Alessandro Triulzi

Alessandro Triulzi (born 1941 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian historian, Africanist and since 2011 Emeritus Professor of African History and former Vice Director of the African and Arab Studies Department at the Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" at Naples. He studied Political Science at the Sapienza University of Rome for a Master's degree in 1966 and obtained a PhD in History at Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois in 1981. Triulzi performed field work among the Ashanti people in Ghana (1969), and the Berta and Oromo people in Wallaga, West Ethiopia. He worked in Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea during 1970–1973, and again in Ethiopia during 1985–2005.

He taught at the University of Perugia (ethnology, 1972–1973) and the University of Naples "L'Orientale" (history of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1973–1985; history and institutions of Ethiopia, 1985–1998). Triulzi was Visiting Professor at the University of Addis Ababa (1994, 1998), the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2004), and Boston University (2008). From 1995 up to 2010 he coordinated the PhD program in African Studies at the University of Naples "L'Orientale".

Triulzi is an Advisory Board Member of AEGIS (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies), a network of African studies academic centres in Europe. He researched various topics in African studies, ranging from the restructuring of post-colonial African states, colonial photography, the history of Ethiopia, to the recollection of Italy's colonial violence. In 2007 Triulzi was awarded the Premio Giorgio Maria Sangiorgi prize for the History and Ethnology of Africa by the Accademia dei Lincei. Provided by Wikipedia