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Tag: Alumni

  • Pastoral Ambivalence: Recent Poetry by MAPH Grads

    Spring has returned to Chicago, and with it a bounty of new publications by MAPH alumni. Leila Wilson (AM ’03) and Gregory Lawless (AM ’04)  each have a volume of poetry out in which the authors examine their complex relationships with the landscapes of their past and present. Read on for more information in the…

  • Public History & Public Humanities: A tale of two MAs

    The following post is an essay written by Lara Kelland (AM’02) and her doctoral colleague Anne Parsons. Lara and Anne are frequent contributors to the National Council on Pubic History’s “History @Work” blog. Public history is a professional field that engages the tools of academic history towards the creation of public projects such as museums,…

  • Teaching the Body – Naomi Slipp (MAPH ’09) on her upcoming exhibit

    Naomi Slipp (MAPH ’09) is a current PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Boston University. As a facet of her studies, she has been planning an exhibition on American art and artistic anatomy, the topic of her dissertation research, since the spring of 2010. Directly inspired by her MAPH thesis…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • Project on Civic Reflection – The Reflection

    Tim Fosbury, MAPH ’12, reflections on the MAPH year and his internship at the Project on Civic Reflection. Two phrases stick out in my mind from my MAPH year. First is David Wray’s assertion, during one of our first core lectures no less, that we could expect MAPH to be a sort of “P90X for…

  • 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…

  • Revival, Nostalgia, and Angels in America

    Reposted from the Court Theatre Blog.  The first part of Angels in America opens  March 30, 2012 “The World Only Spins Forward” by Deborah Blumenthal  MAPH ’11   I was seventeen when I first saw Angels in America, and it did, as it does, change how I saw the world. It was the magnificent HBO…

  • Alumna Sarah Best Reflects on Art, MAPH and Invites Everyone to Dance Films Kino

    Dance Films Kino is a three-week project that I am presenting as an artist in residence at Hyde Park Art Center, March 4-25, 2012. Over three weeks, I will present 30 works of dance on film, as well as over a dozen live music, dance, and literary readings. All of the programs will be free…

  • The Path from MAPH to Running an Online Art Gallery

    Drew Messinger-Michaels (MAPH ’10)   Some Gallery Somewhere It’s 2010, and the week before graduating from MAPH, I walk into an art gallery with my best friend. We’re intellectual equals, this friend and I, but I’ve studied art history formally and he hasn’t, and he is painfully aware of this fact. He doesn’t form an…