Emanuele Colombo
Program Director, Transformative Educational Studies, B.A.
Biography
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’s 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.