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I'm sorry to hear this - I know there are going to be so many good projects not funded this year. It really does feel like a lotto draw, or, as my undergraduate supervisor once called it, "a crap shoot." I hope you have other irons in the fire and have a good scholastic year. Also for the record, I checked my account and my results are not uploaded yet either.

If it helps anyone, I had a doctoral SSHRC fellowship and was set up on Extranet in December (my funding ended in December). I do not have a new folder in my account for the postdoctoral competition results yet.

Good luck, everyone! The email this morning has definitely nudged me into panic-mode for work and finances this September. If you want to share, what is everyone's plan B if your application is not successful??

How many applicants, if successful, will hold their SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships outside of Canada? My host institution for the application is in Maine (I'm based in Halifax, Nova Scotia). I've been thinking about COVID and how it will continue to affect international studies in the coming years.

ThisIsFine, wow! What a day - defending AND submitting your application to SSHRC. You must have been on cloud nine haha. And thank you, Konstantin, I have my fingers crossed for you as well!

Hey everyone - I haven't posted in a long time on here, but I just submitted my SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship application for 2021 yesterday! It's my first attempt. I'm in my last year of my History PhD (ABD). I noticed there wasn't a thread yet for this year's competition, so I'm creating one. Good luck to everyone that applied!! I'll be checking this site out more at the end of February and start of March, when they send out the snail mail letters.

Hey! I thought it would be interesting to open a space for people to discuss their perferred theortical approaches to history. You don't need to be specific - even the broad approaches would be awesome to read! I really respect and admire Marc Bloch, both as a historian and a historical figure. I use many of his theoretical stances to approach my research. I'm primarily drawn to writing social histories, and try to incorporate more than just textual primary sources in my works to scratch the surface of individuals' mentalities. What about everyone else?

I was accepted to UNB's MA in History today! :) I've been offered $30,000 over two years. Other than those two facts the email was not detailed. It mentioned a letter in the post will arrive soon with more information. But yay! This is the first news I've gotten regarding my applications. One down, two to go!

For the first two years of my undergrad I was in English. My mom passed away when I was younger and we had a really deep connection when it came to literature. English in high school was my favourite subject and it just made me feel like I was doing something that connected me to my mom. The only history course I took in high school was on Canada in the world wars... I enjoyed it but it didn't strike me as something I wanted to pursue. Looking back, I really enjoyed social studies, which was bascically bottom up history, but again it didn't jump out at me. I took history as a minor in university and it blew my mind. I looked forward to every class and each midterm and assignment made me excited. It felt like the discipline just opened everything up to me - things clicked and my perspective changed on so many levels. English allowed me to study the human condition through art imitating life, but history magnified that approach. I contemplated finishing my English undergrad and applying to MA history programs, mostly because changing fields was daunting. I went to my first week of English classes at the beginning of my third year and hated every one - I had a history department booklet detailing all of its course offerings in my backpack and pined after them. Anyways at the end of that week I ate a pint of ice cream in my room while I switched my whole program online. The next week I was in all history courses and I haven't looked back since. I'm writing my honours in history right now (fourth year) and am waiting on hearing back on my MA in history applications I think history is so important to study because it offers context to situations and proof that no matter how pernament something feels in society, things change. That seems obvious but when you're only young and have only known your situation to be the same, (whether it be living in a country that has a dictator or are an oppresed individual in a democractic country) history offers hope. History is so important for the present, and a very powerful tool that can be manipulated for both negative and positive outcomes. Because of this it is paramount that history is made accessible to the general public - knowledge is power and it can liberate. And all of the many good reasons telkanuru pointed out!

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Those programs sound awesome! What's your thesis going to focus on?

That sounds really interesting! Hopefully you'll hear back from all of the universities you applied to soon, and good luck! I'll definitely let you know when I hear from Dalhousie. And Nova Scotia is pretty beautiful Halifax is an awesome spot to live.

I applied for a MA in history at Dalhousie, Saint Mary's, and University of New Brunswick. Haven't heard back from any of the schools yet!