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- Ana Cristina Araújo
Email: araujo.anacris@sapo.pt
Ana Cristina Araújo hold a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History in 1995 by University of Coimbra, Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She is a retired Tenured Associate Professor at the same University and a senior researcher at the Center for the History of Society and Culture. She was a fellow at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso-American Development Foundation and a visiting professor at European and American universities. She was a member of an A3ES Philosophy assessment panel. Her main area of research is the History of Political Ideas and Culture. She has an extensive scientific output and consolidated experience of participating in national and international projects and supervising theses. She directed the Revista de História das Ideias (2016-2023). In 1998 she was awarded the Júlio Castilho de Olissipography prize, granted by the Lisbon City Council, for the publication of her doctoral thesis. In 2023 she was awarded the Joaquim de Carvalho prize, granted by the Coimbra University Press, for the publication of her latest book Resistência Patriótica e Revolução Liberal (1808-1820).
Main interests and research topics: Intellectual History; History of Culture; Enlightenment and Liberalism; Conceptual History; Historiography.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5267-8196
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/C812-DDC3-C9A3
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Reimagining the historian’s craft
- Ana Guardião
Email:afsguardiao@gmail.com
Ana Guardião is a researcher at the University of Florence on the project Humanitarianism and Mediterranean Europe. A Transnational and Comparative History (1945-1990), funded by the European Research Council; and associate researcher on the project Humanity Internationalized: Cases, Dynamics and Comparisons (1945-1980), University of Coimbra/University of Minho. She co-coordinates the seminar Histories of the Present: The Shaping of the Contemporary World. She recently published The Refugees of (De)Colonization: Human Rights, Humanitarianism and the End of Empires in Africa (1950-1975) (2023). Her research focuses on the intersections between the dynamics of humanitarianism, development and the institutionalization of human rights in colonial and post-colonial contexts.
Main interests and research topics: Contemporary History; Imperial and Colonial History; International and Transnational History; International and Non-Governmental Organizations; Humanitarianism; Human Rights; Development; Refugees.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5989-7938
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//en/BB1D-6292-AB53
Repository: https://unifi.academia.edu/AnaGuardi%C3%A3o
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Ana Margarida Dias da Silva
Email: anasilva@fl.uc.pt
Ana Margarida Dias da Silva has worked as an archivist since 2004, in both public and private archives. She is an Executive Officer in the Archive of the University of Coimbra’s Department of Life Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Coimbra and a Master’s degree in Information and Documentation Science from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University of Lisbon, and a Master’s degree in Contemporary History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (2014). Her Master’s dissertation (“Usage of the Internet and Web 2.0 for providing access to archival information: a case study of Portuguese municipal archives”) has won the first Olga Gallego Award for Research on Archival Science(2015).
Main interests and research topics: Information Science; Archival Science; Information Organisation and Representation; Information Communication; Memory Institutions; Crowdsourcing; Citizen Science; Personal and family archives; Social History; History of Religion.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1247-8346
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/111B-718B-8EE5
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/AnaMargaridaDiasdaSilva
Research group(s): The study and publishing of primary sources
- António Resende de Oliveira
Email: antonioroliveira19@gmail.com
António Resende de Oliveira holds a PhD in History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and is a retired professor in the University. He works for the IF-Seminário Medieval de Literatura, Pensamento e Sociedade (Medieval Seminar on Literature, Thought and Society). He has conducted research on national and international projects, published several works in Portugal and Spain and worked on collective reference works on Portuguese historiography.
Main interests and research topics: Cultural History; Troubadour songs; Portugal in the Middle Ages; Nobility culture; Medieval historiography; Cultural agents and institutions; Alfonso X of Castile; Count Pedro of Barcelos.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5965-7510
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/311F-150A-9154
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Reimagining the historian’s craft
- Carlos Fernando Teixeira Alves
Email: cftalves@gmail.com
Carlos Fernando Teixeira Alves holds undergraduate and Master’s degrees in History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. In 2016, thanks to a PhD fellowship from the FCT (PD/BD/128127/2016), he enrolled in PIUDHist, the Inter-university Doctoral Programme in History – Change and Continuity in a Global World, at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL), researching a thesis on the Natural Order in the university reforms of Salamanca and Coimbra, 1769-1820. In 2019, he was a visiting scholar in the Figuerola Institute of History and Social Sciences of the Carlos III University of Madrid.
