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- Alberto Corada Alonso
Email: alberto.corada@uva.es
Alberto Corada Alonso holds a PhD in History from the University of Valladolid, where he is a Permanent Lecturer. He is a member of the research project ‘Women, family and society. The construction of social history from the legal culture. Ss. XVI-XX’, attached to the Instituto Universitario de Historia Simancas, and of the Recognised Research Group Society and Conflict from the Modern Age to the Contemporary Era. It currently has two lines of research in the field of Modern History. The first focuses on the study of ecclesiastical institutions and the forms of council, feudal and territorial organisation in the north of the Crown of Castile, while the second line of research delves into the social history of justice, analysing the courts as defining elements of a gender identity.
Main interests and research topics: Modern Age; Ecclesiastic Institutions; Forms of Municipal Government; Social History; History of Justice and Gender Identity.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6396-4574
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//5113-6CB0-1E9C
Repository: https://uva-es.academia.edu/AlbertoCoradaAlonso
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Alexandre António da Costa Luís
Email: aluis@ubi.pt
Alexandre António da Costa Luís holds a PhD in History from the University of Coimbra, specialising in the History of the Portuguese Discoveries and the Overseas Empire. He is an assistant professor in the University of Beira Interior, where he has occupied the positions of vice-president of the Faculty of Arts and Letters, supervisor of the Master’s degree in Iberian Studies, Mobility Coordinator of the MEI and member of the Faculty’s Scientific Council. He is a corresponding fellow of the Portuguese Naval Academy and a member of the Scientific Society of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (SCUCP). He is also a member of the Inter-institutional Commissions of the Lusophone Academy Luís de Camões and the Fernando Pessoa Institute. Additionally, he is a member of the Observatory of the Portuguese Language and the International Lusophone Movement.
Main interests and research topics: History of the Portuguese Overseas Empire; Contemporary Political History; History of Portuguese Culture; Lusophone Cultures.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5011-0449
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/841C-23C7-8B70
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Amanda Mégda Pimenta
Email: amandamegda1807@hotmail.com
Amanda Mégda Pimenta has a degree in Art History from the University of Coimbra, the same institution in which she is currently pursuing the master’s degree in Art and Heritage with a dissertation titled “Goldsmithery at the University of Coimbra: Contexts, Fonts, and Intermediaries.” Since 2022, she has been part of the inventory team for the movable heritage of the University of Coimbra, developing research in the area of goldsmithery.
Main interests and research topics: Portuguese Goldsmithery; Decorative Arts; Material Culture; Portuguese Art in the Modern Age
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-8365-4434
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/9C1F-88A3-E5F3
- Ana Isabel Coelho Silva
Email: ana.silva@fl.uc.pt
Ana Isabel Coelho Silva was born in Alto Alentejo, in 1982. She holds a degree in History (2004), a specialisation in Documentation Sciences, Archive section (2006) and a PhD in Contemporary History (2018), with a dissertation entitled Assistência social em Portugal na Monarquia Constitucional (1834-1910): da doutrina à prática no Alto Alentejo, in all cases from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She has been an invited assistant professor in the Master’s Degree in Cultural Heritage and Museology of the same Faculty since 2020. As a senior technician at Ponte de Sor Municipality (since 2010), she works in the fields of history and heritage.
Main interests and research topics: History of Assistance; Health history; Local History.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5179-8740
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//E01B-DCCA-9BE2
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/AnaIsabelCoelhoSilva
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities; Reimagining the historian’s craft
- Ana Isabel Ribeiro
Email: aribeiro@fl.uc.pt
Ana Isabel Ribeiro is an assistant professor in the Department of History, European Studies, Archaeology and Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra. Her main line of research is the local nobility’s social and familial relationships, as well as their heritage, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She also researches on History Teaching and Digital Technology in the Classroom. Within the field of Digital Humanities, she has been involved in projects relating to the development and usage of relational databases and the visualisation and analysis of social networks for historical research. She is an integrated researcher in the Centre of Twentieth Century Interdisciplinary Studies, where she co-coordinates the Digital Humanities research group.
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7515-2696
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//E913-F0E3-40CE
Repository: http://coimbra.academia.edu/AnaRibeiro
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Ana Maria Correia
Email: anamariadcorreia@gmail.com
Ana Correia is a Senior Technician in the Department of Architecture at the University of Coimbra. Between 2021 and 2024, she worked as a Senior Technician at the Centre for the History of Society and Culture at the University of Coimbra (CHSC). From 2005 to 2017, she served as a Senior Technician in History at the Coruche Municipal Council/Municipal Museum, where she coordinated various museum projects and conducted research on local history. She is PhD in Contemporary History at the University of Coimbra, with a thesis titled The Influenza Epidemic in the Coimbra District (1918-1919): Impacts, Responses, and Consequences, a project that received funding from the Foundation for Science and Technology. Her research interests include the History of Public Health and Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Care, and she has presented her findings at conferences and published them in national and international scientific journals.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2801-5787
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//en/CE11-21A8-DA63
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/AnaMariaDiamantinoCorreia
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Ana Santiago Faria
Email: anasantiagofaria@gmail.com
Ana Santiago Faria holds an undergraduate degree in Law and a Master’s degree in History (having defended a dissertation on the 1640 Regimento and the legal practices of the Portuguese Inquisition). She is a Modern History PhD candidate in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, researching the General Council of the Inquisition (1614-1705).
Main interests and research topics: Inquisition; History of Religion; Portugal in the Modern Age; History of Crime; History of Justice.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9257-118X
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//CF10-460D-8CB8
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/anafaria
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- André Pedreiras
Email: apedreiras@hotmail.com
André Oliveira Reis Pedreiras, born in Aveiro, has a degree in History of Art from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. He is currently working on his dissertation on Female Criminality in Portugal at the End of the Middle Ages.
Main interests and research topics: Medieval History; History of Justice and Criminality; History of Mentalities.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9626-871X
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//pt/9117-6F35-5837
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- António Conduto Oliveira
Email: anton.stark.esq@gmail.com
António Conduto Oliveira is a Medieval History PhD student in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, researching the development and employment of body armour in Portugal between 1370 and 1495. He holds a Master’s degree in Translation from the same Faculty. Over the last years, he has translated for several public and private organisations. He is a member of the Iberian Association for Military History – Fourth to Sixteenth centuries (AIHM) and a corresponding fellow of the Arms & Armour Society.
Main interests and research topics: Military History; Hoplology; War of the Castilian Succession (1475-1479); Everyday life in the Middle Ages (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries); Portugal and North Africa (fifteenth century).
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0631-0643
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//BF12-2E27-A0FF
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- António Martins Costa
Email: antonio_martinscosta@hotmail.com
António Carlos Martins Costa has a degree in History and a master’s degree in Medieval History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. He is currently studying for a PhD in History (Middle Ages) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, where he is working on a thesis entitled A arte militar em Portugal entre os finais da Idade Média e os alvores da Modernidade (1449-1521), under the supervision of João Gouveia Monteiro. He is a researcher at the Center for the History of Society and Culture and the History Center of the University of Lisbon. He is interested in the periods of the Lower Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He is the author of several publications and has given several talks in Portugal and abroad, where he is a member of the international network Medieval Culture and War.
