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Since at most there are 3-5 Latin American historians at any given school I felt ok writing all of them with a brief personal introduction and then a bit about my research interests and undergraduate work. I told them I'd be applying to the program and (since I live on the East coast and I'm applying to all E Coast schools) that I'd be interested in meeting up if they had time. I managed to have lunch with profs at both UVA and UMD and receive friendly responses from folks at NYU.

Hey everyone, I have a bachelor's in history and in Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and I'm applying to Latin American history PhD programs at: UVA, University of Maryland, NYU, Indiana and maybe Yale. I'm almost finished with the UVA and UMD applications. Personal statement (X) I'm just working on a program specific paragraph for each school. GRE (X) Taken, but last spring, so I need to get ETS to ship that out to my schools. Gotta get on the horn to UW-Madison about ordering up some transcripts. Letters of Rec: waiting for Profs to confirm that they've received the email links.

Hey everyone, I graduated from the University of Wisconsin last Spring also with degrees in Latin American studies and history and I'm planning on applying to Latin American history programs in the fall of '09. I wrote an undergrad thesis on European colonization in early 20th century Chile where I looked at the interrelations and conflicts between the central and local governments, the indigenous Mapuche population, Chilean settlers, large landowners and the European colonists. I'm not necessarily wedded to this topic for an MA thesis or PhD and I'm not sure what my exact research interest is. Is this a big problem for applying for a Master's or combined MA/PhD program? And by the way, mjl52, you might definitely consider working with Florencia Mallon at Wisconsin. She advised my undergrad thesis and is really amazing.