PRETELLI MATTEO

Matteo Pretelli (Ph.D. University of Trieste) is an Associate Professor of North American History and works mainly on the history of Italian migration to the United States and on political and socio-cultural relations between Italy and the United States. He has been Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of Minnesota; Lecturer in Italian Studies at Swinburne University of Technology; Research Fellow at the University of Trieste; Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Warwick; Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute; Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University. He has also received fellowships to conduct research at Brown University, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Freie Universitat Berlin. He has taught North American History at the University of Trieste, Turin and Macerata. In addition to abroad, he has taught various courses on history and culture in Study Abroad Programs of American universities in Italy, including New York University in Florence and Dickinson College in Bologna. He has been awarded the "Premio Altreitalie," the "Premio Rosoli," the "Premio Acquarone," the “American Italian Historical Association Memorial Fellowship”, and the “Lola Homsher Research Grant” from the Wyoming Historical Society.
His volume Soldati e patrie: I combattenti alleati di origine italiana nella Seconda guerra mondiale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2022 (written with Francesco Fusi) was a finalist for the "Fiuggi-Storia Prize." With Francesco Fusi, he curated the exhibition “Voices di Liberty: Allied Servicemembers of Italian Descent in World War II”, funded by the US Mission in Italy and exhibited in Florence, Rome, Naples, Capaccio, Paestum, and Lucca.
Since April 2025, he has served as President of the Research Committee of the Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali.