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  1. 8 hours ago, Tigla said:

    It is time to throw my hat back into the ring. Last year, I was accepted into two UK universities (one of which I deferred for a year) and was waitlisted on my three US applications. Hopefully, this round will be the one!

    In a broad sense, I focus on global development programs during the Cold War. A lot of work has been done on American and Soviet programs, the role of international organizations, and the effects of 'development' on the 'Third World.' Following the literature from the Global Cold War, my plan is to attempt to look at how European countries, specifically the Germanys, justified their programs and the decision-making process once the decision was made to aid a country. Through my work, I hope to be able to combine the growing political and international histories of the Global Cold War with the economic and intellectual histories of development aid programs. Then, apply these frameworks back into Europe to figure out why European countries actively engaged in these programs.

    • UNC-Chapel Hill: Klaus Larres and Karen Hagemann (Need to go through the faculty again)
    • Princeton: Harold James, Christina Davis, Helen Miller, Andrew Moravcsik
    • Northwestern: Daniel Immerwahr, Lauren Stokes, Kyle Burke
    • Brandeis: David Engermann and Shameel Ahmad
    • Columbia: Matthew Connelly, Anders Stephanson, Adam Tooze, and Paul Thomas Chamberlin
    • NYU: Stephen Gross and Mary Nolan (still a maybe)
    • TAM: Hoi-eun Kim, Jason Parker, and Adam Seipp
    • Stony Brook: Young-Sun Hong, Larry Fordham, Michael Barnhart (another maybe)
    • Harvard: Erez Manela, Charles S Maier, Arne Westad
    • Indiana: Nick Cullather and Stephen Macekura

    I'm still expanding my list and trying to cast my net fairly wide before starting to cut universities. The rest of my application will be mostly edited from last year's one. My writing sample, however, will be a chapter from my MA thesis which used exclusively German sources. As for my recommendations, they will change because 2 of my writers are leaving academia for the private sector.

    Add Mazower to your Columbia list! 

  2. Thanks for a great response telkanuru. But didn't Teo Ruiz also study with Strayer? I was under the impression that he did, but I might be wrong.

    How influential have been medievalists from other disciplines (literature, art history, philosophy) to medieval historians, overall? Some literary scholars, such as Mary Carruthers and Brian Stock, seem to have had a significant influence in the field, but not many. On the other hand, one would expect engagement with art historians given the so-called turn to materiality, but I am not sure this has been the case overall. How do those of you who have already been in graduate school for a couple of years feel about this? Do you usually read non-historian medievalists? Do you usually attend symposia / cite articles by medievalists based on departments outside history? 

     

     

  3. I think the point is fair, though. William Chester Jordan has some great publications, but he has not been as influential in the field as to be counted as one of the ten most important medievalists. Something interesting about both lists is the sheer dominance of American and British historians, with the exception of one French author on each list. It seems surprising that there is not a single German medievalist, when the impact of German scholarship on the field has been enormous... 

  4. 40 minutes ago, telkanuru said:

    Not going to rank but: Bynum, Constable, McKitterick, McCormick, Jordan, Wickham, Nirenberg, Moore, Vauchez, Bisson, Freedman.

     A lot of men on that list...

      

     Putting Brown on a list of medievalists kinda devalues his entire life's work.

    Not Le Roy Ladurie? Montaillou, pioneering attention to environmental history... 

  5. Hello,

    I have been offered a place at Columbia for the following year. However, as an international student, I am not really sure how affordable it is to live in NYC on a PhD stipend. These are the conditions of my offer:

    * A stipend of $29,350 during the academic year for up to five years.
    * A summer stipend of $3,772 for five years, to be disbursed after the first year of enrollment.
    * The Gold-level insurance premium for the Columbia Student Medical Insurance Plan, as well as half of the Gold-level insurance premium for any eligible dependent

    Do you think this would be enough to live in NYC without getting into debt? Thanks for the help

     
  6. Hello,

    I have been offered a place at Columbia for the following year. However, as an international student, I am not really sure how affordable it is to live in NYC on a PhD stipend. These are the conditions of my offer:

    * A stipend of $29,350 during the academic year for up to five years.
    * A summer stipend of $3,772 for five years, to be disbursed after the first year of enrollment.
    * The Gold-level insurance premium for the Columbia Student Medical Insurance Plan, as well as half of the Gold-level insurance premium for any eligible dependent

    Do you think this would be enough to live in NYC without getting into debt? Thanks for the help

  7. 8 hours ago, Caravaggista said:

    Could the Columbia admit manifest her- or himself? I had my follow-up interview on Friday and seeing your post on the board gave me a mini-heart attack! Would you be so kind as to appease my anxiety? 

    I also had my interview on Friday... I doubt they would send admissions on that day, to be honest. 

  8. 3 hours ago, Tigla said:

    I have a colleague who applied to Harvard's East Asian Studies PhD. Her recommender, who also works at Harvard, said that the department is finishing the decision-making process this week. Some letters of acceptance have been sent, but not all. Good luck to those that have applied to Harvard! May the odds always be in your favor.

    You mean that some letters have been sent for East Asian or for History? Have not heard anything from the history department yet

  9. 46 minutes ago, storiadell'arte said:

    Hi - not to be ceaselessly annoying, but is there a sense of what the next 'few days' entails? So many of us are biting our nails, eagerly waiting for some movement on the results page, or a call from a 617 area code. 

     

    Given that she got the email on Friday and that other people have been notified, I am afraid that you are likely to have been rejected if you have not had any news as of yet... If you want to receive confirmation, I think you might want to go ahead and email the department at this point

  10. I am a bit concerned about Harvard to be honest... my girlfriend got an acceptance for Harvard's art history program on the 2nd, and if it were not for her post there would be no acceptances in the results board ofgrad cafe. Perhaps none of us got in, and that is why we have not heard back, because rejections take a bit longer than acceptances? :(

  11. Hey!!

    Just letting you know that my girlfriend just got accepted for the Harvard PhD program for art history!! You should all expect news very soon :) Good luck!

  12. 5 minutes ago, CBC said:

    Thank you DGrayson for your reply. You are quite right that a good fit with both the department and adviser outweighs other considerations. My sub concentration is intellectual history of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. Harvard is thus strong in that area, that is why I'm slightly uncertain about Yale's strength and competitive edge in the job market.

     

    She's going to the Institute of Advanced Studies.

    Grafton seems a safe choice for the intellectual history of Early Modern Europe in general.. Is he still taking students?

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