Main interests and research topics: History of Universities; History of Science; History of Education; Modern History; Contemporary History; the Enlightenment; Liberalism; Digital Humanities.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0058-7262
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/DD10-A4E1-29C2
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; The study and publishing of primary sources
- Carolina Henriques Pereira
Email: carolinahenriques94@gmail.com
Carolina Henriques Pereira holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She is the author of the book Refugiados da Segunda Guerra Mundial nas Caldas da Rainha (1940-1946) and co-author of the book Refugiados em Portugal no século XX. Entre a hospitalidade e a intransigência (2024). She is an integrated researcher at the Center for the History of Society and Culture (CHSC-FLUC) and invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra.
Main interests and research topics: Contemporary History; European History; Local History; World War II; Portuguese Estado Novo (Second Republic); Refugees.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7313-2560
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//en/A715-8E9C-B7A4
Repositório: https://coimbra.academia.edu/CarolinaPereira
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Cristóvão Mata
Email: cristovaomat@hotmail.com
Cristóvão Mata 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, where he also completed a PhD in Modern History, with an individual fellowship from the FCT. His thesis, entitled A Casa de Aveiro na Constelação dos Poderes Senhoriais: Estruturas de Domínio e Redes Clientelares (The House of Aveiro within the Aristocratic Power Constellation: Domination Structures and Clientele Networks), of 2019, aimed to study one of the main Portuguese noble houses during the Modern Age.
Main interests and research topics: Modern History; Aristocracy; Nobility; Local Elites; Municipalities; Institutional History; Manorialism; History of the Family.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3682-0700
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/CC1E-AB22-7292
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/CristovaoMata
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Daniel Norte Giebels
Email: danielgiebels@gmail.com
Holds a PhD in Advanced Studies in Modern History from the University of Coimbra, a Master’s degree in Modern History also from Coimbra and an undergraduate degree in Cultural Heritage from the University of Algarve. Currently, he is a member of the ReligionAJE – Religião, administração e justiça eclesiástica no Império Português (1514-1750) (Religion, ecclesiastical administration and justice in the Portuguese Seaborne Empire)project and works in the Centre of Religious History Studies, where he conducts research in the Convemos – Convento e Mosteiros de Portugal (1096-1910) – Espacialidades e temporalidades (Portuguese Convents and Monasteries – Spatial and Temporal Elements)project. He has authored several articles and papers on the Inquisition and the Church in Portugal between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. In 2018, his book A Inquisição de Lisboa (1537-1579) (The Inquisition in Lisbon)was published by Gradiva. He was a joint winner of the 1st António Rosa Mendes National Award for a Historical Essay.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7000-8073
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/961B-3B28-24EE
Repositório: https://coimbra.academia.edu/DanielGiebels
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Dina Alves
Email: dina.alves@ipleiria.pt
Dina Catarina Duarte Alves holds a PhD in Modern History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, with the thesis Violence, criminality and justice in rural societies in the Modern Period. The municipality of Obidos, 1736-1806. Currently, she is an adjunct professor at the School of Education and Social Sciences at the Polytechnic of Leiria. In 2021, she won the international award “Pina Manique – From the Enlightenment to the Liberal Revolution”, awarded by the Portuguese Academy of History and Pina Manique Foundation, for her doctoral thesis.
Main interests and research topics: Modern History; Local History; Violence; Crime; Justice; Sociability; Education/teaching.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4042-5989
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/7813-5E94-3C49
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Edgar Pereira
Email: edgarbertrandpereira@gmail.com
Edgar Pereira holds a PhD in Economic and Social History from Leiden University (Netherlands) and received a postdoctoral fellowship from the KNIR (Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome). Currently, he is a first stage PhD researcher in the Center for the History of Society and Culture of the University of Coimbra. He has conducted archival research in seven countries and has published articles in scientific journals and collective works. In 2015, his Master’s thesis was awarded the Marc Bloch Prize by the European University Institute (Florence), in the category of best Master’s dissertation on Modern and Contemporary History. In addition to archival work and publishing, he has taught several courses for undergraduate and Master’s degrees.
