Author: lbryan

  • Meet an Alum – Jeff Gilliland (MAPH ’13)

    Below is a blog post from Jeff Gilliland, who during his MAPH year, completed a creative thesis and worked for the Illinois Humanities Council through a Maph Summer Internship (which you can read about here!). Jeff currently works in Washington D.C. as the Communications Associate at Young Playwrights’ Theater. Bringing Arts Education to Life AfterMAPH The…

  • Meet an Alum- Jenny Gavacs (MA ’05)

      What was your favorite thing about your MAPH year? Although Jay’s eyebrows and Candace’s cats are up there, I think my favorite times were when I was sitting in Third World Cafe writing and other MAPHers would end up coming by to share their work or talk over the Core readings.   What were…

  • Meet an Alum- Alissa Smith (MA ’12)

    Check out this interview with Alissa Smith, who graduated from MAPH in 2012. Since MAPH, Alissa has worked in the nonprofit sector and speaks about her experiences in MAPH and how they lead her to her current position. What is your current job? I currently serve as the Corporate and Foundation Relations Manager for City…

  • EdTech: Emily Schickli(’14) on her Internship with PinkThink

    Instead of writing about my experience as the MAPH-sponsored Programs and Partnerships Intern at the Illinois Humanities Council (IHC) this summer, I thought I would share a second, unique-to-UChicago opportunity that I enjoyed. In addition to interning at IHC, I worked as a content writer/editor for PinkThink, a startup formed in 2013 by Booth student…

  • Brandie Madrid (’14) on her MAPH Internship

    After I graduated high school in ’99 in the Chicago suburbs, I moved to Chicago proper where there was simply more happening in terms of art, music, and culture. I would frequent thrift and vintage stores like Ragstock and Hollywood Mirror, where alternative magazines like Lumpen and Newcity exposed me to communist politics and early…

  • Hannah on History: 2014 MAPH History Museum Internship

    From day one of the program, my fellow MAPHers and I were told about the coveted MAPH Internships and what great opportunities they offered upon graduation; just nine months away! I was eager to apply to these internships (indeed I planned on applying to ALL of them; I had jobs on my mind from the…

  • Moments that Make a Museum: Mike O’Malley (’14) on his Internship with the Smart Museum

    “That’s my claim to fame,” he said. “I took Frida Kahlo to the movies.” It was 1937. Leon Despres, Chicago alderman and activist, was visiting Mexico, sitting on a couch chatting in French with Diego Rivera while the artist painted a portrait of Despres’s wife, Marian. “I sat there in the morning while he painted…

  • Continued Education in Chicago: Ellen Mueller (’14) on her Internship with The Odyssey Project

    I began the Odyssey Project internship knowing its reputation for being a choose-your-own adventure process and an exercise in multitasking. I left the summer feeling like the internship had transformed in ways I never had imagined. Unlike the interns before me, I didn’t teach a class as part of my summer internship, but I was,…

  • Learning How to Read with Browne & Miller: Emily Nordling on her MAPH Internship

    Before my internship with Browne and Miller Literary Associates, I had glimpsed the world of publishing from a few different angles. However, from my first day setting foot in the historic Fine Arts building in downtown Chicago, I discovered that my work as writer, editor, and reviewer barely gleaned the surface of this vast and…

  • Constant Discoveries: Eileen Truong (’14) on the MAPH Internship at Newberry Library

    If you ever find yourself doing archival research (which—thesis, so most likely yes), you’ll probably come across these nifty things called finding aids. They provide background information on the subject, tell you what you can find in the particular collection and where to find it. I used them during my thesis research and blessed the…