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    in History

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    American History

    • R_Escobar (20th century, American Indian),
    • crazedandinfused (antebellum, intellectual),
    • hopin'-n-prayin' (southern, religious),
    • stevemcn (transnational),
    • Simple Twist of Fate (early American),
    • zb642 (20th century, labor/working-class culture),
    • BCEmory08 (19th-20th century Catholicism, labor),
    • irvinchiva10 (20th century, immigration/immigration reform)
    • natsteel (early American political culture and intellectual history)
    • unforth (19th century US political and military history, US Civil War)
    • hbeels (colonial, early national, 19th century, transappalachain west, historical memory of these eras/areas)
    • thedig13 (20th century U.S.; built environment, modern consumer culture, race, and immigration)
    • Weepsie (North American Mapping, Exploration and Trade, Anti-Communism/Socialism in Interwar period, bit of a mixed bag)
    • lafayette (19th c. [with a dash of 20th], urban, intellectual)
    • vtstevie (Revolutionary/Early Republic New England, infrastructure/economic)
    • macmc (Feminist, gender, and LGBT history)
    • HistThrift (early America, indigenous history)
    • junotwest (19/20th century African-American, Cultural/Intellectual, Gender & Sexuality)
    • calhoun&caffeine (19th cen. Southern [political])
    • tampopo ramen (19th-20th century capitalism/business)
    • BookishVixen (late 18th-early 20th ce maritime communities, cultural, gender & sexuality)
    • hardtack&coffee (19th Century American Social & Military History, American Civil War)
    • spellbanisher (economic and cultural history of the gilded age, progressive era, and the 1920s)

    European History

    • Kelkel (Modern Germany, political),
    • goldielocks (Britain),
    • SapperDaddy (Eastern and Central Europe),
    • kotov (Modern Romania, Holocaust, labor),
    • RevolutionBlues (Modern Western Europe/France labor and leftist politics),
    • theregalrenegade (18th/19th cent British Empire/environment),
    • jrah822 (19th century Britain; emphasis on colonial relationship to India),
    • grlu0701 (Intellectual & cultural history,fin de siecle Germany and Italy),
    • naturalog (modern European [mostly German] intellectual and cultural/sexuality and gender/political radicalism),
    • runaway (Eastern/Central, memorialization & visual culture),
    • Sequi001 (Modern France, gender and sexuality, colonialism/imperialism)
    • Abetheh (19th/early 20th century Germany and France, religious politics vs secularization)
    • NeutralKate (Modern Russia, modern European economic history)
    • Crackerjacktiming (Modern Germany, gender and sexuality)
    • GloFish (USSR, Stalinism, Soviet-American Relations)
    • jamc8383 (19th/20th century France, interwar culture, relationship between body, mind & place)
    • Heimat Historian (19th/20th century Germany, migration, settler colonialism)
    • AshleyJuneBug (Early Modern France and Britain, gender and sexuality)
    • maelia8 (19th/early 20th century Germany, imperialism and colonialism, travel, exploration)
    • BookishVixen (Victorian and Edwardian English imperialism/gender & sexiality)
    • episkey (19th/20th century France, gender and sexuality, Holocaust)
    • AngesRadieux (18th/early 19th century France, cultural history, music)
    • ManifestMidwest (modern France, colonialism & imperialism, Pacific worlds)

    African History

    • Oseirus (precolonial/early colonial West Africa),
    • Singwaya18 (20th century East Africa),
    • Safferz (20th century Horn/Northeast Africa),
    • The People's Scholar (Spanish colonialim in Africa- i.e. middle/West Africa)
    • Jogatoronto (Psychiatry in early colonial West Africa)
    • ronwill06(Social and political radical movements)
    • Heimat Historian (German settlements in Southern Africa)

    Latin American History

    • BH-history,
    • The People's Scholar (18th-19th century Colombia)
    • StrangeLight (20th century Central America)
    • Heimat Historian (German settlements in Southern cone and Mexico)
    • Mujereslibres (German informal colonization of Peru, Brazil, and Chile)
    • AP

