Guilherme Sousa

Email: guisousa160@gmail.com

Guilherme Miguel Mendes de Sousa is a doctoral student in Early Modern History at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. In 2019 he was distinguished with the “UC à Frente” award and two years later he was nominated ambassador of the University of Coimbra. In July 2024 he defended his master’s dissertation, entitled Uprooting ancient herbs: the missionary work in China seen from an inquisitorial collection from the Philippines, 1638-1645. In the same year, he was awarded an FCT research grant, related to a project of transcription and inventory of a Jesuit epistolary corpus from Sé Nova de Coimbra promoted by the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies. His research focuses on the early modern Catholic missionary enterprises in East Asia.

Main interests and research topics: History of the Catholic Church; History of Catholic Missions; History of Portuguese Expansion; History of Asia; Social History and History of Mentalities.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9408-1427

Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/GuilhermeSousa

Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion