"Sailing as part of the curriculum at COA would offer students the opportunity to connect practical seamanship skills, marine science, and other already marine focused fields. However, it is also a way to bring these disciplines together and offer space for others who have historically not had access to COA’s waterfront in the same ways.
My central thesis question was: what does taking a course on a sailboat and from a place of movement, instead of from the stasis of a classroom, change about how and what we learn? What does our individual movement in different environments teach us about larger fields of thought and understanding? Inspired by writers such as Paul Gilroy, Markus Redikker, Césare Casarino, Michel Foucault, and Ranjana Khanna, I wanted to understand if physically studying from the location of a boat and from movement, actually challenges notions of modernity, colonialism, and belonging by inviting (probably seasick) students to revise or create different understandings of the terms in which academic discussions are constructed?"
After graduation
"I have been working towards my captain's license and am getting experience onboard different vessels."
-Ela-
