CONTRIBUTOR:

Emanuele Colombo

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Catholic Studies

INSTITUTION:

DePaul University

BIOGRAPHY:

Emanuele Colombo (PhD, University of Milan and University of Padua, Italy) is Associate Professor of Catholic Studies at DePaul University, Chicago. He has received research fellowships in Italy (University of Milan), France (EPHE, Paris-Sorbonne), and the US (University of Notre Dame and Boston College). His research is focused on religious history in early modern Europe: theology and politics, Jesuit missions, and Christian-Muslim encounters in the Mediterranean. He has authored and edited several books and has published articles and book reviews on international journals. He has authored a chapter on “Western Theologies and Islam” in <i>The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800</i> and co-authored a chapter on “Jesuit missions” in <i>The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History</i>. He is the executive editor of the <i>Journal of Jesuit Studies</i> (Brill) and member of the Accademia Ambrosiana (Milan).