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I haven't heard anything yet. And, as I'm sure you all know, it's killing me.

Congrats!!

I'm guessing Wisconsin is tomorrow. I can feel it in my anxious, anxious bones.

Congrats Natsteel!! What wonderful news!

I didn't apply to this program, but congrats! That's great news!

I'm sure they would be very understanding, especially at a Jew-heavy place like Penn.

Ha, it is indeed. I just hope I get a happy ending...

Yeah, Wisconsin is definitely coming this week. I can feel it.

D'Emilio has been "in the process of retiring" for about 7 or 8 years now. I'll believe it when I see it. Butler is in the Rhetoric Department at UC Berkeley, focusing on gender and sexuality. She'll be housed in English at Columbia. History graduate students at Berkeley have the option of doing a DE, or a Designated Emphasis, as long as you are admitted to the DE BEFORE qualifying exams. One of the DE areas is Women, Gender, and Sexuality, of which Butler is a faculty member. So one would be incorrect to assume that a history PhD student could not work directly and closely with Butler for auxiliary supervision.

Oops, you're right. How ironic that I thought it was "Nancy." Ha.

I think it would be helpful to create a list of the leading academics in each genre/sub-genre of history if we can. This list has the potential to be helpful to both current graduate students and future applicants. I do queer history, so here goes: Queer History: George Chauncey, Yale, late 19th and 20th-century urban queer history Matthew Houlbrook, Oxford, early 20th-century urban (mostly London) queer history John d'Emilio, UI at Chicago, urban/modern queer history Judith Butler, Berkeley (soon to be Columbia), masculinities, femininities, the body Michael Sherry, Northwestern, gay artists, 20th-century modern Kevin Murphy, Minnesota, modern masculinity Nancy Enke, Wisconsin, modern masculinity/femininity, modern homosexuality

Didn't Yale make its deadline two weeks later than it was last year? So perhaps we won't find out two weeks later than last year, aka the the 3rd or 4th week of February. Maybe I'm going crazy/making things up.

I STILL haven't heard anything from Wisconsin.

That's a decision you have to make for yourself. No one here can effectively make it for you. Of course there are several things you have to consider. Do the interests of the advisors at Oxford or Cambridge more closely parallel your research interests? Do you think it would be more beneficial to do a one-year program or a two-year program? What about finances? Did you (will you) get a scholarship at one but not the other? And what about college accomodations? Will the college at one be more likely to offer housing to its graduate students than the other? Then, of course, you still have three programs to hear from.

Why are you leaning towards Oxford? Cambridge it totes better. It's science.