    East Asian History

    • alleykat (Modern China)
    • getitlow (Modern China: Republican, Women, Gender and Sexuality)
    • kyjin (Pre-Modern Japan)
    • aec09g (Modern Japan)
    • pudewen (Late Imperial China)
    • kdavid (Modern China; focus on the Republican period)
    • Minion.banana (late imperial China, Islam, intellectual networks)

    Near/Middle Eastern History

    • uhohlemonster, (modern Israel, Iran, Palestine)
    • oswic (modern Egypt, gender)
    • Conmel (modern pan-Islamic thought/networks)
    • Baloch (Oman)

    Atlantic World

    • sandyvanb
    • crazedandinfused

    Global/World History

    • cooperstreet (Cold War)
    • melissarose8585
    • Heimat Historian (German settlements throughout world)

    Jewish History

    • uhohlemonster, (modern Israel)
    • hopin'-n-'prayin,
    • kotov (Holocaust),
    • naturalog (sometimes modern European/Holocaust),
    • runaway (memorialization & visual culture),
    • ticklemepink (20th c. Germany/U.S)
    • awells27 (Late Antiquity: Roman Empire/Palestine/Byzantine)

    Science/Technology/Environment

    • shaxmaty1848 (Cold War)
    • StrangeLight (environmental history, ecological distribution conflicts)
    • sukipower (20th c. forensic science & anthropology, 19th c. science and medicine)
    • Neist (19th/20th c. biological sciences)
    • seh0517 (scientific illustration, ancient egyptian science & medicine, astronomy, mortuary science) 

    Social

    • annieca (Cold War and Post-Cold War East and Central Europe)
    • BookishVixen (Spheres of influence, Progressive Era reforms affecting immigration)

    Classical and Medieval

    • Hogs of War (Monastic Studies and Conflicts in Authority)
    • telkanuru (high Medieval intellectual and social history, Cistercian studies)
    • AbbeyRoad (Monastic History, Gender, Cistercians)
    • Kirialax ("Dark Age" Byzantium; the Komnenoi)

    Cultural

    • StrangeLight (gender, race, ethnicity, and religion)
    • hbeels (race/ethnicity, religious, masculinity/feminimity, print/literature)
    • crazedandinfused (race, nationalism, performance, rhetoric)
    • alleykat (religion, race/ethnicity, cultural relativism)
    • Heimat Historian (German culture in transnational context)
    • nhhistorynut (20th century US, African American, race/racism, Black nationalism)

    Canadian History

    • truthfinder (New France, religious)

    South Asia

    • pakhistorian (Pakistan/Bangladesh,cultural, social, political, women, public history, digital history)

    Picking a Dissertation field in an area studies program

    in Research

    Posted

    It's an American ivy. True, I talked to others who went through this and confirmed that it's imperative to ground oneself in a discipline for better chances at finding a professorship. I sense that comp-lit is also on the downside of job market due to its eclectic nature, and many end up at a national literature department or teaching languages. There's also politics, but then poli sci departments are highly quantitative here, something area studies don't do well at. That leaves us pretty much to history! And then old fashioned history is dying out, and environmental, racial, cultural, material and else are dominating. 

    Unfunded Cornell vs. Funded Rutgers NB

    in Anthropology Forum

    Posted · Edited by Baloch

    I'm going to Rutgers University on a Fulbright Scholarship!

    Thanks for everyone who shared a genuine piece of advice with me, it has been a very exhausting decision making period, I know it sounded like a "first world problem", but I was worried that I'm about to make a decision that I'd regret. It turned out that my thinking was influenced with what people will perceive as impressive, but not with what would benefit my academic career and interest the most. These are some reasons behind declining Cornell's unfunded offer, and accepting Fulbright grant and attending Rutgers NB. I hope some of you can benefit from my experience.  

    1. Funding is a huge issue, and I'm not 100% sure I'd receive another grant, and I'd end up spending the last penny of my savings on Cornell and living expenses, thanks, but no thanks. 

    2. What was holding me back was the prestige factor, that Cornell has a somewhat stronger name. However I do not think that this is as big of an issue in this case. Certain MA programs have less prestige than their accompanying PhD programs because they are unfunded and so are essentially a main source of revenue for the school (what we call a "cash cow"), and so admissions are more open for that reason. But on the other hand, Fulbright has a very strong prestige factor and Rutgers is a great program on top of that, with 250 years of history, so this will look very good for PhD applications. It is also well known that Fulbright sends its non-American students to schools that are the less expensive options, so that will be understood in my application and work in my favor.