Main interests and research topics: Medieval History of Portugal; Military History; History of International Relations; Political and Institutional History; Battle of Toro.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1530-6227
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/E912-4515-6C4A
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/Ant%C3%B3nioMartinsCosta
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- António Valério Maduro
Email: avmaduro@gmail.com
António Valério Maduro holds a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Coimbra. He is a researcher in the Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD-UTAD), a member of the Portuguese Association of Industrial Archaeology (APAI), the Portuguese Society of Rural Studies (SPER) and of the scientific committee of the Alcobaça Wine Museum. He teaches in the Francisco Rodrigues Lobo secondary school and the Instituto Universitário da Maia (ISMAI). He serves as editorial secretary to PASOS – Revista de Turismo y Património Cultural.
Main interests and research topics: Cistercian Order; Rural History; Cultural and Industrial Heritage.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0435-4602
Ciência Vitae: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0435-4602
Repository: https://ismai.academia.edu/AntonioMaduro
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Armênia Maria de Souza
Email: armeniasouza@ufg.br
Associate Professor III of the History Faculty and the Postgraduate Programme in History at UFG. Post-Doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities and Arts of the University of Coimbra (2014-2015), PhD in Social History from the University of Brasília (2008), MA in History from UFG (1998), BA in History from the Federal University of Goiás (1994).
Main interests and research topics: Medieval Iberian History; Church History; Social History and Ideas and Mendicant Orders.
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5392-3824
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Beatriz Valverde Contreras
Email: beatrizvalcon@gmx.de
Beatriz Valverde Contreras has a PhD in History from the Complutense University of Madrid with her award-winning thesis El Imperio Español en el siglo XIX: la memoria de la Historia y la identidad nacional. Characters and deeds of the Modern Age in universal exhibitions and Spanish cultural commemorations, 1875-1905. Her post-doctoral research had different strands: on the one hand, she analyzed social behaviors related to violence and protest, comparatively between Spain and Portugal, between 1885 and 1910. She also researched forced labor in the colony of São Tomé and Príncipe in the 1930s. She has also researched and published on PIDE’s interaction with society in the Azores in the 1950s. She is currently developing a research project on Spain’s role as an observer of the welfare of French prisoners of war held in Germany during the First World War.
Main areas of interest and research: Forced labor in the Portuguese colonies; Forced labor of prisoners of war in Germany during the First World War; Spain’s neutrality during the First World War; Red Cross humanitarianism during the First World War; Comparison of social conflicts between Portugal and Spain at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries; Daily life in Portugal during the Salazar regime.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0668-4277
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/911B-4F25-D87A
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Bruno Abreu Costa
Email: costa.brunoabreu@gmail.com
Bruno Abreu Costa holds an undergraduate degree in History and a Master’s degree in History – Societies, Policies and Religions, from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He collaborates with the Centre for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures at the University of Madeira (CLEPUL-UMa) and is in the process of obtaining a PhD in the subject of the Atlantic Islands from the University of Madeira, conducting comparative research on the action of the Inquisition in the archipelagos of the Azores, Canaries and Madeira, during the Iberian Union period.
Main interests and research topics: History of Religion; the Inquisition; History of Madeira; the Diocese of Funchal.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1728-2991
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/ED19-B090-91E8
Repository: https://independent.academia.edu/BrunoAbreuCosta
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Bruno Faustino
Email: bruno.m.d.faustino@gmail.com
Bruno Miguel Duarte Faustino has a degree in History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra.
Main interests and research topics: History of the Portuguese Overseas Empire; Medieval History; History of the Modern Age; Economic and Social History.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6964-810X
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//6318-FB66-3E22
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Bruno Sampaio Lobo
Email: bnlobo@gmail.com
Born in Figueira da Foz. He graduated in History (2008 – Pre-Bologna), specialising in Modern History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (2009), and received a Master’s Degree in History and Geography Teaching in the 3rd cycle of Basic and Secondary Education from the same institution (2014). In 2009 he joined the teaching career, in which he remains until today. In 2018 he successfully completed the course of Advanced Studies in Architectural Heritage at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto.
Main interests and research topics: History of Architecture; Social and religious history in Portugal from the late 18th to the mid-20th century.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0286-6417
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/BrunoLobo
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Carlos Eduardo da Mota
Email: carlos.edu.chambel@gmail.com
Carlos Eduardo da Mota has a degree in History with a minor in Archaeology from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, where he is currently studying for a master’s degree in early modern history. He is particularly interested in studying the Asian side of the Portuguese empire between the 16th and 17th centuries. His master’s thesis studies Portuguese colonial violence and oppression in the Estado da Índia during the transition from the rule of the House of Aviz to the Philippine dynasty (1570-1590). As part of his dissertation, he is currently on an Erasmus+ exchange programme at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Main interests and research topics: Portuguese Early Modern History; Hispanic Monarchy; Iberian Union (1580-1640); History of the Portuguese Overseas Empire; History of the Portuguese Empire in Asia; Violence and Oppression in the Portuguese Empire.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0100-8624
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/0512-502B-3666
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/CarlosMota
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Covadonga Valdaliso-Casanova
Email: casanova@letras.ulisboa.pt
Covadonga Valdaliso-Casanova holds a PhD in Medieval History and is an integrated researcher at the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon.
Main interests and research topics: Her research area is the Iberian Peninsula during the Late Middle Ages, focusing on the fourteenth-century political history of the Portuguese kingdom and the Crown of Castile, as well as on medieval Iberian historiography.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9825-1574
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//7D17-3E72-1139
Repository: https://lisboa.academia.edu/CovadongaValdalisoCasanova
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; The study and publishing of primary sources
- Diana Salvado
Email: salvadodiana030@gmail.com
Diana Salvado has a degree in History of Art from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She is currently part of the research team of the project IMAGINARIA: Valorization and Participatory Protection of the Sculptural Heritage of the Paço das Escolas of the University of Coimbra, in development at the Center for History of Society and Culture.
Main interests and research topics: Portuguese art; sculpture; iconography; 19th century Portuguese art; Modern Period; Contemporary Period.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1154-6231
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//B01E-E940-7B18
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/DianaSalvado
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Diana Silva
Email: dianasofsilva@gmail.com
Diana Silva has a degree in History (with a minor in Modern Languages – French) and a Master’s in History of the Modern Age from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She is currently doing her PhD in History, Contemporary History branch, in the same institution and has a scholarship from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, with her thesis entitled Patriotic Societies and Liberal Political Culture (1820-1828).
