Václav Zheng is a cultural and intellectual historian of early modern Europe, with a research focus on sixteenth-century east-central Europe. He is also a historical theorist engaging in the philosophy of historiography. For the past five years, he has designed and taught seven undergraduate seminars at both Johns Hopkins' Arts and Science and Peabody Institute.

Currently, he is working on a history monograph project, tentatively entitled Chimera under Euchronia: Hope, Anxiety, and the Polish Renaissance. It offers a cultural and emotional reading of a cluster of Polish political thinkers in the second half of the sixteenth century and their far-fetched dreams about a perfect future world.

Besides, he is compiling an anthology on ideal society thought in fifteenth-century Poland and co-editing a collaborative volume on premodern utopian history.

If you have any questions about Hopkins' history program or historiography in general, or you would like to collaborate on a research project, please contact at [email protected].

For further information, please check www.vaclavzheng.com