Michael Salgarolo

Assistant Professor of History

Primary Academic Program: Historical Studies

Michael Salgarolo is a historian of the modern United States with particular interests in US empire and Asian American history. His first book project explores the relationship between race-making, migration, and empire in Louisiana’s early Filipino communities. His dissertation, Transimperial Histories and Racial Formations in Filipino Louisiana, 1860-1949, won the Outstanding Dissertation Prize from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and New York University’s University-Wide Dissertation Award in Humanities. His research has been published in the Journal of Southern History and Rethinking History and has been supported by the NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute, the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, the Historic New Orleans Collection, and the CUNY Asian/Asian American Research Institute.

BA George Washington University, M Phil, PhD New York University. At Bard since 2026.