Main interests and research topics: Contemporary History of Portugal; History of the Portuguese 19th century; Political history; Cultural history; Political sociability; Citizenship.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9744-6591
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//A61F-DA94-D16C
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/DianaSilva
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Dina Sebastião
Email: dinasebastiao@gmail.com
Dina Sebastião is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She holds a PhD in European Studies from the same University, her areas of research interest focus on EU politics and policy, namely the study of political parties, Europeanisation, with a focus on Portugal and Spain, governance and democracy, following a normative orientation applied to the EU as a political entity. In this context, she has published book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals. She was awarded the 2017 Jacques Delors Prize – Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for the best study in community issues.
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8988-5893
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//941E-4D2E-3F78
Repository: https://uc-pt.academia.edu/DinaSebastião
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Diogo Filipe Matias Marques
Email: diogo.fmm@sapo.pt
Diogo Filipe Matias Marques is a History PhD candidate at the University of Coimbra, where he is currently conducting his doctorate-level research on “The House of Cantanhede-Marialva (1661-1823): Family, Heritage and Power”, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (fellowship SFRH/BD/129781/2017). He has spoken at several national and international scientific events.
Main interests and research topics: History of the Nobility; Local History; Portugal in the Modern Age; the relationship between lordships, municipalities and manorial houses.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1834-2215
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//9816-48D9-C34B
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/DiogoMarques
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Diogo Lemos
Email: diogolem1@gmail.com
Diogo Lemos is an Art History PhD candidate in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, for which he was awarded a PhD fellowship by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BD/05859/2021, Symbols and signs of authority and power in eighteenth-century Portuguese art: the Palace of the University of Coimbra). Currently, he is an Invited assistant lecturer at the University of Coimbra (Faculty of Arts and Humanities) and Assistant Editor of the collection “The Worlds of History”, edited by the Centre for the History of Society and Culture. Dedicates his research activity to Portuguese art in the Modern Age, particularly the study of material culture, painting and portraiture, focusing on their iconological and hermeneutical aspects. He also develops his activity in the broader domain of the artistic and cultural heritage of the University of Coimbra, participating in several projects in the fields of research, inventory, conservation, and security. He has spoken at national and international scientific meetings, devoting particular attention to the impact of French and Italian cross-cultural and artistic exchanges with Portugal..He has spoken at national and international congresses and conferences, focusing on studying Portuguese-Italian and Portuguese-French artistic and cultural exchanges and mutual influence during the Modern Age.
Main interests and research topics: Portuguese Art and Heritage in the Modern Age; University of Coimbra, Painting; Portraiture; Iconography; Material Culture, Decorative Arts.
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2985-0119
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//891F-0522-4D96
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/DiogoLemos
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Enzo Novello
Email: enzonovello@gmail.com
Enzo Novello is a PhD candidate in Contemporary History at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra, where he also completed a degree in History with a minor in Art History and a master’s degree in Contemporary History.
Main areas of interest and research: queenship studies, royal studies, history of nationalisms, microhistory, history of culture, history of gender relationsORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1843-8532
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//pt/5E1A-0D1E-6526
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Eurico Gomes Dias
Email: eurico_dias@sapo.pt
Eurico José Gomes Dias has a degree in Social Communication from the Higher Institute of Languages and Administration in Santarém. He has a post-graduate degree in Communication Law from FDUC and a Master’s degree in Medieval and Renaissance History, from FLUP, where he defended his PhD, his Post-PhD, and his Aggregation in History. He was awarded a PhD and a post-doctoral fellowship supported by FCT. He is currently an Assistant Professor with aggregation at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais e Segurança Interna [Lisbon], and an integrated researcher of ICPOL, of the same Institute. Corresponding Academic of the Portuguese Academy of History and corresponding member of the Scientific Council of the Portuguese Commission of Military History.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2989-4912
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//D818-B637-7362
Repository: https://comum.rcaap.pt/browse?type=author&value=Dias%2C+Eurico+Jos%C3%A9+Gomes
Research group(s): Reimagining the historian’s craft
- Filipa Roldão
Email: anaroldao@campus.ul.pt
Filipa Roldão holds a Master’s degree in Palaeography and Diplomatics (2007) from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, where she has also obtained a PhD in History (2011), with a thesis on urban administration and writing procedures in Évora (1415-1536). Between 2012 and 2019, she enjoyed a post-doctoral fellowship awarded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology for conducting a study on writing procedures in the city of Macau during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries). She is an assistant researcher at the University of Lisbon’s Centre for History and a principal researcher in the project “Portuguese Town Charters in the Middle Ages: a historical and linguistic approach in the digital age” (PTDC/HAR-HIS/5065/2020).
Main interests and research topics: Written culture; Urban administration; Municipal administration; Manuscript publishing in Latin and Portuguese; Thirteenth to sixteenth centuries.
ORDIC: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8760-6133
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//1F12-45E5-8629
Repository: https://repositorio.ul.pt/
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; The study and publishing of primary sources
- Filipe Folque de Mendóça
Email: fmendoca@yahoo.com
Filipe Folque de Mendóça holds a PhD in History (Contemporary Period) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He is a university professor and researcher. He is president of the Dom João VI Institute, director of the History Department, member of the Scientific Committee of the Renacimiento Prize and member of the Advisory Board of the “Aula Carolus Magnus”.
Main areas of interest and research topics: Modern and Contemporary History; Military Orders; Diplomatic History; Military History; Ancien Regime, Constitutionalism, Monarchy – Royalty, Aristocracy – Nobility; Royal Houses of Europe.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7485-3768
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Filipe Miguel de Andrade Campos
Email: filipeandrade37@hotmail.com
Filipe Miguel de Andrade Campos holds a Bachelor’s degree in History by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and a Master’s degree in Teaching History (7-12) by the same institution. He is a History teacher since 2017. He is also a PhD candidate in Modern History, and has been working on fraternal assistance and death.
Main interests and research topics: Portugal Modern History, Religion History; Social History; History of Death; History of Mercies and Assistance; Confraternity and Third Order; Rituals.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9350-2290
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Gabriel Martinez Bonora
Email: gabriel.m.bonora@gmail.com
Gabriel Martinez Bonora holds a degree in History from the Octávio Bastos University Centre (São Paulo, Brazil), and a scholarship from the Santander Ibero-Americana programme from the same institution. He taught Philosophy in secondary school at the Instituto Educacional São João da Escócia (Minas Gerais, Brazil) and worked at the Museo Histórico e Geográfico de Poços de Caldas (Minas Gerais, Brazil). He is currently a Master’s student in History of the Middle Ages at the University of Coimbra.
Main interests and research topics: medieval history; history of religions; rural history; cultural history; history of mentalities and imaginary
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8751-253X
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//1B16-360B-BC95
Research group(s): The study and publishing of primary sources
- Gabriela Nóbrega
Email: agabrielanobrega95@gmail.com
Gabriela Nóbrega holds a Master’s degree in Modern History (2019) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, with a dissertation about Friar Agostinho da Anunciação, an archbishop-governor in Goa (1691-1713). She is a Modern History PhD student in the same university, holding a Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology fellowship. She is a research team member in the project ReligionAJE (Religion, ecclesiastical administration and justice in the Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1514-1750).
