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Can you get a degree in Agrarian Studies? |
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No, not at Yale. |
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What kind of activities and programs do you have for undergraduates? |
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Undergraduates can take the graduate seminar with approval from the professors teaching it; they can attend weekly colloquia. A course for undergraduates, “Agriculture, Farmers, Food: Foundational Matters,” will be offered for the first time in Fall 2008 (see syllabus). Undergraduates may also apply for summer assistance. |
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Do you have any research funds for faculty? |
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No. |
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Can I attend a colloquium session if I haven’t read the week’s paper? |
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Yes, but you will get a lot more out of the session if you do because the paper is discussed not read at the colloquium. |
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I’ve heard fabulous things about the meals after the colloquia. How do I get invited? |
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Come to the Agrarian Studies office and complete a sign-up sheet to reserve a lunch after the colloquia. Cost is $7 per lunch and will be billed at end of term. (Warning: don’t believe “fabulous” tales. Some reports have it that the lunches are really pretty awful! It must be the conversations at lunch that are fabulous!) |
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How did the Agrarian Studies Program begin? |
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It began when the first graduate seminar was offered — in Spring 1990— and 58 graduate students showed up. We saw that there was interest at Yale in an interdisciplinary program, Professor James C. Scott wrote a proposal, and we secured funding. |
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Where does the Program get its funds? |
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Appropriations from Yale University. |
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Can I get copies of papers presented in past years’ Colloquia? |
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Yes. They cost $4 each. |
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What is the meaning of your logo? |
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The logo represents an Asian peasant and a water buffalo plowing a field. |
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I’m getting my Ph.D. from Yale. Can I be an Agrarian Studies fellow? |
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You must have your Ph.D. to be a postdoctoral fellow, but the answer is “yes.” (We have already had several Yale Ph.D.s as Postdoctoral fellows.) |
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Do you provide office space and secretarial support for fellows? |
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Office space, yes; secretarial support, no. |
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I want to apply for financial aid. Can I submit my application by email or over the Internet? |
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Applications for Visiting Postoctoral Fellowships may be submitted electronically. For Graduate Student Aid applications, please contact the Program office (203-432-9833) when the 2009 submission deadlines are announced (in January 2009) about submitting electronic applications. |
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Is that an answer? |
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Not entirely . . . |
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