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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 currently serves as a lecturer. He is a member of the research project “Femininities and Masculinities from the Perspective of Legal Culture in Atlantic Societies (16th–20th Centuries)”, affiliated with the Instituto Universitario de Historia Simancas and the Research Group Society and Conflict from the Early Modern to the Contemporary Period. He is also an Associate Researcher of the International Research Network History of Women and Gender in the Iberian Worlds: Production of Global Knowledge (16th–20th Centuries)—known as the Wonder Research Network—which is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. At present, his work develops along two principal lines of research within the field of Early Modern History. The first focuses on the study of ecclesiastical institutions and the forms of municipal, feudal, and territorial organisation in the northern regions of the Crown of Castile. The second examines the social history of justice, analysing courts of law as key elements in the construction and definition of gender identities.
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 field(s): Societies, Powers, Inequalities
- 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 Associate Professor in the Department of History, European Studies, Archaeology and the Arts at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. Her principal line of research focuses on the study of social and familial relations, as well as the patrimonial structures of local nobilities, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She also conducts research in the fields of History Didactics and History Education and, within the scope of the Digital Humanities, has developed projects concerning the implementation and use of relational databases applied to historical research, as well as the visualisation and analysis of social networks in History. She is an integrated researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra and a collaborating researcher at the Centre for the History of Society and Culture.
Main interests and research topics: Early Modern Portuguese History — Portuguese nobility under the Ancien Régime; reconstruction of historical communities; local powers; History Didactics — digital technologies in the teaching and learning of History; teacher training; analysis of school textbooks; Digital Humanities — relational databases applied to History; social network analysis in historical research; artificial intelligence applied to historical research.
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7515-2696
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//E913-F0E3-40CE
Repository: https://estudogeral.uc.pt/cris/rp/rp23204 | http://coimbra.academia.edu/AnaRibeiro
Research field(s): History as Craft, Documents, and Digital Humanities
- 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
- André Fernandes
Email: andrefernandes5200@gmail.com
André Ribeiro Fernandes is a young historian interested in the historical intersections between the fields of global, imperial and international history in the 20th century. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in History at the University of Coimbra, where he serves as an FCT doctoral fellow. He holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Minho and a master’s degree in History from the same institution. In March 2025, he defended his master’s thesis, titled “O Sindicalismo Anticolonial em Angola, o Império Português e a Questão da Representação Internacional (1960 – 1973) ” which was awarded the mention of honours in the Victor de Sá Prize for Contemporary History (2025).
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3901-8281
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/AndreFernandes
Research field(s): Empires, colonialism and post-colonialism; Societies, Powers, Inequalities.
- 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 holds 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 obtained his PhD in History (Medieval Studies) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, where he defended the doctoral thesis Portuguese Military Art between the Late Middle Ages and the Dawn of the Early Modern Period (1449–1521) under the supervision of João Gouveia Monteiro. He is a researcher at the Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura and at the Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa. His research focuses primarily on the periods of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, with particular emphasis on military history, the history of international relations, and political and institutional history. Within this framework, he is the author of several scholarly publications and conference papers presented in Portugal and abroad, and has also been a member of the international network Medieval Culture and War. He is a founding member of the Associação Ibérica de História Militar (séculos IV–XVI), a member of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudos Medievais, and director of the Associação Portuguesa dos Amigos dos Castelos.
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 field(s): Societies, Powers, Inequalities; Heritage, Cultures and Identities.
- António Valério Maduro
Email: avmaduro@gmail.com
António Valério Maduro holds a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Coimbra. He is a collaborator at the Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD) of the University of Trás‑os‑Montes and Alto Douro, a member of the Associação Portuguesa de Arqueologia Industrial (APAI) and of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudos Rurais (SPER), and serves on the Scientific Committee of the Museu do Vinho de Alcobaça. He is a retired teacher.
Main interests and research topics: Cistercian studies; Rural History; Cultural and Industrial Heritage.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0435-4602
Repository: https://ismai.academia.edu/AntonioMaduro
Research field(s): Heritage, Cultures 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 Correia
Email: bs.cp@hotmail.com
Beatriz Sofia Correia holds a bachelor degree in History (minor in European Studies) and an master degree in Early Modern History from Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She also postgraduate in Law and is currently completing a Law degree at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. She is a PhD student in Early Modern History at the University of Coimbra, focusing on domestic violence and how law and ecclesiastical justice addressed it. Her research interests include Legal History, Women’s and Gender History, Social History, History of Violence, History of Justice, Church History and social control, and Early Modern Portuguese History.
