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  • 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: Michelle Ruvolo

    Michelle Ruvolo applied directly to MAPH during her senior year of college and arrived in Hyde Park the following fall.  “I didn’t have any plans,” she recalled when we spoke on the phone last week.  Like many incoming MAPHers, Ruvolo did have a sense that the academic life was where she wanted to be after…

  • 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…

  • Meet an Alum: Gianna Mosser

    Gianna Mosser came to MAPH directly from the University of Miami. She graduated summa cum laude in three years and moved to Chicago in the fall of 2004. “I started MAPH not long after my 21st birthday,”she explained to me by phone. “I was actually told by some of the staff at the time: wow…

  • Meet an Alum: Kristen Wahl Hagan

    Kristen Wahl Hagan entered MAPH in the Fall of 2005 after having received Bachelor’s degrees in Clothing and Textile design (Virginia Tech University) and Art History (Indiana University).  She came to MAPH intending to apply for PhD programs in Art History, but her experiences working in the art world also gave her a sense of…

  • Meet an Alum: Beth Gallagher

    Beth Gallagher is the Director of Community Involvement for AON Corporation, headquartered in Chicago.  According to her bio, she is responsible for “managing the day-to-day operations of the AON Foundation giving programs, which include grants, sponsorships, business unit charitable contributions, disaster relief and employee matching gifts.  In addition, Beth oversees employee volunteer programming at the…

  • Meet an Alum: Anna Piepmeyer

    Anna Piepmeyer graduated from MAPH in 2007.  She thought she had a pretty clear idea of what came after the Program.  “Like most people, I had assumed it was a PhD and that I’d be an English professor,” she told me during a phone conversation.  Anna spent the first half of the year thinking “I…

  • Meet an Alum: Introduction

    As many of you know, MAPH will graduate its FIFTEENTH class in June 2011! We have more than 1,500 alumni, a huge number of which live, work, and in various ways pursue the species-being life right here in the Chicagoland area. But regardless of  geographic location, we want to hear what you’re up to–especially if…

  • MLA Meet-up! Come have a drink with us Saturday.

    The MLA Convention begins tomorrow in Downtown Chicago.  This means that many of you will be in town

  • MAPH Alum Helps Chicago Welcome Home the Troops

    Cristopher De Phillips (MAPH 2009) arrived at UChicago as a MAPH student in 2008. Even now, he remembers cold and cloudy days in January. “I’d say to myself–‘This thesis is never going to get done.’” As Founder and Director of Chicago Welcomes Home the Heroes, De Phillips now finds himself in familiar circumstances–looking ahead to…