Dear Colleagues,
I hope this letter finds you doing well and Happy Thanksgiving to our American colleagues!

The Department of Nestorian Studies now serves as a project of the International Institute for Central Asian Studies in partnership with the Center for Eastern Christian Studies of the University of Salzburg. The continued goal of the department is to continue to develop this field and develop strategies for engagement as well as research and development of known and suspected Syriac Christian sites. In addition to on-campus research in the late Spring at the University of Salzburg, funded through a grant, I had the privilege in July of presenting at the 13 th Syriac Symposium Syriacum in Paris, followed by a week of lectures at an academic conference sponsored by the Catholic Church of Kyrgyzstan in Issyk Kul in August, then onto a doctoral colloquium at the University of Gottingen in Germany. In addition to presenting academic papers and continuing to network with scholars and meet with prospective partners, my primary objective is the completion of my dissertation project, slated for June of 2023. I have thoroughly enjoyed the study and look forward to continuing to research as well as develop infrastructure and collaborations for the development of this field.

Let us know if you would like to become involved in any way. This is truly an exciting time to research this extraordinary lost history of Christianity in Central Asia.