Main interests and research topics: Legal History, Women’s and Gender History, Social History, History of Violence, History of Justice, Church History and social control, and Early Modern Portuguese History.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6762-9081
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/0516-83F3-E602
Research field(s): Societies, Powers, Inequalities
- 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 field(s): Empires, colonialism and post-colonialism; Societies, Powers, Inequalities.
- Bruno Abreu Costa
Email: costa.brunoabreu@gmail.com
Bruno Abreu Costa holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He is a collaborator of the Centre for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures – University of Madeira (CLEPUL–UMa) and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in Atlantic Islands at the University of Madeira. He presently serves as a Senior Technician at the Centro de Estudos de História do Atlântico – Alberto Vieira, a directorate within the Madeiran Regional Department for Archives, Libraries and Books.
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 field(s): Societies, Powers, Inequalities
- 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 holds a Bachelor’s degree in History, with a minor in Archaeology, from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, where he is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Early Modern History. His research interests focus on the Asian dimension of the Portuguese Empire between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His Master’s dissertation examines indigenous resistance to methods of physical violence, as well as the Central role of such practices within the Portuguese imperial project in the territory of Ceylon during the transition from the rule of the House of Avis to that of the Habsburg dynasty (1568–1598).
Main interests and research topics: History of the Portuguese Empire in Asia; History of the Portuguese Overseas Empire; Early Modern History of Portugal; The Hispanic Monarchy; The Iberian Union (1580–1640); 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 field(s): Empires, colonialism and post-colonialism; Societies, Powers, Inequalities.
- Carolina de Moraes Souza
E-mail: cmoraesouza@gmail.com
Carolina de Moraes Souza holds a PhD in Contemporary History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (2022). She also earned a master’s degree in communication and journalism (2018) from the same institution. She graduated in Social Communication – Journalism from the Instituto de Educação Superior de Brasília (IESB, 2013) and in History from the University of Brasília (UnB, 2016). She is currently a substitute lecturer at the Department of History at the University of Brasília (UnB), a tenured professor at the Instituto de Educação Superior de Brasília (IESB), and a faculty member in the distance learning History degree programme at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC/UAB). She has served as principal investigator at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) and as a research fellow at the Research Support Foundation of the Federal District (FAPDF). She was also a research fellow in an European project (Horizon 2020 – ERN) at the National Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Lisbon.
Main interests and research topics: Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, with a focus on identity, memory, xenophobia, immigration, discourse analysis, nationalism, and the history of the Brazilian First Republic.
ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1461-9600
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/461E-CCAE-7757
Repository:https://coimbra.academia.edu/CarolinaSouza
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Cleusa Teixeira de Sousa
Email: cleotsou@gmail.com
Cleusa Teixeira de Sousa is a History teacher within the Secretariat of Education of Goiás (SEDUC-GO) and a postdoctoral researcher in the Graduate Programme in History at the Federal University of Goiás (2022–2026). She holds a PhD in History from the Federal University of Goiás (2018), during which she undertook a doctoral research placement (sandwich scholarship) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (2017–2018). She also holds a Master’s degree in History from the same institution (2018), as well as a Bachelor’s degree and a teaching qualification in History from the Federal University of Goiás (2003).
Main interests and research topics: Medieval Iberian History; Church History; History of Sephardic Jews and New Christians; History of Education; Global History.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7252-9438
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/3B14-172D-F2EE
Repository: https://ufg.academia.edu/CLEUSASOUSA/CurriculumVitae
Research field(s): Empires, colonialism and post-colonialism
- Covadonga Valdaliso-Casanova
Email: casanova@letras.ulisboa.pt
Covadonga Valdaliso-Casanova is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She is a collaborating researcher at the Centre for the History of Society and Culture of the University of Coimbra and at the Centre for Classical Studies of the University of Lisbon, and an integrated researcher at the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon.
