Paul Hutchinson
Senior Lecturer, Management & Organizations
Dr. Paul J. Hutchinson is a Senior Lecturer at Boston University Questrom School of Business teaching in both the undergraduate and MBA programs. Hutch has worked with over 50,000 participants in teambuilding and leadership programs since he began practicing experiential education in 1996. Hutch’s recent professional work has focused on utilizing emerging technologies to enhance experiential learning, from GPS-based urban adventures to virtual teambuilding on-line.
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Hutch earned his Ph.D. in American and New England Studies at Boston University. His dissertation, Crafting an Outdoor Classroom: The Nineteenth-Century Roots of the Outdoor Education Movement, argues that the pedagogy of experiential education resulted from changing perspectives on youth and wilderness in nineteenth century America. His research interests include environmental history, transcendentalism, the relationship between culture and pedagogy, and the intersection of people, planet, and profit within American history.
Education
PhD, Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2015
MS, Minnesota State University – Mankato, 2001
BA, Gettysburg College, 1998
Selected Research Presentations
Hutchinson, P. EBTD Toolbox: Theories, Models, and Ideas on How to Boost Your Corporate and Adult Programing Skills, Association for Experiential Education Northeast Regional Conference, On-Line
Publications
Hutchinson, P. (2018). “Thompson Island: An Island Republic of Youth”, Historic Deerfield
Hutchinson, P. (2017). “Summer Camps: The White Mountain Roots of an Iconic American Institution”, Plymouth State University
Hutchinson, P. (2012). “Wilderness Settlements: Early Twentieth Century Outdoor Education at the North Bennett Street Industrial School”, Journal of the North End Historical Society, 1 (1), 71-86