Main interests and research topics: Ecclesiastical and religious history; Global and connected history; Portugal in the Modern Age; History of the Portuguese Overseas Empire.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5055-4130
Repository: https://independent.academia.edu/NóbregaGabriela
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Reimagining the historian’s craft
- 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
- Inês Pina
Email: inesgpina@hotmail.com
Inês Pina holds undergraduate degrees in Art Studies and Art History, and a Master’s degree in Management and Programming for Cultural Heritage and Museology, from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She is a project team member in “The Heritage of the University of Coimbra. (In)visible sculptures in the University Palace (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)”, for which she has focussed on the topic of movable heritage.
Main interests and research topics: Portuguese Art; Middle Ages; Modern Age; Sculpture Production; Movable and Immovable Cultural Heritage.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4875-5424
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//1D1F-2EF8-3B3C
Repository: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/82297
Grupo(s) de investigação: Heranças e identidades locais e regionais
- Inês Pinto
Email: inesmjpinto@gmail.com
Inês Maria Jordão Pinto, graduated in Communication Sciences, (ISCIA – 2010), Master in Tourism, Territory and Heritage (2019) and Master in History of Art, Heritage and Cultural Tourism (2013), both by FLUC, attends the PhD in History, by FLUC with the thesis project entitled The Monastery of Santa Maria de Seiça: history, property and heritage heritage. From Medieval Times to Extinction, under the guidance of Saul António Gomes, being a doctoral fellow of FCT.
Her research has resulted in communications presented at scientific meetings and the publication of articles in Portugal and the Netherlands, on topics of local history, Dutch tiles, and her current area of interest is the Cistercian theme.Main areas of interest and research: Modern Portuguese History; Monastic History; Local History; Social History; Dutch Tiles; Cultural Heritage
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6112-3616
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//8315-746E-45D0
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/InesPinto
Research group(s): The study and publishing of primary sources
- Isabela Augusta Carneiro Bezerra
Email: isabela.bezerra@ifpb.edu.br
Isabela Augusta Carneiro Bezerra is a History PhD student at the University of Coimbra and a permanent History professor (exclusive dedication regime) in the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Paraíba – IFPB, Brazil. She was an educational supervisor and deputy general director of the Cabedelo Centro Advanced Campus – IFPB, Brazil. She holds undergraduate and Master’s degrees in History from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil.
Main interests and research topics: Political History; Management of the Portuguese Overseas Empire; Governors and captain-majors of the Portuguese Overseas Empire; History of Colonial Brazil; Portugal in the Modern Age.
CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3645709522976746
Repository: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8100?locale=pt_BR
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Jairzinho Lopes Pereira
Email: jairzinho.lopes.pereira@vid.no
Jairzinho Lopes Pereira holds an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Coimbra, a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the KU Leuven(Belgium) and a PhD in Systematic Theology from the Faculty of Theology of the University of Helsinki (Finland). He works as a researcher in the History Department of the VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway. He is an “Associated Foreign Researcher” in the Centre of Religious History Studies of the Portuguese Catholic University.
Main interests and research topics: Patristic Theology; Sixteenth century Reformation; the relationship between the Catholic Church and Slavery in Africa, especially Angola, the Belgian Congo and Cape Verde; Political Theology; History of the Church in Cape Verde.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0643-6377
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//E212-6475-3EE4
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; The study and publishing of primary sources
- Joana Antunes
Email: joana.filipa.antunes@gmail.com
Joana Antunes holds a PhD in Art History and is an assistant professor at the University of Coimbra, supervising the Art History undergraduate programme. She is an integrated researcher in the University’s Research Center in Archaeology, Arts and Heritage Sciences (CEAACP). She has been involved in several research projects in Portugal, as well as in the international research group Tectum – European Observatory of Painted Wooden Ceilings (Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3). She is currently the Principal Researcher in the project “Seeing through the eyes/ears of the past. Spatial and acoustic reconstruction of the Old Cathedral of Coimbra (sixteenth century)”, based at the University of Coimbra.
Main interests and research topics: Art in the Middle Ages and the Modern Age (twelfth to sixteenth centuries); Iconology; Marginalia; Liminality; The grotesque and the monstrous; The mechanics of images and (in)visibility logic in the ecclesial space.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8679-9009
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/0419-7895-AECA
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/JoanaAntunes
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; The study and publishing of primary sources
- Joana Brites
Email: brites.joanac@gmail.com
Joana Brites holds a Master’s degree in Art History and a PhD in History, specialising in Art History, from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She is an assistant professor in that Faculty, an integrated researcher at the Centre of 20th-Century Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) and a collaboration at the Institute of Art History of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University Lisbon. She was part of the Bureau for the Candidacy of the University of Coimbra to UNESCO World Heritage status, coordinated the Faculty’s Art History undergraduate degree, co-supervised the CEIS20’s transdisciplinary lines of research, and was a visiting scholar at Brown University (USA).
Main interests and research topics: Modernism; Authoritarian and totalitarian regimes; Architecture of the Portuguese Estado Novo; Public works in the Portuguese Colonial Empire (1933-1975); Dissonant heritage; Portuguese sculpture (nineteenth and twentieth centuries).
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9857-1722
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/1510-0395-8C81
Repository: https://uc-pt.academia.edu/JoanaBrites
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- João Castro Portugal
Email: J.castro.portugal@gmail.com
João de Castro Portugal has a degree in History and a master’s degree in History of the Middle Ages with the thesis entitled Violence in a manorial context in documents of D. Dinis, from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He is currently attending a PhD program in Medieval History, on the theme of violence and conflict in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, in the same institution. He also holds a bachelor’s degree and a degree in Marketing Management.
Main interests and research topics: Medieval History (13th and 14th centuries); Social, Political and Institutional History; History of the nobility; History of Powers.
CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2247-5686
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/Jo%C3%A3oPortugal
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Local and regional heritage and identities
- João Figueiredo
Email: de.castro.maia@gmail.com
João Figueiredo holds a PhD in Advanced Studies in History, Empire, Politics and Postcolonialism from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (2016), a postgraduate degree in Human Rights from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (2006) and a degree in Anthropology from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (2005). His work has focused on the historical and anthropological analysis of Portuguese colonialism in Angola, during the “long 19th century”. He has a special interest in the interfaces between the Portuguese administration and the local normative systems, and in the role that the materiality, whether of writing or of ethnographic objects, played in these relations.
CV: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-9981-9064
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/Jo%C3%A3oFigueiredo
- João Rafael Nisa
Email: joaonisa1984@gmail.com
João Rafael Nisa is a Medieval History PhD candidate in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, having a fellowship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BD/136145/2018). His PhD project, supervised by Professor João Gouveia Monteiro, analyses the practices and management of war in the Alentejo region during the Middle Ages (fourteenth to fifteenth centuries). He has spoken at scientific events in Portugal and abroad. He has also written various works on medieval warfare. He is a member of the Iberian Association of Military History (fourth to sixteenth centuries).
Main interests and research topics: Medieval Warfare; Municipalities; Cross-border relations between Portugal and Castile; Alentejo in the Middle Ages; Prince Pedro; Duke of Coimbra.
CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7698-7567
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/JoaoNisa
Research group(s): The study and publishing of primary sources; Local and regional heritage and identities
- José Luís Barbosa
Email: jlsb101088@gmail.com
José Luís dos Santos Barbosa holds a PhD in Early Modern History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra, with a dissertation titled The Financing Model of the University of Coimbra (1772–1836). During his doctoral studies, he was a research fellow funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (Ref. FCT: SFRH/BD/143897/2019). Currently, he is a researcher in the project ReSEED – Rescuing Seed’s Heritage: Engaging in a New Framework of Agriculture and Innovation since the 18th Century (UIDB/00460/2020). He is an integrated researcher at the Centre for History of Society and Culture and serves as an invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra. Barbosa is also a board member of the Portuguese Society for Rural Studies (SPER) and the Rural RePort – Rural History Network.
Main interests and research topics: Modern Portuguese History, Economic History, Financial History, Institutional History, Fiscal History, History of Universities, Local Governance History, Agrarian History, Seigneurial History
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1459-209X
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/9E1F-D180-18DE
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/Jos%C3%A9Lu%C3%ADsdosSantosBarbosa
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- José Vieira Leitão
Email: jose.cv.leitao@gmail.com
José Vieira Leitão has a PhD in Experimental Physics from the Delft University of Technology (Netherlands, 2014) and Modern History from the University of Coimbra (2024). His current lines of research focus on the mapping of both learned and folk magic in Portugal, as well as other expressions of esoteric practice and thinking. This includes the search for autochthonous magic and esoteric texts in Portuguese and Iberian archives, and the understanding of the local circulation of European magic texts. He is a member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism and has authored several annotated translations of literary works related to magic and/or religious heterodoxy.
Main interests and research topics: Books of Saint Cyprian; Grimoire Tradition; Magic; Magical literature; Methodology in Religious Studies; Occultism; Portuguese Inquisition; Western Esotericism; Witchcraft.
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/FA12-F6FC-65FE
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7456-5045
Repositório: https://coimbra.academia.edu/JoséVieiraLeitão
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Reimagining the historian’s craft
- Leonor Salguinho Ferreira
Email: maria.leonor143@gmail.com
Leonor Salguinho Ferreira is a PhD candidate in Early Modern History at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. Her thesis is entitled Between the Mountain and the Sea: the Women of Portuguese Rurality of the 18th Century. She has a degree in History (with a minor in European Studies) and a master’s degree in Early Modern History from the same institution. She is a collaborator at the Centre for the History of Society and Culture. Currently, she holds a PhD scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (ref. 2024.04504.BD). Her studies focus mostly of Women’s History, and she’s the author of several papers and publications
Main interests and research topics: Women’s History; Rural History; Early Modern History of Portugal; Social History.
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/0B16-2FA2-3544
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8857-1072
Repository: https://independent.academia.edu/LeonorFerreira14
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Leonor Zozaya-Montes
Email: leonor.zozaya@ulpgc.es
Leonor Zozaya-Montes holds a degree (1993/98) and a PhD in History from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, 2008), where she was Professor of Historiographical Sciences and Techniques (2006/11). She is currently a lecturer at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). She was a scholarship holder at UCM (1997/98) and at the Institute of History of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, 1999-2006). She did a research period at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris for a full year (2002/03). She was a FormArte grantee at the Spanish National Library Archive (Madrid, 2012/13). Between 2014 and 2019 she was an FCT post-doctoral fellow at the CHSC of the University of Coimbra. She is the author of about fifty scientific publications. She is principal investigator of the Project on “Archivos, documentos y memoria de la Época Medieval a la Contemporánea” (No. ref. ULPGCP2018-29).
Main interests and research topics: History of Archives and Notaries (Middle Ages and Early Modern Age); Palaeography and Pedagogy; Spanish Inquisition.
CV: orcid.org/0000-0002-6256-1888
Repository: https://leonorzozaya.wordpress.com/trabajos/
Research group(s): The study and publishing of primary sources
- Luciano Augusto dos Santos Moreira
Email: lucrdp@gmail.com
Luciano Augusto dos Santos Moreira holds an undergraduate degree in Theology from the Faculty of Theology of the Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, and undergraduate and Master’s degrees in History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. Currently, he is a Modern History PhD student in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, with a fellowship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BD/143791/2019). His PhD project is called “Parochial advowson in the diocese of Lamego: institutions, mechanisms, rights and duties (1520-1833)”.
Main interests and research topics: Medieval and Modern History; Church History; History of the Church in Portugal; History of the diocese of Lamego; Parish networks; Parochial advowson; Parochial Clergy; Benefices; Tithe.
CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1298-4065
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/LucianoMoreira
Research group(s): The study and publishing of primary sources; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Marco Cosme
Email: marcocosme@sapo.pt
Marco Cosme holds a degree in History and a master’s degree in Early Modern History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. His master’s degree thesis, entitled Elites e Poder Local em Macau (1750-1848): Os Provedores da Santa Casa da Misericórdia, focuses on the social and political configuration of the elites and local power in Macao during the 18th and 19th centuries. In 2021, he received the International Research Prize “Pina Manique – Do Iluminismo à Revolução Liberal” awarded by the Portuguese Academy of History for the best master’s thesis. Currently, he is finishing another master’s degree in Teaching History, at the same institution.
Main interests and research topics: Social and political history of Early Modern Portugal; History of the Portuguese overseas empire; History of the Portuguese presence in Asia; Local Elites; Local Power; History of Institutions.
CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2450-0635
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/MarcoCosme
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Maria do Rosário Castiço de Campos
Email: rcampos@esec.pt
Maria do Rosário Castiço de Camposholds a PhD in History and is a senior professor in the Polytechnical Institute of Coimbra. She has written several books and book chapters, as well as articles for national and international journals. She has worked on several research projects. Since 2018, she has supervised “Histórias à Mesa” (Stories around the Table), a collaborative project between the Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra (Coimbra Education School) and the Agência para o Desenvolvimento dos Castelos e Muralhas Medievais do Mondego (Agency for the Development of Castles and Medieval Walls in the Mondego Region).
Main interests and research topics: Early Modern History; Local History; Cultural Heritage; Cultural Tourism; Museology; Education.
CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0496-079X
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Mariana Barreira
Email: maricb1298@gmail.com
Mariana Barreira was born in Coimbra and, in June 2020, she graduated in Art History with a minor in History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. In the same year, she enrolled in the Master’s in History in the Middle Ages. She is currently a research fellow in the exploratory project COMMEMORrtis – What survives after death? Parish communities and strategies for the commemoration of the dead in the medieval city, funded by FCT.
