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  1. No problem! And the language programs at U of A are phenomenal. Pretty sure they have Turkish, various advanced Arabic classes for each dialect, Persian/Farsi, etc. Oh, and a possible bonus to working with JCS is an instant connection to the MES department since her husband is a professor there.
  2. Check out University of Arizona. It has a Center for Middle Eastern Studies (it might have a slightly different name), one of only six in the country I think. The Middle Eastern Studies and History Departments are very collaborative, and very well respected in the area of Middle Eastern History. To boot, Julia Clancy-Smith is there and she does *exactly* what you are interested in: North African women's and intellectual history, with an emphasis on Algeria. The only downside is I'm pretty sure U of A requires you to get a Masters first and, while they will usually fund you through TAships, I think most people usually take 3 years to get through the MA program, which is a rather long time for a MA. But you'll want to research it further on your own.
  3. You don't fit either category perfectly and if you want to pursue your topic you'll probably have to suck it up* and make a concession towards either the discipline of history or the discipline of education. Otherwise adcoms from both history and education departments will look at you as a misfit and, no matter what your credentials, if you are misfit you aren't going to make the cut. I am interested in the history of education, but I come at it from an angle that clearly fits into the auspices of history departments. I look at a particular aspect of the history of education and then analyze what it says about the priorities of society at large as well as issues of class, gender, race, etc. If I were to look at a particular aspect of the history of education and then analyze the evolution of pedagogical techniques, accessibility, etc. then that would fit neatly within education departments. Interdisciplinarity is great - once you have your PhD. Billing yourself as interdisciplinary when applying to programs is usually disastrous, and in the unlikely event that you get into an interdisciplinary graduate program chances are you are going to have a hell of a time finding a tenure track job. Getting your PhD in either history or education and then applying for a joint-position where the history and education departments at a university each pay half your salary is quite feasible and sounds like it might be ideal for you. *I cannot, however, imagine undertaking graduate school pursuing a subject I wasn't 100% passionate about.
  4. Ya know, I have to wonder using a fake name isn't such a bad idea. I live in the far SW corner of the US, and I recently found out I was accepted to a school in the far NE corner and that they would be paying for my flight out for their visiting days. When it came time to book the flight, I emailed 2 schools I had applied to that were ~40 minutes away from the school I was visiting, to see if I had been admitted and if I should extend my stay in the area to visit them since it costs so much to get out there. Within 3 days both schools emailed my official rejection emails. These were not messages from the secretaries I had sent the emails too, but official rejection emails from the DGS. Moreover, they did not coincide with reports of email rejections from these schools on the results board (a slew of which followed ~7-10 days later). The three schools in question have a very close relationship. You are allowed to take courses at all three of the schools if you are a grad student at one of them, many of the professors' books are published by the University Press at another of these universities, and probably a good 1/2 of the faculty have their PhDs from one of the other two schools. I must wonder if when they saw my email saying I had been admitted to X University if that didn't influence their decision. They might have said, oh, he's going to be at X, he can work with me anyway, no need to have him here! Or perhaps they didn't want to create awkwardness between a colleague at one of the other universities by "competing" for me. Of course you never know for sure and I'm very happy with the school I was admitted to.
  5. Add me to the list of people waiting to hear back from Chicago. I'm not so sure the round of emails last Friday were all the admissions. There were only four admissions posted on the results page and they admit ~50-60 people a year. Compare that to Rutgers, which admits ~20 and for which we have 3 admissions posted on the results page. Of course this could very easily be an anomaly, a simple case of Rutgers applicants being overrepresented among gradcafe goers, but lets err on the side of hope, shall we?
  6. A classmate of mine said he heard from UC Boulder last week. He was accepted to a MA program in ancient history, with decent funding. I got the impression his program was under the auspices of the history adcom rather than classics, but if you're still waiting to hear back I can find out for you.
  7. According to the front page, numerous people got Chicago acceptances today. Anybody care to post more details, like who the email was from (adviser or DGS), if it was an individual email or a mass mailing, etc?
  8. Congrats! And to give people more hope for the weekend, my Rutgers acceptance came via email Friday at midnight. So there is definitely hope of being notified outside of normal business hours M-F!
  9. Rutgers gender history acceptance buddy! Are you going for the visit in a couple weeks? What period/region of gender history are you interested in? I am going for the weekend and am interested in modern British gender history. My aim name is the same as my username, if you want to get in contact with me.
  10. To make things even more complicated, I would argue that there is no such thing as a "best" statement of purpose. For example, my own statement of purpose demonstrates, very strongly I feel (and the five professors I showed this to agreed, albeit it with some minor suggestions which I adopted): my current, high level of scholarship and sophisticated thinking; my capacity to grow intellectually; my knowledge of the field and its trends; why X school would be a fantastic fit; an awareness of what graduate school entails and my readiness for it; and finally it describes the topic I wish to pursue in my dissertation, but emphasizes my flexibility and willingness to revise that topic as a result of my intellectual growth in graduate school. But it doesn't convey my personality *at all*. Now, I suspect a statement of purpose like this will be a real hit or miss kind of thing. Think about it, the damn thing has two names: statement of purpose vs. personal statement. The former implies a desire for an objective statement, the latter a desire for a least some conveyance of personality. My point is, different schools want different things in their SoP/PS so it really comes down to the (I'm going to coin a phrase here) "professional personality" of the professors reading your application. Are they put off by your telling them how you first became interested in history and what your hobbies are, or do they look to that as a way of assessing whether you can make it through grad school or are going to drop out?
  11. Well, I was reviewing a statement of purpose for one of my earliest applications and I realized I had an extra "that" in my final sentence (which sneaked it's way in because a prof recommended at the last minute that I alter it slightly). Way to leave a good impression, eh? In my defense, I was in the middle of finals at the time in addition to submitting my senior honors thesis and two other apps. Anyway, I was wondering if anybody has caught a little mistake like that after they submitted their app, but been admitted anyway? Anyone with a story of hope?
  12. How did you hear, snail mail or email?! I must know! I just found this board, and now I am wondering if I have split personality disorder, because, amanda1655, you are basically me from what I can tell of your posts in this thread. Both live in the SW (AZ for me), exact same GRE, both of us apparently also focus on British lit, GPA is different by .03, and both applying to British history programs. I do gender and education in modern (esp. 19th century, but also 18th) Britain. Please tell me you are early modern Britain, or are focused in some other area of history like international relations or empire or something! p.s. if you want to hit me up to talk shop my aim s/n is the same as my username here.
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