African American/Africana Studies Fall 2018

[Gradgirl2020]

Hi everyone, 

I didn't see an existing thread for this so...

Anyone else applying to Africana studies (or African-American or Diaspora studies) programs for Fall 2018? If so, which schools? What are your research interests? 

I am applying to doctoral programs:

Cornell, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, Brown, and Harvard

[Undercommoner]

I know it's near the holidays but surprised no one has responded to this. When I was applying for AFAM and Africana Studies programs in 2016 there was a bit more activity(as you may see in my posting history.) I ended up going into Columbia's AFAM MA program and specialized in History during my time there.  I am applying to History PhD programs rather than the Africana interdisciplinary PhD programs this cycle.

I wish you all the best

[Gradgirl2020]

Thanks for the reply. I'm hoping I'm the only one applying and I get all the admits. Lol. 

I've read all the previous years forums. Hopefully in the new year some people will find the thread. 

[habitual bee]

Hi!

Currently waiting it out... I applied to 7 PhD programs and 2 MA programs through IRT (Institute for Recruitment of Teachers). I applied to no schools outside their consortium.

Waiting to hear back from: Harvard, Yale [Africana and English joint], Brown, Penn, Northwestern, Cornell, Berkeley (PhD) + Columbia and NYU (MA)

Still tyrna figure out my "elevator pitch" for my research interests, but definitely heavy interdisciplinary work w AAVE, dialect, and literature/expressive art.

Uh.. Asé?

[Gradgirl2020]

Yay! Finally, a fellow applicant. I wish you luck. I should work on my elevator pitch too, but I study sexuality and the black body and media effects. I look at things such as the intersection of racism and fetishism, colorism, the diminishing number of black women in traditionally black spaces (eg rap videos) and other stuff in media and popular culture. I'm not too obsessed yet but come February, I'll be sweating it out. 

[Africanagyal]

Hello Everyone

I am applying to African studies programs as well! Anxiously waiting to hear back!

[Gradgirl2020]

12 hours ago, Africanagyal said:

Hello Everyone

I am applying to African studies programs as well! Anxiously waiting to hear back!

Good luck! Where did you apply? What do you study? Hopefully some news starts rolling in soon. 

 

[Naakua]

Hi!

New to this thread.. Did anyone apply to UT Austin's African/Diaspora department? Haven't heard from them and know they notify candidates around this time..

[Gradgirl2020]

2 hours ago, Naakua said:

Hi!

New to this thread.. Did anyone apply to UT Austin's African/Diaspora department? Haven't heard from them and know they notify candidates around this time..

I didn't apply but it looks like decisions went out in the first week of February last year. Maybe some news by Friday?!

[Naakua]

22 minutes ago, Gradgirl2020 said:

I didn't apply but it looks like decisions went out in the first week of February last year. Maybe some news by Friday?!

Thank you! Haven't seen much activity here but hoping everyone gets some good news soon.

[Africanagyal]

On 1/18/2018 at 10:19 PM, Gradgirl2020 said:

Good luck! Where did you apply? What do you study? Hopefully some news starts rolling in soon. 

 

I am sooo late, I forgot my password ha

Thank you! Good luck to you too!

I applied to Cornell, UW Milwaukee, Temple, and UCLA. Research interests are Pre-colonial African economic policies, PanAfricanism, critical thinking in African communities etc. Still working on my elevator pitch as well. 

What are yours? I am surprised there aren't a lot of people on this thread. I wonder if less people applied this cycle?

[habitual bee]

I've heard back! All within the past week.

I've only gotten rejections (unfortunately) but at least the ball is rolling. Also comforting myself with the fact that I'm applying for PhDs with just a B.A.

I have gotten admissions decisions from Cornell, Northwestern, and Brown - all Africana Phd, all no's.

That's 3 down, 4 PhD programs and 2 Masters programs to go. Pour a little out for me.

[Africanagyal]

On 2/12/2018 at 1:39 PM, habitual bee said:

I've heard back! All within the past week.

I've only gotten rejections (unfortunately) but at least the ball is rolling. Also comforting myself with the fact that I'm applying for PhDs with just a B.A.

I have gotten admissions decisions from Cornell, Northwestern, and Brown - all Africana Phd, all no's.

That's 3 down, 4 PhD programs and 2 Masters programs to go. Pour a little out for me.

I have heard back with some good and bad news! I am applying with just a B.A as well 

Hold on tight! I hope you hear back with some good news soon! 

[habitual bee]

Finally got some good news! This week I heard back from Yale (Ph.D.), and I got my first offer of acceptance from NYU (M.A.)

Still waiting on admissions decisions from 3 Ph.D. programs and 1 Masters.

[Africanagyal]

Congratulations! Heard back from all the schools that I applied to . 

1 Rejection and 3 admits!! Good luck to everyone!

 

[Interdisc_Scholar]

Posting this for anyone still applying to programs - 

Are you interested in obtaining a fully funded Ph.D. in the Humanities with an emphasis on African American/Africana Studies? Are you looking for graduate training that emphasizes public scholarship, community outreach, collections based research, and digital humanities? The African American Public Humanities Initiative (AAPHI) provides fully funded graduate fellowships for Ph.D students in History, English, and Art History in a five-year, 12month, cohort based program.

http://www.afampublichumanities.udel.edu/

- DM me for more info. 

[magnegresswrites]

On ‎12‎/‎23‎/‎2017 at 6:05 AM, Undercommoner said:

I know it's near the holidays but surprised no one has responded to this. When I was applying for AFAM and Africana Studies programs in 2016 there was a bit more activity(as you may see in my posting history.) I ended up going into Columbia's AFAM MA program and specialized in History during my time there.  I am applying to History PhD programs rather than the Africana interdisciplinary PhD programs this cycle.

I wish you all the best

do you mind my asking how you were able to secure funding for Columbia's MA program? I really want to get into their program (with the hope that their recent expansion of IRAAS will mean they'll have a doctoral program in the near future, fingers crossed) but am concerned about how I could possibly fund any MA program.