Main interests and research topics: Medieval History, Urban History, Art History, Digital Humanities
CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3470-8800
Repository: https://independent.academia.edu/MariB21
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities; The study and publishing of primary sources
- Mariana Gaspar
Email: marianamartins1102@gmail.com
Mariana Gaspar is a PhD candidate in Art History at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra. She holds a doctoral scholarship from the FCT (BD/00505/2024) for her project titled “Wearing the faith: the collection of liturgical textiles from the chapel of Saint Michael of the University of Coimbra”. Her research focuses on the visual and material culture of 17th and 18th century Portuguese art, particularly concerning the Catholic reforms of the Modern Age. She participates in various activities related to the artistic and cultural heritage of the University of Coimbra, collaborating on projects focused on research, inventory, conservation, and security, particularly in the fields of sculpture and textiles.
Main interests and research topics: Portuguese Art and Heritage in the Modern Age; University of Coimbra; Material Cultures; Decorative Arts; Sculpture; Religious Vestments and Textiles.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4562-8235
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//EA17-CCE3-4B6B
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/MarianaGaspar
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Matilde Mendonça dos Santos
Email: matildem.santos@hotmail.com
Holds an undergraduate degree in History (2003), a Master’s degree in Modern History: Powers, Ideas and Institutions (2011), and a PhD in Advanced Studies in History – Modern Period (2017), all from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She is urrently a History teacher at the Escola Secundária Pedro Gomes (Cabo Verde), is a team member in the ReligionAJE project (Religion, Ecclesiastical Administration and Justice in the Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1514-1750) and callaborates in the Centre for the Humanities (CHAM) at NOVA-FCSH and the University of the Azores. She has spoken at national and international conferences (Cabo Verde, Portugal, Spain and Brazil), published in various scientific journals and produced a chapter for a collective work.
Main interests and research topics: Modern History and History of the Portuguese Overseas Empire, particularly topics related to the Church and the local government in Cabo Verde and other sites in the Portuguese Empire.
CV: https://sig.fct.pt/fctsig/cv/presentation.PT/overview.aspx
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Mohammed Nadir
Email: mohammednadir2010@gmail.com
Mohammed Nadir holds a Master’s degree and a PhD in History from the University of Coimbra and is a visiting professor at the Federal University of ABC (Brazil). He is a postdoctoral Law scholar at the Federal University of Santa Maria. He was the coordinator for culture in the Portuguese Cultural Centre in Rabat, Morocco, and a guest professor of Arabic Language and Culture in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He teaches the History of Africa in the Federal University of Santa Maria and was awarded a fellowship by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and the Camões Institute. In 2008, he was presented with the Calouste Gulbenkian Award by the Portuguese Academy of History.
Main interests and research topics: History of the Middle East and North Africa; African-Latin American Relations; History of Luso-Moroccan relations.
CV: http://www.cienciavitae.pt//471B-887B-43F8
Repository: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Nadir-3
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Nadia Ochoa Rodrigues
Email: rodrigues.ocho@gmail.com
Master’s in Art History, Heritage, and Cultural Tourism (2017) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra, she is currently a PhD candidate in Portuguese Influence Heritage (Art History) at the same university. She received grants from the Tokyo Foundation (2013) and Santander Universities (2016). Her current project on Portuguese-influenced altarpieces in the territories of Goa, Kerala, and Sri Lanka (17th and 18th centuries) is funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2021-2025).
Main interests and research topics: Dynamics in Portuguese-influenced territories during the Modern Era; artistic exchanges in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (16th-18th centuries); artistic forms and their relationship with local identity; and the “Indo-Portuguese” as a problematic concept.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3500-4282
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/881E-3DAE-B284
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/NádiaRodrigues
Research group(s): Encounters and Discrepancies of Cultures; Local and Regional Heritages and Identities
- Olinda Martinho Rio
Email: olinda.martinho@ccdr-lvt.pt
Olinda Maria Martinho Gonçalves Rio works in the Ministry of Education and Science and is an external expert for the European Commission – EECEA (European Education and Culture Executive Agency).
She completed the course units of the PhD in European Studies at the University of Coimbra and the Master’s in Literary and Cultural Studies from the same institution. She has a specialization course in Documentary Science – Libraries and Archives and a bachelor’s degree with an integrated master’s degree in Chemistry (UC).
In 2014 he won the Jornadas do Mar Award, in the PhD area, with the work O Porto da Figueira da foz: onde o passado conta e o Futuro desafia, published by the Portuguese Navy.
She is a member of the German Federal Agency for Education for Citizenship and a member of the National Secretariat of SINTAP/UGT.Main areas of interest and research topics: Education for Citizenship; Cultural and Identity Dynamics in Europe; European programmes and projects; Ethics and Citizenship in Portugal, the European Union and Portuguese Speaking Countries.
Repository: https://cegot.academia.edu/OlindaMartinhoRio
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; The study and publishing of primary sources
- Paulo Barradas
Email: paulobar@sapo.pt
Paulo Barradas holds a PhD in Medieval History from the University of Coimbra and is a secondary school teacher in the Lamego school cluster. Currently, he coordinates the infrastructure for culture in the Castle of Lamego and the Iberian Mask Interpretative Centre (CIMI) in Lazarim. He has been involved in several national and international projects and regularly cooperates with the Lamego School of Technology and Management (ESTGL) – Viseu Polytechnic.
Main interests and research topics: Martyrology and Obituary; Inquests; Local Government in the Middle Ages; Genealogy Books; History of the City of Lamego; Museology.
CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5880-1332
Research group(s): The study and publishing of primary sources
- Paulo Bruno Martins dos Reis
Email: pauloreis74@gmail.com
Paulo Bruno Martins dos Reis holds a Master’s Degree in History of the Middle Ages (2017) with the thesis Da Pedra ao Pergaminho – Percursos biográficos de Martim Silvestre e de seu filho Gomes Martins Silvestre, from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. He has developed several works on Paleography and Diplomatics with the recreation of the instruments and supports of medieval writing. He holds a post-graduate degree in Family Mediation recognised by the DGPJ.
Main interests and research topics: Palaeography; Iconography; Genealogy; Pranto fúnebre; Medieval History; Military History; Military Orders.
CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6992-707X
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/PauloBrunoReis?from_navbar=true
Research group(s): The study and publishing of primary sources
- Pedro José Barbosa da Silva
Email: pedroporto2512@gmail.com
Pedro José Barbosa da Silva holds an undergraduate degree in History and a Master’s degree in Modern History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. In the same institution, he is currently a Modern History PhD student, with a project on poverty and power during the later ancien régime (the Misericórdias of Mangualde and Estremoz).
Main interests and research topics: Modern Age; Portuguese Institutions in the Modern Age; Santas Casas da Misericórdia; Power(s); Elites; Poverty; Charity.
CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8772-245X
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/PedroJBarbosadaSilva
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Pedro Sebastião
Email: psebastiao03@gmail.com
Pedro Sebastião holds a degree in History and two master’s degrees, in Medieval History and Teaching History (7-12), from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He is currently a PhD student in Medieval History at the same institution. He collaborates with the Center for the History of Society and Culture and is a member of the Iberian Association of Military History. His research focuses on Military History, particularly on the transition between the medieval and modern periods, with an emphasis on firearms, which is also the subject of his doctoral project. He has been awarded the Feijó Prize (2014, 2015, and 2016) by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, as well as the National Defense Award (2019) by the Portuguese Commission for Military History.
