Where should I apply to?

[tut2009]

I am interested in studying language, nationalism and state building. Could anyone of you give me some suggestions on which departments I should apply to??

Thank you very much for your help.

[Penelope Higgins]

If you're approaching these issues as a theorist I can't offer much advice beyond mentioning Princeton and Magill as two places that seem to have a lot of interested faculty. If you're a comparativist, your best choices will depend on the geographic region of interest... there are lots of people doing good theoretical work on questions of nationalism, language, and state building, but most (all?) of them are focused on particular world regions. For example, Keith Darden at Yale works on the post-Soviet cases, David Laitin at Stanford has worked on these questions there and in Africa, and so on.

[tut2009]

If you're approaching these issues as a theorist I can't offer much advice beyond mentioning Princeton and Magill as two places that seem to have a lot of interested faculty. If you're a comparativist, your best choices will depend on the geographic region of interest... there are lots of people doing good theoretical work on questions of nationalism, language, and state building, but most (all?) of them are focused on particular world regions. For example, Keith Darden at Yale works on the post-Soviet cases, David Laitin at Stanford has worked on these questions there and in Africa, and so on.

Thank you very much for your reply. I am interested in studying state building and nationalism in Asia.

[natofone]

Bovingdon at Indiana: http://www.indiana.edu/~ceus/faculty/bovingdon.shtml

Slater at Chicago: http://political-science.uchicago.edu/faculty/slater.shtml

[tut2009]

Bovingdon at Indiana: http://www.indiana.e...bovingdon.shtml

Slater at Chicago: http://political-sci...ty/slater.shtml

many thanks