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Alternate for Hindi here as well. Not too disappointed, as I also got a FLAS to do Persian in the US, which I would be perfectly happy doing. I made it off the waitlist for CLS last time, so it does happen? TBH, I have some reservations about going back, as I had a quite awful host family experience before, and know multiple other people who did as well.... Not sure how much that varies from country to country though.

Thanks, SLM! I've been wondering what their decline-after-acceptance policy is (not to put the cart before the horse!) I remember I made it off the alternate list several years ago, but had already accepted another summer fellowship offer. I think I remember Fulbright people getting very late notifications and then having to turn CLS quite late in the game, so I assume there must be some provisions.

I know someone who was given moving expenses at UC Berkeley, but that was a number of years ago when state budgets weren't as tight as they currently are. I believe said person asked politely. So, I certainly wouldn't count on that, but FWIW

Also waiting on tenterhooks here! (for Advanced Hindi) Does anyone know once the offers are sent how long recipients have to decline/accept? I'm also waiting on another summer grant info, and my nerves are doubly wracked

I am trying to get my German in ship-shape in order to be fully prepared to do a masters at a German uni in the next few years. I completed a B2 course at the Goethe Institute a few years ago, but wasn't that impressed - I wanted more grammar and writing/reading focus. What school would people recommend to really get ready for uni/academic German? I have been looking at these institutes via the DAAD website: Goethe-Institut S + W speak + write did deutsch-institut Carl Duisberg Centren InterDaF Leipzig

Thank you maeisenb, that is helpful. I forgot to mention that I'm also interested in broader questions of women's spiritually throughout Christian history, so I have an additional interest in the writings of medieval nuns and beguines, primarily from Germany and the Low Countires - I can't tell if the medieval department is so strong in that, though there are some scholars who do related research in the German/ModLang department, it seems. As you mentioned, the proliferation of options is part of the problem, espeically for someone who is used to doing more of a mix of Late Antique and medieval, like I am. Is there any real advantage to doing an M.Phil over an M.St if I am mostly interested in building upon my coursework and language skills?

I have been looking through the descriptions of the M.St. and M.Phil in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at Oxford, as well as the M.St. in Medieval Studies vs. Medieval History, and frankly I'm a bit confused by all the differences. I am interested in Jewish-Christian relations in Late Antiquity and continuing my Syriac, Greek, and/or Latin language skills, but I am having a hard time figuring out what degrees would suit my interests best...

Do you mean faculty who are practicing Christians, or solely those who would identify as evangelical? The latter is much more of a niche market, to say the least...

Does anyone here have any particular knowledge of or experience with the M.St. in Biblical Interpretation at Oxford or the MA in Bible at Durham in the UK?

I have considered applying for the Germany ETA, but am not sure my chances are good, as it seems geared more toward German majors and future German teachers. I'm a masters student in Religion and did 2+ years of German in college, studied at the Goethe Institue in Berlin, and speak pretty good conversational German thanks to having German family and a German boyfriend in the past. At this point, I think living in Germany for a year would take me a long ways toward fluency, but I don't know if its worth going for it? I am planning to appy for the separate Austrian program, and if I decide not to apply for Germany I would apply for an ETA somewhere much more "obscure" such as Armenia, Georgia, or Cyprus (I'm interested in Eastern Christianity), but I'm not sure what the applicant pool is like for those countries... Thoughts?

To add a secondary question to the thread - how important would you folks say paleography training is? I am trying to decide between a paleography seminar and a medieval literature content course which looks like it would be a lot of fun...

I think the issue is more that some places lump 'Late Antiquity' - which can seem to include everything from the beginning of Christianity and rabbinic Judaism up to around 750 - in with Ancient History (which I am not interested in focusing on) while others place it in the medieval category, or don't have it all....or put it with Byzantine, separate from medieval, etc (see U of Chicago or UC Berkeley for example)

Khairein, salve, etc. fellow pre-modernly-inclined historians I have a fairly mixed background in both History and Religions Studies, and am currently getting a masters in Religious Studies. I will have done about two years of Hebrew, Latin, and Greek each by the time I finish my MA, though I am looking to perhaps build on my language skills a bit more before going on to a Ph.D, including doing a second MA. That said, I am somewhat torn between Late Antiquity and Medieval History as subfields...it seems to me that a great deal of scholars of Late Antiquity are interested in it as the end or "last gasp" of antiquity and the classical world. I am not so interested in classics as the connections between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, especially how certain ideas from the Patristics period - such as Jewish-Christian relations and the split between Christian East and West - carried over from Late Antiquity into the medieval world. I understand why the divide exists, especially with the knowledge necessary for both fields and languages being so high, but would you recommend any programs that allow students to do justice to both, or straddle these subfields? I have looked at programs such as UCLA, UC Berkely, Princeton, IU Bloomington for starters... That aside, does anyone have a genearal feeling about employabilty in Late Antiquity vs. Medieval History? Thanks!

Khairein, salve, etc. fellow pre-modernly-inclined historians I have a fairly mixed background in both History and Religions Studies, and am currently getting a masters in Religious Studies. I will have done about two years of Hebrew, Latin, and Greek each by the time I finish my MA, though I am looking to perhaps build on my language skills a bit more before going on to a Ph.D, including doing a second MA. That said, I am somewhat torn between Late Antiquity and Medieval History as subfields...it seems to me that a great deal of scholars of Late Antiquity are interested in it as the end or "last gasp" of antiquity and the classical world. I am not so interested in classics as the connections between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, especially how certain ideas from the Patristics period - such as Jewish-Christian relations and the split between Christian East and West - carried over from Late Antiquity into the medieval world. I understand why the divide exists, especially with the knowledge necessary for both fields and languages being so high, but would you recommend any programs that allow students to do justice to both, or straddle these subfields? I have looked at programs such as UCLA, UC Berkely, Princeton, IU Bloomington for starters... That aside, does anyone have a genearal feeling about employabilty in Late Antiquity vs. Medieval History? Thanks!

Does anyone have info on U Penn's Religion PhD, or how it is generally perceived (if it all?) I know U Penn has a good reputation overall, and it seems like they have some fairly well-known scholars such as Annette Y Reed and E Anne Matter, but their program seems quiet tiny, and I don't know if their placement rate is even on the map...