Research Team
 | José Pedro Paiva (IR) – FLUC/CHSC José Pedro Paiva is PhD in History (Early Modern and Contemporary studies), and professor with tenure at the University of Coimbra. Currently he is also director of the University Archive and of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the same university. He is researcher at the Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura (CHSC) of University of Coimbra, collaborator at the Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa of Portuguese Catholic University (CEHR - UCP), and member of the Academia Portuguesa da História. He has coordinated and been involved in various Portuguese and international projects and was visiting professor at the University of S. Paulo and fellow of the John Carter Brown Library and the Nederlanse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek. His main areas of research are: Religious History; Inquisition; Catholic Reformation; Early Modern Witchcraft; Welfare and poor relief; Portuguese Early Modern History; Portuguese Seaborne Empire; Iberian Union (1580-1640). CV: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5312-1138 Publications: https://cegot.academia.edu/JosePaiva |
 | Jaime Ricardo Gouveia (CO-IR) – FLUC/CHSC Graduated in History (2003) and Master in Early Modern History (2007) by the University of Coimbra. Master of Research (2008) and PhD of History and Civilization (2011) by the European University Institute (EUI). Author of 16 books of History and dozens of articles in scientific journals. He received six scientific awards, and among them the Gulbenkian Prize of the Portuguese Academy of History (2015). He has been a Fellow of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Foundation for Science and Technology. He is currently researcher at CHSC - University of Coimbra and professor at the Postgraduate Program on the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM). His main areas of research are: Early Modern History; Ecclesiastical and Religious History; Comparative and Transnational History; History of Law; Colonial history. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6355281088932875 Publications: https://coimbra.academia.edu/JaimeGouveia |
 | Aldair Rodrigues - UNICAMP Aldair Rodrigues received his degree in History from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP, 2003), and his master's degree (2007) and a Ph.D. (2012) in Social History from the University of São Paulo (USP). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the State University of Campinas (2013-2016) and Yale University (CT, USA, 2014-2015), where he was a researcher at the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, coordinating the Brazil Lecture Series. He was a temporary professor at the Institute of International Relations at USP (2012) and is currently professor in the History Department of UNICAMP, focusing on the study of the African diaspora in colonial Brazil. His Ph.D dissertation received the national CAPES 2013 Prize for best thesis in Humanities. He is the author of Church and Inquisition in Brazil (Alameda, 2014) and Limpos de Sangue (Alameda, 2011). CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3869863702767857 Publications: https://unicamp.academia.edu/ARodrigues |
 | Ana Maria Mendes Ruas Alves Ana Maria Mendes Ruas Alves was born on January 24, 1961, in Oliveira do Hospital. She earned her BA, MA, and PhD degrees in History at the University of Coimbra and is a high school teacher. Her scientific interests range within Religious and Ecclesiastic History and Modern History. CV & Publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0692-0468 |
 | António Vitor Ribeiro – FLUC/CHSC António Vitor Ribeiro (b. 1974). He graduated in History, in the University of Coimbra (UC)(1999) and did his Master degree (2004) at the same institution, with the thesis “Um buraco no Inferno. João Pinto, o lavrador heresiarca e a Inquisição”. He did his Phd in History (UC) in 2009, presenting the thesis “O Auto dos Místicos. Mística, Religião Popular e Inquisição”. In this work he tried the assess the mystic cultural background in Portugal, both popular and learned. He was entitled with a Grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) in 2010, during which several articles were published, as well as a book (“O Império da Vontade e a Raiz cristã da descristianização”), published by the Coimbra University Press. In 2016 he won a Grant from the Cultural Institute from Macau, with a research project entitled “A génese de uma tradução: Macau e os jesuítas na formação de um “cristianismo chinês”. He is now working on a research project to be presented to FCT entitled “O século do Homem: Antropologia, violência e religião em Portugal (séc. XIX). |
 | Bruno Abreu Costa – FLUC/CHSC With a Bachelor (2011) and MA in History – Societies, Politics, and Religions (2013), by the University of Coimbra, and currently a PhD candidate in History at the University of Bergen, in Norway, Bruno Abreu Costa is the author of several publications in scientific journals and books about Portuguese history and culture. He is also a member of the following research centers: CHSC – University of Coimbra and CLEPUL – University of Madeira. His main areas of research are: Religious History. Church History. History of the Atlantic Archipelagos. Comparative History.
