Dr Enrico Dal Lago awarded DLitt by the National University of Ireland

Dr Enrico Dal Lago (History) has been awarded the DLitt (Doctor of Literature) degree on Published Work by the National University of Ireland. The DLitt on Published Work is a higher doctorate awarded to scholars who have, over a sustained period, published a substantial body of ground-breaking and influential work in a field of specialisation and who have achieved outstanding distinction internationally in that field.

Dr Enrico Dal Lago is the founder and co-director of the Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters (CITE) at the Moore Institute. He holds a Ph.D. from University College London. He is the author of four monographs: Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815-1861 (2005); American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond: The U.S. “Peculiar Institution” in International Perspective (2012); William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini: Abolition, Democracy, and Radical Reform (2013); and The Age of Lincoln and Cavour: Comparative Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century American and Italian Nation-Building (2015).

“I am delighted and honoured to have received the D. Litt. from the National University of Ireland, and I believe this prestigious award is a testimony to the type of ground-breaking research work that all the History staff at NUI Galway is conducting in different fields of historical inquiry, among which my own on slavery and the American Civil War in comparative perspective,” said Dr Dal Lago.

He has also published six edited collections and a number of scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals, and has delivered research papers and invited lectures at international conferences and seminars in several countries. Dr Dal Lago was awarded an Irish Research Council Fellowship in 2007-08, and he is currently a member of the International Research Network “The Second Slavery”, based in Binghamton University, U.S.A.

He is currently working on a new monograph on civil wars and agrarian unrest, which will be published by Cambridge University Press. Dr Dal Lago currently teaches courses on Slavery and Emancipation, the American Civil War, the United States since 1865, and Native North Americans. He has supervised several PhD students on projects on nineteenth-century America in comparative and transnational perspective, and he is currently supervising a PhD thesis on Irish soldiers who fought in the Italian Risorgimento wars and the American Civil War.