Episode #36: Ana Keilson, Justin Reynolds - Gull Island Institute, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts

MICROCOLLEGE: The Thoreau College Podcast

Ana and Justin from Gull Island Institute talk the importance of place-making in the landscape of higher education, including at their new initiative Gull Island Institute located in the Vineyard Sound, off the coast of Massachusetts.

Raised in Maine, Ana Isabel Keilson has taught previously at the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University, as well as Deep Springs College, Columbia University, Barnard College, and SciencesPo (Paris). She received her PhD in History from Columbia University and her BA Phi Beta Kappa in Literature from Barnard College. Prior to her academic career, she danced professionally.

Raised in Woods Hole, MA, Justin Reynolds has taught in the Social Studies concentration at Harvard University, the Core Curriculum at Columbia University, and Deep Springs College. He received his PhD in Modern European History from Columbia University, an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge, and his AB in History from the University of Chicago. Before entering graduate school, he worked as a scuba diver and specimen collector at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and as a program director at think-tanks in Washington, DC and Berlin.

Gull Island Institute: https://www.gullisland.org/

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