Profile
Full Professor of Contemporary History and Theory of History at the University of Lisbon. He is also a researcher at the History Centre of the University of Lisbon, where he coordinates the Uses of the Past Research Group. He has a master’s degree in Portuguese Culture and Literature from the FCSH of Universidade Nova (1989) and a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Lisbon (1995).
His main areas of research are historiographies and historians, memory policies, nationalisms, history of universities, relations between Portugal and Spain and from a transnational and comparative historical perspective also in the American and European contexts.
Among other studies, he published Historiografia e memória nacional no Portugal do século XIX (1846-1898) (1998) [Historiography and national memory in nineteenth-century Portugal (1846-1898)]; Consciência histórica e nacionalismo. Portugal (séculos XIX e XX) (2008) [Historical consciousness and nationalism. Portugal (19th and 20th centuries)] and Iberismos – nação e transnação, Portugal e Espanha (c.1807- c.1931) (2017) [Iberisms – nation and transnation, Portugal and Spain];
‘Transnational identities in Portugal and Spain (c.1892-c.1931): Hispano-Americanism, Pan-Lusitanism and Pan-Latinism’, International Journal of Iberian Studies, 31:2, 2018, pp. 75-96; ‘History, citizenship and near past in times of dictatorship: Portugal in an Iberian context’, in História da Historiografia. International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography, v. 16, n. 41, p. 1-30, 2023. He is co-editor of A Universidade de Lisboa séculos XIX e XX (2013) [The University of Lisbon in 19th and 20th centuries], Historiografia e Res Publica [Historiography and Res Publica] (2017). He is the editor of the Dictionary of Portuguese Historians (1779-1974), online (on the website of the National Library of Portugal and belongs to the research group Languages of Identity and Difference in the Iberconceptos network. He has been awarded the following prizes: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation/Portuguese Academy of History Contemporary History Prize, 2018; Análise Social Prize 2019 (ex-equo) and António Sérgio Prize CASES, 2022.