Main interests and research topics: Economic and political history of Portugal in the Modern Age; History of the Portuguese Overseas Empire; Connected history of the Iberian empires; History of sea trade in the Modern Age.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8547-6777
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/A313-089D-95DB
Repository: https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/EdgarPereira
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Fernando Catroga
Email: fcatroga@hotmail.com
Fernando Catroga is a retired full professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He holds a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History from the University of Coimbra and an honorary doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). He has been awared the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, for scientific merit, by the President of the Portuguese Republic. He has also been granted the Medal of Honour of the University of São Paulo, and the Portuguese Academy of History has distinguished his scholarly excellence. He is head of the Repensar o Ofício do Historiador (Rethinking the Historian’s Craft) research group in the CHSC. He has edited the Revista de História das Ideias (Journal of Intellectual History). He has published extensively in the fields of Political, Cultural and Intellectual History.
Main interests and research topics: Republicanism; Secularisation and Laicism; Historical Memory; Historical Theory; Historiography; Intellectual History; Cultural History.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8636-1986
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//en/B31B-EAE5-DB8A
Research group(s): Reimagining the historian’s craft
- Fernando Taveira da Fonseca
Email: fertaveira@gmail.com
Fernando Taveira da Fonseca holds a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History and is a tenured associate professor in retirement from the University of Coimbra. He is a member of the IEMYR (Instituto de Estudios Medievales y Renascentistas) (Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies) of the University of Salamanca, and the Portuguese Academy of History has distinguished his scholarly excellence. He was head of the Instituto de História Económica e Social (Institute of Economic and Social History), board member of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and head of the Department of History, Archaeology and Arts. He was in the committee that supervised the University of Coimbra’s application to UNESCO World Heritage status.
Main interests and research topics: Portuguese Modern History; Economic and Social History; History of the University of Coimbra; History of Universities; History of Education; Religious History; History of the Restoration.
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3280-5009
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/E916-F8A3-40B5
Repository: https://uc-pt.academia.edu/FernandoTaveiradaFonseca
Research group(s): The study and publishing of primary sources; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Hugo Gonçalves Dores
Email: hfgdores@gmail.com
Hugo Gonçalves Dores is an integrated researcher at the Center for the History of Society and Culture and a guest professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He holds a PhD degree from the Institute of Social Sciences (University of Lisbon). He is a member of the Center of Religious History Studies (Catholic University of Portugal). His researches focus on colonial educational policies, State-Church relations and the missionary question in colonial empires (19th-20th centuries). He authored A Missão da República (1910-1926) (2015) and Politics and Religion in the Portuguese Colonial Empire in Africa (1890-1930) (2021), among other articles and chapters, and also co-edited Education and Development in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa (2020).
Main interests and research topics: Contemporary History; Imperialism; Colonial Education; UNESCO in Colonial Context; State-Church Relations in Colonial Empires; Missionary History.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7690-7563
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/6F1A-84AC-687E
Repository: https://uc-pt.academia.edu/HugoGonçalvesDores
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Irene Vaquinhas
Email: irenemcv@fl.uc.pt
Irene Vaquinhas holds a PhD in History and is a full professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, since 2009. She was scientific coordinator of the Center for the History of Society and Culture from November 2013 to October 2020. She represented the University of Coimbra in the EU’s project ATHENA (Advanced Thematic Network for Activities on Women’s Studies). She has worked on several international projects. She is a member of the Portuguese Academy of History.
Main interests and research topics: Portuguese Contemporary History; Rural History; History of the forms of socialisation; History of Private Life; Women’s and Gender History; Food Heritage History and Museology.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1889-165X
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/7116-054C-1FE6
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/IreneVaquinhas
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Isabel Ferreira da Mota
Email: ifmota@fl.uc.pt
Isabel Ferreira da Mota has a PhD in History from the University of Coimbra, where she teaches Early Modern History. In 2004, she was awarded the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Prize in Modern and Contemporary History for her work A Academia Real da História: os intelectuais, o poder cultural e o poder monárquico no século XVIII (2003). She is a collaborating researcher at CEIS20, Director of the Revista de História das Ideias and an academic at the Portuguese Academy of History.
