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The field of anthropology in the US is extremely hostile to collaboration w/ state entities in certain contexts: military/some foreign policy/etc. Do there exist official or unofficial ethical guidance regarding collaboration of historians w/ the state (or corporations) especially in these contexts?	11
How did the depiction of religion on film, stage, & television change after the rapid growth of Christianity in South Korea from the mid 20th century onward?	10
Was Hitler's model of government organization, with multiple inefficient, redundant and competing agencies, a form of "coup-proofing" like that undertaken by modern authoritarian states, or was it really just about his belief in competition/"survival of the fittest"?	10
How, if at all, did contact with the West influence 19th and 20th century historiography in East Asia (esp. Korea, Qing and post-Revolution China, Japan)? What independent schools of formal historical study existed in these places before extensive Western contact? And are they still relevant today?	10
When does the "rural vs. urban" political divide, for which other issues often act as companions or proxies, become a driver of American politics?	10
Pagan martyrs? How would 13th century Scandinavian Christian readers react to the often violent conversions of their ancestors recorded in medieval king's sagas and elsewhere?	10
Just who was the average mercenary in the Mediterranean, from the Classical Greek period to say the mid-Hellenistic period?	10
What did 18th-19th century colonials/Americans think dreams represented? What did North American indigenous peoples of the same era think dreams represented? And did they ever talk to each other about their differing perspectives?	10
To what degree did class consciousness vary between England, Scotland, Wales & Ireland (both under the empire & later the Republic) in the late 19th century to the 1940s & how did that affect the way politicians & social/trade groups did messaging within each?	10
Was there any significant contribution to the sciences (especially in biology or the social sciences) of Fascist (specifically Nazi) and para-Fascist figures in the 30s and 40s that later proved questionable? Did any scientific fields/sub-fields undergo "de-Nazification" after the War?	10

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