Yoichi Isahaya Author & Editor

Nicola Di Cosmo is Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, USA). He studies the relations between China and Inner Asia from the first millennium BCE to the early modern period. He has published on the connections between climate, environment, and politics in the history of steppe empires. Among his recent publications are the co-authored book Venice and the Mongols: The Eurasian Exchange that Transformed the Medieval World (Princeton 2026), and the co-edited works Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran and the Steppe (Cambridge 2018) and Rebel Economies: Warlords. Insurgents, Humanitarians (Lanham 2021). Yoichi Isahaya is Associate Professor at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University. He earned his PhD in Area Studies from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, in September 2015. His research examines the Mongol empire (1206–1368) within an Afro-Eurasian framework, emphasizing cross-cultural interactions and environmental history. His Japanese monograph, The Mongol Empire in the History of Eurasia (Tokyo 2025), situates the Mongol empire within the broader dynamics of Eurasian history.