Research Fellow (2023–2025)

Francesca Fiaschetti is a researcher of Inner and East Asian history, specializing in the history of the Mongol Empire and Medieval Eurasia. Following her studies in Asian Civilizations and Cultures with a focus on Sinology (B.A. 2005; M.A. 2008) at the Sapienza University of Rome, she obtained her Ph.D. in Sinology (2015) at the Ludwigs-Maximilians University of Munich. From 2014 to 2018, she was a Research Fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and from 2018 to 2023 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History, University of Vienna. Since 2019, she directs the Mongolia Cluster, an interdisciplinary centre for the study of Mongolian history and culture at the University of Vienna. From 2023 to 2025, the Mongolia Cluster was based at the Department of Religious Studies. Dr Fiaschetti has published widely on issues of religious and cultural exchange in Mongolian Eurasia, the history of the Silk Roads, and the intellectual and political history of Mongolian Eurasia. Her current research focuses on the religious and administrative elites in early modern East Asia, their networks, and literary production. While at the Department as a Research Fellow (2023–2025) she co-ordinated courses on "Introduction to the History and Religions of Mongolia" and "Epic, Heroes and Myths of Mongolia: From the Mongol Empire to the Present."