Rate My Professor Daniel Waugh

Waugh initiated and directed Silk Road Seattle, an educational website whose resources are used in classrooms worldwide. He edited the Silk Road journal for the Silkroad Foundation since 2003 and contributed major collections of Silk Roads photographs to Archnet and HEIR databases. Notable publications include The Great Turkes Defiance: On the History of the Apocryphal Correspondence of the Ottoman Sultan in its Muscovite and Russian Variants (Slavica Publishers, 1978), Essays in Honor of A.A. Zimin (editor, Slavica, 1985), Civil Society in Central Asia (co-editor, University of Washington Press, 1999), Istoriia odnoi knigi (Dmitrii Bulanin, 2003), Cross-Cultural Communication in Early Modern Russia: Foreign News in Context (co-author with Ingrid Maier, 2023), and Skrine at Kashgar: Life, Exploration and Intrigue at an Outpost of Empire (editor, recent open-access). He received a Mellon Emeritus Fellowship in 2010 for Silk Road site studies in the Middle East. Waugh participated in archaeological excavations in Mongolia, study programs at Mogao Caves in China, and delivered lectures such as The Silk Roads: 2000 Years of Cultural and Economic Exchange (2009 keynote).