B. 1962; MA 1986, University of Warsaw; PhD 1990, post-doctoral degree (habilitacja) 2001 (also UW); professor since 2013. Has been employed at the Institute of History, University of Warsaw, since 1988 as assistant lecturer, assistant professor, associate and full professor. Research associate: Harvard University Ukrainian Research Institute 1991-1992; Nahost-Institut an der Universitaet Muenchen 1994-1995. Visiting professor: University of Notre Dame 2004, Hokkaido University 2009, College de France 2011. President of the CIEPO (Comite International des Etudes Pre-ottomanes et Ottomanes) since 2018. Member of the Academia Europaea and honorary member of the Turkish Historical Society (TTK). Member of the Editorial Board of the Series: “Rulers & Elites. Comparative Studies in Governance” (Brill). Representative of the Director of the IH UW for International Relations 2002-2008; Director of the Institute of History 2012-2016; Chair of the Department of Early Modern History 2010-13 and since 2019;
- Podole pod panowaniem tureckim. Ejalet Kamieniecki 1672-1699, Warszawa (Polczek) 1994;
- Ottoman-Polish Diplomatic Relations (15th-18th century). An Annotated Edition of 'Ahdnames and Other Documents, Leiden (Brill) 2000;
- Turcja (series: Historia Państw Świata w XX wieku), Warszawa (Trio) 2000 [new compl. ed. 2011];
- Defter-i Mufassal-i Eyalet-i Kamanice: The Ottoman Survey Register of Podolia (ca. 1681), Cambridge, Mass. (Harvard University Press) 2004;
- The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania. International Diplomacy on the European Periphery (15th-18th Century). A Study of Peace Treaties Followed by Annotated Documents, Leiden (Brill) 2011;
- Universal Empire. A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History (co-editor with Peter Bang), Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2012 [paperback edition 2015];
- Zaproszenie do osmanistyki. Typologia i charakterystyka zrodel muzulmanskich sasiadow dawnej Rzeczypospolitej: Imperium Osmanskiego i Chanatu Krymskiego, Warszawa (DiG) 2013;
- The Relations of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with Safavid Iran and the Catholicosate of Etchmiadzin in the light of archival documents (co-author with Stanisław Jaśkowski and Piruz Mnatsakanyan, chief editor), Warsaw (Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych) 2017.
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