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@gurlsaved, I applied to RTF Media Studies Ph.D, so I know their decisions are coming soon (so nervous). Congrats on your acceptance! @trippytraveler, @pmustain, @agschmidt, @superbygk, @Ville, welcome to the forum! Lots of nice people over here in Communication, if I do say so myself. Seriously, this is a really friendly forum.
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@S@lly, that's great advice. I worked for a number of years after my undergraduate degree before my MA, so my spouse and I have been on our own for a while. But this gap year between my MA and Ph.D is driving me a bit nuts....and to think all the time I was in my MA program I wanted nothing more than to relax and "do nothing." LOL I am applying to any job I can possibly get my hands on.
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Thanks. My interview is with Emory ILA. Good luck with your programs! I hope things turn out well for you.
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Very interesting. I don't automatically think of Kant and Hegel when I think of philosophy, but rather about the questions philosophy engages, and yours are certainly along those lines even if it's from a linguistic lens. What, exactly, is an "epistemological skeptic"?
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@supernova1, I study race and visuality (literature, media and performances), and I am obsessed with racial ontology/epistemology. Hence, my love affair with Fanon, Spillers, Hartman and others. I'm most interested in constructions of blackness, but also interested in how race as a whole informs social understanding. On the performance side, I'm interested in spoken word and stand up comedy. And African American poetry.
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I'm also unemployed but will definitely take a job if it comes to me. I need to be able to save up some money prior to school, and sincerely every place I've ever worked for would not have shown me much courtesy if the tables were turned. I take a "that's business" attitude as well. But I'm applying primarily to places that I feel okay doing that. I'm not going to apply to say, my local nonprofit that I love to pieces or to a job that I need to prepare all summer just to begin in the fall. @s@lly Yeah, I was kind of surprised myself. I figured I would definitely feel better. But maybe it's because I'm not working? I am also obsessively checking my phone, but I don't have a job so no good distractions I hope everyone has a really good weekend, and gets out and about to do something fun! As for me, I am going to be indulging an entire bottle of wine......by myself.....lol
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OMG. Emory Douglas is one of my faaaaaaaavorite artists. I've not done a paper on his work yet, but I'm obsessed with his pieces. This is why I want to go to graduate school!!! I would like to look at graffiti too, but i haven't figured out what aspects/to what end yet. Oh, the places I want to go! You mentioned your interest in phenomenology, I suspect we have an admiration for philosophy in common?
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hehehe, it works beautifully. I study the visuality of race. So my studies look like race+epistemology+ontology+media+performance. Or something like that.
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@bespeckled, thank you, and stay positive. It's still so early. What do you want to study? I noticed you applied mostly to English programs so it's gotta be something related to literature?
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@brancan, that was me who said I wish I'd get no emails but decisions. I almost died twice last week over nothing. I feel like, if I'm gonna have a heart attack, let it be for a good reason. @clarisse, congrats on the UMich acceptance! I applied to American Studies there and am still waiting to hear, but it's nice to have that first acceptance down. Though, I will say it doesn't lessen the anxiety of hearing back from other programs, especially if you have other schools that are favorites. That's an unfortunate feeling I'm learning about this week, as I watch some of my favorite programs post results on the board and hear nothing, it hurts a little more than I thought it would, and more than I feel I have a right to be sad about. This whole admissions process is weirdly emotional. All the things you tell yourself to prepare, and then nothing really prepares you for all the emotions. Still, I'm working on staying busy, calm, and grateful. And trying not to come to the forums too often. I also used the NRC rankings and the Doctoral Program Reputation Study for Comm programs. The other programs I applied to, I used NRC rankings and word of mouth. I actually found word of mouth most useful, that and placement and attrition statistics where I could find them. Nothing of course guarantees that we'll finish, but I just really want to be able to finish, publish, and have a shot at a tenure track position (if they still exist when I graduate!! hahaha!)
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Congratulations @supernova on your first acceptance. Feels good to get it out of the way huh?
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@koolherc, welcome to the forum! I also applied to Duke Lit, though I think my chances are pretty slim. What do you want to study?
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If it's a U.S. school, I would check first to see if the school is a signatory of the April 15th graduate student decision deadline.You can read the resolution here: http://www.cgsnet.org/?tabid=201 if you click on the PDF version you can see all the schools listed. Then, as the deadline gets closer, request more time. Especially if you have any kind of financial assistance they're offering, and they are a signatory, then you're well within your rights to gently and respectfully ask that they give you until April 15th to decide.
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@tillium, I was accepted at UNC CH too. I just got my official letter in the mail today, and an email about 10 days ago. What do you hope to study there, and do you know anyone else there? And, what program did you apply to at Duke?
