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I intend to use it, as I’m in pretty much the same situation as you.

A Short Course in Reading French by Celia Brickman.

I see no reason for you not to have your thesis advisor write for you. Their letter will speak to your fundamental ability to do historical research, which is not subfield specific. Your interests are also expected to continue evolving. I wouldn't even consider those fields to be especially distant, both being connected to medieval gender and sexuality. Really only you can decide whether you should go for the PhD. As you've seen, there are tons of threads on this forums discussing it. You'll likely not have a tenured position in academia after finishing, so can you live with a job in, say, academic administration or publishing or something like that? Those are areas where history PhDs tend to end up.

Just received a rejection from Northwestern, those of you waiting may want to check your portals.

I’ve done one Zoom with a prospective advisor so far. I asked about the makeup of the program in terms of size and fields and about the culture of the school more generally. You’ve already been accepted, so I feel like some pressure is off and you should ask whatever questions you still have about the program. Definitely ask to be put in touch with current students if you haven’t already.

They were probably looking at the results section on this forum. I applied to BU as well, and judging by the last couple years we should expect to hear something from them around the 17th or 18th.

No, but I sure would like to!

Same here.

Sounds interesting! Hope you get some good news soon.

Maybe. I get the impression that admissions there are quite subfield-based, maybe yours hasn’t been decided yet? I’m in modern Europe fwiw.

I received an email with my offer letter attached. My portal hasn’t changed, still says under review with department.

Hey! I’m one of the two (edit: seems like four actually) Michigan State acceptances on the results page.

The professor I exchanged emails with at Chicago said they had taken 11 students last year and might take a few more this year.

Who knows. I hope we do hear something about assistantships this week!

I suspect things are somewhat different for them since they are already at the school. They didn't mention anything about an assistantship, which is what we're both waiting on.