August 13, 2012
Congratulations, Dr. Ben Gatling!
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Congratulations to Dr. Ben Gatling, who defended his dissertation, "Post-Soviet Sufism: Texts and the Performance of Tradition in Tajikistan" (directed by Margaret Mills). Ben has begun an appointment as Lecturing Fellow at Duke University, teaching intensive writing courses in Islamic Studies.