AcknowledgementsThe designers would like to thank the following for their support which helped to make your visit to this website possible. Our respective universities, the College of the Holy Cross and Southwestern University, offered their support and endorsement. Our departments and colleagues also offered important feedback and support. Without the ITS staff at our respective institutions, this project would have been impossible. Southwestern University awarded Gottschalk with a Brown Scholarship which allowed him time and aid for the project during the academic year. The majority of the funds necessary for this effort were made possible through a Group Project Grant awarded by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. The Center for Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin also provided us with financial and logistical support. Special thanks to Associate Director Janice Leoshko and Outreach Coordinator Pamela Abee-Taulli for their continuing help with this project. Suzanne Bonefas of the Associated Colleges of the South Technology Center gave essential technical support and invited us to post this site on the ACS server. Dr. Pradeep Mehendiratta, Director-General of the American Institute of Indian Studies, offered his immense expertise in obtaining permission from the Government of India, which we also thank. Alison Kaminsky of the Asia Society provided wonderful feedback on the proposal. Liz Wilson helped inspire this project with her Virtual Pilgrimage to Banaras. Chris Williams provided invaluable insights into photographic technique. We also thank those who have given us such helpful feedback and support: Joe Elder, Rick Asher, Jennifer Higgens, Mary Visser, Phil Hopkins, Laura Hobgood-Oster, Farley Snell, Ed Kain, Gwen Nevelle-Kennedy, Doug Wixon, Dan Hilliard and Mario Gonzales. Brian Brown, Francis Chu, and Rebecca Pierce provided the essential and tedious service of scanning all the images from slides to digital format. Finally, we thank our families for their wonderful ideas, kind patience, and enduring support for "A Virtual Village" even when it required our presence in the actual village half a world away.
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