CV: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=8171634205976100 Publications: https://uib.academia.edu/BrunoAbreuCosta |
 | Daniel Norte Giebels – FLUC/CHSC University degree in Cultural Heritage by the University of Algarve (2004). Master’s degree in Modern History by the University of Coimbra (2008) and doctorate in Higher Studies in History - Modern Period by the same university (2016), with a study on the Lisbon Inquisition, developed with a PhD grant awarded by the Foundation for Science and Technology. In 2015, he obtained the 1st Prize of the national contest of historical and literary essay Antonio Rosa Mendes. He is an integrated researcher of the Center for the History of Society and Culture and a collaborator of the Centre of Religious History Studies. CV: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=2669864098011789 Publications: http://coimbra.academia.edu/DanielGiebels |
 | Ediana Ferreira Mendes – UFOB Bachelor in History (2008) by Federal University of Bahia and Master in Social History (2011) by History Postgraduate Program of Federal University of Bahia. Assistant Professor in Federal University of Western Bahia since 2015 and PhD student in History in University of Coimbra. Her main areas of research are: Religious and Political History in Portuguese America (17th to 18th centuries). CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1204556576910249 Publications: https://independent.academia.edu/EdianaMendes |
 | Ellen Cristina Marques Luz – École Nationale des Chartes/ENS-Paris I have a master degree in Histoire et Civilisations obtained in 2018 at the École de Hautes Études em Sciences Sociales de Paris (EHESS). I am also a student at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS) and at the École Nationale des Chartes (ÉNC) (2017-2019). I received a post-graduation scholarship from the CNPq program in History at the Universidade Federal da Bahia. I graduated in History in 2015 at the Universidade Federal da Bahia. I studied in Portugal for one semester (2014-2015) at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, after receiving a Santander University grant. I benefited from an Anthony John Russell Russell-Wood / UFBA scholarship for the years 2013-2014. From 2012 to 2015 I received a PIBIC- CNPq scholarship. I participate in the following research projects: A jacobeia e a ação reformadora dos bispos jacobeus na América Portuguesa (século XVIII); A História Cultura do mundo luso-brasileiro. Her main areas of research are: Early Modern History, Religious History, History of the Luso-Brazilian episcopate, Global History, Transnational History. CV: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4308903T4 |
 | Evergton Sales Souza – UFBA BA in History from the Federal University of Bahia (1994), MA in History from the Federal University of Bahia (1996), DEA in Modern and Contemporary History (Paris-Sorbonne) (1998) and PhD in Modern and Contemporary History - Université de Paris IV (Paris-Sorbonne) (2002). Associate professor at the Federal University of Bahia and a scientific productivity fellow at CNPq. He has experience in History, with emphasis on Religious History and Politics of the Portuguese world in the Modern Age, working mainly in the following subjects: religious history, Jansenism, church, Jacobean and relationship between Church and state in the Portuguese empire. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2934510984503951 Publications: https://andrelemos.academia.edu/EvergtonSalesSouza |
 | Gabriela Nóbrega – Master’s degree student in Early Modern History (FLUC) Graduated in History with Minor in Classical Studies (2016) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She presented the paper intitled “Clerics crimes in the Intendência Geral da Polícia (1790-1800)” on the V Meeting of Young Researchers in Early Modern History, on 1st June 2016. She was also member of the team was responsible for the elaboration of the place and names indexes as well as the bibliographical revision of the books História da Diocese de Viseu (2016) (3 vols.), awarded by the Academy of Portuguese History with Prémio Lusitânia. Her main areas of research are: Early Modern History. Ecclesiastical and Religious History. History of Culture ad Mentalities; Colonial History. CV: https://sig.fct.pt/fctsig/cv/presentation.pt/overview.aspx Publications: https://independent.academia.edu/NóbregaGabriela |
 | Gustavo Augusto Mendonça dos Santos – UFPE PhD student in History by UFPE, Master in History by UFRPE, Graduated in History by UFRPE. He has articles published in periodicals and books dealing with secular clergy, ecclesiastical justice and the Inquisition. He works in the area of social sciences and higher education degrees and dedicates himself to the research of the Brazilian colonial period and more specifically to the action of the Catholic Church and the Inquisition in the bishopric of Pernambuco during the 18th century. His main areas of research are: Modern History, Colonial History, Ecclesiastical History, History of the Inquisition, History of Pernambuco. CV: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4263531T0 Publications: https://ufpe.academia.edu/GustavoMendonça/Papers |
 | Jairzinho Lopes Pereira - KU Leuven/CHSC He received his licentiate in History at the University of Coimbra, Portugal (2006). Doctor of Theology (University of Helsinki, Finland, 2012) and Master of Science in European Politics and Policies (KU Leuven, Belgium, 2014), he is a post-doctoral research fellow at the FWO (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen/Flemish research Foundation) and at the History of Church and Theology Research Unit of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the KU Leuven, where he is also Teaching Assistant. He is member of the Centre for the History of Society and Culture of the Arts Faculty of the University of Coimbra and Associated Foreign Researcher at the Study Centre for Religious History of the Catholic University of Portugal. His main fields of interests are Patristics, the sixteenth century Reformations; Catholic Church and slavery in Africa; Political Theology; History of the Catholic Church in Cape Verde. CV: https://theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/researchers/00099708 |
