Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look. Midlarsky sounds familiar... Ah, yeah, Killing Trap. That's on the list. I should fast-track that one.
Actually, I'm unfortunately promiscuous with my source material. Well. Not unfortunate for me; it's really given me amazing insights. But, it doesn't help me find people to work with. Most of the people I've really loved are in history or social psychology. I am certainly not. I tried reading through my genocide conference schedule, but I didn't find much. I met a professor there I really want to work with, and who said he'd love to work with me, but he's an assistant at a satellite at UBC and he can't sponsor me. Ethnic conflict is huge, even in IR, which is where I'm finding most of my contacts. I will need to work with comparative, and it will be very helpful to know people in that. I think what I'm really looking at is somewhere in between, because I am so interested in the international aspects of it, particularly with the legal aspects (which I'm so unprepared to study). But, as it is so (dare i say intimate) an interaction, relatively, one cannot work without sufficient inclusion of internal policy.
I've done well enough at my program. I'm a clinical underachiever, but my papers reflect good scholarship, even if they need to be tightened. My advisor did his MA at Rutgers, so that might be a good shot. I'm going to retake the GRE because I didn't need much for the MA and so I didn't prepare at all. Question. When you turn in writing samples, do they generally want graded samples, or can I re-edit them and continue to work on them? I'm sure that's the stupidest question ever.
And you've been very helpful, if simply by reminding me that I'm not completely out of my mind. I do forget. Thanks.