Main interests and research topics: Cultural and Political History of the eighteenth century; Transnational History; Historiography, Academies and Universities; Travelling and the Republic of Letters; Political Practices, Visual Culture and Material Culture.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9743-2739
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/611A-6C43-6E6C
Repository: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isabel-Mota-2
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Reimagining the historian’s craft
- Jaime Ricardo Gouveia
Email: jaime.gouveia@uc.pt
Jaime Ricardo Gouveia holds a PhD in History from the European University Institute in Florence, as well as undergraduate and Master’s degrees in History from the University of Coimbra. Currently, he is an integrated researcher in the CHSC, a guest professor in the Department of History, European Studies, Archaeology and Arts of the University of Coimbra, and a teacher in the postgraduate degree in History of the Federal University of the Amazonas. He is also co-principal researcher in the ReligionAJE international project. He has received fellowships from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. He conducted two postdoctoral projects funded by the FCT and CAPES, and was a visiting researcher in the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, in Frankfurt. He has authored a number of books on History and is the recipient of several scientific awards, such as the Gulbenkian Award of the Portuguese Academy of History (2015).
Main interests and research topics: Modern History; Ecclesiastic and Religious History; Comparative and Transnational History; Legal History; History of Colonialism.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2435-7384
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/C71F-7E85-C953
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/JaimeGouveia
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Local and regional heritage and identities
- João Gouveia Monteiro
Email: joao.g.monteiro@sapo.pt
João Gouveia Monteiro (b. 1958) is Full Professor at the University of Coimbra, where he received his doctorate in History (1997). He was a guest professor at the Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier III) and a visiting professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). He did internships at the universities of Bologna and La Laguna-Tenerife. In 1995-2001, he coordinated a multidisciplinary research project on the Aljubarrota battlefield. He is a corresponding academic at the Portuguese Academy of History and was the first President of the Iberian Association of Military History (4th-16th centuries), between 2015 and 2022. He founded and directs the Academy for the Encounter of Cultures and Religions (APECER- UC). He was Pro-Rector for Culture, Director of the University Press and Director of the U.C. General Library. He was a member of the General Council of U.C. in 2012-2016 and in 2020-2024 terms.
Main interests and research topics: Military History, European History in the Middle Ages, Ancient History and History of Religion.
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3418-0217
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/C515-07FC-57A3
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/JoãoGouveiaMonteiro
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; The study and publishing of primary sources
- João Marinho dos Santos
João Marinho dos Santos is a retired Full Professor in the History Group of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He has focused his scientific research in the areas of History of the Discoveries and Portuguese Expansion and Local History, highlighting among his latest publications: Ceuta não foi Conquista, mas começo dela (2017); Costumes e Foros de Castelo Bom (2018); Estudos sobre os Descobrimentos e Expansão Portuguesa (2021).
Between 1990 and 1994 he held the position of delegate of the Secretary of State for Culture for the Central Zone of Portugal and, between 2003 and 2013, that of scientific head of the Centre for History of Society and Culture.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9728-4569
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//en/871C-913A-11D9
- João Nunes
Email: jnunes@esev.ipv.pt
João Nunes holds a PhD in History from the University of Coimbra. He teaches in the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu and collaborates with the Centro de Estudos em Educação e Inovação (Center for Studies in Education and Innovation) (CI&DEI – IPV). He has taken part in several research projects in the fields of History and Cultural Heritage.
His interests, research activities and published work mainly focus on Religious and Ecclesiastic History in the Modern Age.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0328-307X
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/E41E-B7EF-6D93
Repository: https://estgv.academia.edu/JoãoNunes
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- José Antunes
Email: antunesgjose@gmail.com
José Antunes has a PhD in Medieval History and is an Assistant Professor with aggregation from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, having retired in 2000. He was a member of the Institute for History and Theory of Ideas and is currently a member of the Centre for History of Society and Culture.
