yellowkingduck

Philosophy departments just don't do the kind of social-sciency/lit stuff I'm getting/have gotten my degrees in (ie, no praxis). Like, I could probably study Foucault's epistemological discursivity or whatever for five years, but I'm not really sure I want to. I'm looking at the lit departments mainly because they seem to have people who do critical theory in all but name. I'm also looking at social theory departments (and UCLA's got a really good one, I think), I forgot to mention. So I guess interdisciplinary, sorta?

I'm just not a big fan of the South(east) and while I know Duke (and probably Vanderbilt) is (are) pretty amazing, I don't think I could do good work in TN or NC. The History of Consciousness program is high on my list, but I'm unsure about the funding for that.

I graduated college with a GPA of 3.91, I'm currently getting my master's and am halfway through with a GPA of 3.6. I'll be trying to raise that, but I've tried to keep busy attending conferences and getting published/working. Neither my undergrad nor my grad program's particularly famous, I guess, but I think I got (and am still getting) a good education. My major is critical theory, but I've not been really encouraged by the number of schools that seem to have departments in that area. My specialty is Foucault and within Foucault, his analytics of power and his later ethical stances. The schools I'm looking at (which have professors in the fields I'm working in) are three UC schools (Berkeley, Irvine, LA), Stanford, Columbia, SUNY Albany, and UChicago. Any suggestions on any other places?/What I should be doing?