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Office: 130 Anderson Hall Jason Neelis received his B.A. in Classics and South Asian Studies from Brown University, M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Literature from the University of Washington (2001), specializing in South Asian Buddhist literature and epigraphy. After conducting field research at Hunza-Haldeikish and other sites with rock drawings and inscriptions along the Karakoram Highway in the Northern Areas of Pakistan, he examined links between the early transmission of Buddhism and long-distance trade networks between South Asia and Central Asia in his dissertation (Long-distance Trade and the Transmission of Buddhism through Northern Pakistan, Primarily based on Kharosthi and Brahmi Inscriptions). He has published articles in South Asian Archaeology 1997, edited by Maurizio Taddei and Giuseppe De Marco (Rome, 2000); Karakoram in Transition, edited by Hermann Kreutzmann (Karachi, forthcoming); and Encyclopedia of Buddhism, edited by Robert Buswell (New York, forthcoming). He has also written reviews for the Bulletin of the Asia Institute and the Journal of Asian Studies. As a participant in the University of Washington / British Library Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project, he is currently working on an edition of avadana narratives written on birch-bark scrolls from ancient Gandhara (northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afganistan) in the first century C.E. He has previously taught courses in the history of South Asian Buddhism, South Asian religions, South Asian humanities, history of religion, world religions, Hindi, and Sanskrit at the University of Washington, Florida State University, and Antioch College's Buddhist Studies program in Bodh Gaya, India. His teaching interests include Buddhist Texts, Hindu Sacred Texts and Ritual Contexts, Indian Buddhism, and Asian Religions. For more information, see Jason Neelis' Web page.
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