Main areas of interest and research topics: Medieval History of Portugal; Portuguese erudite culture in the 12th to 14th centuries (Jurists, Theologians and Philosophers); Historical problematics of the beginnings of the foundation of the Portuguese University.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5446-0526
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//en/0616-A6D0-63DC
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- José Manuel Azevedo e Silva
Email: jazevedosilva@gmail.com
José Manuel Azevedo e Silva holds a PhD in History from the University of Coimbra, where he taught between 1983 and 2007. His activity focused on teaching and researching the History of the Portuguese Discoveries and Overseas Empire and the History of Colonial Brazil. He has published 20 books on these topics, as well as approximately 100 articles, prefaces and reviews. The Portuguese Academy of History granted him the Calouste Gulbenkian “História da Presença de Portugal no Mundo” (“History of the Portuguese Presence in the World”) award, in 2008. He is a fellow of the Portuguese Academy of History.
Main interests and research topics: Local and Regional History; History of the Portuguese Overseas Empire; History of Brazil; Local History.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4994-2620
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//D518-6E6B-8FB0
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Local and regional heritage and identities
- José Pedro Monteiro
Email: ze.pedro.monteiro@gmail.com; jose.p.monteiro@fl.uc.pt
José Pedro Monteiro is a research fellow at the Center for History of Society and Culture. He holds a PhD in History (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, 2017) and has focused his academic work on the history of empires and imperialism, as well as international and transnational history. His research explores the historical intersections between various forms of internationalism and imperial projects, with a particular emphasis on citizenship as both a political and social category. These research interests have led to numerous scholarly publications in national and international journals and publishers, including the book The Internationalisation of the “Native Labour” Question in Portuguese Late Colonialism (1945-1962), published by Palgrave Macmillan. He is currently the coordinator of the project Humanity Internationalised: Cases, Dynamics, and Comparisons (1945-1980), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
Main interests and research topics: Imperial and Colonial History; International and Transnational History; History of Labor, Citizenship, Human Rights, and Self-Determination; History of International Relations; History of International Organizations.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-6999-9439
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/3119-46CA-A698
Repositório: https://uminho.academia.edu/Jos%C3%A9PedroMonteiro
Grupo(s) de investigação: Cultural encounters and evasion; Reimagining the historian’s craft
- José Pedro Paiva
Email: lejpaiva@fl.uc.pt
José Pedro Paiva holds a PhD in History and is a full professor in the University of Coimbra. He was head of the University Archive and of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. He is an integrated member of the Center for the History of Society and Culture (CHSC) and a collaborating member of the Centre of Religious History Studies (CEHR – UCP). He is a member of the Portuguese Academy of History and the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. He has worked on and supervised several national and international projects, was a guest professor in the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and was awarded fellowships by the John Carter Brown Library (USA) and the Nederlanse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Dutch Research Council).
Main interests and research topics: History of Religion; Catholic Reformation; Witchcraft in the Early Modern Age; Misericórdias; Early Modern Portuguese History; History of the Portuguese Overseas Empire; the Iberian Union (1580-1640).
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5312-1138
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//pt/BA17-42F4-F7F9
Repository: https://uc-pt.academia.edu/JosePaiva
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion
- Leontina Domingos Ventura
Email: ldvdf@fl.uc.pt
Leontina Domingos Ventura holds a PhD in History and is an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She has worked on several national projects and two international projects. She is a member of the Portuguese Academy of History and the Portuguese Institute of Genealogy and Heraldry, IPGH.
Main interests and research topics: Portuguese History in the Middle Ages (mainly eleventh to fourteenth centuries), particularly Social History of the urban nobility and aristocracies and Institutional History, particularly judicial and fiscal institutions; History of the City of Coimbra; Biographies; Administrative documentation (royal, episcopal and monastic chancelleries).
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3051-5526
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/A21C-33E4-EAA7
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/leontinaventura
Research group(s): The study and publishing of primary sources; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Luís Miguel Rêpas
Email: lrepas@gmail.com
Luís Miguel Rêpas holds an M.A. and a PhD in Medieval History from the University of Coimbra (2000 and 2021) and is a full researcher at the Centre for the History of Society and Culture and a collaborator at the Institute for Medieval Studies (NOVA FCSH). He was a member of the Cistercian Horizons project team, which studied the Alcobaça’s scriptorium and its production, and he is a researcher in the project Books, rituals and space in a Cistercian nunnery. Living, praying and reading in Lorvão, 13th-16th centuries, both funded by the FCT. He is one of the Scientific Coordinators of the project to edit the medieval documentation of the Convent of Arouca (which is the result of a partnership between the CHSC and the Municipality of Arouca) and he has been an Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra since 2022.
