Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Mac received his BA in English Literature from Knox College in 2017. After graduation, he taught English in Spain and Cambodia and was a preschool teacher at Portland Waldorf School. He fell in love with classical education, and in the 2022/23 school year was a founding faculty member and Dean of Men at Chesterton Academy of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, a classical Catholic school in Portland.
Research interests:
Folk music; poetry; the role of math and science in classical schools
What has been the thing you’ve appreciated most about your time here?
Being part of a community of learners who love God and are passionate about what they study. Hillsdale is a place of deep commitment and study, buoyed by intense joy and a mutually supportive environment.
What is distinctive about Hillsdale’s Graduate School of Classical Education?
There are many graduate programs of classics, and there are many graduate programs of education; this is a graduate program of classical education. We are learning about the educational tradition by which the greatest thinkers in the history of the world were raised and becoming part of that tradition ourselves. The program is deeply rooted and eminently practical.
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