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that s kind of a funny story that nobody s really going to believe. i was applying for graduate school to cambridge, and the person advising me said just find whatever you want to do because in that application you have to put forward a proposal for what you want to do. and it was, it was august of 2001. i had actually taken a break between my undergraduate and starting my ph.d.. wiz going to i was going to go to law school at the university of washington. and i was researching areas kind of i thought i wanted to do. i knew i wanted to do south asian history, and i was looking around and said, afghanistan, nobody is doing it. nobody at all is doing it. especially from a historical perspective. so i e-mailed my then-girlfriend and now wife on september 10th, believe it or not. i know nobody will believe that story, but i kept the e-mail so that i could say, no, actually, it did happen that way. [laughter] and then the more i got into it, the more kind of open territory i r