- Environmental History, Women's Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Iberian colonial empires, Cross-cultural studies (Culture), First Global Age, 1400-1800, and 22 moreEntrepreneurial Economics, Early Modern History, Global History, Connected History, Informal self-organised networks, Cultural Historical Geography, Colonial Brazil, Multiracial Identity, Business Economics, Economic History, Slave Trade, Social and Professional Networks, System Dynamics Modeling (in Econ )omics, Labor History (Economics), Faculdade De Letras Da Universidade Do Porto, Heritage Studies, Academia Porto, Polonia Amelia, Universidade do Porto, History, Anthropology, and Maritime Studiesedit
- I am a professor at the University of Porto (http://www.up.pt), Portugal, where I belong to the Department of History... moreI am a professor at the University of Porto (http://www.up.pt), Portugal, where I belong to the Department of History, Political and International Studies of the Faculty of Arts (http://www.letras.up.pt)
I am also a member of the CITCEM Research Centre of the University of Porto. In the CITCEM I am member of the Memory and Identity group that focuses on the study of social and cultural identities and heritage studies.
My scientific interests include agent based modelling applied to historical dynamics, environmental studies, maritime studies and self-organizing networks. These topics are applied to my direct interests on the Portuguese Overseas Expansion and the European Colonization in the Early Modern Age.
Multi and trans disciplinarily research is one of my current challenges.
Research projects:
- I am a member of the Advisory Board of the ERC - Starting Grant project: Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires 1500-1750: a Comparative Overview of Free Agents and Informal Empires in Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire (Porject leader: Cátia Antunes, Leiden University)
- I was a PI (Principal Investigator) of the Portuguese team of the international and interdisciplinary project DynCoppNet (Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Networks in the First Global Age (ESF: 06-TECT-FP-004; FCT: TECH/0002/2007 (Project of European Science Foundation’s EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme’s program “The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading”. For more information on the overall project see Jack Owens page: http://idahostate.academia.edu/JBJackOwens . For the Portuguese project and team see http://dyncoopnet-pt.org/
- I was the PL of the multidisciplinary project Hisportos – Portuguese Northwestern seaports (15th-18th. Centuries) (POCTI/HAR/36417/2000) (www.hisportos.com ) and the coordinator of the team of REDINPORT (Reconstitution of the dynamics of NW Portuguese Seaports in teh Early Modern Age), as member of the Instituto de História Moderna – Universidade do Porto.
My teaching activity is currently centred on Scientific Methodologies applied to Social Sciences, mostly related to transdisciplinary studies; History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion and History of European Colonization. I am a member of the Scientific Committees of the Master in History and Heritage and the PhD in History, both of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto.edit
“The Northwestern Portuguese Seaport System in the Early Modern Age” in Tapio Bergholm, Lewis R. Fischer and Elisabetta Tonizzi, coord.- Making Global and Local Connections: Historical Perspectives on Ports [Research in Maritime History series (No. 35)], Newfoundland, International Journal of Maritime History, 2008, pp.113-136.more
Implications of terrestrial and naval war in maritime communities (Portugal. Early Modern Age)in XXXIVth in International Congress of Military History (Trieste, 31 Agosto – 04 Setembro 2008) in “Proceedings of the XXXIV Congress on Military History “, [Trieste, Commisione Italiana di Storia Militare, 2009]more
“Reformulation de stratégies économiques en temps de guerre. L’étude d’un cas. Portugal . XVI-XVIIe siècles” in MARZAGALLI, Silvia et MARNOT, Bruno, dir. - Guerre et Economie dans le Monde Atlantique du XVIe au XXe. Siècle. Actes du colloque international de Bordeaux 3-4 Octobre 2003 , Bordeaux, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2006, pp. 269-286. more
- Women’s contribution to family, economy and social range in maritime societies. Portugal. 16th. Century . “Portuguese Studies Review”, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2006 , "Women in the Lusophone World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period", Editors: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira (Guest Editor)(University of Winnipeg) and Ivana Elbl (Trent University), pp. 269-285.more