Residencies
Every year, Sky Meadow Institute aims to host a promising early-career scholar for an extended live-in residency, during which learning occurs across a host of domains from the intellectual to the pragmatic to the spiritual. Residents live in the Pond House cottage for a duration of up to three weeks, learning homesteading skills, discussing philosophy, exploring meditative practices, and developing other capacities.
2025 Scholar-in-Residence: Nathan Foote
Nathan Foote graduated from Wesleyan University in 2024 with a BA in Religion. He will be a candidate for a Master's of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School in the fall of 2025. Nathan’s main academic interest is studying Plato and the Platonic dialogues as a literary genre that embeds a lived relationship to Truth and Goodness. He aims to study the relationships to Truth and Goodness that were practiced and articulated by Socrates, the literary character, and his literary dialogue partners, given the context of Plato’s relationship to his real-life teacher. Nathan is also interested in the transformation of philosophy as a literary genre in the wake of Plato’s literary corpus—across the Middle Platonists, into Neoplatonism, broadly through Enlightenment philosophy, and finally in the tripartite move of modernism, postmodernism, and metamodernism. When he isn’t learning to read Attic Greek or speak metamodernist philosophy, Nathan enjoys playing the electric bass, writing fiction, and gardening.
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During his stay at Sky Meadow, Nathan will be engaged in intensive study of ancient Greek and reading Jason Storm's Metamodernism: The Future of Theory while learning the ins and outs of tending an organic garden and discussing apophatic mysticism.
Contact
If you're interested in residency offerings, please visit the Events page for our standard spring and autumn offerings. If you would like to apply to be a scholar-in-residence, please contact us directly with a description of your studies, interests, and availability.