JacksonBaby

Have had numerous profs communicate with typos - in undergraduate and through the graduate application process. My personal favorite signature one prof had was "send from my iphone to the NSA. From the NSA to you"

Hey everybody so I applied to programs last year and got into two. My wife was offered a top tier program spot so I declned both. In my undergraduate I had a 3.5 and a 4.0 in both majors. I doubled I history and env science and was awarded honors in both I have about 13 non peer reviewed popular publication and 2 very minor academic one 310 gre with a 5 in writing and am in the IHS mentorship program Have held four internships and have been employed as both a writer and a cook since graduation. Currently volunteer as a transcriber for story corps. I am applying to a interdisciplinary env phd. Do you guys think I have a shot?

For a CV what does everyone think about Non-Peer Reviewed publications or Reports? If you completed a report for a museum or have a publications via a non-profit or magazine that is not peer reviewed do you still include it? If it gets its own section such as "Non-Peer Reviewed Publications" does each entry get the full name, title, date, etc. treatment?

That makes sense. I have held a bunch of tutoring positions through the college and they are pretty self-explanatory I think. I was a "peer mentor" for a freshman seminar course and an intern at a historical society. I am curious if things like this should be explained in detail with maybe a bullet or two so the SOP can speak more to what I got from the experience?

Perhaps you could get some value out of Douglas Field's Cold War Culture. It is broken up very well and considering how quick a read it is, does the job pretty well.

I was curious what everyone thought about a hybrid C.V for graduate school applications. Being an undergraduate my experiences I do not think carry the given legitimacy that a graduate or Post-doc would. I have heard mixed reviews but do you think a C.V that including resume style descriptions of positions would go over well?

Oh Charles William Post is totally my man. He has been the hart of my thesis and quite frankly his early Postum and Grape-Nuts advertisements are hilarious. An apartment mate of mine is doing thesis work on Helen Taft, and she is surprisingly awesome as well. A powerhouse turn of the century woman.

U Toronto became amazing in that area with Natalie Zemon Davis. She just got the National Humanities Medal and actually I hear is really accessible to students despite having stopped teaching sometime in the early 90s.

Czec, you are always so helpful......would you mind terribly messaging me that as well. I have trolled this thread a little heavily......

Thank you. I suppose peer review for academic journals would count on a C.V also as service also? Ah I thought the personal statement would be a good place to tie that in. Histiographical research that is based in the Gilded Age/Progressive era is especially interesting to me. How do you feel about including academic presentation that were not in the field of history. I had a presentation that falls under interdisciplinary.

So I am in the process of revamping my C.V and getting all sorts of things together. I have a slight problem though. Over the past two years I presented a series of workshops to my campus community that dealt with music. The point of them though was contextualization and how critical it is to not look at things with a "presentist' view. I am wondering if those workshops have a place on the C.V? Also over the previous year I have worked writing short articles for an online publication. That are fact based so they are not opinion articles. I am also curious if these minor online publications (of which I have about 6) have a place on a C.V? Do awards that are non-academic also get listed? Such as community service awards/grants. Of course there are plenty of people I could ask (and I am) and there are tons of websites to consult (been there) but I figured that this community has valuable insight so why not see what you all have to say.

As far as teaching experience goes, I led some discussions. Did not handle any grading whatsoever. For conference experience I was invited to Religiosu Studies Conference by a professor I had at the time who recommended me. Also I presented at another college in Vermont in a "Exchange of Ideas" between top students in different departments. I have been a tutor through the University in both majors and did some freelance tutoring for about a year in history and in physics Also have given a series of talks of music history and how important contextualization is (I read a Dominick LaCapra article on Intellectual History and I got really excited). I was also invited to present at a non-profit on the history behind certain musical instruments.

I would like to focus on African American or Labour History with Environmental as a subfield. I have managed to shift my environmental degree to be more of a supplement to my history degree rather than an entirely separate major. In terms of Environmental History, Joel Tarr over at CMU seems to THE guy. I think he may have recently retired but he left behind a really strong program that is really accessible Oh also I am a writing intern for Phi Beta Kappa!

Dont want to be a bother! Just had some mni-freakouts and some realistic odds from others would be great! I can take the GRE again if need be no problem, and I also have fall semester to shell out some more work!

So I am prepping for the GRE (Which I take at the end of the month) and have gotten some practice scores back. I wanted to see how competitive you guys think I am granted these are the scores that I get on the real deal. - 3.5 Overall GPA - Double Major: History GPA 3.9; Environmental Science & Policy GPA 3.9 - Member of Sigma Xi Research Honors, Phi Alpha Theta, Environmental Honor Society, Phi Gamma Mu, and Omicron Delta Kappa - Presented at a few conferences - Presented a series of on-campus lectures - Peer Mentor/Teaching Assistant - Tutor in both majors for 3 years - Taken numerous 3000 seminars and received A in all - Taken two graduate courses in Humanities and received A's - GRE 158 V; 157 Q - President of Multiple Clubs (I know they dont really care, but it will have a CV space) - Writing intern for Phi Beta Kappa - Writing Intern for a Naturopathic Doctor - Have a series of online published articles on different food related issues - Farm Salmon, GMO foods, etc. - Peer Reviewer for Two Journals, - 3 very strong LOR - Finished one thesis, working on a second - One article to be published and one under review I am looking to apply to a few different programs across the board that have things I am looking to research in. Among them are CMU, Howard, WVU, Rutgers, U MIami, U Kentucky, McGill (Canada), and America