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  1. dr. t
    Last I heard, campus visits were the 16/17th of March, although you should be getting formal confirmation of that shortly. Let me know if you have any specific questions!
  2. dr. t
    My wife and I got married the summer before I started my MA program. It's really nice to have someone with an actual salary to help you get through grad school! I'm not sure if we've really had issues relating to me being in a doctoral program. It did take her a while to realized that, although I'm physically home a lot of the time, she needs to treat me as if I weren't. She still forgets this from time to time. But this is just a question of robust communication, which is the key to any relationship in or outside of graduate school.
  3. dr. t
    I mean, what's your access to academic libraries and other necessary structures like in the other city?
  4. dr. t
    I had a feeling, after hearing some things around the office in Jan. Let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to seeing you in March! (By the way, there's a medieval graduate conference here on visiting weekend, just FYI!)
  5. dr. t
    No reason to pull the trigger early.
  6. dr. t
    I won't know anything until after you do, now!
  7. dr. t
    I was substantially less broken up about being rejected from ND after visiting South Bend
  8. dr. t
    I don't know how to give an example without making an example of someone, and I'm not going to do that, particularly since I should have never gone down this road in the first place. That's my bad. The original point was here: https://forum.thegradcafe.com/topic/94487-fall-2018-applicants/?page=45&tab=comments#comment-1058555534 and it was that shitting on a program just because they rejected you (and that they were honest in why) isn't terribly mature or useful. This whole discussion of WUSTL's doctoral program is totally off track.
  9. dr. t
    If you want me to review you dissertation on an open forum, I'm afraid I'll need to get some sort of credit for the service hours. Seriously, though, as I said above, I'm not going to tear apart anyone's diss here. That would be pretty gauche.
  10. dr. t
    Derp. I was thinking mostly of Pegg, but I clearly elided Madden into that milieu.
  11. dr. t
    They really, really are. I understand you like the program, but you're telling me I've said a lot of stuff I really haven't. At this point, it doesn't seem particularly productive to respond.
  12. dr. t
    Harvard profs almost always reach out as soon as the department makes its decisions. If other people have heard and you haven't, rejection is a safe bet.
  13. dr. t
    Well, for one, I'm currently dissertating, and my interests are tangential to a good number of their doctoral students, so I've read a couple of their dissertations. And not to be too mean, but they're excellent work for 1960, and the places they've been finding jobs (and the frequency with which they do so) reflects that.
  14. dr. t
    If you've already been in contact with them (exchanged a few emails) then it's fine, but don't just email them out of the blue.
  15. dr. t
    Grad school has approved admits; expect formal notification by early next week.
  16. dr. t
    Within reason. I wouldn't want to go on the job market without 1-2 peer-reviewed pubs, 2+ talks at one of the major conferences in my field, etc. But the dissertation is the priority.
  17. dr. t

    Good deal?

    dr. t replied to astroid88's topic in History

    It's not terrible; pretty standard for a state school, but low for private. If health insurance isn't included, it's kinda bad, though.
  18. dr. t
    Tenured R1 faculty often make $90-150k, but I really don't like this line of reasoning, and I can't see $50k as decent salary compensation for someone with a PhD.
  19. dr. t
    Ah, @TheHessianHistorian, this is the study in question.
  20. dr. t
    Ah, I see the issue. The University of North Alabama, Nashville State Community College, and the College of Charleston are not among the ~150 schools in the US that produce PhD students and therefore not included in the study. Of course, the Harvard numbers have similar lacunae. I don't think any of this detracts from the overall point: as you go down the tiers of schools (such as they are), your job prospects get exponentially worse. And Vandy isn't in the first, second, or even third tier.
  21. dr. t
    I've linked the study - it uses social network analysis of placements to make an argument for academic prestige as a hiring factor - here and elsewhere. That study was released in 2015, and showed 1 Vandy grad as having the rank of Assistant prof; 7-10 years was a timeframe estimate based on that rank (4-7 years for tenure, study is 3 years old). I don't know the hiring or tenure schedule of the people you listed, of course.
  22. dr. t
    It's fine to do, but really rather too late at this point.
  23. dr. t
    I am not sure what you mean by this, then. What exactly are you asking?
  24. dr. t
    With this sort of reading load, which is about 100 less than my list, don't you have time to read in more depth? I would think your examiners would expect a depth of knowledge proportional to the shorter list, making a more rapid approach unwise.
  25. dr. t
    I've heard that it's rather meh.
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