GurdonRamsay

I emailed a potential supervisor last month about applying to their history program. The potential supervisor is the main person who would be most suited to helping me with my topic and in the email I gave them a brief summary of my proposed project. It deals with similar themes that the supervisor is used to working with: migration/diaspora, the South Asian region. I asked them if they would be interested in working with me and their response was that my topic would be more suited to a supervisor more inclined toward poitics and IR and that I should apply to the poli sci department instead and speak to the South Asianists there. However I don't know if it would be do-able to make the transition to a poli sci dept. considering I have done my degree thus far in history and while I know there are overlaps, the methodology seems to be quite different. Should I bother applying to the history dept. here or just try somewhere else? Or should I give applying to the poli sci. dept. a shot?