Founder's Biography

About the Founder

The Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, Columbia University, Professor Basker studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he completed his doctorate in English literature, and at Cambridge where he earned his MA.

Having felt that his own experiences in Europe had been personally transformative, he was moved to replicate the experience for high school students when he founded a summer school at Oxford in 1985.

Since then, Oxbridge Academic Programs has established programs for middle and high school students in Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Montpellier in the South of France, and Barcelona in Spain.