    3. Rutgers NB anthropology program has a stronger emphasis on linguistic anthropology, which is essentially my focus of interest, in fact I became interested in Rutgers because of a book, "living language" which is authored by a professor at Rutgers, Laura Ahearn, and it's now a textbook in the field. Also the research output of the department is very high and competes with that of Cornell and other top schools, see http://www.newbrunswick.rutgers.edu/about/national-rankings.

    4. Rutgers is much much closer to the New York area, while Cornell is in a very rural isolated area, which means that as I'm applying to PhD programs I'll more easily be able to visit professors and attend events where I can network. Rutgers is also part of an agreement with all NYC-area universities so that I can take classes for free at any of them: Princeton, Columbia, CUNY, New School, NYU, etc. This will allow me to take a class with a professor who I'm considering as an advisor for my PhD program--and how wonderful if I can get him or her to write me a recommendation letter during my applications. 

    5. As a Harvard professor, that I'm interested to work with, have told me and other professors with similar reasons, "what counts are strong letters of recommendation from faculty at these institutions who know you and your work well. Bear in mind that Cornell is in Ithaca, NY -- though in a very beautiful part of the country, it is very rural, and somewhat isolated. Rutgers, on the other hand, is just a few minutes by train from NYC (which I commute to almost on a weekly basis), and you would want to avail yourself of the artistic and intellectual riches this city provides (and who knows? you might not have the opportunity of being so near it again). With these caveats in mind, I would advise you to go to Rutgers."

    6. Fulbright is not just a grant, but it's a cultural program that annually brings 4000 students from around the world to network in enrichment seminars, beside other cultural events, to share their cultures with the American society and vice versa, and such a huge net is definitely beneficial and can't be ignored.  

    7. Masters would not be my final degree, so it's more about finding a program that will train me well in what I'm passionate about, and offer the range of courses that I'm interested in taking. And who knows what opportunities may come along once I'm ready and more mature academically to figure out what I want to dedicate my academic career for in the PhD level. As one said "I would caution against the idea of doing your PhD at the same institution where your pursued your MA. A year is a lot of time to discover new concepts, literatures, and potential supervisors, and you may find that when it comes time to apply to PhD programs, Cornell isn't where you see yourself after all." And another said "Rutgers has some great faculty and exceptional anthropologists across the university.  So does Cornell.  Having gone to school in Philly, you can't discount (and shouldn't) discount the central location of Rutgers.  From that location, it's only a short commute to conferences, events and even classes at a ton of major universities.  Most of the Ivies (Columbia, Penn, Princeton) have active student exchange programs with Rutgers, so you can take a class with faculty (with a little extra paper work) at those prestigious universities and position yourself well for future admission and take some amazing seminars.Regardless of where you end up, you will almost certainly have to retake courses when you get into a Ph.D. program.  That's pretty much how it works in the US, so I don't think Rutgers or Cornell will slow you down any." A Cornell student said "I also want to add (as someone currently in the Cornell MA program) that you don't "repeat" classes. Also, as has been stated previously, getting into the MA does not guarantee you a place in the PhD- a lot of people view it as "continuing on" but in reality you'll be up against everyone else in the same PhD applicant pool." 

    8. Will tell you once I'm done ... 

    Go Scarlet Knights!  

    Fulbright vs. Ivy League school

    in Decisions, Decisions

    Posted

    My Deadline is tomorrow Monday April 11th. 
    I have received the Fulbright Foreign Student grant to study masters in cultural anthropology at Rutgers NB University. On the other hand, I have an admission offer from Cornell University for a similar program funded by a local grant. The deadline to answer Fulbright is tomorrow Monday! 

    What would strengthen my application for PhD programs: an Ivy school masters with no-name scholarship or mid-level school masters with Fulbright?

    Your thoughts?

    Unfunded Cornell vs. Funded Rutgers NB

    in Anthropology Forum

    Posted

    8 hours ago, rising_star said:

    What do you have against Rutgers? If you don't want to go there, why'd you apply there in the first place? I don't see how doing well in any MA program would make it less likely for you to gain admission to a PhD program later.

