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Ali Akman, Quantitative Approaches to Hittite Historical Geography: A Network Analysis of Hittite Toponyms<\/em> (Supervisors: N.\u0130lgi Ger\u00e7ek, Michele Massa) *Winner of the Kalbiye Tansel ve \u00c7i\u011fdem Bar\u00e7an Tansel Thesis Award<\/strong>**<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ece Alper, The Ptolemaic Presence outside Egypt: Material Evidence<\/em> (Supervisor: Charles Gates)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sena Bask\u0131n, LBA I Ceramics from Kinet H\u00f6y\u00fck Period 15. 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Beard, A Group of Seven Column Capitals from Roman Ancyra: A Unique Composite Style<\/em> (Supervisor: Julian Bennett)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nurcan K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckarslan, Middle Iron Age Pottery from Yass\u0131h\u00f6y\u00fck (K\u0131r\u015fehir): A Central Anatolian Assemblage<\/em> (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hande K\u00f6p\u00fcrl\u00fco\u011flu, Hittite Rock Reliefs in Southeastern Anatolia as a Religious Manifestation of the Late Bronze and Iron Ages<\/em> (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Katarzyna Kuncewicz, Figural Anatolian Stamp Seals from Three Assyrian Colony Period Sites: Karah\u00f6y\u00fck-Konya, Acemh\u00f6y\u00fck and K\u00fcltepe<\/em> (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Selim Y\u0131ld\u0131z, Hellenistic Settlement in Smooth Cilicia (Cilicia Pedias)<\/em> (Supervisor: Charles Gates)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Humberto DeLuigi, A Winter in the Land of Rum: Komnenian Defenses Against the Turks in Western Anatolia<\/em> (Supervisor: Charles Gates)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thomas Moore, Old Hittite Polychrome Relief Vases and the Assertion of Kingship in 16th century BCE Anatolia<\/em> (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leyla Yorulmaz, A Forgotten Borderland: The Upper Tigris between Septimius Severus and Anastasius I<\/em> (Supervisor: Julian Bennett)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sevilay Hac\u0131bekiro\u011fullar\u0131 Oru\u00e7, Harbor Settlement Patterns of the Second Millennium BC in Cilicia and the Amuq<\/em> (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heves S\u00f6keli, Ceramic Workshops in Hellenistic and Roman Anatolia: Production Characteristics and Regional Comparisons<\/em> (Supervisors: Jacques Morin & Dominique Kassab Tezg\u00f6r)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Burak Arcan, Early Bronze Age Daggers in Central Anatolia<\/em> (Supervisor: Thomas Zimmermann)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Deniz A. 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