Communicating with current students is another great way to learn about the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH) and the larger University of Chicago community. You are welcome to contact any of the current students profiled below. While many MAPH students have interdisciplinary academic interests, they are grouped here by just one of their main interests so that you can find someone to reach out to with whom you have something in common.
Two-Year Language Option
Samantha Lao | slao@uchicago.edu
Samantha is in her first year of the Two Year Language Option in Portuguese, interested in the intersection of creative writing and linguistic pedagogy.
Connor Doughty | cdoughty@uchicago.edu
Connor is a first-year student in the MAPH TLO program studying Japanese with a focus in Japanese media, literature, and folklore.
Jesse Chorba | chorbajr@uchicago.edu
Jesse is a first-year MAPH Two Year Language Option student in Korean and Japanese, focusing East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Cinema and Media Studies, and modern East Asian history.
Kiki Frost | krfrost@uchicago.edu
Kiki is a second-year TLO student studying the intersections of German expressionism, Nazi cinema, and anthropocentrism. She is also interested in environmental humanities and posthumanism.
Interdisciplinary
Alejandra Paz Mendoza | ajp2@uchicago.edu
Alejandra is a first year MAPH student with an interdisciplinary focus in Cinema and Media Studies and Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Latin American Studies.
English
Kira Grossfield | kgrossfield@uchicago.edu
Kira is a first-year MAPH student specializing in English, with intersecting interests in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, and Creative Writing. She is also a BA/MA student, having completed her BA at UChicago before directly entering MAPH.
Art History
Evan Ling | edling@uchicago.edu
Evan is a first-year student specializing in Art History, coming to MAPH after several years of work in both commercial galleries and nonprofit art spaces. His current research interest is in the history and development of arts institutions, specifically in Chicago, and how their trajectories have influenced visual culture.