Main interests and research topics: Iberian medieval historiography; uses of the past.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9825-1574
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//7D17-3E72-1139
Repository: https://repositorio.ulisboa.pt/entities/person/66a838d7-37c9-4341-b84c-2172db7634d8
Research field(s): Heritage, Cultures and Identities
- 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 field(s): Societies, Powers, Inequalities
- 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). He is currently a senior technical specialist at the National Museum Machado de Castro and an invited lecturer at the University of Coimbra (Faculty of Arts and Humanities). His scholarly activity is devoted to the study of Portuguese art of the Early Modern period, with particular emphasis on portraiture and painting, focusing on their iconographic, iconological, and hermeneutic dimensions. He has participated in projects involving the inventory, conservation, planning, and management of the University of Coimbra’s heritage, as well as in national and international scholarly meetings. His research pays particular attention to the impact of Luso-French and Luso-Italian relations on the Portuguese artistic and cultural landscape.
Main interests and research topics: Portuguese Art and Heritage in the Modern Age; University of Coimbra, Painting; Portraiture; Iconography and Iconology; 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 field(s): Heritage, Cultures 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 relations
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1843-8532
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//pt/5E1A-0D1E-6526
Research field(s): Societies, Powers, Inequalities
- Eurico Gomes Dias
Email: eurico_dias@sapo.pt | egdias@iscpsi.pt | egdias@psp.pt
Eurico José Gomes Dias holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Communication from the Higher Institute of Languages and Administration of Santarém, a postgraduate qualification in Media Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, and a Master’s degree in Medieval and Renaissance History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, where he also completed his doctoral studies and obtained his agregação (habilitation) in History. He was the recipient of both Doctoral and Post-Doctoral fellowships from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). He is a collaborating researcher at the Centre for the Study of Population, Economy and Society (CEPESE, Porto) and at other Portuguese research centres. He is the author and editor of several works and has been awarded Honourable Mentions in the Grémio Literário Prize (2010 and 2012), in addition to numerous scientific and literary articles. He is a Corresponding Member of the Portuguese Academy of History, a Corresponding Member of the Scientific Council of the Portuguese Commission of Military History, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Military University Institute and at the Higher Institute of Police Sciences and Internal Security.
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 field(s): History as Craft, Documents, and Digital Humanities
- 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 field(s): History as Craft, Documents, and Digital Humanities; Societies, Powers, Inequalities.
- Gabriel Martinez Bonora
Email: gabriel.m.bonora@gmail.com
Gabriel Martinez Bonora is a doctoral candidate in Medieval History at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, where he is preparing a dissertation entitled A Female Monastic Elite: Santa Clara of Coimbra (1336–1591) – Claustral Dynamics, Lordship, and Memorial Legacy. He holds a master’s degree in Medieval History from the same institution and a bachelor’s degree from UNIFEOB (São Paulo).
Main interests and research topics: Monastic History; Palaeography and Diplomatics; Medieval Portuguese History.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8751-253X
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//1B16-360B-BC95
Research field(s): History as Craft, Documents, and Digital Humanities
- 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 PhD 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 appointed ambassador of that university. In July 2024, he defended his master’s thesis, 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 a research grant by FCT in relation to a project of transcription and inventory of a Jesuit epistolary collection from the Sé Nova de Coimbra promoted by the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies. He is currently developing an investigation on the theme Disciples, masters and beyond: children in the Catholic missions in Japan and China (1549-1684), benefiting from a doctoral scholarship from FCT for this purpose. His research focuses on Catholic missions in East Asia during the Early Modern Era.
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 field(s): Empires, colonialism and post-colonialism
- 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 holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences (ISCIA, 2010) and two Master’s degrees from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (FLUC): one in Art History, Heritage and Cultural Tourism (2013), and another in Tourism, Territory and Heritage (2019). She is currently a doctoral candidate in History at the same institution, where she is developing a dissertation entitled The Monastery of Santa Maria de Seiça: History, Property, and Heritage Legacy from the Medieval Period to Dissolution, under the supervision of Saul António Gomes, with the support of a doctoral scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Her research has resulted in papers presented at national and international scholarly meetings, as well as in the publication of articles on topics such as local history, Dutch tiles (18th century), and molinology. Her current principal field of interest is the Cistercian world.
