I met with Professor Mislan on March 1^st for about thrity minutes. He was extremely helpful in drawing out my hypotheses. I originally had two; one showed how numerous variables could lead to the outcome of increased persecution, whereas the other was more causal in nature; one variable led to increased levels in another which led to increased persecution. Professor Mislan noted that the causal hypothesis was much stronger and that I could continue to perform a structured, focused comparison, but with a small amount of process tracing in order to show the causal mechanisms. He also greatly helped with my case selection. He agreed with Professor Hardig that I should continue to research multiple cases and with Professor Field that they should be regionally focused. He drew a typology using my independent and intervening variables. He showed how I could select cases based on the presence or absence of such variables. He also noted how I could control for other variables such as the character of the minority. Professor Mislan was extremely helpful in my case selection, explicitly making the connection between my variables, my hypothesis, and thus my cases.