Program

Education Programs: Institutes for K-12 Educators

Period of Performance

10/1/2017 - 12/31/2018

Funding Totals

$146,356.00 (approved)
$146,356.00 (awarded)


Enduring Legacies of the Global Mongol Empire

FAIN: ES-256935-17

American Center for Mongolian Studies (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305)
David William Dettmann (Project Director: March 2017 to March 2021)

A four-week summer institute for twenty-five school teachers on the history of the Mongol empire and its influence in Europe and Asia.

The American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) at the University of Pennsylvania seeks funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a 4-week Summer Institute on the Mongol Empire and global History Mongolia. The proposed Institute would be held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, from July 16 to August 10, 2018, and would invite twenty-five K-12 teachers from across the country to explore the global history of the Mongol Empire with leading experts in history, anthropology, and the arts.