |
| Michael R. Drompp | June 1978 | The Runic Turkic Inscriptions as Sources for the History of the Second Türk Empire (A.D. 682-742) |
| Raymond Jean-Harold Jorgeson | August 1978 | The Background of the Mission of John of Plano Carpini to the Mongols |
| John Thomas Ririe | September 1978 | King Sigismund's Campaign of 1396 |
| Paul Alexander Draghi | October 1978 | A Tibetan-Mongol Glossary of Materia Medica in Tibetan Script |
| Ilona Janosi | May 1979 | Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: His Early Life in Hungary (1895-1919) |
| Dan Bader | June 1979 | The Nationality Question in Central Asia: Socialism as a Solution in one Country |
| Tom Specht | July 1979 | The Interaction between the Finnish Metal and Engineering Industry and the Soviet Union |
| Don Carlton | September 1979 | Atisha's Vision of Avalokiteshvara |
| Devin DeWeese | November 1979 | Wilderness and Barbarian: Favorable Evaluations of the Wilderness and the Wilderness Peoples on Medieval Christian and Islamic Literature |
| Elliot Sperling | December 1979 | The Life of the Fifth Karma-Pa: An Annotated Translation of a Tibetan Biography of the Dharmasvamin De-Bzhin Gshegs-Pa |
| Michael Thomas | September 1980 | English-Ottoman Relations: The First Hundred Years |
| Ann Marsh | December 1980 | U.S.-Turkish Relations, 1890-1969 |
| Nathan Cutler | February 1981 | The Sutra of Sor-Mo'i Phreng-Ba |
| Stephen Sego | April 1981 | Katib Celebi and the Reform of the Ottoman Empire |
| Sakari Jutila | May 1981 | Finlandization for Finland and the World |
| Adrianne L. Mydlowski | August 1982 | The Image of Women in Modern Mongol Literature |
| Daniel Phytila | February 1982 | Concerning the Antiquity of Finnish Quantitative Gradation |
| Gregory Nehler | March 1982 | The Development of the Poetry of Miklos Radnoti |
| Theodore Unwin | October 1982 | Hungarian-Turkish Relations, 16th Century |
| Carolyn Erdener | November 1982 | The Village Institutes: A National Strategy for Rural Modernization and Induced Behavioral Change |
| Ruth I. Meserve | June 1983 | The Inhospitable Land of the Barbarian |
| Thomas Skallerup | September 1983 | The Development of a Native Industrial Labor Force in Uzbekistan |
| William Wiggins | December 1983 | The Six Editions of Richard Knolles' History of the Turks |
| Richard Currie | June 1984 | An Annotated Translation of the Biography of Toghto Temur from the Yuan Shih |
| Robert Kingsley | July 1984 | A Morphophonemic and Etymological Grouping of the Modern Standard Finnish Nouns Participating in the tt-t Gradation |
| Chung-Hsiung Hai | May 1985 | Prince Palta of the Torguts |
| Elizabeth Thompson | May 1985 | The Establishment of an Inner Asian Christianity: The History of Nestorianism to the 14th Century |
| Marja Tuulikki Snyder. | August 1985 | An Examination of the Causes of the Early Enfranchisement of Finnish Women |
| Anne Parker | October 1985 | The Human Geography of Central Tibet: Changing Patterns of Land and Resource Use |
| Daniel P. Martin | June 1986 | Human Body Good Thought (Mi Lus Bsam Legs) and the Revelation of the Secret Bonpo Mother Tantras |
| Miranda Silic | August 1987 | Women, Werewolves, and Wantonness |
| Shahyar Daneshgar | October 1987 | Persian Calques in Azeri |
| Karin Beate Hopp | May 1988 | Studien zur receptian der ungarischen literatur in England March 1945 |
| Michael L. Rogow | November 1988 | Land, Bone, Flesh: A Socio-Economic Approach to Polyandry within Traditional Tibetan Social Structure |
| Steven Kronenberg | December 1988 | The Great Sealing Nature of Awareness |
| Noureddine Zahmoul | December 1988 | Etymological grouping of Finnish words participating in the quantitative gradation pp p |
| Wonsoo Yu | April 1989 | The Five Hundred Shir-a Daroat Families in Ordos: People in Eternal Mourning for Chinggis Khan |
| Todd Gibson | May 1989 | A Sogdian in Tibetan Buddhism, the biao of Sri Singha |