Main areas of interest and research: Cistercian Order; Early Modern Portuguese History; Monastic History; Local History; Social History; 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; https://estudogeral.uc.pt/browse?type=author&authority=rp78076
Research field(s): History as Craft, Documents, and Digital Humanities
- Isabela Augusta Carneiro Bezerra
Email: isabela.bezerra@ifpb.edu.br
Isabela Augusta Carneiro Bezerra holds a PhD in Early Modern History from the University of Coimbra and is a History lecturer at the Federal Institute of Paraíba (Brazil). She also holds a Master’s degree and a Bachelor’s degree in History from the Federal University of Paraíba (Brazil). She is the author of Between the Atlantic World and Asia: The rulers of the portuguese empire (1643–1763), published by the University of Coimbra Press. She was awarded a Merit Scholarship for Third-Cycle Students, granted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra to students with the highest academic performance.
Main interests and research topics: Political History; the administration of the Portuguese overseas empire; governors and captains-major of the Portuguese overseas domains; History of colonial Brasil; Early Modern History of Portugal.
CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3645709522976746
Repository: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8100?locale=pt_BR; https://monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/book/542
Research field(s): Empires, colonialism and post-colonialism
- Jairzinho Lopes Pereira
Email: jairzinho.lpereira@gmail.com e jair.lopespereira@kuleuven.be
Jairzinho Lopes Pereira holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Coimbra, a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), and a PhD in Systematic Theology from the Faculty of Theology of the University of Helsinki (Finland). He is a researcher in the Department of Church History and Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is also an “Associated Foreign Researcher” at the Centre for the Study of Religious History 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 field(s): Empires, colonialism and post-colonialism; Societies, Powers, Inequalities.
- 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 Associate Professor at the same faculty, where she coordinates the PhD programme in Art History and serves as Director of the journal Revista de História das Ideias. She is also an integrated researcher at the Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Universidade de Coimbra (CEIS20), where she co-coordinates a research group, and a collaborating researcher at the Instituto de História da Arte da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
Main interests and research topics: Modernism; Art under Authoritarian and Totalitarian Regimes; Architecture of the Estado Novo (Portugal); 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 field(s): Heritage, Cultures and Identities
- 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 is an Assistant in the Department of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland, where he has been responsible for the teaching area “African History to 1800” since February 2026. He holds a PhD in Advanced Studies in History, specialising in Empire, Politics and Post-colonialism, from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (2016). He subsequently participated as a postdoctoral researcher in the project LEGALPL – Legal Pluralism in the Portuguese Empire (18th–20th centuries) (2018–2021), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and hosted at the Faculty of Law of NOVA University Lisbon and the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. In 2021, he was a Fellow of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht” (EViR) at the University of Münster, Germany, after which he served as a full-time Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the same centre until June 2025. He then assumed the same position on a part-time basis in the Department of History at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. He is the author of Sorcery and Jurisdiction in Angola: Law and Multinormativity in Early Modern West Central Africa (Cologne: Böhlau, 2025) and co-editor, together with Sebastian Spitra (University of Vienna), of The Legal Pluralism of Heritage (London: Routledge, 2026). Since 2026, he has served as Coordinating Editor of the Cultural and History Studies section of the Nordic Journal of African Studies (NJAS).
Main interests and research topics: Imperial and Colonial History; History of Slavery; Legal History; Material Culture, Memory, and Museums.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-9981-9064
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//en/EE13-2249-DFB9
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/Jo%C3%A3oFigueiredo
Research field(s): Empires, colonialism and post-colonialism
- 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 Eduardo Gama
Email: e23gama@gmail.com
José Eduardo Gama is a PhD student in Contemporary History at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He holds a bachelor’s degree in History (with a minor in Philosophy) and a Master’s degree from the same institution. He is currently a PhD Fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology (ref. 2025.03309.BD) working on a thesis entitled Between Theory and Practice. The transnational and internationalist dimensions of the Portuguese anarchist movement (1870–1920). His research focuses on the history of social and revolutionary movements, the history of Portuguese and European anarchism, and transnational history.
