mhcrosefly311 Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Has anyone heard from any History PhD. programs? Im waiting to hear from Pittsburgh, WUSTL and Emory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pistolwink Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 I heard from both Indiana and WashU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest History_Nerd Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Accepted at UC Berkeley. Rejected at WUSTL. Waiting on Michigan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joebloom Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Hey nerd, Did you get funding at Berkeley? I was rejected but thinking of applying next year after a masters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest History_Nerd Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Hey Joe, They put me on a waitlist for a first year fellowship. I guess it is for full-funding your first year, then TA ships and whatnot after that. I asked what the average amount of debt for a PhD grad is and they told me about 30-40 thousand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joebloom Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Yeah, This funding thing's rough. I'm in at UCLA but with no funding and just can't see myself coming out of grad school with that kind of debt. I've had it drilled into me by my profs NOT to go anywhere without funding. It's a lot of extra strain when you should be concentrating on school... J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History_Nerd Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Yeah, I've had the same message drilled into my little pea-brain. If it makes you feel better, I've been admitted to schools in the UK where students on the graduate school message boards are talking about going into a four/five year PhD program with ZERO funding. We should be thankful for any sort of funding I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History_Nerd Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 I have to admit, I am more than a bit jealous of the Sociology students. They are a dime a dozen on this board . . . jeesh. Where are my brethren in the study of history? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest daphna Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 we're special. Or maybe there are lots of us that haven't found this site yet. :-) Anyway, I'm here, and I figure the fewer historians around, the better chance I have of getting accepted and getting a job later, so the fewer the merrier! (just in case anyone thinks otherwise: the above sentence was a joke. I actually spend a considerable amount of time convincing people to become historians and helping them along the way. Even to the detriment of my own career choices in the future :-) ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistolwink Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 I'm a history major (coming straight from undergrad) and applied to half history and half film programs, all PhD...I'm probably going to defect from history, as the closer April 15 gets the more I want to go into a film program. For history, I applied to Indiana, Minnesota, Rutgers, George Mason, Chapel Hill, and WUSTL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History_Nerd Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 I had a great experience in Minnesota's history program. GM runs a cool thing called the Center for History and News Media, which runs a website called the History News Network (HNN) http://www.hnn.us/. If you like history, you have to check out that site. Maybe I've just been spending waaaay too much time online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Deciding between NYU and Maryland-College Park. I'm actually visiting Maryland this Friday. Anybody out there know anything about either place or program? NYU is offering a better package right now, but if I can convince Maryland to improve theirs I think I will go there, barring any unforeseen surprises... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rising_star Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 NYU is offering a better package right now, but if I can convince Maryland to improve theirs I think I will go there, barring any unforeseen surprises... Is NYU more money on paper or in reality? Because living expenses would be much lower at Maryland... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DJH Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 Just got email from secretary at WashUÂ in response to inquiry: "We have sent out the first round of acceptances. We are presently waiting to hear from those students on whether they accept our offer." That is all it said. So is that informally waitlisted or rejected???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History_Nerd Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 Ok guys, New topic as we get down to the wire here, how much debt is too much to have coming out of a graduate program in history? Anyone have any thoughts or ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rising_star Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 All debt is too much debt. But seriously, anything over $60K seems like too much to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History_Nerd Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Dude. Geography has six pages on this discussion board. SIX pages!?!?! Where ARE my history people? Tell your friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhcrosefly311 Posted April 8, 2006 Author Share Posted April 8, 2006 Just a stereotype, but we are not as social as the rest of our colleague, hehe....I always enjoy saying that we love to talk to dead peoples. I'm the one who started this thread--yes I was disappointed at our lack of participation, but I guess we have lives if we only have 2pgs up compared to the dozens the other soc.sci. disciplines. Technically I have been rejected by all of the PhD. History programs that I applied to....:-( Got accepted to the MA in Latin American Studies at IU-Bloomington...so will try again as soon as I finish there because damn it I am a history student eager to be trained. History Nerd don't despair if no one else posts.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History_Nerd Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Sadly, I have some lengthy periods of downtime at work right now, so I've been spending waaaay to much time looking at graduate school related stuff online. I'm sorry to hear about your rejections mhcrosefly311. I'm sure you will find a home after you get that MA, Latin American Studies is pretty sexy right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhcrosefly311 Posted April 9, 2006 Author Share Posted April 9, 2006 Well Latin America has always been sexy...too bad I love Central America more than South America (bet I'd be good to be studying Venezuela, Bolivia, and Peru). Hopefully the History Depts. will still respect me with a LATAM MA--taking such a big risk with that one, though. Still can't believe I made it passed the undergrad level....I know that Im a lucky duck just to be going to gradschool at all with good funding I might add, so I wont whine about not getting into the PhD. programs. History nerd whats your concentration--region? Im mostly interested in the formation of racial, ethnic, and national identities within Latin America. What school are you headed towards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rising_star Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 hahaha, us geography peeps are mad cool, that's all. just kidding. i read all the forums (except the science-y ones) because I hate working on my senior thesis. horsefly, why do you think a LATAM MA is taking a big chance? And what's your focus within Lat Am? HistoryNerd, have you decided where you're going? And what's your focus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhcrosefly311 Posted April 9, 2006 Author Share Posted April 9, 2006 hey britt and nerd...good thing we are keepin this thread alive. my concentration is on Central America with an eye to afro-latinamericans in the region, I am also partial to studying about the banana industry in the region. Going for a LATAM MA is kind of a risk because it is an interdisciplanary field without a single dept. supporting it...so from what I have heard from others, many depts. dont take us all too seriously because we dont follow just one field i.e. Anthro, Soc., or History, etc. Thats what I say about it being a risk...more later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rising_star Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Afrolatinoamericans is a very interesting topic. I wanted to do something on that for my thesis but couldn't find what I needed. I dunno, I think interdisciplinary is better because then you can use other disciplines to look at the same material which might give your historical writing some dimension that not everyone has. *blinks* did that make sense? I am very tired and trying to edit thesis (due Mon and not yet completed) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest daphna Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Interdisciplinary is pretty "in" right now at a lot of great History schools. If it's a good M.A program in an interdisciplinary subject closely related to your field, I think it can definitely be an advantage in a PhD application later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History_Nerd Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Hey kids! This forum is finally alive! Mwah! To put what I do simply, I study the history of museums (hence why museums are the subject of my blog Museum Madness), with a focus on European and American history and the history of empire. I've narrowed it down to two choices, Berkeley and Cambridge. At the moment, I'm leaning towards Cal, but they have only told me verbally what they anticipate being able to offer me, so I can't say for sure. At Cambridge, one of the arguments they were making in favor of their program is that they allowed students to study anthropological and sociological theory (some hot interdisciplinary action). And a historian at U Cal told me that taking classes outside of your subject area is required, and I might be a good fit to take museum studies classes, art history courses, or anthropology courses (even hotter interdisciplinary action?). We're getting down to the wire here. . . I wanted to make my decision by my birthday, five days before the deadline, but since I haven't heard the final details from either program I can't decide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now