The Silk Road Seattle Team
2001-2002

Faculty directors:

Cynthea Bogel. Ph.D. (Fine Arts--East Asian Art History, Harvard University), Assistant Professor of Japanese Art and Architecture, Division of Art History, School of Art (University of Washington). Specialization: Japanese Art; East Asian Buddhist Art.

Joel Walker. Ph.D. (Department of History and Program in the Ancient World, Princeton University); Assistant Professor of History (University of Washington). Specialization: Late Antiquity; Sassanian Iran; Christianity in the Middle East.

Daniel Waugh. Ph.D. (Department of History--Russian History, Harvard University); Associate Professor of History and International Studies (University of Washington). Specialization: Early Russia; Central Asia. Principal coordinator for project.

Staff:

Lance Jenott. Senior History major (University of Washington); Mary Gates Scholarship intern. Web design expert; editor and contributor of web materials.

Elmira Köçümkulkïzï. M.A. (Near Eastern Languages and Civilization); Ph.D. Candidate (Interdisciplinary Program in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Washington. Specialization: traditional cultures of Central Asia; oral epic. Creator of web pages and translator of literary texts for project; performer and presenter on Central Asian traditional culture.

K. Moles. M.A. (History of Art and Archaeology, New York University); Ph.D. candidate (Art History, University of Washington); former Director, Seafirst (now Bank of America) Gallery (Seattle, Wa.). Specialization: Art of Rome and Late Antiquity. Curator for photography exhibit.

Justin Odum. M.A. Candidate (Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington). Project cartography.

John Szostak. Ph.D. Candidate (Art History, University of Washington). Specialization: Japanese Buddhist Art. Curator for virtual art exhibit.

Principal consultants in supporting organizations:

Elizabeth Brown. Ph.D.; Chief Curator, The Henry Art Gallery (University of Washington).

Margit Dementi. Ph.D.; Associate Director of the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities (University of Washington).

Patricia Costa Kim. Ph.D.; Director of Education and Community Programs, Seattle Symphony.

Adela Lee. Director, The Silkroad Foundation.

Jill Rullkoetter. Ph.D.; Kayla Skinner Director of Education and Public Programs, Seattle Art Museum.

Sponsors

The primary sponsor of Silk Road Seattle programs during 2001-2002 was the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington. Co-sponsors included the Silkroad Foundation, the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Arts & Lectures, the Seattle Symphony, and the following units of the University of Washington: School of Art Program in Art History and the Jacob Lawrence Gallery; Departments of Asian Languages and Literature, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, and History; the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, its East Asia Title VI Center and other outreach programs, and its program in Comparative Religion; the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture; the Henry Art Gallery.