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Emanuele Colombo
Professor
Research Scholar, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies
Emanuele Colombo
Ph.D.
Contact
Simboli Hall
Email: columbo@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., University of Padova, Italy
- M.A., University of Milan, Italy
Research Interests
Early Modern Catholic Education
History of Education
Expertise
- Catholic Education
- Curriculum & Instruction
- Higher Education
Department
Profile
Emanuele Colombo, Ph.D., is a Professor at the Lynch School of Education and a Research Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College. He was born and raised in Italy, where he studied classics at the University of Milan and received a Ph.D. in history at the University of Padova. He was in France and the US for research fellowships and taught for fourteen years at DePaul University, Chicago.
Dr. Colombo鈥檚 work has a global reach. He is the author or editor of twelve books and over seventy articles and chapters in different languages, covering a wide range of topics, including Catholic education, early modern theological debates, religious missions, and global cultural exchanges. He is the executive editor of the Journal of Jesuit Studies (Brill) and a member of the Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan.
At the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Dr. Colombo leads the Digital Indipetae Database project, an innovative digital humanities initiative that engages an international team of scholars and hundreds of high school and college students worldwide.
Select Publications
Quando Dio Chiama. I gesuiti e le missioni nelle Indie (1560-1960) (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2023).
Matthieu Brejon de Lavergn茅e and Emanuele Colombo, eds., Religious Orders, Public Health, and Epidemics, from the Black Death to Covid-19 (M眉nster: Aschendorff, 2024)
The First Italian Indipetae. Jesuit Petitions for the Indies, ed. Emanuele Colombo, Irene Gaddo, and Guido Mongini (Boston: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2024)
鈥淎 Society of Martyrs: Rodolfo Acquaviva (1550-1583) Between Mission and Sainthood,鈥� in Imaging Jesuit Sanctity, ed. Alison Flemming (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2024), 297-346.
鈥淭he Society of the World: Antonio Possevino and Jesuit Debates Over Purity of Blood,鈥� in Jesuits and Race: A Global History of Continuity and Change, 1550-2020, ed. Nathaniel Millet and Charles Parker (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2022), 23-52.
鈥淭he Invention of Probabilism,鈥� in Innovation in Early Modern Catholicism, ed. Ulrich Lehner (Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2021).
鈥淛esuits and Islam in Early Modern Europe,鈥� in The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits, ed. Ines Zupanov (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 349-78
鈥淔rom Paper to Screen: The Digital Indipetae Database, a New Resource for Jesuit Studies,鈥� Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 89 (2020): 213-30.