Main interests and research topics: Contemporary History; European History; History of Social Movements; The European Anarchist Movement; The Portuguese Anarchist Movement.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6186-0871
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//pt/1816-1F6E-25D4
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/Jos%C3%A9Gama
Research field(s): Societies, Powers, Inequalities
- 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 of the University of Coimbra, with the thesis The Financing Model of the University of Coimbra (1772–1836). As part of his doctoral research, he was a fellow of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (Ref. FCT: SFRH/BD/143897/2019). He was 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) in 2024 and 2025. He has been working as an invited auxiliary professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and at the Agrarian School of Coimbra. He is also a member of the board of the Portuguese Society for Rural Studies (SPER) and of Rural RePort – Network for Rural History in Portuguese.
Main interests and research topics: Early Modern Portuguese History; Economic History; Financial History; Institutional History; Fiscal History; History of Universities; History of Local Power; Agrarian History; Seigneurial History; Animal and Livestock 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 field(s): Societies, Powers, Inequalities
- 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, where she is preparing a dissertation 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. Currently, she holds a PhD scholarship from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) (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.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8857-1072
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/0B16-2FA2-3544
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/LeonorSalguinhoFerreira
Research field(s): Societies, Powers, Inequalities
- 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 Antónia de Castro Athayde Amaral
E-mail: mathaydenator@gmail.com
Maria Antónia de Castro Athayde Amaral is a PhD student in Archaeology at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with a thesis entitled Archaeology of Conflict: the strategy and tactics used in the Battle of Aljubarrota interpreted through archaeological remains. She has a degree in History (Archaeology variant) and a postgraduate degree in Cultural Affairs within the scope of Local Authorities and in Roman Archaeology, from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra. She works at Património Cultural, IP where she holds the position of Head of the Registration, Inventory and Classification Division. She investigates topics in the area of Medieval Archaeology, with an emphasis on themes linked to battlefields, royal burials and castles.
Main interests and research topics: Battlefields, fortifications, royal burials.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1461-9600
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/5916-4052-DF1F
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Maria Beatriz Matos
E-mail: matosbeatriz80@gmail.com
Maria Beatriz Matos holds a Bachelor’s degree in History, with a Minor in Art History, from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, where she is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Medieval History. Within this programme, she has conducted research in the fields of Paleography, Diplomatics, and Codicology, as well as Music History and Social History, with particular emphasis on the Chapter of the Cathedral of Coimbra and other ecclesiastical institutions in the city. Her main areas of interest include Medieval History, Religious History, Music History, Palaeography, and Diplomatics.
Main interests and research topics: Medieval History, Religious History, Music History, Palaeography, and Diplomatics.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3233-6981
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//pt/5E13-70DA-39E7
Research field(s): History as Craft, Documents, and Digital Humanities
- Maria do Rosário Castiço de Campos
Email: rcampos@esec.pt
Maria do Rosário Castiço de Campos holds a PhD in History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and is a Coordinating Professor at the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra. She has published books and book chapters, as well as articles in national and international journals, and has coordinated and participated in several research projects.
Main interests and research topics: Early Modern History; Local History; Cultural Heritage; Cultural Tourism; Museology; Education.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0496-079X
Research field(s): Heritage, Cultures and Identities
- Maria Rita Loio
Email: mariaritaloio@gmail.com
Maria Rita Loio holds a degree in Journalism and a master’s in Leisure, Heritage and Development from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra, where she is currently pursuing a master’s in History, specializing in the Early Modern period. She conducts research on the English mercantile presence in Portugal during the 16th and 17th centuries, focusing on integration dynamics and the construction of social networks by the English Catholic community in Lisbon. She is a research collaborator at the Centre for the History of Society and Culture at the University of Coimbra and participates in genealogical research projects in both institutional and private contexts.
Main interests and research topics: Social history; Economic history; Foreign communities in Portugal; Microhistory; Genealogy.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5023-4015
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/9F18-0A29-06F7
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/MariaRitaLoio
- Mariana Barreira
Email: maricb1298@gmail.com
Mariana Barreira holds a Bachelor’s degree 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 programme in History, specialising in the Middle Ages, which she completed in 2022. During this period, she was a member of the exploratory project COMMEMORrtis – What Survives After Death? Parochial Communities and Strategies for the Commemoration of the Dead in the Medieval City, supported by a research grant funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She subsequently enrolled in the Master’s programme in the Teaching of History at lower and upper secondary levels. She is currently a History teacher in Fátima.
