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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, 2010
BA, Political Science, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy, 2000
Professional experience
Associate Professor Of History, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2018 - Present
Assistant Professor Of History, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2016 - 2018
Assistant Professor Of History, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait, 2010 - 2016
Visiting Instructor Of African History, Dickinson College, PA, United States, 2009 - 2010
Visiting Instructor Of African History, Rowan University, NJ, United States, 2007 - 2009
Memberships
African Studies Association, January 2010
World History Association, January 2010
Contact
+971 6 515 2336
Dr. Matteo Salvadore
Associate Professor
PhD, Temple University, United States
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.
Publications
Matteo Salvadore, James De Lorenzi And Deresse Woldetsadik. The Many Lives of Täsfa Ṣeyon, 31 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2025
Matteo Salvadore. 106 Ethiopian letters to the Roman Pontiff and the King of Portugal, 1521–4, 2023
Matteo Salvadore. The narrative of Zaga Christ (Ṣägga Krәstos): the first published African autobiography (1635), Africa, 2022
Matteo Salvadore. "I Was Not Born to Obey, but to Command”: The Self-Fashioning of Ṣägga Krәstos, an Ethiopian Traveler in 17th Century Europe, Journa Of Early Modern History, 2021
Matteo Salvadore And James De Lorenzi. An Ethiopian Scholar in Tridentine Rome: Täsfa Ṣeyon and the Birth of Orientalism, Itinerario, 2021
Matteo Salvadore. Between the Red Sea Slave Trade and the Goa Inquisition: the Odyssey of Gabriel, a Sixteenth-Century Ethiopian Jew, 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, Renaissance Quarterly, 2018
Matteo Salvadore. Encounters Between Ethiopia and Europe, 1400–1660, 24 May 2018
Matteo Salvadore. "Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: The western Slave Coast c. 1550 – c. 1885," by Silke Strickrodt, African Affairs, 2017
Matteo Salvadore. African Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Diasporic Life of Yoḥannǝs, the Ethiopian Pilgrim Who Became a Counter-Reformation Bishop, Journal Of African History, 1 March 2017
Matteo Salvadore. "Envoys of a Human God: The Jesuit mission to Christian Ethiopia, 1557-1632," by Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner, Renaissance Quarterly, 2016
Matteo Salvadore. "Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa," by Michelle Moyd, The Middle Ground, 2016
Matteo Salvadore. The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555, August 2016
Matteo Salvadore. "European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850," by Richard B. Allen, African Studies Quarterly, 2015
Matteo Salvadore. "Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa," by Elizabeth A. Sutton, Itinerario, 2014
Matteo Salvadore. Corrado Zoli, 2014
Matteo Salvadore, Gianfranco Fiaccadori And Siegbert Uhlig. Giovanni Battista Brocchi, 2014
Matteo Salvadore. Moges Asgedom, 2014
Matteo Salvadore. The Antinori Expedition, 2014
Matteo Salvadore. Zerray Derres, 2014
Matteo Salvadore. Gaining the Heart of Prester John: Loyola's Blueprint for Ethiopia in Three Key Documents, World History Connected, 1 September 2013
Matteo Salvadore. Gorgoryos, 2012
Matteo Salvadore. Tsega Za'ab, 2012
Matteo Salvadore. Muslim Partners, Catholic Foes: The Selective Isolation of Gondärine Ethiopia, Northeast African Studies, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2012
Matteo Salvadore. "Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa," by Richard J. Reid, H-africa, 2011
Matteo Salvadore. Tesfa Seyon, 2011
Matteo Salvadore. The Ethiopian Age of Exploration: Prester John's Discovery of Europe, 1306–1458, Journal Of World History, 1 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2011
Matteo Salvadore. "Red Sea Citizens" by Jonathan Miran, International Journal Of African Historical Studies, 2010
Matteo Salvadore. Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, 2010
Matteo Salvadore. The Porro Expedition, 2010
Matteo Salvadore, Allison Kavey And Allison Kavey. The Jesuit Mission to Ethiopia (1555-1634) and the Death of Prester John, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2010
Matteo Salvadore. The Salimbeni Expedition, 2007
Matteo Salvadore. A Modern African Intellectual: Gäbre-Heywät Baykädañ's Quest for Ethiopia's Sovereign Modernity" Africa, (2007),62:4, p. 560-579., Africa, 1 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2007
Conference Presentations
Failed Propaganda: Rome’s missionary efforts towards Ethiopia in the early 17th century, The Mediterranean World And Rome: Connections And Conflicts During And Beyond The Age Of Urban Viii (1623-1669), 6 May 2024
Enslaved Ethiopians in the Western Indian Ocean: Evidence from the Portuguese Inquisition, 5th Thematic Conference Of The Crg Of Africa In The Indian Ocean, 4 April 2024
Modern Ethiopian-European Relations: Dynamics of Exchange, Written and Material Evidence, Legacy, and Erasure, Symposium “a Case Of Reconstructing Memories Of Classical Antiquity”, 24 March 2024
The Many Identities of Gabriel, a Beta Israel in the Indian Ocean World, The Black Indian Ocean: Slavery, Religion, And Identity (1400-1700), 26 January 2024
On Ethiopian-European Relations in the 15th and 16th centuries, The Museo Bargello's Ethiopian Processional Cross, 20 February 2023
He is the Son of Prester John”: The Story and Legacy of Ṣägga Krǝstos, an African Traveler in 17th Century Europe, 31 March 2022
High-Ranking People Are Enslaved to Him”: Ṣägga Krǝstos’s Journey to Early Modern Europe and its Legacy, 25 January 2022
Looking for Gabriel: Enslavement, Conversion, and Persecution across the Early Modern Indian Ocean, Re-centring Afroasia Conference, 31 October 2021
A man of illustrious and honorable ingenuity”: an Ethiopian scholar in 16th Century Rome, 62nd Annual Meeting Of The African Studies Association, November 2019
The Ethiopian Orthodox Diaspora in Europe, Roman Catholics, and Martin Luther during the Sixteenth Century., The Ethiopian Orthodox Diaspora In Europe, 13 August 2019
Cleric, Scholar, and Nearly a Missionary: Tesfa Seyon in Early Modern Rome, 20th International Conference Of Ethiopian Studies, October 2018
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, May 2017
A Diaspora of Opportunities: Ethiopians in Counter-Reformation Rome, 1540-1560, New York African Studies Association Annual Meeting, April 2016
Transculturalism in the Early Modern Ethiopian-European World, Beyond Orientalism: Abyssinia And/in The World, 1 May 2015
Gaining the Heart of Prester John: Loyola's Blueprint for Ethiopia in Three Key Documents, World History Association Conference, July 2014
Prince or Impostor? Saga Krestos and the Ever-Changing Nature of the Ethiopian-European Encounter, African Diasporas In The Mediterranean, India And Asia Symposium, 25 April 2014
Between Faith and Color: European-African Relations in the Early Modern Era, 6 January 2014
Joao Bermudez (1491-1570): A Barber Turned Patriarch Caught between Holy Wars in the Horn, New York African Studies Association Annual Meeting, April 2013
The Militant Geographer: James Bruce in 18th Century Ethiopia, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 2011
'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, June 2009
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, October 2008
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, July 2007
Grants and sponsorships
Grant, Faculty Research Grant, AUS, June 2021 - June 2022
Grant, Faculty Research Grant, AUS, 2019 - May 2022
Grant, Faculty Research Grant, AUS, September 2020 - June 2021
Grant, Faculty Research Grant, AUS, 2019 - 2020
Grant, AUS Open Access Program Grant, AUS, - May 2020