 | Kevin Carreira Soares (PIUDHist – ICS-UL) Graduated (2013) in History and Master (2015) in Early Modern History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, he is student of the Inter-University Doctoral Programme in History: Change and Continuity in a Global World (PIUDHist), with a scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (PD/BD/128124/2016). Currently, he is preparing the thesis with the title “Episcopacy and Power: The construction of the Construction of Early Modern Iberian Monarchies in Asia (1558-1668)” with the supervision of Ângela Barreto Xavier (ICS-UL) and José Pedro Paiva (FLUC). His mains areas of research are: History of the Iberian Empires; Ecclesiastical History; Political History; Connected History CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9620-7054 Publications: https://lisboa.academia.edu/KevinCarreiraSoares |
 | Matilde Mendonça dos Santos – FLUC/CHSC Graduated in History (2003), Master in Modern History (2011) and PhD in High Studies in History - Modern Period (2017) by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. She is currently teacher and coordinator of the History and Culture discipline of the Pedro Gomes Secondary School (Cape Verde), an integrated researcher at CHSC - University of Coimbra and collaborator of the CHAM - Humanities Center (Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Universidade NOVA of Lisbon and University of the Azores). She presented some communications in national and international congresses (Cape Verde, Portugal and Spain). She published some papers in scientific journals and a chapter in a collective organization book. Her main areas of research are: Modern History and History of Portuguese Expansion, with special attention to the themes of Church History and local power in Cape Verde and other areas of the Portuguese empire. CV: https://sig.fct.pt/fctsig/cv/presentation.PT/overview.aspx Publications: http://www.cham.fcsh.unl.pt/files/file_000993.pdf |
 | Michelle Carolina de Britto – UNIFESP/Faculdade Anhanguera Phd student in the Federal University of Bahia, graduate (2014) and master in Modern History with with emphasis in Brasil Colonial (2018) by the School of Letters, Philosophy and Human Sciences of the Federal University of São Paulo. She has articles and texts published in annals of events and is currently a professor in private higher education in São Paulo next to the Anhanguera University Center. Her main areas of research are: Modern History; History of Brazil Colônia; Ecclesiastical and institutional history of the Church; History of Justice; History of the Church in Brazil. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9664888849774680 Publications: https://unifesp.academia.edu/MCarolina |
 | Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço - CHAM Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço is a researcher of CHAM − Centre for the Humanities (NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and University of the Azores), the Centre of Religious History Studies (Catholic University of Portugal) and the Chair of Sephardic Studies Alberto Benveniste (School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon). He is currently conducting his PhD at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities. He has developed research on the institutional practices of the Goa Inquisition and on the practices of inquisitorial representation in Southeast and East Asia in a comparative perspective, focusing on the cases of Macau and Manila. He’s been granted the Gulbenkian Award by the Portuguese Academy of History on his book Articulação da Periferia. Macau e a Inquisição de Goa. His main areas of research are: Inquisition, Institutional History, History of Cartography, Historiography, History of Asia, Religion. CV: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0432-3240 Publications: https://fcsh-unl.academia.edu/MiguelLourenço |
 | Paola Nestola – FLUC/CHSC Native of Italy, she is graduated cum laude at the University of Lecce-Salento (1997) in Cultural Heritage. She is PhD in Social History of Europe and the Mediterranean at the University of Lecce-Salento and the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice (2004), granted by Maria Curie Actions (2002-2003), developed at the University Pablo de Olavide Seville. FCT fellow of post-PhD (2009-2016) at the Center for History of Society and Culture of the University of Coimbra, where she is actually an integrated researcher. She won four scientific prizes for her edited investigations, just like the Gulbenkian Prize – History of Europe – given by the Portuguese Academy of History (2016). Published books, journal articles, etc. gathered in national and international reviews and congresses papers. Her main areas of research are: Religious History, Social and Political History; Iconography and Iconology, Comparative History; Centuries XVIth-XVIIIth. CV: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=4005008344167536 |
 | Pollyanna Gouveia Mendonça Muniz - UFMA She is a professor at the Federal University of Maranhão and in the Post-Graduate Program in History. Bachelor's at History from Federal University of Maranhão (2004), Master's at History from Federal University Fluminense (2007) and a PhD in History from Federal University Fluminense (2011). At present she has his attention focused on the relation between Ecclesiastical, Civil and Inquisitorial justice in the eighteenth century and diocesan administration in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Has researched the history of Brazil, Maranhão and Colonial Piauí. Has research with funding from CNPq and FAPEMA. She published an authorial book and three books arranged with other historians. She has published chapters of books and articles in specialized journals Her main areas of research are: History of Brazil; Religious History; Ecclesiastical History; Colonial History CV: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4138434P2 Publications: https://independent.academia.edu/PollyannaMendonçaMuniz |