Main interests and research topics: Medieval History; Urban History; Art History; Digital Humanities.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3470-8800
Repository: https://independent.academia.edu/MariB21
Research field(s): History as Craft, Documents, and Digital Humanities; Heritage, Cultures and Identities.
- 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
- Mariana Pacheco
Email: marianapacheco02@hotmail.com
Mariana Gomes Pacheco holds a bachelor’s degree in History, with a minor in Archaeology (2020-2023), from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. In 2025, she completed a master’s degree in History, specializing in the Early Modern Period, with the dissertation titled “Para que estas flores se não murchem”: o Recolhimento do Bom Jesus do Funchal (18th-19th centuries). Having participated in national and international conferences, she is currently pursuing a PhD in History, in the field of Early Modern Studies, at the same institution. Her research interests include Women’s and Gender History, Social History, History of Violence, History of Power and History of Private Life.
Main interests and research topics: Women’s and Gender History; Social History; History of Violence; History of Power and History of Private Life.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3548-120X
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/A218-0A65-400C
Repositório: https://coimbra.academia.edu/MarianaPacheco
Research field(s): Societies, Powers, Inequalities
- 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 Amaral de Azevedo Teixeira
Email: pedroaateixeira@outlook.com
Pedro Amaral de Azevedo Teixeira is an Early Modern History master’s student at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. There, he obtained his bachelor’s in History with a minor in Social and Cultural Anthropology. A collaborator at the Center for the History of Society and Culture, he won a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation “Novos Talentos 2023/2024” and was awarded the “Prémio Curricular Feijó 2022/2023.” He currently holds a Fulbright and a Luso-American Foundation scholarship and is a visiting scholar in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. He researches the Portuguese Inquisition’s auto da fé, travel literature, and the court system during the Ancien Régime. His interdisciplinary studies combine History, Anthropology, Ethnography, and the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Main interests and research topics: Anthropological History; Ethnographical History; auto da fé; Portuguese Inquisition; Traveler’s accounts.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9993-5628
Ciência ID: B011-426F-5876
- 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 Bachelor’s degree in History and Master’s degrees in Medieval History and in the Teaching of History (for the third cycle of Basic Education and Secondary Education) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Medieval History at the same institution. He is a member of the Iberian Association of Military History. His research has focused on Military History, particularly on the transition from the medieval to the early modern period, with a specific emphasis on pyroballistics. 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 Defence Prize (2019) by the Portuguese Commission of Military History. He is currently the recipient of a doctoral scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (2025.02442.BD), with the project entitled Firearms in the Western Mediterranean: A Military Revolution? – The Cases of Portugal, Castile, and Morocco (1411–1541).
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 field(s): Societies, Powers, Inequalities
- 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) and Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Sergipe. 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 holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of 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. She is currently a teacher in Basic Education within the private school sector. Her Master’s dissertation, entitled The Parochial Clergy of Rio Grande, Rio Pardo and Santo Amaro in the Eighteenth Century: Composition, Reproduction and Trajectories, was supported by a research grant awarded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
Main interests and research topics: Religious History; Parochial Clergy; Portuguese America; Rio Grande de São Pedro; Eighteenth Century; Scalar Variation; Prosopography; Palaeography.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0669-3333
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/RafaelaCasagrande
Research field(s): Empires, colonialism and post-colonialism; Societies, Powers, Inequalities.
- Ricardo Vicente
Email: ricard.vicent@gmail.com
Ricardo Pinheiro Vicente holds a Bachelor’s degree in Archival and Library Information Science and a Master’s degree in History, with specialisation in Territories, Powers and Institutions, from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He is currently enrolled in the Official Doctoral Programme in New Perspectives in Documentation, Communication and the Humanities at the Faculty of Humanities and Documentation of the University of A Coruña. He serves as a senior technical specialist at the Municipality of Coimbra.
Main interests and research topics: Archival Science; Archives of Architecture and Engineering, Strategic Studies and Territorial Planning; Classification and Appraisal of Public Information; Information Management; Institutional History; Urbanism.
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/RicardoVicente
Research field(s): Heritage, Cultures and Identities
- 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 field(s): History as Craft, Documents, and Digital Humanities; Societies, Powers, Inequalities.
