The Challenge of Defining Yourself in Graduate Applications

Hussein Fanci is an associate professor at E-Mass Boston. He talks about the challenges of trying to produce international and transnational history in multiple languages, working across multiple disciplines and sources. La La chalilly laments artificial separations between anthropologists and sociologists and historians and political scientists. Arunab Ghosh talks about the growing challenges that many scholars face in doing work in China as changing geopolitical circumstances have led to a crackdown on civil society and archival access there.