MASSIMO DI GIOACCHINO is a historian of the late modern transatlantic world. He currently serves as Director of the Research Initiative on Global Italian Religious Networks at the Department of Italian Studies at New York University. The migration of peoples and ideas between Europe and the United States in the late modern period (1776–1945) is his central theme. His transnational approach combines religious studies, migration studies, and social history, with a strong focus on Italian migrations to the United States and American Protestant missions to Italy.
Di Gioacchino is the supervisor of two international research projects: William Burt’s Italian Papers and Italian Religious Life in New York City: A Digital Reconstruction (1860–1921). He has published extensively in notable American and Italian journals, including the Catholic Historical Review and Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni, and is a contributor to Storia dei Valdesi (2024), Metodisti in Italia (2024), Brill’s Global History of Italian Protestantism (forthcoming 2025), and the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani of the Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani.
