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This is a question about a problem I have with a phd advisor. I have just started a new phd program, and an additional advisor has been added to the one which I was given in advance of beginning the program. I don't feel that this second advisor is a good fit because of belonging to scores of organizations I don't care for: but I don't want to criticize them or the head of the department who has paired me with this person by indicating what my reasons are. What's a good way to ask for a different supervisor without burning someone? Any advice welcome. I also just moved internationally to begin my study so don't want to seem foolish for that reason. Thanks

Anybody at this point been asked to the Dphil fine art Oxford interview this year (put in app myself)?---trying to figure out whether I'm cut already.

What I am looking for is a Phd Fine Art program or its equivalent that is not so selective. That is what I absolutely need. Will anybody help me? Anybody have any good information about this? I'm not so much looking for a program that is unimpressive...which I understand can be selective or not selective : I'm looking for one which is not extremely selective- pretty much.

Well, I ended up going with a different professor so the whole thing was resolved.

If I were you I would contact each one of the programs and ask whether it's okay with them you don't have the MA or how it would weigh on the application.

I was trumped by questions about specific scholarship connected to the work from which I was drawing.

There are lists online that are supposed to be lists of the top graduate art programs. You could put it in a search engine and probably get that as a starting point. I don't know about just sculpture, but I think that Yale University and the Rhode Island School of Design and Columbia University people seem to know those names.

I think there's also one in Harvard but it's film oriented. Whether it seems LESS like working than an MFA that I'm not sure- I think I saw someone teaching in Canada in a non-prestigious university with the degree- also now the person is no longer working there and I think she split her time teaching at 2. I'm trying to get the degree for financial reasons : drag along, that type of thing....I was interviewed a couple of years ago by an okay one and turned down- I ended up going for an art history degree- what I would say is that the quality of what you can get is pretty much key - 'Art History' won't necessarily save you- if it's something in the middle of North Dakota or something like that and the program has no age on it, there's no library, little goes in and out even if they put a lot on you I'm not sure you would really have much.

This is me talking out my butt but if you're still interested I would think that if somebody lists that that is indeed the eye that they're taking to the papers. It's hard to think that somebody who's actually pretty famous would seem inappropriate....just thinking and mulling it over....if you know somebody who's pretty famous-something competetive with an application with the whole thing going on. .....This person knows nothing by the way.

I heard of a 3 year one at university of texas austin

I'm not sure I can answer your question but these are the tidbits I have: -you can sometimes do TA for art history professors (I don't know whether you were thinking more like teaching actually a class section or assisting them.) -you can sometimes do TA for museum -you can sometimes get like work in the office of the department or library I wonder whether there would be a way that you could by phone or email ask whether most successful applicants get a TA or whether they automatically are set up with one...my personal experience is that a small place is more likely to toss something like that as a rule...but I think it would be smart to take the best one you can even if that means not getting a TA or better funding package for like how well you do in the future---after floating around in the things for awhile.

Anyone have any advice about combining art-making with research in a research proposal (for a degree which entails that?)

For a rare Dphil Fine Art (practice option), what type of sample would the committee be expecting? Anyone know?

I have a studio degree (MFA) and I was able to get a place in an art history MA....but it wasn't that smooth of one. If you have a choice between taking a cooler program and getting the different area, my guess is take the cooler program.

Sorry, I'm not able to understand if you're saying that now the person won't write you a letter after you had the affair....something you could think about, if THEY instigated it for revenge you could try to tattle-tale the whole thing to some university official if they advanced or, maybe just for your personal pleasure tell the tale including the detail about the letter at the end to smear them and damage their chances of promotion because they're being so foul.

I wonder if it would be possible for you to go through that college's webpage and select someone to email the question to over there...or whether that would cause some other problem you wouldn't want...cause someone to associate your name with a problem at first glance....but it seems like PROB-ably not, to me pretty much....but I don't know....!....

So for my 3rd letter of recommendation the choices are: 1.A paper letter and personal contact information for a retired teacher who is unwilling to make the recommendation again (terminally sick, says 'too long a time') but who has a slightly more impressive professional reputation 2. A recommendation from a teacher I had like 10 years ago no one would have heard of Another thing I could pull is putting a line of x's or 1234...in the mandatory spaces of the online application with a notey that says the first person is retired if it will let me do that...which maybe looks a little bit fishy... I guess if someone were to call the first person they'd say bad things maybe. Maybe my question is how likely it is that anyone is anyone will ever insist on following up with the first individual.