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@lamhere, that's actually a good question to ask the professor upfront if you're comfortable, (saying something along the lines of "I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to work with you on my statement and submit it for a fellowship candidacy. I still have some schools to hear back from before I make my decision, but I am very excited about your program. Please let me know what guidelines I should follow to revise my statement.") generally departments have to nominate individuals for fellowships very early in the process. And there's no guarantee you'll get it. So as long as you don't send an email stating that you accept the offer of admission, you should be just fine to revise your statement and resubmit for candidacy. That being said, if you are 100% positive that you do not want to go to this school, then I would carefully consider whether you want the professor to take the time to help you with the statement. You generally don't have to accept any offers until April 15th (ideally before that if you know where you want to go, they accept you, and you get the funding you want/need). So don't feel pressured. Any correspondence between you and the department that isn't in an official capacity (usually you'll have to agree to go to the school in writing, or sign some sort of agreement online) doesn't bind you to agreeing to go there. Congrats on your acceptances!
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@IronicStatement, welcome! We are obviously a "real" forum now since we've hit 3 pages.... Good luck with all of your programs! @clarisse, what countries do you want to study in PoliComm?
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African American Studies Ph.D Fall 2012
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@dragon, welcome to the light (away from the lurking!). I know there are lots out there lurking, come chat! What would you like to study? I'm doing ok with the waiting too, I had my freak out last week and since then I've been finding other things to do.- 18 replies
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Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks and Wretched of the Earth are both interesting on race and colonialism. I also suggest some Roland Barthes, Image, Music, Text and Walter Benjamin "Theses on the Philosophy of History,” “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” if you haven't already read them both. I'd also check out Aime Cesaire's Discourse on Colonialism. And then the Frankfurt School--it does help to read up on Adorno and Horkeimer, “The Concept of Enlightenment, “ The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” in The Dialectic of Enlightenment even if you think they're a little out there (they can be really productive). One of my favorites is Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation).” And then of course there's Foucault (especially important in terms of identity politics), and I also like Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. And for feminism, I suggest the work of Andrea Smith, Chandra Mohanty, Puar (mentioned above) and the Bridge books (Bridge Called My Back, Bridge We Call Home). And check out Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic too (diaspora, performance). -
@clarisse, I totally agree with this! I think it's a similar reason I like comm. I don't like the rigidity of the social sciences, but sometimes I need to do ethnographic or even quantitative types of research. So comm moves easily within and between it all. Did you look at UT-Austin? I know they have a good PoliComm program.
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@nullsymbol. I was being sarcastic. I meant the way some folks in the US media (and actually some scholars in my recent grad program) used the term postracial to suggest that "race doesn't matter" anymore in the US, or to suggest that our racial history no longer has any bearing on our present social relations. Which is totally silly, but the idea can affect those of us who want to do race studies because people don't take us seriously or feel anxious around us.
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@nullsymbol, most of my interests fall around race, gender, sexuality and constructions of difference (but especially race), how those differences are constructed in media and rhetoric, and how they are negotiated on a more material (embodied) level. I have a small bone to pick with social constructionism and performativity. Or at least, I want to address some of the gaps I think result from the assumptions within many of those frameworks. So the programs I chose have professors that are strong in those areas, or have produced strong scholars in those areas. My interdisciplinary-ness crosses between the social sciences and the humanities, and I spend time doing both qualitative ethnographic research and then writing theory (critical theory especially). It was hard to find programs since the US is all "postracial" now , so I was pretty nervous writing my SOP because I was afraid I would scare people off. But, I was also glad to find that there are programs out there doing really good research in race and difference. I also picked programs that I wouldn't feel isolated in......I've had the experience of being "the" race scholar or one of a few in a program, and I don't like it. I'm in Comm because more than any other discipline it seems to be able to handle my desire to move between humanities and social science comfortably. That, and there's the whole media aspect that I want/need, and then rhetoric and critical studies. So it's really the discipline that's most well rounded, and the one I think that is most well-established among my options (with the exception of AfAm, but many of those programs tend to be more history focused). American Studies is still a little young, and I don't know what the job prospects going to be like there long term, but Comm is usually part of a college's general ed. requirements so I think it is a good fit! @Saviya, welcome to the forum and good luck with your applications! And for everyone else, as for emails that give heart attacks, today I got an email from Emory that told me to check my recommendation status....but all of my LORs have been complete since December. But I still had to frantically check. AND THEN, I read the email closer, and it said, "It is not an indication that your application is incomplete." Side eye. Don't send me the email then!!!!! LOL I dont want to see anymore emails from programs unless it's got answers about decisions. Is that too much to ask?
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Dear god. Every day seems so LOOOOOOOONNNGGGG. Waiting..... .... .... ... ... ... .. .. . . .