About Miami's Silk Road
Project
The Miami University
Havighurst Center for the Study of Russian
and Post-Soviet Studies has taken as its theme for
the 2005-2007 academic years the study of the
countries and peoples of the Silk Road, the trading
route that connected China and the Mediterranean
region for many centuries. Among the many projects and
events being sponsored was a six-week trip (May
21-July 2, 2006) taken by 15 Miami faculty, with major
funding from a Fulbright-Hays Group Study Abroad
Grant. The trip included visits to important sites as
well as seminars arranged with local academics.
Faculty on the trip, representing nine fields of
study, are all developing curricular and research
interests in Central Asia. This website is a record of
that trip and a resource for those interested in the
silk road and in Central Asia. On the main menu you
can find links to the
itinerary for the trip,
photos taken on the trip,
movies, and a daily
blog. In addition, there is an evolving
bibliography, descriptions of silk road
courses offered at Miami,
maps and other
documents related to the trip and the
seminars.
The Project faculty would like to acknowledge support from
the Fulbright Program, Miami University's College of Arts
and Science, The School of Fine Arts, Office of
International Programs, The Hampton Fund, Committee for the
Enhancement of Teaching and Excellence; and the Departments
of Classics, Religion, German Russian and East Asian
Languages, Political Science, Geography, French and
Italian, Architecture and Interior Design, History, and
Geology.
Faculty participants on the Silk Road Trip:
Afsaneh Ardehali, Architecture and Interior Design
Gülen Çevik, Architecture and Interior Design
Rick Colby, Comparative Religion
Karen Dawisha, Political Science
Yildirim Dilek, Geology
Mary Frederickson, History
Scott Kenwothy, Comparative Religion
Sante Matteo, French and Italian
Steve Nimis, Classics
Yihong Pan, History
Judith Sessions, University Library
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Political Science
Ben Suttcliffe, Russian Literature
Stan Toops, Geography
Liz Wilson, Comparative Religion