    I know how it sounds, it was just a mandatory thing to apply to 4 schools at least, and if I don't get in my top choice then I'd not mind going to my second or third, but once you know that you got it you can't just turn a blind eye to that! As I said; Getting in the MA program will familiarize me with the professors and it will be much feasible for me to stay in rather than coming from outside and competing with scores of people in a cutthroat process. 

    Unfunded Cornell vs. Funded Rutgers NB

    in Anthropology Forum

    Posted · Edited by Baloch

    14 hours ago, catcatcatdog said:

    It definitely sounds like a frustrating situation. Again, though, I would caution against the idea of doing your PhD at the same institution where you pursued your MA. A year (it's a one-year MA?) is a lot of time to discover new concepts, literatures, and potential supervisors, and you may find that when it comes time to apply to PhD programs, Cornell isn't where you see yourself after all. This happened to me during my MA -- I came in certain that I wanted to stay on for the PhD, and boy, am I glad I didn't (they did make me an offer, but I declined)! The supervisor was great but the department/institution was chaotic. Being at Rutgers might give you more flexibility to stay open to those sorts of developments over the course of your MA. Just a thought!

    That's an advantage, however I'll be in my 30s and I want to start my academic career sooner rather than later. I already found the POI that I'd love to work with, plus you can always have an outsider. Getting in the MA program will familiarize me with the professors and it will be much feasible for me to stay in rather than coming from outside and competing with scores of people in a cutthroat process. 

    Unfunded Cornell vs. Funded Rutgers NB

    in Anthropology Forum

    Posted

    25 minutes ago, catcatcatdog said:

    I should think Rutgers + Fulbright > Cornell - Fulbright + loans/self-funding. I'm a Fulbright alum myself (not to an MA program) and it's a name that has opened doors, though I can't speak to the intricacies of the grant-admission dynamics you describe here. Did Fulbright give a reason why they will only fund Rutgers? Regardless, I don't think an MA from Rutgers would disadvantage you at all come PhD time -- I've heard it's a good idea to do your MA and PhD at different institutions anyway, to increase your academic exposure. Good luck!

    Hi Cat,

    I see your point, I don't know the reason behind their decision, all what they said is "your Fulbright program is sponsored by U.S. Department of State, they have the right to make the final selection." Also another factor for selecting Cornell is that I'd like to continue my PhD there, and I really don't want to repeat the courses and the 2 years. Thanks though for the insight. 

    Unfunded Cornell vs. Funded Rutgers NB

    in Anthropology Forum

    Posted · Edited by Baloch

    Hi all, please keep reading I need good advice before April 11th,

    The classic question comes again; I have applied to 4 MA programs in cultural anthropology through Fulbright foreign student grant. I have received the results and Cornell did not offer any financial assistance, being the case with most of the MA programs, and Fulbright has decided to fund me for Rutgers NB only. Fulbright representatives informed that all of the admission offers are tied to them and I'm not entitled to attend any of the other schools if I decline their grant for Rutgers NB! I'm still verifying this new rule with the school. 

    My concerns are:

    1. Have you heard of an admission tied to a grant (although the admission letter dose not say so, and I'm capable of securing other sources of funding)?

    2. I'd like to pursue my PhD at the same program, so I don't have to repeat the courses and I've been in touch with the POI and our research interests are compatible?

    3. Would attending Rutgers NB decrease my chances of joining a top PhD program versus if I attend Cornell?

    Thank you

    Fall 2016 Acceptances

    in Anthropology Forum

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Almaqah Thwn said:

    Thank you! And yes, the name is from the Arabian god, as I'm interested in doing comparative study of ancient Israel and early pre-Islamic Arabia. Dr. Monroe there is the only professor within the country who is published on such subject. What region are you particularly interested in studying?

    It's confusing is it the sun or moon god, feminine or masculine or neutral. Anyhow, very interesting topic, I have been reading about preIslamic Arabia for awhile and I have an encyclopedia by Jawad Ali on that period. I'm focusing on Southeastern Arabia, and your topic is going to be included in my research somehow, I'm researching historical memory and politics of representation, museums and cultural heritage. You can PM me to exchange contacts. 

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