Main interests and research topics: Monastic History; Social History; Women’s History; WrittenCulture; Palaeography and Diplomatics; Primary Sources Editing.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5437-9437
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/1414-BC78-D72A
Repository: https://unl-pt.academia.edu/Lu%C3%ADsR%C3%AApas
Research group(s): The study and publishing of primary sources
- Luísa Trindade
Email: luisa.trindade@fl.uc.pt
Luísa Trindade has a PhD in Art History and is an associate professor with tenure at the University of Coimbra, where she has taught since 1996. She has been the director of the BA in History of Art and of the MA in Art and Heritage, director of the Department of History, European Studies, Archaeology and Arts and president of the Assembly of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She is currently the Scientific Coordinator of the Heritage Management Support Office at the University of Coimbra.
A member of the Centre for the History of Society and Culture, she is also a collaborator with the Institute of Medieval Studies at the NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH). With dozens of articles and communications, she has participated in and coordinated various national and international projects in the fields of teaching, research and the transmission of knowledge in History, Art History and Heritage.
Main interests and research topics: History of Urbanism; Medieval City; History of Art; Medieval art; Late-medieval Architecture; Heritage and Mediation.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2475-7529
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/AD1E-2B80-645F
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/LuisaTrindade
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Marcela Maciel Santana
E-mail: marcela.santana@uc.pt | marcelasantana@gmail.com
Marcela Santana holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Viçosa (Brazil, 2009, 2012) and a Ph.D. in Heritages of Portuguese Influence from the University of Coimbra (2022), with a cotutelle period at the Fluminense Federal University (Brazil). She was a professor at the integrated master’s in Architecture at M_EIA (Cape Verde) and in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Aix-Marseille University (France). She was a founding partner of A7 Arquitetura (Brazil), working on architectural and urban projects, technical studies, and consultancy. Currently, she is the executive coordinator of the UNESCO Chair on Intercultural Dialogue on Heritages of Portuguese Influence – University of Coimbra.
Main interests and research topics: architecture and urbanism of Portuguese influence; heritage protection and management processes.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5758-4489
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//0517-2B01-1A7C
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/MarcelaSantana
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Margarida Relvão Calmeiro
Email: mrelvao@gmail.com
Margarida Relvão Calmeiro, graduated in Architecture (2005) and PhD in Theory and History of Architecture from the University of Coimbra (2015), is an architect and researcher at Itecons – Institute for Research and Technological Development in Construction, Energy, Environment and Sustainability. She is also a visiting assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra an invited researcher at the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the same university, in the Landscape Together project, funded by the Creative Europe program (2023-2026) (https://landscapetogether.eu/). She has collaborated with other courses at the University of Coimbra and, in the context of cooperation, with the University of Lúrio (Mozambique). She is the author of the book Urbanism before the Plans: Coimbra 1834-1934 (Coimbra: Coimbra City Council, 2021).
Main interests and research topics: History of Urbanism And Urban Planning in the Portuguese Territory; Heritage, Urban Rehabilitation and Sustainable Development. Regenerative Architecture and Circularity
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0328-1998
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/A71C-E2DF-A4A6
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/MargaridaRelv%C3%A3oCalmeiro
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Margarida Sobral Neto
Email: mneto@fl.uc.pt
Margarida Sobral Neto holds a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History and is a full professor at the University of Coimbra. She is a member of the Portuguese Academy of History, a founding member of the Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History) and active in several research networks: Rural RePort, Report(h)a and Proprietas.
Main interests and research topics: Rural History; Institutional History; Historiography; Environmental History; Modern History.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6541-5237
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/7312-AB81-2317
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/MargaridaSobralNeto
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Maria Amélia Álvaro de Campos
Email: melicampos@gmail.com
Maria Amélia Álvaro de Campos holds a PhD in Medieval History and serves as a researcher and visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (U. Coimbra). She researches on urban parish communities, analysing the ecclesiastical and lay groups that shaped medieval Portuguese cities – mainly Coimbra and its region. Alongside her work in ecclesiastical, urban, and social history, she has published studies in palaeography and the diplomatic analysis of medieval sources. She completed her PhD and postdoctoral research with competitive funding from the Portugues Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and has collaborated with R&D Units such as CIDEHUS (U. Évora), CRIHAM (U. Limoges), LAMOP (U. Paris 1) and LEM-CERCOR (U. Jean Monnet). She coordinated the project COMMEMORtis (http://doi.org/10.54499/EXPL/HAR-HIS/0532/2021) and currently directs CHSC’s participation in the RESTORY consortium (https://doi.org/10.3030/101132781), coordinated by the Babes Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca.
