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  1. Maybe they have a really long spring break.
  2. Learning the language is definitely the most important point at this stage. SWSEEL at IU offers many students full scholarships plus stipends and their program really is top notch. And think about applying to a mix of MA and PhD programs.
  3. Finished all my applications last week and I'm glad that process is all over. (Sigh of relief) All the letters have been sent, hopefully the GRE scores made it. Currently I'm an MA student in history at a Big Ten school. I applied to six schools. Hopefully, one lets me in.
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    Fields?

    American History R_Escobar (20th century, American Indian), crazedandinfused (antebellum, intellectual), hopin'-n-prayin' (southern, religious), stevemcn (transnational), Simple Twist of Fate (early American), zb642 (20th century, labor/working-class culture), BCEmory08 (19th-20th century Catholicism, labor), irvinchiva10 (20th century, immigration/immigration reform) natsteel (early American political culture and intellectual history) unforth (19th century US political and military history, US Civil War) hbeels (colonial, early national, 19th century, transappalachain west, historical memory of these eras/areas) thedig13 (20th century U.S., culture and protest, African-American) Weepsie (North American Mapping, Exploration and Trade, Anti-Communism/Socialism in Interwar period, bit of a mixed bag) lafayette (19th c. [with a dash of 20th], urban, intellectual) vtstevie (Revolutionary/Early Republic New England, infrastructure/economic) European History Kelkel (Modern Germany, political), goldielocks (Britain), SapperDaddy (Eastern and Central Europe), kotov (Modern Romania, Holocaust, labor), RevolutionBlues (Modern Western Europe/France labor and leftist politics), theregalrenegade (18th/19th cent British Empire/environment), jrah822 (19th century Britain; emphasis on colonial relationship to India), grlu0701 (Intellectual & cultural history,fin de siecle Germany and Italy), naturalog (modern European [mostly German] intellectual and cultural/sexuality and gender/political radicalism), runaway (Eastern/Central, memorialization & visual culture), Sequi001 (Modern France, gender and sexuality, colonialism/imperialism) Abetheh (19th/early 20th century Germany and France, religious politics vs secularization) NeutralKate (Modern Russia, modern European economic history) Crackerjacktiming (Modern Germany, gender and sexuality) GloFish (USSR, Stalinism, Soviet-American Relations) African History Oseirus (precolonial/early colonial West Africa), Singwaya18 (20th century East Africa), Safferz (20th century Horn/Northeast Africa), The People's Scholar (Spanish colonialim in Africa- i.e. middle/West Africa) Jogatoronto (Psychiatry in early colonial West Africa) ronwill06(Social and political radical movements) Latin American History CageFree (20th century, Southern Cone), BH-history, The People's Scholar (18th-19th century Colombia) StrangeLight (20th century Central America) East Asian History alleykat (Modern China) kyjin (Pre-Modern Japan) aec09g (Modern Japan) pudewen (Late Imperial China) kdavid (Modern China; focus on the Republican period) Near/Middle Eastern History uhohlemonster, (modern Israel, Iran, Palestine) oswic (modern Egypt, gender) Atlantic World sandyvanb crazedandinfused Global/World History cooperstreet (Cold War) melissarose8585 Jewish History uhohlemonster, (modern Israel) hopin'-n-'prayin, kotov (Holocaust), naturalog (sometimes modern European/Holocaust), runaway (memorialization & visual culture), ticklemepink (20th c. Germany/U.S) Science/Technology/Environment shaxmaty1848 (Cold War) StrangeLight (environmental history, ecological distribution conflicts) Social annieca (Cold War and Post-Cold War East and Central Europe) Classical and Medieval Hogs of War (Monastic Studies and Conflicts in Authority) Cultural StrangeLight (gender, race, ethnicity, and religion) hbeels (race/ethnicity, religious, masculinity/feminimity, print/literature) crazedandinfused (race, nationalism, performance, rhetoric) alleykat (religion, race/ethnicity, cultural relativism) Canadian History truthfinder (New France, religious)
  5. Jeffrey Veidlinger, formerly of IU, now at Michigan with a named chair would be a good option if your interested in Eastern European Jewish History.
  6. Indiana University (Bloomington) funded (plus a good stipend) a large majority of their MA students this past fall. But this is because they accept so few PhD students nowadays and didn't have enough PhD students to serve as course assistants/teaching assistants.
  7. Nearly every major university except a few (namely Minnesota) has at least one faculty member focusing on Eastern Europe or Russia, so there are a wealth of programs to pick over. If you really are interested in Kievan Rus and early, early Imperial Russia and want to study those eras at the graduate level, you may run into a few problems mostly because the field of Russian history is generally dominated by historians who focus on the USSR; although I think Imperial Russia is making somewhat of a comeback. I really don't know of many who focus currently on Kievan Rus or medieval Russia but somewhat close fits could be those who focus on the early modern era like Kansas (Levin), Texas A&M (Dunning), Nebraska (Kleimola), Miami (Martin), Stanford (Kollman Shields) to name a few. There are more choices once you move into the 19th century, like Indiana, Brandeis, Harvard, Michigan, Berkeley, UCLA, Washington and on and on. Extra circular activities don't matter really at all, so don't worry about that. Your overall GPA isn't stellar but it shouldn't be a major problem because your greatest asset is the ability you have to speak the languages that you will most likely be doing research in. That's a major bonus for people applying in this area. Often you'll see someone who has command or near command of one language (usually Russian) but very rarely do you see someone fresh out of undergraduate who also has the ability to speak two plus additional languages.
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