Isabel Ferreira da Mota

Email: ifmota@fl.uc.pt

Isabel Ferreira da Mota has a PhD in History from the University of Coimbra, where she teaches Early Modern History. In 2004, she was awarded the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Prize in Modern and Contemporary History for her work A Academia Real da História: os intelectuais, o poder cultural e o poder monárquico no século XVIII (2003). She is a collaborating researcher at CEIS20, Director of the Revista de História das Ideias and an academic at the Portuguese Academy of History.

Main interests and research topics: Cultural and Political History of the eighteenth century; Transnational History; Historiography, Academies and Universities; Travelling and the Republic of Letters; Political Practices, Visual Culture and Material Culture.

ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9743-2739

Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/611A-6C43-6E6C

Repository:  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isabel-Mota-2

Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Reimagining the historian’s craft