Kirialax

Just received a letter in the mail granting me an award. This is excellent news for those of you on the waitlist, since I'm almost certain to decline it, go elsewhere, and re-apply in a year.

Indeed. My supervisor stresses reading as many book reviews as you can before reading a book, as that may mean you don't have to read it. I've found this works great, and has especially saved me from plodding through a lot of German. I do, however, find that my reading load tends to be a lot lighter than that of my colleagues who work on modern history. Since I don't read modern history, I have no idea why this is, although it's possible that having to do a bunch of it in non-English languages may be part of the cause.

Rejected from Princeton. At least there is a silver lining - I don't have to cross into the US for my Ph.D.

Very much the same, although I must admit that I find some pleasure in writing into the wee hours, long after the city around me has gone to sleep (despite actually being a morning person).

Not yet. New England Nat would know more, but I'd expect it quite soon given how many of the other big ones have made offers.

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]) 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) 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 CageFree (20th century, Southern Cone), 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) 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) Near/Middle Eastern History uhohlemonster, (modern Israel, Iran, Palestine) oswic (modern Egypt, gender) Conmel (modern pan-Islamic thought/networks) 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) Science/Technology/Environment shaxmaty1848 (Cold War) StrangeLight (environmental history, ecological distribution conflicts) Social annieca (Cold War and Post-Cold War East and Central Europe) 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) Canadian History truthfinder (New France, religious)

Is this a weather-related thing?

I only applied to three. Two are top-tier programs. At one I expected an admit but no funding and the other is a longshot. The backup plan is at such a desirable location that there's a tiny sliver of me hoping that I'll go there, even though going there means a rejection from my top choice.

Bad timing seems to be part of SSHRC's mandate. I was supposed to be spending this term at Ludwig Maximilian Universitat in Germany this term, but since I hadn't heard back from SSHRC regarding the travel supplement I decided it was too much and that I was not going to go. Lo and behold I return to my university in Canada to find out that they just awarded me $5200 after the term started, which would have been just about what I needed. Since it was too late to go and I already had accepted a TA position here, I had to decline the award, and like you, won't know about further SSHRC funding until after I had to decided where to do my next degree.

I was notified by my university by email, perhaps a week ago.

NEN, do Princeton grad students have a role in the selection of incoming students? I had an uncle who was there and had to do it, but that was around two decades ago.

I have not made any use of professional editing service. My supervisor is a Brit with a firm grasp of the King's English, and so he tends to refine my writing. If I wanted a proofreader, though, I'd probably just exchange chapters without someone in my program, ie: I'll proofread their chapter and they proofread mine. Saves money, and you might just help out one of your colleagues along the way.

I just met a couple of Americanists in passing in the department. I was invited to take part in a paper discussion between the students who are early medievalists (which I suppose is what I am) and I was really impressed with the engagement and atmosphere of the graduate student community at Princeton.

I popped by for a visit in late November. I don't suppose we met in passing?

Thanks! I'm really hoping to hear back from Princeton during the next or so, since that's really the major deciding factor. It looks like some of the offers in classics have already been made from there, and if Berkeley is sending them out I'm guessing the other top American schools won't be far behind.