November 7, 2025
Reem Taha successfully defended her dissertation, “Of Here and Everywhere: The Poetics of Exile and Race in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” which was directed by Professor Bernadette Andrea (English). Marcel Strobel successfully defended his PhD dissertation, “Queering the Archive: Transgender Identities in Weimar and Nazi Germany,” which was chaired by Professor Patrice Petro (Film and Media Studies).