I have been admitted to PhD programs in history at both UNC Chapel Hill and CUNY. Both are fully funded.
I know that Chapel Hill is perhaps the more prestigious history department, but the professor I would be working with there is not an obvious fit for me, while the one I would be working with at CUNY has research interests much closer to my own. (I want to focus on the influence of classical antiquity on early US political culture.) CUNY also has a focus on teaching experience which is important to me.
I am visiting UNC this weekend to check it out, but I don't think I have time to visit CUNY.
Both look like good options, and I don't know which to choose, but I have to choose pretty soon!
Any advice?
