CURRENT MISSION PHD in history and plenty of distractions along the way ABOUT ME I'm a liberal arts student and a rambler. I am working on a PHD in history, and I study American and European history. I enjoy travelling, hosting friends for dinner, and reading. I love Rome, Vermont, Albuquerque, and New Orleans. I like to connect literature with places and history records with historical sites. PHILOSOPHY I like small, old things. I'm interested in scale. I don't like homogenization because too many unique, little, fragile things are lost when economies and polities are centralized. I also like continuity with the past, and I like to connect things to history and literature and art to see a progression through time. I'm impractical and I love to have the time to enjoy distraction, for life seems most itself when one follows rabbit trails.
对艺术感兴趣
对书籍与文学感兴趣
流利使用英语
1 个担保
我为什么使用Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I have hosted a few friends and been hosted by several. I want to show folks around the places I love and make them feel at home in my city. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I've hosted many friends on my spare mattress and my old couch. I've also stayed on couches at friend's houses. I put fresh sheets on my spare mattress or put a pillow and blanket on the couch. I set out a fresh towel and fetch my bag of hotel soaps and shampoos. All I expect when I visit others is a cushion to sleep on and a morning shower.
音乐、电影与书籍
I enjoy Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49, Warren's All the King's Men, Dostoevsky's novels, Walker Percy, Bob Dylan, T. S. Eliot, and Beethoven.
我做过的一件令人惊叹的事
I won a scholarship to study early Christian history in Rome, and I went on a week long walking tour of the old city with Virgil, Horace, Tactitus, and St. Augustine.
教学、学习、分享
I know something about Virginia, American history, wine, geography, general literature, T. S. Eliot poetry, and lots of random cities and regions across the country. I know where to buy a book in Montpelier, Vermont, and I know where to go on a great hike in Moab, Utah.
我的兴趣
I love literature, history of all sorts, battlefields, old churches, wine, and friendly banter about politics.
