KAM Özel Etkinlik programı çerçevesinde ABD Vermont Üniversitesi öğretim üyesi ve Dünya Tarihi Derneği (WHA) Asbaşkanı Prof. Alfred J. Andrea ile dünya tarihi üzerine söyleşi gerçekleştireceğiz.

Prof. Alfred J. Andrea

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Andrea spent spring semester, 2002, at the University of Louisville, where he held the chair of Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence in the Liberal Studies Program. In addition to offering a seminar on the Silk Road, 200 BCE—1500 CE,  and a number of public talks on multiple Silk Road topics, Andrea honed his thoroughbred handicapping skills at the Keeneland and Churchill Downs race tracks. Although he always bet on the correct horses, most of the time they or their jockeys failed to understand what was expected of them.

Andrea continues to conduct research and write on a variety of pre-modern topics, including the Silk Road and the crusades. His research and other academic work in the period 2004-2006 brought him to China, where he studied Buddhist cave art at Dunhuang and other sites, Morocco twice Turkey on three occasions, South and Central India, where he studied Hindu and Buddhist holy sites, and Andalusia in Spain, where he photographed Moorish sites. Less exotic but no less important academic locales were in England and Germany. Most recently, he spent September 2007 in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkestan, and Tajikistan, where he visited and photographed sites important to the ancient Sogdians, important merchants and travelers along the Silk Road. In summer 2008, he returns to Dunhuang and other Chinese Silk Road sites.

His most recent book-length publication was Encyclopedia of the Crusades (Greenwood Press, 2003). He asks you to request that your local library order a copy so that he can fund future trips abroad. Even more recently, the 6th edition of The Human Record: Sources in Global History, 2 vols. (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), appeared. This textbook, which he has coauthored with James H. Overfield since 1990, also subvents his travels. Shame on those world history instructors who do not adopt it.

Current projects include serving as General Editor for the 21-volume ABC-Clio World History Encyclopedia and Series Editor for Connections: Key Themes in World History (Pearson Prentice Hall). Taking on these burdens is an act of enormous hubris and sheer lunacy, but Andrea does so with humility and clear-headedness.

He continues to be an active member of quite a few learned societies and currently serves as Vice President of the World History Association (2008-2009). In January 2010 he will ascend to the presidency of that organization, and he is now engaged in scripting his coronation ceremony. Andrea asks that you visit the WHA's website www.thewha.org to learn more about this worthy association and to discover where and when the WHA will be convening and frolicking next.