<p>To my fellow aspiring history Ph.D. candidates: Which periods and geographical regions do you focus on? Which themes (e.g., social, cultural, political history) do you prefer to study? Are you currently working/recently completed any major research, and if so, what was it about? Which programs are you looking at for doctoral studies? </p>
<p>I’ll start:</p>
<p>Period and thematic focuses:</p>
<ol>
<li>Gender and sexuality during the American interwar period, c. 1918-1941.</li>
<li>Postwar American marriage and sexuality, c. 1945-65.</li>
<li>Victorian “true” womanhood and definitions of femininity, c. 1865-1900. </li>
</ol>
<p>Recently completed research:</p>
<p>“Until Death Do Us Part: Marriage, Sex Manuals, and the Creation of Ideal Femininity in Postwar American Society, 1948-65”</p>
<p>Future research (will hopefully complete this fall):</p>
<p>“Broken Men: Unfaithful Husbands, Misogynists, and the Creation of Ideal Masculinity in Postwar America, 1945-65” </p>
<p>Programs I’m looking to apply to this fall:</p>
<ol>
<li>Rutgers University</li>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>
<li>University of Wisconsin at Madison</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>UC Irvine</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>Binghamton University (also known as SUNY Binghamton)</li>
<li>UNC Chapel Hill</li>
</ol>
<p>Anyone else want to share their research, areas of focus, and plans for the future?</p>