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Doctoral research in the department spans the period from late antiquity to the present day, and geographically ranges across Eurasia and beyond. Nelson Bennett, Ada Kök and Anastasiia Morozova all study late antiquity, whilst Julia Boechat Machado, Emilia Castelao, Marta Haiduchok and Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek work on the second half of the twentieth century. 

Boris Fonarkov's newly published article explores the complexities of Eurasian imperial interactions in the seventeenth century. Centering on the diplomatic (scientific, military and ethonographic) adventures of the gloriously named Nikolai Gavrilovich Milescu-Spafariĭ and his meeting with Mongol envoys, Boris highlights "a complicated tapestry of individual interests and exchanges".