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Enrico dal lago

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.

Contact Details

• E-mail: enrico.dallagonuigalway.ie
• Office: Room 403, Tower I, History Department
• Extension: 3546
• Telephone: 353 493546

Undergraduate Teaching

Enrico teaches the following courses:

Second Year 

• HI295: The American Civil War: Causes and Developments (Colloquium)
• HI259: The Rise of Modern America, 1865-1996
  

Final Year

• HI365: Native North Americans from Prehistory to the Present
• HI484: Slavery & Emancipation in the American South (Seminar)

Postgraduate Teaching

Post-graduate taught modules:

M.A. History Course: Secret Societies and the Rise of Modern Nations in Europe and the Americas, 1770-1870.

M.A. History Core Course: Debates & Controversies (Contribution on Comparative History and Comparative Slavery)

Post-graduate supervision:

8 M.A. Theses supervised since 2009 on topics related mostly to 19th and 20th century American History.

4 M.Litt. Dissertation supervised since 2000 on Topics ranging from the Irish and the American Civil War to Black Activism and Soul Music to Anarchism among Russians and Italian Americans.

SPA400: Theory & Methodology Course for Structured Ph.D. (Contribution on Comparative History).

Ph.D. Dissertations currently supervised:

1)       Joe Regan, “Irish Catholic Slaveholders in the Antebellum U.S. South: A Comparison between Louisiana and South Carolina, 1808-1858”, begun in 2011 and funded by NUIG Doctoral Research Scholarship.

2)       Cathal Smith, “Lords of Land and Labour: A Comparison of the Clonbrock Landed Estate in County Galway, Ireland with the Quitman Plantation at Natchez, Mississippi, in the Mid-Nineteenth Century”, begun in 2010 and funded by IRCHSS Government of Ireland Doctoral Research Scholarship.

3)       Ronan De Bhaldraithe, “Ghost Dances and Ring Shouts: Gullah and Lakota Musical Traditions in Comparative Perspective”, begun in 2009.

External Examinership:

In 2011, Enrico also served as Internal Examiner for Orla Power’s Ph.D. Dissertation “Irish Planters, Atlantic Merchants: The Development of St. Croix, Danish West Indies, 1749-1766”.

Postdoctoral Fellows Supervision:  

Dr. Constantina Katsari, “The Roman Empire and the United States of America in Comparative Perspective: The Economy and Ideology of Slavery”. Project undertaken at the Moore Institute and completed in 2005.Research Interests

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Enrico is interested in examining the social and political history of the nineteenth-century United States from a comparative perspective. His studies focus on Slavery, the Abolitionist movement, and the Civil War in comparison and connection with contemporary events and social and political transformations in Europe, and especially in Italy during the age of the Risorgimento. His research builds upon the most recent scholarship in the comparative history of unfree labor and nationalism in the United States, the Atlantic World, and Europe.

major Publications (books)

Enrico's CV and a full list of publications HERE (pdf) 

Other Professional Activities

Enrico is a member of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Italian Fulbright Alumni Association. He was an Elected Member of the Membership Committee of the Southern Historical Association for 2002. He is also a member of the Organizing Committee of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) and a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Social History. He has served as manuscript reviewer for The Journal of American History, Comparative Studies in Society and History, The Journal of Historical Sociology, and Labor History.

In 1999, Enrico organized – together with Rick Halpern – the two-day Commonwealth Fund Conference in American History at University College London on the theme “Two Souths: Toward an Agenda for Comparative Studies of the American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno”. In 2004, Enrico organized - together with Constantina Katsari - a three-day International Conference on "Slave Systems, Ancient and Modern" at the Moore Institute at NUI Galway. 

Between 2000 and 2005, Enrico was an active member in the project on “Atlantic and Intra-European Colonization, 1500-1900” organized by the Moore Institute at NUI, Galway. Since 2010, Enrico is a member of the International Research Network on “ The Second Slavery”, based at the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, in Binghamton University, State University of New York.

In March 2011, Enrico organized a Panel on “Antislavery, Liberalism, and Empire-Building: The United States and Europe, 1841-1881”, within the context of the special celebrations for the 150 years since the American Civil War, at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), in Houston, Texas. In May 2011, Enrico organized – together with NUI, Galway’s Head of the Italian Department Paolo Bartoloni – an international workshop on “Debating the Italian Nation: Historical and Cultural Perspectives”, to mark 150 years since Italy’s national unification.

Other

Enrico has received numerous awards, research grants, and distinctions, among which the most prestigious was the Fulbright Scholarship held at the University of Kansas’ Anthropology Department in 1991-1992. In 2002, his biographical entry was among the 40,000 included in the 19th edition of the international register Who’s Who in the World. In 2007, Enrico won a IRCHSS Government of Ireland Research Fellowship for research on the project “ Fighting Slavery, Fashoning Nations: Connections and Comparisons between William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini”, which will serve as the basis of his next monograph. In 2009, Enrico’s Curriculum Vitae was included in Contemporary Authors (Gale Publishers).

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