Thank you for your kind message. It does sound indeed as though our intellectual interests coincide, *******. If you hope to work with me as your primary advisor, however, you will have to apply to the Department of ****, not to the Department of *********. I must also warn you that admission to the graduate program in the Department of ******is very competitive and requires excellent command of written and spoken English. The reading assignments and writing assignments in the required first-year graduate seminar in historical methodology, for example, is demanding even for native speakers of English. That said, I look forward to reading your application.