| Sandra Lynn Bird | August 1989 | The Development of Modern Health Care in Mongolia |
| John Erickson | August 1989 | Toward the Directive Case in Orkhon Turkic: A Syntactic Analysis of an Aberrant Morphological Form |
| Suha Oguzertem | April 1990 | Fictions of Narcissism: ‘Nature’ and ‘Culture’ in the stories of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar |
| Kemal Silay | May 1990 | Ahmedîs Ottoman History |
| Jonathan Grant | November 1990 | The Sword of the Sultan: The Peripheralization of Ottoman War Industries from Selim III to World War I |
| Christopher P. Atwood | May 1991 | The Inner Mongolian Revolutionary Party |
| Brian Williams | June 1991 | The Military Role of the Crimean Khanate in Ottoman Foreign Policy |
| Allen Frank | March 1992 | The Traditional religion of the Volga-Turkic peoples |
| Drew Morris | August 1992 | Some Notes on a Document concerning the Tibeto-British conflict of 1888 |
| David Tyson | March 1993 | Literacy in Turkistan Prior to Soviet Rule |
| Lynne Marie Thornton | April 1993 | Structure and function of the Guild System in Ottoman Istanbul: The Classical Age |
| Gary Bolick | May 1993 | The Degree of Russian Lexical Influence on Estonian during the Soviet Period in Connection with socio-psychological variables |
| Carolyn Shields | May 1993 | Lha-Ldan sprul-pa'i gtsug-lag-khan-gi dkar-chag sel-dkar me-lon (The Glass Mirror Register of the Emanted Vihara of Lhasa by the Fifth Dalai Lama Nag-Dbran Blo Bzan Rgya-Mtsho |
| William A. Wood | June 1993 | A Collection of Tarkhan Yarliqs from the Khanate of Khiva |
| Alexander Archaro | August 1993 | Estonian-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1926-1933 |
| Edit Jakab | August 1993 | The Syntax of the Mosha Lative Cases in Contrast with their Hungarian Counterparts based on H. Passonen's Text Collections |
| Steven Taylor Duke | September 1993 | Students and Student Life at Tartu University, 1919-1939: A Microcosm of Change in Interwar Estonia |
| Geoff H. Childs | October 1993 | Journey to the Valley (Sbas-yul) of Gnam-sgo Zla-gam: Perspectives on the Tibetan Concept of Himalayan Refuges |
| Emilio Carril | June 1994 | Re-examining Trianon: Eduard Beneš and the Determination of the Hungarian-Slovak Frontiers |
| Charles Vesei | June 1994 | The Image of Admiral Horthy in Historiography |
| Zsuzsanna Gulacsi | July 1994 | Local Material Culture in Uyghur Manichaean Miniatures |
| James Murray White | November 1994 | Nicolae Ceau escu and the Hungarian Minority in Romania: 1965-1989 |
| Miyuki Hirayama | November 1994 | Uzbek Women: Change in Status and Roles under the Soviet Rule |
| Jason Orrill | December 1994 | Identity and Ideology in Väinö Linna’s Tuntematon sotilas and Mika Waltari’s sinuhe egyptiläinen |
| William Dirks | May 1995 | Elements of Qazaq Baqsï Chants |
| Jonathan Michael Thurman | May 1995 | Irrigated Agriculture and Economic Development in the Ferghana Valley under the Qoqand Khanate |
| Richard Lowery Cooper | August 1995 | The Russian Conquest of Central Asia in Soviet Historiography |
| Kimberly Hart | July 1995 | Turkish Workers in Western Europe: Between Racism and Culture |
| Chogkhan Tandhar | August 1995 | A Passage to Lta mgur a ma ngos ‘dzin, the Song of View, Recognizing the Mother, the Ultimate Reality |
| Halim Kara | October 1995 | The Political Rehabilitation of Jadid Writers in Uzbekistan in the Glasnost Era and Beyond |
| Tomás Joaquín Hulick | December 1995 | Evidence for Multilingual Communication in Thirteenth-century Eurasia: Interpreters and Translators in Diplomatic Contacts between European Envoys and the Mongols, 1237-55 |
| Carl Johan Elverskog | December 1995 | A Critical Edition of the Tibetan Diamond Sutra with a Study of Buddhist Terminology in Four Mongolian Translations |
| John B. Täht | January 1996 | Two Officially Acclaimed Estonian Writers of the Soviet Period: Paul Kuusberg and Lilli Promet |
