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Studying nomads comes naturally to Nicola Di Cosmo, associate professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, who has held bit parts in Chinese movies, carried oxygen tanks for the Venetian health department and rebuffed wrestling challenges by drunken Mongolians in the middle of Gobi desert...
...been a meandering path," Di Cosmo says, his words marked by a broad Italian accent, with a constant, slightly self-conscious smile hovering on his lips as he speaks. "Some people know what they're going to do from the onset. I've been the opposite...
...system also creates a tense psychological atmosphere among junior Faculty members, many of whom, as Di Cosmo notes, consider their Harvard positions as temporary from the moment they arrive in Cambridge...
...Cosmo, who studies the premodern history of Chinese foreign relations, Harvard's offer in 1993 allowed him to teach both Inner Asian history and two rarely-studied languages, Manchu and Literary Mongolian...
...There was never any competition between Harvard and other universities simply because there isn't another position in the country that fits my case as perfectly as this one,"Di Cosmo says...