Historian Giselle Byrnes has been part of the SabbaticalHomes community since 2006, when the platform housed her twice during a Fulbright fellowship at Georgetown. She talks with us about her work as a colonial historian and university leader, and about Aotearoa New Zealand and the Treaty of Waitangi.
We first profiled artist Morgan O’Hara in 2017, and she has kept expanding her work since. She catches us up on her activist and experiential art, including the ongoing Handwriting the Constitution project that continues to draw people in.
Alex Carballo-Diéguez, PhD, spent an active academic career at Columbia and used SabbaticalHomes to find apartments while traveling for conferences and lectures. Now retired, he reflects on his research, his travels, and the stays that supported them.
Harvard educator Katherine Merseth has been called an academic entrepreneur for the inventive research and teaching that shaped her 40-plus-year career. A longtime SabbaticalHomes member and Harvard Professor of the Year, she shares what has kept her work fresh.
We recently had the opportunity to reconnect with author Alix Christie and her husband, Ludwig Siegele at the historic House of Shields bar (open since 1908) in downtown San Francisco, California. A longtime SabbaticalHomes.com member, Alix and her family have traveled throughout the world and…
Sustainability has been part of the SabbaticalHomes mission since Nadege Conger founded the site in 2000. In that spirit, we talk with Professor Rachel Dodds about sustainable tourism and how travelers can tread more lightly.
Over coffee at the Cafeotheque in Paris, founder Nadege Conger met Dr. Florian Lionnet to hear about his work preserving an endangered language in Chad. They discussed the challenges of the research and why it matters.
Sandy Dutro’s Big Sur home sits right on the coast, private and wrapped in nature. She loves welcoming friends, family, and SabbaticalHomes guests to her retreat by the ocean, and shares what makes it special.
Dr. Kirk Dolan and his family have lived in Taiwan since early 2020, riding out the pandemic in one of the few places to nearly contain it. The professor shares what that experience has been like.
What happens when two academics move their three school-age children from Logan, Utah to the Big Island of Hawaii for a semester? The Warren family shares how they made the leap, what daily life looked like, and what a few months in paradise taught them about work, family, and change of place.