| Libby Hunter | March 1996 | Political Allegory and Historical Plagiarism |
| Ruth Deibler | July 1996 | Literature and Politics: Mohammad Salih and Political Change in Uzbekistan from 1979 to 1995 |
| Timothy May | August 1996 | Chormaqan Noyan: The First Mongol Military Governor in the Middle East |
| Thyra Leslie | September 1996 | The Harmonization of Slavic Loanwords in Old Hungarian |
| Eric Lander | August 1997 | Lha’u-rta-ra thub-bstan bstan-dar’s "Bod zhi-bas bcings-‘grol ‘byung thabs skor-gyi gros-mthun don-tshan bcu-bdun-la mings-rtags bkod-pa’i sngon-rjes-su": A translation and discussion |
| Karl Debreczeny | December 1997 | Fahai Temple and Tibetan Influence at the Early Ming Court |
| Yilmaz Bingol | January 1998 | Turkish Language Reform: The Turkish Language Society and Evolution of Language Policy in Turkey |
| Toshiyasu Tsuruhara | March 1998 | The Script Reform in the Mongolian People’s Republic, 1921-1946 |
| Ramsey Fendall | April 1998 | Taranatha’s Dus ‘khor chos ‘byung |
| Lauran Hartley | May 1998 | A Socio-historical Study of the Kingdom of Sde-Dge (Derge, Kham) in the Late Nineteenth Century: Ris-med views of Alliance and Authority |
| Mark Camann | May 1998 | Uncovering Hungarian Music of the Ancient Past |
| Hande Birkalan | May 1998 | Pertev Naili Boratav and his Contributions to Turkish Folklore |
| Lesley Davis | August 1998 | The Hungarian Looks East: Construction of a National Identity |
| Daniel Watson | September 1998 | Motherhood, Church and the "Shield of Christendom": The Marian Nationalism of József Cardinal Mindszenty |
| Angela Messel (Lippen) | September 1998 | A survey of Turkish Folklore and Folk Medicine as a Preface to Ethnopharmacological Field Work in Turkey |
| Daniel Prior | December 1998 | The Semetey of Kenje Kara: A Kirghiz Performance on Phonograph with a partial Musical Score and a Compact Disc of the Phonogram |
| James Wilson | December 1998 | Sine Spe Libertatis: Slavery in Hungary under the House of Árpád |
| Charles Bankart | May 1999 | Making Way for a New Era: The Downfall of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party |
| Dicki Chhoyang | December 1999 | Tibetan-Medium Higher Education in Qinghai |
| William King | March 2000 | Central Asia and Eurasian Trade in the Early Medieval Period: Towards an Evaluation of the Silk Road |
| Nikolai Sadik-Ogli | May 2000 | Don’t Shoot Väinämöinen! Dada and Futurism in Finland, 1912-1932 |
| Thomas Cooper | May 2000 | The Borders of Trianon: Blunders and Regrets |
| Marshall Gilbert | June 2000 | History, Memory and the Future on Display: The Turkestan Exhibition of 1890 |
| Mariya Niendorf | August 2000 | Into the Steam, into the Dream: The Finnish Sauna as a Rite of Passage |
| Jennifer Petzen | August 2000 | Turkish Women Poet-Singers: Negotiation of Gender and Genre |
| James Wilde | August 2000 | A Fenyegeto Veszély: Remény, Szorongás és Valóság Miklós Wesselényi and Nationality Issues in 1830-1848 Hungary |
| Mika Natif | December 2000 | Patronage of Art and Architecture under the Timurid Dynasty in Central Asia |
| Kara Brown | December 2000 | Learning to Integrate: The Education of Russian-Speakers in Estonia, 1918-2000 |
| William Alan Wheeler | December 2000 | Lords of the Mongolian Taiga: An Ethnohistory of the Dukha Reindeer Herders |
| Jay Anderson | June 2001 | The Government and Party Systems of Hungary (1990-2000) |
| Ron Sela | August 2001 | The Development of Inner Asian Inauguration Ritual |
| Laura Knudsen | December 2001 | The Historical Present Tense in Modern Hungarian Narratives |
| David Blancuzzi | August 2002 | Through a Glass Darkly: Stigmatizatin and Stereotyped Imagery in the Representation of Ottoman History in Soviet Russian Popular Histories |
| Daniel DelRe | May 2003 | The impact of East European Socialist-era Economic Interest Groups on Post-socialist Economic Liberalization: A Case Study of Hungary |