- Ruy Ventura
Email: biscainho.ventura@gmail.com
A doctoral candidate in Art History at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, he holds a master’s degree in Portuguese Studies from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the NOVA University of Lisbon. He has taught in Polytechnic Higher Education and served as a senior technical specialist at the National Museum of Ancient Art, where he was responsible for the management of the sculpture collection and for providing research support. He currently teaches in the city of Setúbal. He is preparing a doctoral dissertation entitled The Sculpture of the Passion of Christ: A Long Modernity between the Fifteenth and the Eighteenth Centuries (supervised by Maria de Lurdes Craveiro and Sandra Costa Saldanha). He has published in the field of Art History, has been responsible for exhibitions, and has coordinated the editing of exhibition catalogues.
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 field(s): Heritage, Cultures and Identities
- 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 a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Coimbra. She obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in History from the Federal University of Paraíba (Brazil), and also holds a Master’s degree in Teacher Training in Geography and History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her research is situated within Contemporary History from transnational perspectives, with particular emphasis on Ibero-Brazilian relations. She is also active in the field of History Didactics, especially through critical pedagogical approaches focused on the analysis and development of curricular content for the teaching of History. She was awarded a doctoral scholarship by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) and a Master’s scholarship by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES, Brazil). She currently pursues her academic teaching activity in Madrid, where she serves as a Substitute Lecturer in the Department of Contemporary History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and as an Associate Lecturer at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE). She has previously held university teaching positions in Brazil, contributing to an academic trajectory marked by comparative and transnational approaches to the teaching of History. In parallel, she collaborates as an educator at the Museo Nacional del Prado, within the Department of Education, where she develops activities in cultural mediation and heritage education for diverse audiences.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4523-9341
Research field(s): Societies, Powers, Inequalities
- 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 and a scholarship holder of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), currently pursuing doctoral studies in Patrimónios Alimentares: Cultura e Identidade at the University of Coimbra. She holds a Master’s degree in Alimentação: Fontes, Cultura e Sociedade from the same institution. She is the author of the book Das Mesas aos Jornais: a identidade alimentar de Belém do Pará na mídia (Editora Appris, 2025). She is a member of ALERE – Grupo de Pesquisa em História do Abastecimento e Alimentação na Amazônia, affiliated with the CNPq and the Federal University of Pará. Her research is situated within the fields of food studies and communication, with a particular focus on the role of media and journalism in the heritagisation of regional cuisines, as well as on the use of journalistic and advertising sources in the study of the history of food.
Main interests and research topics: Food history, food heritage, communication and food, regional cuisines, food identities.
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//pt/651B-B051-F7EA
Repository: https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/102639
Research field(s): Heritage, Cultures and Identities
- 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
- Tiago Moura Gonçalves
Email: tiagogoncalves024@gmail.com
Tiago Moura Gonçalves holds a degree in History from the University of Minho and a postgraduate diploma in the History of the Portuguese Empire from NOVA University Lisbon. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in History (Early Modern Period) at the University of Coimbra and is a contributor researcher at the Centre for the History of Society and Culture. His dissertation focuses on the language of politics in seventeenth-century Portugal.
Main interests and research topics: Early Modern History; Political Culture; Legal Tradition; Political Discourse and Literature; Iberian Union (1580–1640); Intellectual and Conceptual History; Historiography and Theory of History; Portuguese History; History of the Portuguese Empire.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0350-6515
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//E310-88E2-4AB0
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/TGon%C3%A7alves
Research field(s): Societies, Powers, Inequalities; Empires, colonialism and post-colonialism.
- Victor Alejandro Borges Morales
E-mail: va.borgesmorales@gmail.com
Victor Alejandro Borges Morales holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from the Federal University of Bahia and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Modern History at the University of Coimbra. His dissertation examines forms of resistance to the operations of the Inquisition between 1536 and 1578, drawing primarily on the trials initiated by the Holy Office against individuals who obstructed or opposed its actions.
Main interests and research topics: Inquisition; Paleography; Early Modern Portugal; Early Modern Portuguese Empire.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5464-2688
Ciência ID: 641A-2735-E930
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/VictorAlejandroMorales