Jeff Beckman
Class of 2003

I am a former Global student now living in Europe (you may remember, I was in the group in your terrorism seminar Spring of 2002. We indicted you under the USA-Patriot).

Anyway, I've finished my EAP year here in Germany and am waiting for the lovely University bureaucracy to get finished shuffling my paperwork so I can officially be a graduate. I'm going to be bumming around here on the Continent for a while, but eventually plan on getting back to school, I'd like to pursue a MA and hopefully PhD in Global (or something like it), but am having a hard time finding places that accommodate my lust for academia. I was hoping that you may be able to point me in some direction. Are there Grad Programs out there that look something like the upper-div work in Global that I did at UCSB? I have a feeling that I'll have much better chances asking someone in the field rather than just throwing some words into Google and hoping that they find something for me. It'd be great if you could just send me a few names of schools and maybe contacts there from the top of your head, both within the US and abroad. Please don't take too much of your valuable time on this, but what little info you can give me would be an enormous help.

Thanks,
Jeff

P.S. One of my jobs here is editing an academic journal that should be right up your alley: it's from a conference on "Sleepers" in a post 9/11 sense. If you're interested let me know and I'll tell you when it's finished.

Jeff Beckman
jbeckm00@umail.ucsb.edu
[Posted: 12-5-03]

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