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Not sure if it's a "dream" job, but this just showed up. http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-medievalists-60/

Man, perspective is a wacky thing. A dollar per square foot sounds ridiculously cheap!

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I don't think we disagree. I'm just unsure enough to think that some MA apps make sense.

This wouldn't make sense to me either, unless they're talking about the GRE portion.

Your attractiveness to a history department is, from my reading, uncertain. There's things for them to like and things for them not to like. I don't know what the outcome of your next cycle will be for you, but if it's negative, then you need a way of continuing forward, and a history MA is that way.

Sounds to me like it's time to get an MA. Or at least apply to some MA programs during your next cycle.

Truly I tell you, that is bullshit.

Exactly. Rule #1 of workplace politics is that you never, ever go negative. The only result from that is scorched earth. Unless you're the golden boy, in which case do whatever you want (cfr http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd052108s.gif )

Dual authorship is something the humanities is really struggling over. If you're applying for graduate programs, though, I'd say go for it. It's early enough in the game that it certainly won't hurt, and it seems like a choice between publishing and not.

While I second everything else you've said, I can't agree with this. Harvard's $25.5k comes off as about right (more with some easily-accrued additions), particularly with location allowing cheaper yet not totally inconvenient housing in Arlington, etc. But with, say, Notre Dame offering $20k to live in South Bend, and BU undergrad tuition unbelievably pegged at over $60k per year, BU comes off as a miser, and that's a totally legitimate complaint.

You won't find a livable 1BR apt in Boston within a reasonable commute to BU for less than ~$1k. To live on that stipend, you will need a roommate. Avoid living in Allston near Brighton Ave. if you want to sleep at night.

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no.

So, to be clear, when I said: I had things in mind like: So, there's that.

I would actually say that, although they're frequently closely connected, it's not theological liberalism or conservatism which count, but social. The people I know at HDS are always up for a good argument, but all of them will view a conservative social outlook - specifically one which does not acknowledge the legitimacy of other faith traditions - as devaluing and demeaning people who fall outside it, a point I happen to agree with. A subtle distinction, but I feel it is an important one.

So, I can't speak for YDS, but for HDS: This seems in general to be a pretty flat understanding of what actually goes on. YMMV.

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Not your size, change your font. Depending on kerning, you can gain some ground.

Font.

I have found this maps well to historical stuff. Good luck!

I do intellectual and social history for medieval monasticism, usually through collections of Latin sermons. I'm also at a divinity school. As Bactrian says, your language skills are great, though I assume you're going to have to pick up French. My major concern would be the difference in the way scholars of religion and historians ask questions. Personally, having been trained the other way around, when I take classes that, say, ask me to turn out a two page Positivistic exegesis of a Biblical passage, I have significantly more difficulty than when that same class asks for a 10-page paper explaining Pauline reception in the high Middle Ages through the lens of a specific sermon. The ways of thinking aren't opposed, but they are very different. I would make sure your SOP and writing sample are geared to a history department with this difference in mind.

That is because, depending on the state, this is illegal. 10-hour mandatory turn-around time is the usual law. I would make the request, and wonder at the assignment in the first place. That is not a reasonable thing to give.

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