Main interests and research topics: Urban History; History of the Secular and Parish Clergy; Prosopography; Digital Humanities.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3131-7356
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/E317-F872-2CA6
Repository: https://estudogeral.sib.uc.pt/cris/rp/rp08148
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Maria Antónia Lopes
Email: lopes.mariantonia@gmail.com
Maria Antónia Lopes holds a PhD in History and is a tenured associate professor in the University of Coimbra, where she oversees the History PhD program. She is a collaborating member of the CEIS20 and several national and international projects. She has published multiple papers in academic journals and collective volumes in Portugal and abroad. She has authored eight books and been the editor of another six, one of them translated into Italian.
Main interests and research topics: History of Poverty and Social Policy; History of the Misericórdias; Doctrinal History of Charity and Philanthropy; Women’s History; Biographical History; History of Private Life; Portugal in the Modern Age; Portugal in the Contemporary Age.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8485-4649
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/D717-C7B1-2F7A
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/MariaAnt%C3%B3niaLopes
Research group(s): Encontros e desencontros de culturas; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Maria do Rosário Morujão
Email: mrbmorujao@uc.pt
Maria do Rosário Morujão has a PhD in History of the Middle Ages and is an assistant professor at the University of Coimbra. She is a collaborator at the Centre for the Study of Religious History (CEHR-UCP), and is a member of various national and international organisations, including the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique, the Société Française d’Héraldique et de Sigillographie, and the Sociedad Española de Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas. She has worked on, and is currently active in, several research projects, both in Portugal and abroad, and coordinates the project “SIGILLVM PORTVGALIAE – corpus of Portuguese seals”.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1311-4720
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/2216-698B-F8AC
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/MariadoRos%C3%A1rioMoruj%C3%A3o
Grupo(s) de investigação: Estudo e edição de fontes; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho
Email: coelhomh@gmail.com
Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho holds a PhD in History and is an emerita full professor retired from the University of Coimbra. She is President of the Portuguese Society for Medieval Studies (SPEM) and Vice-President of the Portuguese Academy of History. She is a member of several other academies and commissions in Portugal and abroad. She is a member of the editorial board in the Portuguese Mint and Official Printing Office (INCM). She was in several assessment panels on History and Archaeology, for the Portuguese Agency for the Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) and the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She has been active in several national and international research projects. She has taught in the École Nationale des Chartes as well as several universities across Brazil and Europe.
Main interests and research topics: Portugal in the Middle Ages; Diplomatics; Political History (biography); History of Religion; (Rural and Urban) Economic and Social History; History of Political Powers; Food History.
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8030-4578
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/8112-FE8A-FA4A
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/MariaHelenaCruzCoelho
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Local and regional heritage and identities
- Maria José Azevedo Santos
Email: mazevedo_santos@yahoo.com
Maria José Azevedo Santos holds a PhD in History and is a Retired Full Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. Director of the Archive of the University of Coimbra between 2003 and 2011. Established, in 2008, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities the Master’s degree in Food: Sources, Culture and Society. Full Member of the Portuguese Academy of History; Full Member of the Historical and Geographical Institute of Brazil; Honorary Member of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine; Member of the Network of Excellence of the European Institute for Food History and Cultures; National Representant of the International Committee of Experts on the Way of St. James (Xunta de Galicia); Codirector of the Institutional Chair on the Camino de Santiago and Pilgrimages of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Author of dozens of books and articles published in Portugal and abroad.
