Dr. Jason Neelis Assistant Professor Department of Religion University of Florida	mailing address: 107 Anderson Hall Box 117410 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-7410	e-mail:  jneelis@religion.ufl.edu office:   (352) 273-2935 fax:       (352) 392-7395
Publications
Articles (pdf)	“Kharoṣṭhī and Brāhmī Inscriptions from Hunza-Haldeikish: Sources for the Study of Long-Distance Trade and Transmission of Buddhism” in South Asian Archaeology 1997 (Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists), edited by Maurizio Taddei and Giuseppe De Marco. Serie Orientale Roma XC, vol. 2. Rome: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 2000, pp. 903-923. “India, Northwest” (vol. 1, 366-368) and “Silk Road” (vol. 2, 775-777) in Encyclopedia of Buddhism, edited by Robert Buswell. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. “Zu den Kharoṣṭhī-Inschriften” in Martin Bemmann, Die Felsbildstation Dadam Das. Materielien zur Archäologie der Nordgebiete Pakistans 5. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 2005, pp. 50-53. “Hunza-Haldeikish Revisited: Epigraphical Evidence for Transregional History” in Karakoram in Transition – Culture, Development and Ecology in the Hunza Valley, edited by Hermann Kreutzmann. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 159-170. “La Vieille Route Reconsidered: Alternative Paths for Early Transmission of Buddhism Beyond the Borderlands of South Asia” in Bulletin of the Asia Institute 16 (2002 [2006]), pp. 143-164. “Passages to India: Śaka and Kuṣāṇa Migration Routes in Historical Contexts” in On the Cusp of an Era: Art in the Pre-Kuṣāṇa World, edited by Doris M. Srinivasan. Leiden: Brill, 2007, pp. 55-94. “Historical and Geographical Contexts for Avadānas in Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts” in Buddhist Studies (Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference, vol. 8), edited by Richard Gombrich and Cristina Scherrer-Schaub). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, [forthcoming 2008], pp. 151-167. Essays on Buddhism and Trade, Silk Road Trade Routes, Mauryans, Sakas, and Kushans for the Silk Road Virtual Art Exhibit (http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/exhibit/index2.html).
Reviews (pdf)	Die Felsbildstation Shatial, by Gérard Fussman and Ditte König (Mainz: 1997) in Bulletin of the Asia Institute 11 (1997 [2000]), pp. 218-224. Die Felsbildstation Hodar, by Ditte Bandini-König (Mainz: 1999) in Bulletin of the Asia Institute 13 (1999 [2002]), pp. 179-182. Die Felsbildstationen Shing Nala und Gichi Nala, by Ditte Bandini-König and Oskar von Hinüber (Mainz: 2001) in Bulletin of the Asia Institute 15 (2001[2005]), 206-208. Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century, by Richard Foltz (New York: 1999) in Journal of Asian Studies 60.4 (November 2001), pp. 1180-1182. Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600-1400 by Tansen Sen (Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawaii, 2003) in Asian Studies Review 29.4 (December 2005), pp. 423-424. Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism, by Robert DeCaroli (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) in Journal of Asian Studies 65.1 (February 2006), pp. 209-211.