Category: Academics

  • Open Letter to MAPH 2012-2013 – Service and Humanistic Inquiry

    Greetings, MAPHers! I hope this post finds all of you well. I appreciate that some of you may have time to read this, as much as I appreciate that many more of you may not have such time because you are so immersed in your zealous study of those recondite things we call the humanities.…

  • Humanities Day 2012

    Mark your calendars! Saturday, October 20th is the 34th annual Humanities Day at the University of Chicago. If you aren’t familiar with Humanities Day, it is an epic day of lectures from some of the heavyweights in the university’s Humanities Division. If you happen to be in town, please consider attending! Friends and family are welcome!…

  • The Odyssey Project: Anna Burch and Marybeth Southard (MAPH ’12) reflect on their internships

    I first heard about the Odyssey Project during a “What am I going to do with my life?” conversation with Hilary Strang, who teaches Critical Thinking and Writing to Odyssey students. To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what I was getting into, other than what I knew from the description on the Illinois Humanities…

  • Jane Hanna (MAPH ’11) on the Cultural Policy Option and her work as Social Media Strategist for the Field Museum

    Every year a handful of students choose the Cultural Policy Option of the MAPH program.  Jane Hanna writes about her experience in MAPH, the Cultural Policy and her really cool job at the Field Museum. How were you involved in the Cultural Policy Center? I worked as a Graduate Research Assistant in CPC while I…

  • 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…

  • Meet an Alum: Zeke Reich

    I interviewed Zeke Reich about his MAPH experience and his current position at the Veterans Administration in Washington, DC.  Here’s what he had to say: What were your goals upon entry into MAPH? I came into MAPH with the primary intention of connecting with a constellation of people and ideas that can be found in the…

  • 4 Faulty Assumptions about American Higher Education

    Check out this article at the Chronicle of Higher Education. It tackles four assumptions about American higher education that turn out to be false.  Most of these assumptions deal with the recent economic recession and the supposed effects that recession has had on colleges and universities in the U.S.

  • What is a Master’s Degree Worth?

    I wouldn’t presume to answer such a question, but the folks over at the New York Times have taken a stab at it. See what they have to say: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/what-is-a-masters-degree-worth/

  • How I Sold My Thesis

    Our alum Anna Jarzab, AM ’07, has just sold her thesis to a publisher, and she has graciously taken the time to share a little bit of that adventure with us. -Braden Even though I knew I wanted to write a creative thesis for MAPH, I never intended to write the project I ended up…

  • MAPH Alum Anna Piepmeyer: Awesome and Nerdy

    Anna Piepmeyer (MAPH ’07) is the Ambassador of Awesomeness for the new peer networking site, Dweeber (think of her as the equivalent to Tom of MySpace; if you join the site, she is automatically your friend). This site, however, distances itself from other peer networking sites, sites that usually serve as distractions to things like…