oseirus
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They also have some decent scholars working in the topic of the Atlantic Slave Trade
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Does anyone know anything about this program? I checked out the website and the program looks pretty interesting.
What program?
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well if some one knows the islamic world even at its surface, they would never generalize it as one big whole. its actually composed of fragments, some big and others smaller., shiites, sunnis, salafis, esmailis they would never come under one umbrella because of the power diffrentials in the region e.g. KSA Iran rivalry and their proxies. now why would some one consider this puzzle as a whole and put it against the west? such thing is with bernard lewis, the man who started the two wars and hasnt been in the ME for the past 30 years!
anyways, if one wants to know islam from a more unbiased view, he should look in john esposito i think.
btw, sorry all for the off-topic, just wanted to answer the question.
Oh I don't think it was off topic and I agree with your overall point ... but in defense of Huntington he was saying that different regions were going to have some common link .... and in the case of the "Islamic world" it was the common theme of Islam ... now would you consider Nigeria part of the Ummah (I mean they are part of the OIC) or would you consider Turkey? All that plays to your point but he was making a simple point so I say we cut him some slack
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I'm a fall 2015 applicant (as I've got a pesky anthropology degree to finish!) but I didn't think this warranted its own thread, so I hope it's okay if I ask this question here! Does anybody know much about Ohio State? I'm interested in modern women's history (US/Britain), and I really liked what I saw from the website - multiple faculty members I think I could work with/a good research fit, to start, but I also noticed what I thought was a "we're pretty low key/not super competitive" feeling from the department, which, if it's true in reality, really appeals to me. Is the department actually like that, or am I just projecting my ideal program onto them?
Thanks so much! Any other info on OSU would be fantastic too if you had it!
(Edit - man, I'm at the top of the page again.)
Your best bet might be TMP
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mine is from the region i come from, Iran.
1.khayyam, his poems are fantastic, you just love the carpe diem message in them
2. edward said, the first book i read and liked when i entered undergrad
3. sam huntington: i like him because i hate him, such a naive guy1
4.Thomas Kuhn: i will always be fascinated by his paradigms!
5.Joschka" Fischer! dont know, just like him
not much middle eastern after all!
What do you mean by Huntington being naive?
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they usually have a cohort of 15-20 out of 150-200 applicants
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My personal list is slightly Eurocentric but growing up these were the minds that influenced me the most
1. Niccolo Machiaveli
2. Otto, furst von Bismarck
3. Thomas Sankara
4. Edmund Burke
5. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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@oseirus
None of my fields relate to diplomatic history (though my dissertation does deal with it). Remember, transnational doesn't necessarily mean diplomatic or military history. You can go transnational in social history when you examine networks (social, economic, labor, activism, etc) and migrations. My primary focus is naturally transnational in nature (though much of it has been Europe-centric). I'm not really into world or global history though I do like to examine history through global perspective.
PM me if you have any more questions.
Thanks TMP!
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@TMP: is your transnational history program akin to other global & world history programs or does yours have an emphasis on what was once called "diplomatic history"?
@anyone else: Any Africanists out there this year?
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Hey! Welcome back!
What have I missed?
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Well hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, historians and non-historians, I humbly return
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I personally think digital history is the next wave
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Well hello there friends how y'all doing? Speaking from inside the bunker, so to speak, the MA/MSc is geared towards a global/international approach to studying history. So for example, if you are an Americanist, your research topic should in theory be able to offer a narrative of American impact in a global context. Now if that is not what you are really keen on and looking more for specialization (and my apologies if I am presuming incorrectly here), I would recommend the MPhil. As everyone here has said, the money can be an issue but there are always ways around those so please don't let that be the only deciding factor. The ONE thing I have to forewarn you about either school though is that, do your research thoroughly and talk to as many people as possible. Not just the rah-rah types. Find the grizzled vets in other programs and get their honest opinions.
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Well the question I have to ask you is what you are trying to do. Is your aim a global/international approach to history or are you trying to specialize?
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Columbia, if nothing else, has an AMAZING grad lounge ... there I said it
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Heh, at this stage a PhD is a bit heavy for me, and to be honest I was a bit clueless until recently as to what I wanted to do after Uni. I just picked those degrees since they were of interest to me, but my flatmate mentioned the Columbia/LSE programme to me and I was interested in that because I want to learn about a non-Western culture, since the History department here is extremely Anglocentric if not Eurocentric (that doesn't mean it's bad; the guys there know their stuff, but it's still somewhat very focused on European culture).
At any rate, wish me luck. I still haven't heard from them and I'm hoping no news is good news.
Good luck!
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It might be very difficult to gauge the success rate of the Dual Degree. I think that most of the students in the dual degree do not apply for PhD's and most of those that do apply take a gap year or two in between the Dual Degree and a PhD.
It's that gap year thing that concerns me the most ... out of sight, out of mind
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So this is might deserve it's own seperate topic but are there any modern militarist applying for the 2013 cycle on here?
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HI~there I am very nerious and can not sleep well. I can not understand why they keep me waiting and waiting after I am waitlisted. June 1 is coming. I do not have a plan B. It just drives me crazy.
For where?
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It all kind of depends on how crazy my life is and I figured I'd wait until the next set of applicants started posting.
That and it saves me from my pile of legal documents from the 1980s I should have been reading today.
Well just know that if SL isn't around this next cycle, the position of man crush becomes totally available ... just saying
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back to 2nd banana again I see
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I am not saying people should forgo what they are interested in and do what's "marketable" instead. That's intellectually dishonest, and in the end it's very difficult impossible to sustain an academic career when you don't care about what you're studying. I'm only suggesting that people go in with an open mind, and find ways of making your work fresh and relevant to today.
If you could sell out in history ... you'd be working for the history channel already and not on here ... but totally agree w/your sentiment
on an unrelated note, greetings y'all been far too long!
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Do you have any sort of information about the long-term success of the Columbia/LSE program's students in terms of getting into PhD programs in History and related fields?
I really do wish I knew the success rate as well ... cash cow and all
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- Sadly I'm not around as much as I used to be ... this MA thing takes up more of my time than I thought ... I need to bang out a chapter by the end of this month so I can have my referees look over it and give me their take. How are things w/you?