Enrico Dal Lago is originally from Italy, where he graduated as Dott. Lett. at the University of Rome. Subsequently, he studied Precolumbian Archaeology in the United States, where he took an M.A. in Anthropology at the University of Kansas. Between 1995 and 1999, Enrico was a Teaching Fellow in the History Department of University College London, from where he received a Ph.D. He joined the National University of Ireland, Galway’s History Department as Junior Lecturer in American History in 1999.

Books:
American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond: The U.S. “Peculiar Institution” in International Perspective_ (author), Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2011, pp. 270

Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern_ (joint editor and contributor with Constantina Katsari), Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 390

Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815-1861_ (author), Baton Rouge, LA/London: Louisiana State University Press, 2005, pp. 390

Articles:
“Comparative Slavery” in Robert L. Paquette and Mark M. Smith, eds., _The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas_, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 664-684

“‘Second Slavery’, ‘Second Serfdom’, and Beyond: The ‘Atlantic Plantation System’ and the Eastern and Southern European ‘Landed Estate System’ in Comparative Perspective, 1800-1860”, _Review_ (Fernand Braudel Center) 32:4 (2009), pp. 391-420

“States of Rebellion: Civil War, Rural Unrest, and the Agrarian Question in the American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno, 1861-1865”, _Comparative Studies in Society and History_ 47:2 (2005), pp. 403-432

Comparative History and Comparative Slavery and Antislavery; Slavery and Free and Unfree Agrarian Labour in the Old World and New World; Elite Ideology, Abolitionism, and Nationalism in the Americas and Europe; The U.S. South and the United States in the Civil War Era in Comparative Perspective with Italy and Europe.