Main interests and research topics: Military, History, European Medieval History, Early Modern History, Firearms.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1592-8832
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//pt/AF1D-E539-6F65
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/PedroSebastião
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Priscilla Pinheiro Quirino
Email: priscillapquirino@hotmail.com
Priscilla Pinheiro Quirino holds a PhD in History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in History from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Currently, she is an integrated researcher of the Centre for History at the University of Lisbon, working on projects supervised by Professor Maria Leonor García da Cruz: Projeto Fazenda (Treasury Project) and Projeto Imagética (Imagery Project). She taught in the History of Pernambuco postgraduate certificate programme in the Writer Osman Lins Faculty, taught for the History undergraduate degree at the Teacher Training Faculty of Mata Sul, where, in addition to tutoring, she supervised a research project on the History of Religion. In addition, she has taught several Church History courses in the Sedes Sapientiae Institute of Theology. She was a cultural coordinator in Olinda Public Library.
Main interests and research topics: Social and Political History of Pernambuco; History of Brazil – Colony and Empire; Social History; History of Religion – millenarian movements; Anthropology.
CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6318-5386
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Reimagining the historian’s craft
- Rafaela Zanotto Casagrande
Email: rafaelazcasagrande@gmail.com
Rafaela Zanotto Casagrande has a degree in History from the University of Coimbra and a master’s degree in Latin American Historical Studies from the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil. The dissertation about the composition, reproduction, and trajectories of the parish clergy of Rio Grande, Rio Pardo, and Santo Amaro in the 18th century, received a scientific support grant from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
Main interests and research topics: Religious History; Parish Clergy; Portuguese America; Rio Grande de São Pedro; 18th Century; Scale Variations; Prosopography; Paleography.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0669-3333
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/RafaelaCasagrande
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; The study and publishing of primary sources
- Ricardo Vicente
Email: ricard.vicent@gmail.com
Ricardo Pinheiro Vicente has a degree in Archival and Library Information Science and a Masters in History, in the specialisation area of Territories, Powers and Institutions, from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He is a technician at Coimbra City Council.
Main interests and research topics: Archivistics; Classification and Evaluation of Public Information; Information Management; Economic and Financial History; Local History; History of Institutions.
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/RicardoVicente
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities; The study and publishing of primary sources
- Rita Paiva Costa
Email: ritadcpcosta@gmail.com
Rita Paiva Costa is a Contemporary History PhD candidate in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, working on a thesis about domestic violence in the judicial district of Coimbra from the second half of the nineteenth century to the end of the First Portuguese Republic – a historical reflection on spousal violence against women, based on an analysis of judicial cases and comparison with other sources. Since 2019, she has received a fellowship from the PortugueseFoundation for Science and Technology.
Main interests and research topics: History of Private Life; Women’s History; History of the Family; Portugal in the nineteenth century; Sociability and customs.
CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8075-5547
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/rcosta
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Rodrigo Simões Ferreira Gomes
Email: rsferreirag@gmail.com
Rodrigo Simões Ferreira Gomes has a degree in History and a master’s degree in Military History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He is a PhD candidate in Medieval History at the same institution with a thesis on the reception and transmission of the classical military treatises in the Middle Ages. He is a researcher at the Center for the History of Society and Culture. He co-authored a History of Byzantium, studies on Greco-Roman and Byzantine military treatises, and has spoken in national and international scientific events on these subjects. He is a member of the Iberian Association of Military History (fourth to sixteenth centuries) and the Spanish Society of Byzantine Studies.
Main interests and research topics: Military History; Cultural History; Byzantine Studies; Classical and Medieval Military Treatises.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4234-5846
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/961E-47F6-AA71
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/RodrigoGomes
Research group(s): The Study and Publishing of Primary Sources, Cultural Encounters and Evasion
- Rodrigo Vaz
Email: rodrigovaz365@gmail.com
Rodrigo André Vitorino Vaz has a degree in History with a minor in History of Art (University of Coimbra)and a Master’s in Teaching History in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and Secondary Education.
He has published works on Colonial War and War Memories, analysing the participation of inhabitants of the Minho area in the Overseas War (1961-1974). Among them, Memórias de Guerra. Como fazer História a partir de quem a viveu? and “Só o não saber se regressava!” Memórias da Guerra Colonial. He also researches local heritage, and is preparing the publication of a study on the Monastery of São Romão de Neiva, a theme he intends to pursue for a PhD.
Main interests and research topics: Ecclesiastical and Religious History; Colonial History; Colonial War
CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5542-7330
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities; The study and publishing of primary sources
- Roger Lee de Jesus
Email: rogerlee.pj@gmail.com
Roger Lee de Jesus holds undergraduate, Master’s and PhD degrees in History from the University of Coimbra. He is a researcher in the Center for the History of Society and Culture and Centre for the Humanities (CHAM) at NOVA-FCSH and the University of the Azores.
Main interests and research topics: History of the Portuguese Overseas Empire; History of the Portuguese Empire in Asia; Military History; Economic and Financial History.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8560-4190
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/7A1E-6ECE-AD54
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/RogerLeeJesus
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; The study and publishing of primary sources
- Rui Pedro Neves
Email: rprn51@gmail.com
Rui Pedro Rodrigues Neves is a PhD candidate in Medieval History at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, and a researcher at the Center for the History of Society and Culture. He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in History from the same institution. His master’s dissertation focused on the formation and exploitation of the domains of the Monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra. Currently, he is involved in projects for the transcription and publication of medieval sources, including the documentation from the Cistercian Monastery of Arouca, the publication of medieval charters from Alter do Chão, and the transcription of the Livro Preto cartulary of the Monastery of Grijó. His research interests include medieval paleography, the history of religious institutions, death practices in Christian societies between the 12th and 15th centuries, as well as medieval prisons.
Main interests and research topics: Religious History; Medieval Monastic Institutions; Paleography; Diplomatics; Sigillography; History of Death; History of Prisons.
ORCID: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//7018-D576-5909
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/RuiNeves
Research group(s): The study and publishing of primary sources
- Ruy Ventura
Email: biscainho.ventura@gmail.com
He is a Art History PhD candidate (Faculty of Letters, University of Coimbra) and has a master’s degree in Portuguese Studies (Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon). He was a lecturer in Polytechnic Higher Education and a senior technician at the National Museum of Ancient Art, responsible for managing the sculpture collection and supporting research. He currently teaches in the city of Setúbal. He is preparing his doctoral thesis on The Sculpture of the Passion of Christ: a long modernity between the 15th and 18th centuries (supervised by Maria de Lurdes Craveiro and Sandra Costa Saldanha).
He has a bibliography of literature, literary studies and research in Art History in multiple publications, and is also the author of monographs. He has been responsible for exhibitions and coordinated the publication of catalogs. Cocoordinates Devir – Revista Ibero-Americana de Cultura. He has presented papers at various national and international scientific meetings.
