July 15, 2024
Jan Hennings is is currently working on a monograph-length study of Russian-Ottoman relations in the early eighteenth century, exploring the life and office of the first Russian resident ambassador in Istanbul, Peter A. Tolstoi.
He supervises the following PhD dissertations:
- Emilia Castelao, Checkmate Diplomacy: Soft Power, Soviet Strategy, and the Diplomatic Transformation of the International Chess Federation
- Ewelina Sikora (Table Set for Diplomats: Food, Drink, and Politics in Polish-Lithuanian Diplomatic Relations, 1674–1696)
- Mariia Golovina (Venetian-Muscovite Diplomatic Encounters and the Production of Knowledge from the Mid-Seventeenth Century to the Peace Negotiations at Karlowitz)
- Boris Fonarkov (Diplomacy and Cultural Developments in Early Modern Sino-Russian Relations, 1609-1689)
- Antonia-Oana Avram (Rethinking Humankind: Humanist Agency and the Early-Modern European Discourse on Humanity and Natural Rights)
- Oleksii Rudenko (The Classical Tradition and Shaping Myths of Origins in Early Modern East-Central Europe)
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