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Hi fellow Germany hopefuls! Nikki- the CLS is the Critical Language Scholarship through the State Department. I typically go abroad for the summer for cultural and linguistical immersion, most often to Russia. rar8- I am a comparatist, so I work in German, Russian and philosophy. I do historical epistemology (in the German tradition), so history of intellectual ideas here in the US. At this point, I am working on the reception of German Idealism and Romanticism in 19th-century Russia. More specifically, for Germans the strain of "distinctiveness" thinking that is the nascent nationalism of these two movements is traced to Herder. Like Germany, the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences (hence, the natural sciences) was founded with Herder's cultural, anthro-philosophical concepts, in this case it defines Russian ethnology. My research would be tied to Humboldt specifically (proff's in ethnology, literature, philosophy), as they are trained in historical epistemology as it pertains to the German social-natural sciences. This method is not done in the US universities. That perhaps is quite possibly the shoddiest explanation of my work yet, but you get the idea

Congratulations to all of you who have been accepted thus far! I have enjoyed reading everyone's comments, anxieties and encouragements. So, I finally decided to join in the conversation. I am also in a constant state of anticipation for my email: Germany for dissertation research. I just heard that I was an alternate for CLS (which I received last summer) and therefore now I believe that all of my other academic pursuits will come back as "rejected"-this is silly, of course! I wanted to suggest that if you don't get accepted (say, to Spain as LifeLearner suggested) that you do try again! I have been told that often if they don't fund you one year they will the next. After all, you have written a proposal that a national committee of scholars deemed worthy of funding and that says a great deal about the integrity of your project and your ability to effectively articulate its importance/relevance. Kudos! Best of luck to you all!!