He was a researcher at CEAACP – University of Coimbra and is a collaborator of the Poetry and Transcendence Chair at the Catholic University of Porto.
Main interests and research topics: History of Art (sculpture); Religious Architecture; Local History; History of Mentalities
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7809-9841
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/CB1C-DDFF-6CB1
Repository: https://independent.academia.edu/VenturaRuy
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Sandra Fernandes Morais
Email: sfernandesmorais@gmail.com
Sandra Fernandes Morais is a PhD candidate in Food Heritage: Cultures and Identities at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, with a degree in Economics from Universidade Portucalense (1999) and a Master’s in Business Management – Corporate Finance (2009) from the University of Minho. She is currently carrying out research into the relationship between culinary practices and the energy and technological transitions in 20th century in Portugal.
She is the author of the book Cadernos da Casa do Outeiro. Um receituário senhorial de Paredes de Coura published in 2022 as a result of research done in collaboration with the Municipal Archive and the Municipality.
Main areas of interest and research topics: Food Studies; Contemporary History; Energy and Technology History.
Repository: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2860-612X
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities; Cultural encounters and evasion
- Sarah Luna de Oliveira
Email: saroquinha@yahoo.com.br
Sarah Luna de Oliveira holds an undergraduate and a Master’s degree in History from the Federal University of Paraíba (Brazil) and a PhD in Advanced Studies in History, specialising in the Contemporary Period, from the University of Coimbra. She is a postdoctoral researcher in Contemporary History, at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she researches the repercussions of the Iberian revolutions of 1820 on the political culture of nineteenth-century Brazil. She has performed research in Theory of History and Contemporary History, focusing on the Iberian-Brazilian context. She was awarded a PhD fellowship by the FCT. She was an assistant professor of History at the Brazilian federal universities of Rio Grande and Paraíba. She is a member of the Brazilian Studies Association and the Association of Brazilianists in Europe.
CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4523-9341
Research group(s): Reimagining the historian’s craft
- Sofia Cardetas Beato
Email: scbeato@fl.uc.pt
Sofia Cardetas Beato is a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra since 2021-2022 and a PhD candidate in the History and Culture of Religions at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. She holds a master’s degree from the same institution, with a dissertation entitled Sacrifice in the religion of Israel in the 8th century BC: the prophetic gaze. She has published several scientific articles and book chapters and has taught some free courses. Her research interests have centred on Antiquity and the Middle Ages and have focused on areas such as the History of religions, Religious History, Cultural History and of Mentalities and Biblical Studies. She collaborates with other research centres, CH-UL and CITER-UCP, and is a member of the FID: Film and Interreligious Dialogue project team (coordinator Sérgio Branco).
Principais áreas de interesse e investigação: History of Antiquity (namely Pre-Classical and Late Antiquity), History of the High Middle Ages, Biblical World, Cultural History, Religious History, History of the Iberian Peninsula and al-Andalus, Historiography.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8502-919X
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/E910-7AD4-BCAA
Repository: https://flul.academia.edu/SofiaCardetasBeato
Grupo(s) de investigação: Cultural encounters and evasion
- Sónia Nobre
Email: soniamfnobre@gmail.com
Sónia Nobre is a Contemporary Studies PhD student and holds an undergraduate degree in History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She completed a Science Management course from the University of Coimbra’s Institute of Interdisciplinary Research in 2019-2020. She held a research fellowship in a Center for the History of Society and Culture project, supervised by professors Irene Vaquinhas and Maria José Azevedo Santos, also in 2019-2020. She was involved in the “Great Parliamentary Debates” project at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, NOVA University Lisbon.
Main interests and research topics: Contemporary History; Women’s History; History of Private Life.
CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-2641
Repository: https://impactum.uc.pt/profile.php?id=111211
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Susana Barata Gomes
Email: baratagomes.susana@gmail.com
Susana Barata Gomes has a degree in Sociology from the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, a Master’s in American Studies from the Universidade Aberta, is currently doing her PhD in Food Heritage, Culture and Identities at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and is a grant holder of the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. Collaborator of the Centre for History of Society and Culture of the University of Coimbra of DIAITA, Food Heritage of Lusophony. She has been a researcher for the Commission of the European Communities (DG XII), a lecturer at Universidade Atlântica and Estoril’s Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo. She has published the books Transport and Risk Communication, (co-editor), Ed. Peter Lang, 1997, Encounters with Identity: The Body, P.A., 2018 and Food and Cooking on early TV in Europe, (co-author) Routledge, 2021.
Main areas of interest and research topics: Contemporary History; Food History; Social and Political History; Portuguese Estado Novo.
CV: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//pt/DD16-A0EF-C703
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities; Cultural encounters and evasion
- Taynah Meira de Moraes
Email: taynahmeira@gmail.com
Taynah Meira de Moraes is a journalist with a master’s degree in Food: Sources, Culture and Society, from the University of Coimbra, and is currently a PhD student in Food Heritage: Culture and Identity, at the same university. She develops research in the field of food and communication, in the study of media and journalism in the patrimonialization of regional cuisines and in the use of journalistic sources and advertisements for the study of food history. She is a member of ALERE – Research Group on the History of Supply and Food in the Amazon, linked to CNPQ and the Federal University of Pará. In his dissertation entitled Eating is also communicating: the role of the media in the construction of the food identity of Belém do Pará (1982 to 1985), he investigates how the typical foods of the region were present in the media and newspapers of the time.
Main interests and research topics: Food history, food heritage, communication and food, regional cuisines, food identities
Repository: https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/102639
CV: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//pt/651B-B051-F7EA
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities; Cultural encounters and evasion
- Teresa Ferreira
Email: theresaferreira@icloud.com
Teresa Ferreira holds a degree in Art History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and is currently attending a Master’s Degree in Art and Heritage at the same institution. Her scientific activity is dedicated to the study of art in the Modern Age, with special focus on the decorative arts. In this context, she is developing several initiatives around the furniture of these periods, particularly the furniture collection of the University of Coimbra’s Paço das Escolas, a theme that she will address in her master’s thesis. She is currently part of the project “Imaginária: valorização e proteção participativa do património escultórico do Paço das Escolas da Universidade de Coimbra”, and is also part of the team for the Coimbra University heritage inventory project.
Main interests and research topics: Modern Period in Portugal: Art and Heritage; Decorative Arts (furniture); Iconography and Iconology; Networks of influences and artistic confluences
CV: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0009-0007-6833-4575
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities; Cultural encounters and evasion
- Terezinha Oliveira
Email: teleoliv@gmail.com
She is a full professor in the Department of Educational Foundations of the State University of Maringá, Brazil. She obtained an undergraduate degree in History from the São Paulo State University (UNESP), in 1986, a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of São Carlos, in 1991, and a PhD in History from the São Paulo State University, in 1997. She researches the History and Philosophy of Education in the Middle Ages, focusing on the following: ethics, social transformation, institutions, scholasticism, intellectualism and teacher training.
CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7525108577501517
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Reimagining the historian’s craft