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Hello everybody! Just wanted to congratulate all who received an award and extend my support and encouragement to anybody who did not. I'm sorry I haven't been on in a while - its exam time here! I wish you all the best of luck!

Fantastic!! Yay!!

Congratulations!!!!! That's awesome

I'm really sorry to hear this . Hang in there. If you don't get bumped up, you can try again next year!

Accepted for a Full Grant to Tajikistan!!!!!!

Let's hope so! Good luck to everyone who hasn't heard yet and congratulations to everyone that has . And if you didn't get it this year, I wish you an excellent year of planning so that you can try again starting... Oh wait, Wednesday!

I'm interested in political intolerance and intergroup relations. If possible, I'd like to conduct a study similar to one I conducted in Moscow a year ago, when I looked at how nationalism and religiosity affect intergroup attitudes in people high in RWA and SDO. However, I'm writing one of my senior theses on political intolerance and would like to incorporate that into some sort of project in Tajikistan. But... It depends on feasibility, and it isn't the research that I proposed in my Fulbright application. So we'll see. Pretty sure I'd be the first person to collect that kind of data there, though... In what are you interested?

I was just curious because I also study social psychology, and it's rare to find somebody else who does!

Totally unrelated question - you're pursuing a PhD in social psychology?

Let's hope for some news today!

I'm waiting on Tajikistan... Every day I think my notification will come. And then it doesn't.

All quiet on the Fulbright front... Not that I actually expected Tajikistan to notify me any sooner than 31 May .

You might also consider maintaining contact with someone who'll be at your current institution next year and sending them a weekly or biweekly list of sources that he or she can then email to you. That way, you have a constant stream of new material without the added cost. At least, this is what I was planning to do.

I think it's sad that Uzbek lost vowel harmony, cause it's pretty cool . And that's interesting about the spoken versus written mutual intelligibility of Uzbek and Uyghur... It certainly makes sense that Uyghur would have more Chinese vocabulary! I would like to know more about Chinese history and politics. Did you like the Purdue book or do you have other reading recommendations? A few more items that I suggest are Svat Soucek's "History of Inner Asia" and, for a contemporary analysis, Alexander Cooley's "Great Game, Local Rules." I haven't read any of Hopkirk's books, but I will look for one if you think it's worth it.

Congratulations to everyone heading to Russia!