| Kerry Cosby | June 2003 | The Uzbek Conceptions of Rebellion and Resistance and their Relation to the Uzbek National Movements |
| Edward Mandity | August 2003 | Transcending Transience: The Duality of Fragmentation in the Poetry of Mihály Vörösmarty and Dezső Kosztolányi |
| John McKane | March 2004 | Ziyorat in Uzbekistan: The Shrine of Sulton |
| James Schelble | May 2004 | (Il)Legitimate Debate: The Jewish Question in Hungary |
| Tristra Newyear | May 2004 | An Outline of Recent History, A translation of the Mongolian Author Buyannemekhü's First Play |
| Sean Lambert | May 2004 | The Unwinnable Peach: The Bourgeois-Democratic Government of Count Mihály Károlyi and the Preservation of Magyar National Unity, November 1, 1918-March 21, 1919. |
| Matthew Caples | April 2005 | Et in Hungaria Ego: Trianon, Revisionism and the Journal Magyar Szemle (1927-1944) |
| Ela Gezen | April 2005 | Turkish Minority Writing in Germany 1960-Present |
| Kadir Cakmak | May 2005 | Kurdish Case in Turkish Nation Building |
| Owen Witesman | May 2005 | Finland, Alcohol, and the EU: An Analysis of Changing Values and Factors in Finnish Alcohol Regulation |
| Kristina Dy-Liacco | June 2005 | The Victorious Karma-pa has come to 'Jang: an Examnination of Naxi Patronage of the Bka'Brgyud-pa in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries |
| Meghan Mackrell | June 2005 | The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in the Democratization of Estonia |
| Dan Orr | July 2005 | A Western Turkish Tribe in North China: 800 Years of Identity and their Loyalty to the Rulers of North China |
| Dustin Trowbridge | August 2005 | Building a State Language: A Study of Public Administration and Language Policy in Kazakhstan |
| Benjamin Levey | March 2006 | Education in Xinjiang, 1884-1928 |
| Don Dines | April 2006 | Commissars, Khans, and Shaykhs: Russian Expansion East of the Caspian and Land Acquisition for Peasant Resettlement in Iran’s Gurgan Plain, 1907-14 |
| Karl Schmidt | April 2006 | Competing Models of Autocratic Power in Timurid Transoxiana |
| Taryn Firkser | April 2006 | Occidentalizing America: Tibetan Views of the West |
| Kristie Combs | May 2006 | A Study of Merit and Power in Tibetan Thangka Painting |
| Luke Potoski | May 2006 | The Role of Central Asian Islam in Fostering Conditions for Effective Community-Managed Irrigation Prior to the Russian Conquest, and Potential Role in Current Reform Efforts |
| Sarah Kendzior | June 2006 | State Propaganda on Islam in Independent Uzbekistan |
| Ryan Eddings | July 2006 | Blocking Civil Society: Political Obstacles to Building Social Trust in Uzbekistan |
| Christopher Baker | July 2006 | Unsettling the Imperial Imagination: Olzhas Suleimenov's Az I Ya |
| Christopher Whitsel | August 2006 | Dimensions of Inequality: Community, Household, and Individual Determinants of Educational Participation in Post-Socialist Tajikistan |
| Jane van Tuyl | October 2006 | Expressions of Jadidism in Contemporary Uzbek Music: A Comparison of the Lyrical Content of Yulduz Usmanova and the Poetry of Abdulhamid S. Cholpan |
| John Morrisroe | October 2006 | Post-Soviet Water Management of the Aral Sea Basin |
| Michael Golden | May 2007 | The Changing Face of Folklore, Trends in Folkloristics in the Second Half of the 20th Century |
| Robert Dunbar | May 2007 | The Quest for Power: Timurid Succession Struggles in Fifteenth Century Islamic Central Asia |
| George Wood | July 2007 | The Altai Heroic Poem Katan-koo in its Historical and Cultural Context |
| Christian Bleuer | July 2007 | Uzbeks Versus the Center: Mobilization as an Ethnic Minority in the Tajikistan and Afghanistan Civil Wars |
| Thomas Bonnenfant | August 2007 | Injecting-drug use and HIV/AIDS in Tajikistan: are Needle and Syringe Exchange Programs the Answer to Prevention? |
| Gregory Burris | August 2007 | Taming the Gray Wolf: Nihal Atsiz, Alparslan Türkes, and the Ideological Transformation of Turkish Ultranationalism |
