NICOLA DI COSMO
Executive Committee Member & Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies
Nicola DI COSMO is Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, USA). He has a PhD in Uralic and Altaic Studies from Indiana University and has held positions at Cambridge, Harvard, and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). His main research field is the history of the relations between China and Inner Asia from the first millennium BCE to the early modern period. His authored books include Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History, Manchu-Mongol Relations on the Eve of the Qing Conquest, and Venezia e i Mongoli. He has also edited and co-edited various books including Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran and the Steppe (2018) and Rebel Economies: Warlords. Insurgents, Humanitarians (2021). His current work focuses on the connections between climate, environment, and politics in the history of steppe empires, which have been published in Science Advances, PNAS, Scientific Reports and other science journals.
