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Oh, how could I forget Fiona Griffths at Stanford. And the other medievalist there, Rowan, is an old mentor whom I would also highly recommend. Keep an eye on who is appointed from the search at Yale this past year, as Anders has left for greener pastures and I believe Paul has made noise about retiring.

Adam Kosto is quite simply one of the best all-around humans in academia. He has been incredibly generous to me, personally, with his time and energy despite having no reason to do so. If you read the intro to Brown et al.'s Documentary Culture and the Laity, you will see that I am hardly an exception. The graduate school treats grad students like trash, though. I didn't actually pay attention to whom, if anyone, ND got to replace Tom Noble, but definitely make sure you visit South Bend before deciding to live there for 5+ years.

I wouldn't necessarily encourage applications to either of these programs, particularly in this job market. Others whose work I would suggest, like Linda Coon, are also not at programs that I can recommend attending. There is Alison Moore and Isabelle Cochline at UToronto, Alison Beech at St. Andrews, Anne Lester at JHU, and Amy Remensnyder (my diss adviser) at Brown. RF Brown at Chicago is best avoided for reasons you should google. I'll think on it a bit more, and let you know if anything comes to me.

This is precisely my fear.

Sure, if you're not one of the tens of thousands of people caught in the blaze. But I'm staring down the barrel of the job market next year, looking at the hiring freezes, closures, and the like, thinking: I've gotten myself all worked up for the worst case scenario, that the system will break. But what if something even worse happens: the system doesn't break?

Yeah that's a strong maybe.

My diss committee has called this nothing less than the death throes of academia as we know it, which was a cheerful thought.

Yes, with the caveat that they are often used to assign a higher tier (university vs. dept.) of funding at many state institutions. This can often be a difference of $10k.

I think if you looked around, you'd find a lot more to add to your list. Your project sounds really, really good, and you will have (IMO) a very competitive application. Northwestern isn't a bad school, but they're not the best with resources for their grad students, and I strongly suspect you can aim much higher.

Nah. If anything, it will help you out, if your project is really interesting. What is your project? Also, why Northwestern only?

Fixed the OP with the new link.

Hi all - just stepping in as mod here. We had some confusion over on the back end and some stuff got deleted from this thread. We're looking to restore it, as this is not something we do except for literal spam or abuse. Which brings me to my point: on this forum, you are free to disagree with things that are being said, and to express that disagreement in both text and with the downvote button. But none of this is behavior for which you should be filing reports to the moderator staff. And although you may disagree with it, nothing posted so far in this thread is disallowed by forum policy; I have myself given the advice that it is foolish to go down an academic path in this economy for fields I know better. The silences I handed out the other week were simply to calm down a feedback loop, not an indictment of posters' behavior. Continued abuse of the reporting function to flag posts with which you disagree will itself require moderator attention. Please do continue to report posts with literal spam, which is to say posts which are simply trying to sell you something. Please also report threats, direct or implied, that are made on these forums. These reports help the mod team out greatly. Thanks. -T

"Go not to the Elves for answers, for they will say both no and yes." Tolkien certainly knew academia. It really depends on the person. Some professors want a Mini-me, others just want a cool project.

This is the right answer. I would also start thinking now about the differences between marketing yourself as a "food historian" versus a "social historian interested in food".

Halfway. The body text was right but the title was wrong. Those applying in the fall of 2020 for the fall of 2021.

For all things related to applying to graduate school in history in the fall of 2020.

Depending on your class size, the writing center staff may also murder you.

Usually, you teach sections. Universities with this restriction also generally have competitive opportunities for advanced students to give their own class.

It's as hard a job as you make it. Just remember that academia will not reward you for being an excellent TA in any substantial way over being simply a good TA.

This is what my department/university is doing or trying to do. Another reason why it's important to prioritize a school with a lot of resources when you're looking at programs.

I know we're all bored from staying inside, so in the interest of keeping sanity I've handed out some week-long silences. PM me if you have questions.

This, I think, can be generalized to academic practice. Finding flaws in a given work is something any high school senior should be able to do with relative ease, and shows only the memorization and regurgitation of information. Using your recognition of those flaws to build something new and interesting - that is the real skill.

HBO's Rome. Also, Showtime's The Borgias. There's a LOT of good Korean historical dramas on Netflix, too. Can you tell I have a thing for opulent, ridiculous over-acting?

FYI this thread will be de-stickied on April 16 and the 2021 thread posted.