Beijing to Kashgar over land! From January 3rd to 25th, 2017, Professors Eric Mortensen (Religious Studies) and Vance Ricks (Philosophy) led twenty Guilford students (most of whom were veterans of the associated Fall 2016 course, The Digital Silk Road) along the Silk Road regions of China. For more information about the course and program itinerary, please see the course syllabus. This page allows you to navigate to all twenty student final StoryMap projects. The students’ assignment was to create and maintain an ongoing and unfolding experiential journal that they would augment with digital images and video. Upon return to the USA, the students wove the narratives of their journalling with their images into individual StoryMaps.
Click on any student’s name to navigate to their individual StoryMap.
- Anna Kelly: “Weaving Westward: A Poetic Journey Along the Silk Road”
- Aubrey Fetzer: “Exploring Gender and God Across China”
- Austin Huddle: “Across China in One Month”
- Becca Mellor
- Billie Dunn-McMartin: “Aspects of Hospitality Across China’s Silk Road”
- Brian James: “The Silk Road Tongue”
- Camille Franks: “Moments Worth Remembering”
- Chris Collins: “Kids Along the Silk Road”
- Elena Sippel
- Emily Haaksma: “Florality: Exploring the Capital of Comforts”
- Emma Rice: “I Went to China and All I Got Were These Complex, Unanswerable Questions”
- Jilly Campbell
- Julia Tyson: “China”
- Laura Sippel: “China: What Comes to Mind…?”
- Nathan Grannan: “Journey to the West ~”
- Nathan Lee: “Stranger on the Silk Road: Reflections of an Outsider”
- Sam Bernhardt: “Questions and Confusion on the Silk Road”
- Sydney Brown: “Traveling the Silk Road: Where Old Meets New”
- Tieji Williams: “Coping with Foreign Privilege on the Silk Road”
- Zach Gruenberg