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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