Lupo, Salvatore, 1951-

Salvatore Lupo (Italian pronunciation: [salvaˈtoːre ˈluːpo]; born 7 July 1951) is an Italian historian and author from Siena, specializing in the Sicilian Mafia. Lupo is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Palermo, previously professor of contemporary history at the University of Catania. He is the president of the Southern Institute of History and Social Sciences of Catania and deputy director of the quarterly magazine of the institute, Meridiana, of which he was one of the founders. He is a member of the editorial board of "Storica". He is one of the most highly-rated mafia scholars in the Italian context, author of numerous publications on the crime phenomenon and contemporary history; he authored Quando la Mafia trovò l'America, which, in 2009, won the Brancati Prize. On 1 December 2015, in Rome, he was invited to the hearing of the "Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the Mafia phenomenon and other criminal associations, including foreign ones", as part of the investigation into the relationship between the Mafia and politics in Sicily.