In a recent post on the blog, an English professor described feeling marginally literate when attempting to read road signs.
A religion scholar that religions divide the people of the world.
An art historian compared a to the way Homeric epics circulated in antiquity.
And a geographer reported at home with a family in Bharatpur while they recorded his visit with their cell phones. (Pictured at right)
These observations and more, written by some of the 27 professors who are traveling in India for two weeks, have attracted some 19,000 page views to date.
Along with and videos, the posts show the unfolding of an intellectual experience that will pay dividends for generations of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø students and for the travelers themselves.
The trip, intended to further internationalize 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Liberal Arts Core Curriculum, was initiated by faculty and is being funded in part by a $100,000 Mellon Foundation new-president’s grant awarded to for his discretionary use.
Before the group departed, Professor Eliza Kent talked about what was planned.