Jonathan Alan Silk (born 1960) is an American academic specialising in Buddhism.
He then attended the University of Michigan (MA 1988), where he completed doctoral studies; in 1989, he received a one-year Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, and then received fellowships to study Buddhism in Japan between 1991 and 1993.
Michigan awarded him a PhD in 1994 for his thesis "The Origins and Early History of the Mahāratnakūţa Tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism, with a Study of the Ratnarāśisūtra and Related Materials".
[1][2] From 1994 to 1995, Silk was an assistant professor of religious studies at Grinnell College; in 1995, he moved to the Department of Comparative Religion in Western the University of Michigan.
[1][2] Since 2008, he has been co-chair of the editorial board of the journal Indo-Iranian Studies.