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Maria Antónia Lopes

Maria Antónia Lopes holds a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History and is a Full Professor at the University of Coimbra, where she serves as Director of the PhD Programme in History and of the Revista Portuguesa de História (Portuguese Journal of History). She has participated in 25 national and international research projects. She has published more than one hundred scholarly works in academic journals and edited volumes in Portugal and abroad. She is the author and/or editor of 16 books, three of which have been reissued and one translated into Italian. On 6 July 2026, she was elected Merit Member of the Portuguese Academy of History.

Main interests and research topics: History of Poverty and Social Policy; History of the Misericórdias; Doctrinal History of Charity and Philanthropy; Women’s History; Biographical History; History of Private Life; Portugal in the Modern Age; Portugal in the Contemporary Age.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8485-4649

Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/D717-C7B1-2F7A

Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/MariaAnt%C3%B3niaLopes

Research field(s): Societies, Powers, Inequalities; History as Craft, Documents, and Digital Humanities.