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It is. He's not taking any new students now. I don't know exactly how long he's git left at Bama, but Rothman has taken over his position as chair of the Summersell Center.

I got into Ole Miss this cycle and last cycle, and Alabama and Auburn last cycle. (I decided to take a year off to travel and work before going to grad school. It was totally worth it.) I half wish I had accepted Alabama last cycle though, because my dream professor is now retiring there soon.

Hey there! My area of interest is also Southern Women (primarily through the Civil War), though I also dabble in religious history. All of those programs (with the exception of Kentucky) were on my list when I applied this round. Mississippi is of course fantastic because of the Center for Southern Studies, but that program only offers four funded slots. You might want to look at LSU. I just accepted my offer there (MA program), and both my future advisor and current grad students have been absolutely amazing. As was already stated, MA funding is hard to get, though not impossible, especially if you look at sources beyond the history departments themselves.

Cnova613 - I hope your funding search has been going well. I know a lot of departments still don't know what their actual budget is yet (June seems to be a very important month for that). I officially accepted my offer (sans departmental funding) this morning. As great as Nashville is (though Knoxville isn't bad - my sister got three of her five degrees at UT so I spent a lot of time there haha) I'm super excited to be making the move!

Congrats on the acceptance! I finally created an account so I could reply to this, because I do have the tiniest bit of information here. I also got accepted to LSU, but before I applied I visited the department. I met with the DGS who didn't seem too optimistic about funding opportunities because of budget cuts that were being made. I got accepted without funding, which wasn't much of a surprise after that meeting (also being an MA applicant I knew funding was a little less likely). I also met with several current students, a good bit of whom weren't on departmental funding, but were being funded through other places in the university (like the library or the graduate school). So I'm not sure when you'll get official word on funding, but I know that they don't have the money to fund as many students as they like, so you might want to look into other options just in case.