Ian Marcus Corbin is a philosopher from the North Shore of Boston. He has studied politics, religion and philosophy at Gordon College, Oxford University, Yale University and Boston College, with an eye to the ways that deep human values affect the formation and evolution of human communities. He has taught at a number of colleges in the Boston area, published widely in venues such as the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Newsweek, and founded and run a contemporary art gallery. He is currently an Instructor in Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School. He is writing a book on belonging for Yale University Press.