Matteo Rossi is a historian of U.S. economic and political thought, with a focus on the intellectual history of capitalism, racism and slavery. He earned his BA from the University of Pavia and his MA from the University of Bologna, and in 2023 completed a PhD in Global History of Empires at the University of Torino with a dissertation titled The Obstacles to Capital: Henry Carey’s Political Economy in 19th-Century U.S. History.
He has held appointments as short-term fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia, as visiting scholar at Columbia University and EHESS, and as research fellow at the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. He is adjunct professor of U.S. history at the University of Torino and the University of Milano, where he teaches courses on U.S. slavery and African American history.
For the Turin Humanities Programme, he is conducting a research project on the role of slavery in the origins of U.S. political economy in the early nineteenth century.
