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  1. Hello all, I'm finishing up my MA, and I'm applying to PhD programs for Fall 2014. I study Modern Jewish History, and my research is on a highly specialized transnational issue. My problem is that I need a modern Jewish historian who focuses on, or at least is interested in transnational issues in Modern Jewish history. So far I'm looking at NYU, Columbia, and UCLA. I might add Stanford, Brandeis, and GWU to that list, but I'm on the fence. Do any of you have any recommendations for additional programs I should look at? I really do want to add more (especially because I don't know how competitive I'd be in those application pools). Any advice from other Jewish historians would be appreciated! Thank you so much. (also, admin, sorry for the double post--I was posting from my phone before and didn't realize that I wasn't on the history board)
  2. Did that (I have been in graduate school for two and a half years; I know most of the tricks). There are literally 4 scholarly works on my topic. One person is dead, one is a librarian, one is retired, and one works at the University of Melbourne--moving to Australia is just not an option for me. I'm not being lazy/dramatic when I say that locating potential advisers in more than 3-5 departments is a struggle.
  3. Hello all, I'm finishing up my MA, and I'm applying to PhD programs for Fall 2014. I study Modern Jewish History, and my research is on a highly specialized transnational issue. My problem is that I need a modern Jewish historian who focuses on, or at least is interested in transnational issues in Modern Jewish history. So far I'm looking at NYU, Columbia, and UCLA. I might add Stanford, Brandeis, and GWU to that list, but I'm on the fence. Do any of you have any recommendations for additional programs I should look at? I really do want to add more (especially because I don't know how competitive I'd be in those application pools). Any advice from other Jewish historians would be appreciated! Thank you so much. ETA: Haha you can tell I'm stressed by the typos in the thread name oy.
  4. I am doing my MA in a department which really has an excellent group dynamic. The university provides the grad students with an entire floor for themselves where they can hold office hours, work, cry, commiserate, share ideas, etc. I am researching departments that I'd like to apply to for my doctoral work on the basis of the presence of faculty who research in my field, and on the basis of proximity to relevant archives. The above three departments fit the bill in all respects. However, I really want to do my PhD in a department with an excellent group dynamic. The presence of graduate colleagues who are open to socializing, making new friends etc is very important to me--I don't want to be in a department where you never see your colleagues outside of seminar. So, for those of you in those departments, does that dynamic exist? Is there a special area set aside by the department for just the graduate students? Etc. Thank you so much for your answers! I really appreciate it.
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