![]() In April 2013 she was elected President of the U.S. The Committee reviews requests from foreign governments for the protection of their cultural property and recommends a course of action to the U.S. State Department on which she continues to serve. In April 2003 the President appointed Nancy to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee of the U.S. From 1998-2002 she served as President of the Archaeological Institute of America, and in 2009-10 she was the AIA’s Charles Eliot Norton lecturer, one of the highest honors that the Institute bestows. Laird Professor of Classics, Anthropology, and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, at Carleton and served as co-coordinator of Carleton’s Archaeology Concentration. Nancy Wilkie is a distinguished archaeologist and professor who has led numerous study tours throughout Asia and the Mediterranean. ![]() Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR was recently published by Cornell University Press. ![]() He lived in Tashkent in 2000-01 and has clocked many miles traveling around the region. He speaks Russian and Uzbek and has spent extensive amounts of time in Central Asia since his trip to Samarkand and Bukhara in 1985. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on the modern history of the region, having written three books on the period since the Russian conquest of the mid-nineteenth century. Although he teaches broadly in Russian/Soviet and Ottoman history, his scholarly work is focused on Central Asia. Like the adventurers and merchants who have gone before us, we can anticipate breathtaking sights and a lively exchange of ideas and cultures along our route.Īdeeb Khalid, Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History, has taught at Carleton since 1993. ![]() This was also the road of Alexander the Great and Marco Polo, extending across vast deserts, mountains, and plains. in great camel caravans for the 5,000-mile trek to the Mediterranean. ![]() Follow in the footsteps of silk traders, who left China as early as 200 B.C. Laird Professor of Classics, Anthropology, and the Liberal Arts, Emerita-to retrace the fabled Silk Road on this exclusive Alumni Adventure through Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. You are invited to join two Carleton professors- Adeeb Khalid, Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History, and Nancy Wilkie, William H. ![]()
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