Nicola Di Cosmo (; born 1957,

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) is the Luce Foundation Professor in

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at the

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. His main field of research is the history of the relations between

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and

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from prehistory to the modern period. Di Cosmo earned a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies of

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in 1991. He was a research fellow at the

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from 1989 to 1992, Rockefeller Fellow and lecturer at Indiana University from 1992 to 1993, assistant professor of

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from 1993 to 1997, and taught at the

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from 1998 to 2003. In 2003, he was appointed Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies at the

. In 2015, he taught as a visiting professor at New York University Shanghai. He is currently a faculty member of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

Works

Di Cosmo has published on the early history of China's relations with steppe nomads and edited several books. *(2003)
Manchu-Mongol Relations on the Eve of the Qing Conquest
" : Brill. *(2010)
Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History
" :

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. *(2014) "Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History,”:

References

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