Month: April 2011

  • Who’s Coming to Reunion?

    We’re just about five weeks away from the MAPH Reunion.  To help you all get a sense of the great panels that we’re having during the afternoon, we’ll be posting bios of the MAPH alums who will be speaking in the afternoon.  Today, it’s two alums on our Writers Panel.  Remember that festivities kick off…

  • Why MAPH?

    Prospective students have to decide by tomorrow whether to come to MAPH.  I’ve always thought it is a useful exercise (whether you’re a current student just finishing up the first draft of your thesis, or an alum from the class of 1997) to think about the reasons why you came to MAPH in the first…

  • Meet an Alum: Steve Capone

    I caught up with Steve Capone right before he embarked on a marathon grading session.  Steve is in the midst of finishing his coursework in the Philosophy Ph.D. program at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City) and we spent a few minutes commiserating about grading.  But  it turns out that the life of the…