What schools are good on Africa? Or are developing a milieu on Africa?
Good place to do CP PhD on Africa?
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Identify africanist Scholars and ask them personally if they are taking new advisees before you apply. You increase your chances of admission if the scholar who will be your advisor is in favor of your admission before it gets to the committee stage.
omg. don't email people. so annoying.
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Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT are the only places worth considering for CP/Africa at this point
What about departments below top-20? For less competitive CVs?
nowhere! don't do a phd if you don't get into a top-15 school. really really bad idea in this market. look up the concept of opportunity cost.
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Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT are the only places worth considering for CP/Africa at this point
What about departments below top-20? For less competitive CVs?nowhere! don't do a phd if you don't get into a top-15 school. really really bad idea in this market. look up the concept of opportunity cost.
Cornell is the cutoff for Africanists. Don’t go anywhere worse than Cornell.
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Berkeley has four Africanists now, so lots of options there. Do not contact people beforehand about taking students this year. Faculty get dozens of these e-mails every year and committees decide, not individual faculty. Faculty are often consulted when a long list comes into focus, but an e-mail sent months before that makes no difference at all in most cases.
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Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT are the only places worth considering for CP/Africa at this point
Stanford maybe but you'll be studying with some pretty old dudes like Laitin and Fearon. But Berkeley or MIT, on what basis?
Stanford has Laitin, Fearon, Weinstein, Casey. Fearon is not old.
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What does fearon know about Africa? And which Africanist has he advised?
Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT are the only places worth considering for CP/Africa at this point
Stanford maybe but you'll be studying with some pretty old dudes like Laitin and Fearon. But Berkeley or MIT, on what basis?Stanford has Laitin, Fearon, Weinstein, Casey. Fearon is not old.
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To echo an earlier poster, if an academic career is what you want then doing CP at anything outside a top 20 place is a bad idea.
If you want to work in gov't or private sector, and you're a reasonably adjusted adult, then you'll have options no matter where you go. Make sure to learn your stats, speak a foreign language or two, do some summer internship thing, and even an Oklahoma phd will lead to something.