Main interests and research topics: Palaeography; Diplomatics and Codicology; Male and Female Monasticism; Food History.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9147-0213
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/DC1C-19BC-8F68
Repository: https://estudogeral.uc.pt/cris/rp/rp17722
Research group(s): The study and publishing of primary sources
- Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo
Email: mbjeronimo@gmail.com
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo has a PhD in History from King’s College, University of London and is Associate Professor of History at the University of Coimbra, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, in the Department of History, European Studies, Archaeology and Arts. He is also a researcher at the Centre for the History of Society and Culture (University of Coimbra) and scientific co-coordinator of the PhD program in Heritage of Portuguese Influence (III/CES-UC). Among other topics, his research interests focus on the global, connected and comparative history of imperialism and colonialism and on International and Transnational History (19th-20th centuries). He has published regularly, in Portugal and abroad, in leading publishers and journals. He coordinates the research project The worlds of (under)development: processes and legacies of the Portuguese colonial empire in a comparative perspective (1945-1975) and is co-responsible for the research project Humanity Internationalized: cases, dynamics and comparisons (1945-1980), both funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal).
Main interests and research topics: Imperial and colonial History; International and Transnational History; Modern and Contemporary History; European Colonialism in Africa; Internationalism; International Organizations.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8829-4909
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/3E12-56B6-9C33
Repository: https://uc-pt.academia.edu/MiguelBandeiraJer%C3%B3nimo
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Reimagining the historian’s craft
- Rosa Marreiros
To be made available in due course.
- Rui Nobre
Email: rnobre1@gmail.com
Rui Nobre has a degree in History (variant of Archaeology) from the University of Coimbra (1985). He has a Master’s degree in Multimedia in Education from the University of Aveiro (2009) and a Phd in Advanced Studies in History, Medieval History from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra (2022) with the thesis The Order of the Temple in Portugal: men, heritage and powers.
Main interests and research topics: Religious-military orders, namely those of the Temple and of Christ.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-2084-5716
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/3A1B-A74C-37B7
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/RNobre
Research group(s): The study and publishing of primary sources
- Sandra Costa Saldanha
Email: sandrasaldanha@fl.uc.pt
Sandra Costa Saldanha holds a PhD in Art History and is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She is a member of the Heritage, Archives, and Museums and Conservation sections of the Portuguese National Council for Culture, and a member of the technical coordination group for the Rota das Catedrais (Cathedral Route). She was head of the Portuguese Episcopal Conference’s National Secretariat for the Cultural Heritage of the Church, where she implemented several projects and activities related to inventory, conservation, restoration, museums, archives and libraries.
Main interests and research topics: Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sculpture; Portuguese and Italian art of the Modern Period; Christian Iconography; Cultural Heritage of the Church.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5594-3581
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/FE10-9E96-64D3
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/SandraCostaSaldanha
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities
- Saul António Gomes
Email: sagcs@fl.uc.pt
Saul António Gomes holds a PhD in History from the University of Coimbra and is an associate professor in the Department of History, European Studies, Archaeology and Arts of the University’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities. He has served as vice-president of the University’s Scientific Council and Board of Directors. He collaborates with the Centre of Religious History Studies (CEHR) of the Portuguese Catholic University and is a member of the Portuguese Academy of History. He supervised the Fragmed – Corpus Portugaliae Fragmentorum project and was a team member in several other national and international projects. He was a guest professor of Paleography and Diplomatics at the Federal University of Goiás and the University of Brasília (Brazil).
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7188-610X
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/6F18-7088-963A
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/SaulAnt%C3%B3nioGomes
Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; The study and publishing of primary sources
- Walter Rossa
Email: wrossa@uc.pt
Walter Rossa is an architect with a master’s degree in Art History and a PhD in Architecture. He is a full professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Coimbra. He holds the UNESCO Chair in Intercultural Dialogue in Heritages of Portuguese Influence and co-holder of the Cunha Rivara Chair at Goa University. He has been invited to teach and research at various foreign institutions, has participated in and coordinated national and international projects, and has supervised academic examinations, eighteen of which have been completed. His research is carried out along two lines of great reciprocity: Portuguese-influenced architecture and urbanistic, and urban planning in heritage contexts. He is currently focussing his research on the search for interactions between academic activity and cooperation for development actions.
Main interests and research topics: Architecture and Urban Planning of Portuguese Influence; Planning in a context of relevant heritage.
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/A21E-57AB-16E4
Repository: https://coimbra.academia.edu/WalterRossa
Research group(s): Local and regional heritage and identities