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22Oct2011
  1. There is now a Google group for refugees from the closing of Google shared items.
  2. This is highly worth watching
  3. Everything you need to know about academia from admissions to tenure
  4. A visual anthropology of the world’s last living nomads

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Last reply was October 27, 2011
  1. Jonathan
    View October 22, 2011

    Hey Chris as a first year PhD student I took the advice and purchased the book. I have yet to read it but I am very excited to do so.

  2. Andy
    View October 22, 2011

    Great book – but not exactly what the title promises. If you look for any material on admission, forget about it.

  3. Jonathan
    View October 24, 2011

    I’m not sure if anything helps on admissions these days it seems like such an arbitrary process which really sucks.

  4. Julie Kennedy
    View October 27, 2011

    Hi Chris,

    I heard this today and thought of you – will also email you the link. Hope you are really well and hope to catch up soon!

    http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2011/oct/27/underreported-intervention-uganda/

    xo
    jk

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I’m an Assistant Professor of Political Science & International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. I use field work and statistics to study poverty, political participation, the causes and consequences of violence, and policy in developing countries. [Read more]

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