Profile
College / Department
Teaching areas
African History, African Diaspora, World History, European Expansion and Empires,
Research areas
Early Modern African-European Relations, African Diaspora in Europe, Slave Trade, Missionaries in Africa, Race and Racism
Education
PhD, History, Temple University, United States
BA, Political Science, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
Professional experience
Associate Professor of History at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2018 - Present)
Assistant Professor of History at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates(2016 - 2018)
Assistant Professor of History at Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait(2010 - 2016)
Visiting Instructor of African History at Dickinson College, United States(2009 - 2010)
Visiting Instructor of African History at Rowan University, United States(2007 - 2009)
Memberships
African Studies Association, 2010 - present
World History Association, 2010 - present
Contact
msalvadore@aus.edu
+971 6 515 2336
Website
Dr. Matteo Salvadore
Associate Professor
PhD in History, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Matteo Salvadore is a broadly trained Africanist and world historian, with a research interest in the Horn of Africa and its diaspora. His monograph The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555 appeared in Routledge’s Transculturalisms series. He has contributed articles to the J. of World History, the J. of African History, World History Connected, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Dr. Salvadore is serving as Book Review Editor at Northeast African Studies. At American University of Sharjah, he offers courses in African and World History.
Publications
Matteo Salvadore, Between the Red Sea slave trade and the Goa Inquisition: the odyssey of Gabriel, a sixteenth-century Ethiopian Jew, Accepted, Journal of World History, 2020
Matteo Salvadore, "The Archaeology of the Jesuit Missions in Ethiopia (1557-1632)," by Víctor Manuel Fernández, Jorge de Torres, Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner, and Carlos Cañete , Published, Renaissance Quarterly, 71, 4, pp. 1540-1, 2018
Matteo Salvadore, Thomas Spear, Encounters between Ethiopia and Europe, 1400–1660, Published, pp. online, 2018
Matteo Salvadore, "Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: The western Slave Coast c. 1550 – c. 1885," by Silke Strickrodt, Published, African Affairs, 116, 462, pp. 158-60, 2017
Matteo Salvadore, African Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Diasporic Life of Yoḥannǝs, the Ethiopian Pilgrim Who Became a Counter-Reformation Bishop, Published, Journal of African History, 58, 1, pp. 61-83, 2017
Matteo Salvadore, "Envoys of a Human God: The Jesuit mission to Christian Ethiopia, 1557-1632," by Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner, Published, Renaissance Quarterly, 69, 2, pp. 745-5, 2016
Matteo Salvadore, "Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa," by Michelle Moyd, Published, The Middle Ground, 13, pp. online, 2016
Matteo Salvadore, The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555, Published, 2016
Matteo Salvadore, "European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850," by Richard B. Allen, Published, African Studies Quarterly, 15, 4, pp. 89-90, 2015
Matteo Salvadore, "Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa," by Elizabeth A. Sutton, Published, Itinerario, 38, 1, pp. 171-2, 2014
Matteo Salvadore, Corrado Zoli, Published, 5, pp. 194, 2014
Matteo Salvadore, Gianfranco Fiaccadori, Siegbert Uhlig, Giovanni Battista Brocchi, Published, 5, pp. 284-6, 2014
Matteo Salvadore, Moges Asgedom, Published, 3, pp. 984-5, 2014
Matteo Salvadore, The Antinori Expedition, Published, 5, pp. 243, 2014
Matteo Salvadore, Zerray Derres, Published, 5, pp. 151-2, 2014
Matteo Salvadore, Gaining the Heart of Prester John: Loyola's Blueprint for Ethiopia in Three Key Documents, Published, World History Connected, 10, 3, pp. Online, 2013
Matteo Salvadore, Gorgoryos, Published, 2, pp. 493-4, 2012
Matteo Salvadore, Tsega Za'ab, Published, 6, pp. 64-5, 2012
Matteo Salvadore, Muslim Partners, Catholic Foes: The Selective Isolation of Gondärine Ethiopia, Published, Northeast African Studies, 12, 1, pp. 51-72, 2012
Matteo Salvadore, "Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa," by Richard J. Reid, Published, H-Africa, 2011
Matteo Salvadore, Tesfa Seyon, Published, 6, pp. 4-5, 2011
Matteo Salvadore, The Ethiopian Age of Exploration: Prester John's Discovery of Europe, 1306–1458, Published, Journal of World History, 21, 4, pp. 793-628, 2011
Matteo Salvadore, "Red Sea Citizens" by Jonathan Miran, Published, International Journal of African Historical Studies, 43, 1, pp. 197-8, 2010
Matteo Salvadore, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, Published, 4, pp. 156-7, 2010
Matteo Salvadore, The Porro Expedition, Published, 4, pp. 178-9, 2010
Matteo Salvadore, Allison Kavey, Allison Kavey, The Jesuit Mission to Ethiopia (1555-1634) and the Death of Prester John, Published, pp. 141-72, 2010
Matteo Salvadore, The Salimbeni Expedition, Published, 3, pp. 494-5, 2007
Matteo Salvadore, A Modern African Intellectual: Gäbre-Heywät Baykädañ's Quest for Ethiopia's Sovereign Modernity" Africa, (2007),62:4, p. 560-579., Published, Africa, 62, 4, pp. 560-579, 2007
