BadgerHopeful
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That is me. I received an e-mail from my POI tonight! I am incredibly excited; I've spent the past hour jumping up and down around my apartment, punctuated only with staring at the e-mail. Just so excited.
I am also the one who listed the Penn invite. I received an e-mail today from the graduate coordinator with the information. The e-mail stressed no admission decisions have been made yet. I am looking forward to visiting and meeting with them.
Good luck everyone. I feel like a weight has been lifted off of me. I am ecstatic to go talk to my professors tomorrow.
Congrats!!
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I'm guessing Wisconsin is tomorrow. I can feel it in my anxious, anxious bones.
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Congrats Natsteel!! What wonderful news!
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As I sit here refreshing my email hoping to hear from Yale, I received an email from the DGS at Penn inviting me to visit the campus on Friday, Feb 25th. There will be lunch, meet and greet with profs, and then dinner with grad students. Anyone else get this email? Also-- here is the rub. I'm a Sabbath-observant Jew, and sundown on Friday is about 5 PM. If I went for even part of the day I'd need to stay there until Saturday night. As I've visited the school and met with the profs with whom I applied to work, is it terrible to decline the visit? I'd of course still express my interest, and be available for phone meetings (mentioned in the email for those unable to visit.) What do y'all think?
I'm sure they would be very understanding, especially at a Jew-heavy place like Penn.
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Your badger sense is tingling.
Ha, it is indeed. I just hope I get a happy ending...
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Yeah, Wisconsin is definitely coming this week. I can feel it.
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My understanding is that D'Emilio is in the process of retiring and isn't taking on anymore students, but I could be wrong.
Judith Butler isn't a historian by any stretch of the imagination and does not teach or supervise in history at UC Berkeley. Maybe she will at Columbia, but that would just be strange.
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.
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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
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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.
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I STILL haven't heard anything from Wisconsin.
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And...I've stumbled into the Oxford vs. Cambridge debate. Round 3,450. I've been trying to get my mind off the American schools by trying to decide whether Oxford or Cambridge would be the better path. Same subfield, but Oxford is a 2-year programme (Cambridge is a single year). Oxford seemed to have put more thought into advisors, but both schools tout their respective departments as the best in Europe...
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.
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Why are you leaning towards Oxford? Cambridge it totes better. It's science.
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Booooo Trinity!!
Which ones did you list for Oxford?
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Do you know which college(s) you're in yet?
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As someone who did my undergrad at an Ivy, I'd say none of my classmates would get "upset" about someone using the term Ivy League to refer to any prestigious school, we just thought it was silly (and I still do) because the Ivy League is a collegiate sports conference with a specific membership that has nothing to do with those 8 schools being the best 8 in the country academically (they obviously aren't and never have been, particularly since the term "Ivy League" was invented).
Really? I also did my undergrad at an Ivy - I guess we just had different experiences / encountered different people.
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*And I do use Ivy loosely. I really mean Top 10, or even Top 15, schools.
I think it's amusing how sensitive a lot of Ivy Leaguers are to this subject. A lot of people use "Ivy League" to mean any prestigious, elite, school, but some of these Ivy Leaguers get very upset when this happens.
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I saw that. There's also another UNC acceptance. I'm starting to feel very unloved; maybe my parents were wrong-- I'm not special at all.
I'm sure that, in your case, they're saving the best for last.
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Ohio State, Kansas, and LSU are now all on the board.
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I like how every other department at Wisconsin has started notifying. This is ALMOST comical. Just almost.
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There's been some activity lately: Yale rejection and another UNC acceptance.
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I am also planning (but being lazy) on starting to get some FBI files sent to me of Civil Rights activists and copies of some oral interviews held at distant libraries, so I can turn this seminar paper into something publishable.
I also started volunteer tutoring AP English at a local high school.
Oh cool - my parents were both Weathermen. They have lots of interesting stories about the Movement.
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I haven't heard anything yet. And, as I'm sure you all know, it's killing me.