Conference Presentations
Matteo Salvadore, Cleric, Scholar, and Nearly a Missionary: Tesfa Seyon in Early Modern Rome, 20th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Mekelle, Ethiopia, October, 2018
Matteo Salvadore, A Brief Introduction to Ethiopian History, Carlisle, United States, October, 2018
Matteo Salvadore, Kidnapped into Slavery and Tried by the Goa Inquisition: The unwilling journey of Gabriel, a 16th century Ethiopian Jew, The Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of African Studies , Toronto, Canada, May, 2017
Matteo Salvadore, A Diaspora of Opportunities: Ethiopians in Counter-Reformation Rome, 1540-1560, New York African Studies Association Annual Meeting, New York, United States, April, 2016
Matteo Salvadore, Transculturalism in the Early Modern Ethiopian-European World, Beyond Orientalism: Abyssinia and/in the World , St. Louis, United States, May, 2015
Matteo Salvadore, Gaining the Heart of Prester John: Loyola's Blueprint for Ethiopia in Three Key Documents, World History Association Conference, San Jose, Costa Rica, July, 2014
Matteo Salvadore, Prince or Impostor? Saga Krestos and the Ever-Changing Nature of the Ethiopian-European Encounter, African Diasporas in the Mediterranean, India and Asia Symposium, Baltimore, United States, April, 2014
Matteo Salvadore, Between Faith and Color: European-African Relations in the Early Modern Era, Kuwait City, Kuwait, January, 2014
Matteo Salvadore, Joao Bermudez (1491-1570): A Barber Turned Patriarch Caught between Holy Wars in the Horn, New York African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Binghamton, United States, April, 2013
Matteo Salvadore, The Militant Geographer: James Bruce in 18th Century Ethiopia, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., United States, November, 2011
Matteo Salvadore, 'This Generation of Ethiopians Loves Us Christians above All': The Africanization of Prester John and the Creation of a Euro-African Christian Identity during the Crusades, World History Association Conference, Salem, United States, June, 2009
Matteo Salvadore, Traveling and reporting on the borders of Dark Africa: Italian expeditions to Ethiopia and the Bollettino della Societa' Geografica Italiana, 1867-1896, Technology and the Printed Media in Italy Between 1870 and 1914, South Orange, NJ, United States, October, 2008
Matteo Salvadore, Knowledge is an immovable eternal law which rules the world:" Gäbre-Heywät Baykädañ's Blueprint for Ethiopia's Sovereign Modernity, 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Trondheim, Norway, July, 2007
Grants and sponsorships
Faculty Research Grant, American University of Sharjah, 2021
Faculty Research Grant, American University of Sharjah, 2020
Awards and Honors
Faculty Research Grant, AUS, 2017, 2018
Summer Seminar Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, USA, 2017
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2018
University of Missouri-Saint Louis Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2012.
Research Grant, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, 2014
Other creative/research
[Book Review] The Archaeology of the Jesuit Missions in Ethiopia (1557-1632), by Víctor Manuel Fernández, Jorge de Torres, Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner, and Carlos Cañete (2017) in Renaissance Quarterly, 2018.
[Book Review] On "Afro-European trade in the Atlantic World: The western Slave Coast c1550- c1885" by Silke Strickrodt, (2016) in African Affairs, (2017) 116 (462): 158-160
[Book Review] On "Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and EverydayColonialism in German East Africa" by Michelle Moyd, in The Middle Ground, 13, fall 2016.
[Encyclopedia Entries] “Antinori Expedition”, “Brocchi Da Imola” (with Gianfranco Fiaccadori), “Corrado Zoli”, “Moges Asgedom”, “Pirzio Biroli”, “Porro Expedition”, “Salimbeni Expedition”, “Zerray Derres” in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Hamburg: HarrassowitzVerlag. 2009–2015.
[Book Review] On "Red Sea Citizens" by Jonathan Miran, in International Journal of AfricanHistorical Studies, 43, no.1 (2010): 197-8.
[Encyclopedia Entries] “Gorgoryos”, “Tesfa Syon”, “Zaga Zaab” in Dictionary of African Biography, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011
[Invited Talk] "Between Faith and Color: European-African Relations in the Early ModernEra," Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah-Amricani Cultural Center, Kuwait, 6 January 2014
[Book Review] On "Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa" by Elizabeth A. Sutton, inItinerario, 38, no.01 (2014): 171-2
[Invited Talk], "Transculturalism in the Early Modern Ethiopian-European World," BeyondOrientalism: Abyssinia and/in the World – Volkswagen Fellow Interdisciplinary Symposium atWashington University of St. Louis, 1 May 2015
[Book Review] On "European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850" by Richard B.Allen, in African Studies Quarterly, 15:4, September 2015, 89-90.
[Book Review] On "Envoys of a Human God: The Jesuit mission to Christian Ethiopia, 1557- 1632" by Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner, in Renaissance Quarterly, Summer 2016, 69:2 ,745-750
