Carla Vieira
Principal Investigator

CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas Alberto Benveniste, FLUL

Carla Vieira is a postdoctoral researcher at the CHAM - Center for the Humanities, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Her research is focused on the history of Portuguese conversos and the Western Sephardic Diaspora, and she is also member of the Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas Alberto Benveniste and editor of the journal Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas.

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Paula Ochôa
Coordinator

CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Paula Ochôa is an Assistant Professor in the History Department and Researcher at CHAM - Center of Humanities (FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa). She coordinates the Master's Degree in Heritage Studies (https://www.fcsh.unl.pt/cursos/patrimonio/) and is specialized in Information Science.

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Daniel Alves
Coordinator

Laboratório de Humanidades Digitais IHC, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Daniel Alves is an Assistant Professor in the History Department and researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, both at the FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. He is Editor of the journal IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities, Edinburgh University Press (https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ijhac), and Editor-in-Chief of the Portuguese version of the Programming Historian website (https://programminghistorian.org/pt/). He coordinates the Digital Humanities Lab (http://dhlab.fcsh.unl.pt/).

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Kevin Carreira Soares
Research fellow

PIUDHist – ICS-UL

Kevin Carreira Soares holds a master’s degree in early modern history (2015) and he is currently enrolled in the Inter-University Doctoral Programme in History: Change and Continuity in a Global World (PIUDHist). His main areas of research are: History of the Iberian Empires. Ecclesiastical History, Political History and Connected History, in global perspective.

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Joana Rodrigues
Research fellow

CETAPS, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Joana Rodrigues holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Translation from NOVA University of Lisbon, with a specialization in English and Spanish, and is currently pursuing her Master’s Degree in Modern Languages and Cultures at the same institution. She has also been developing research work in the area of Anglo-Portuguese Studies at CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies). Her main areas of interest are Travel Writing and Women’s Studies.

Andrea Cicerchia
Researcher

CEHR, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Andrea Cicerchia is a PhD in Political and Social History of Modern and Contemporary Europe. He is currently a foreign associate researcher at the Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa de Lisboa (Portugal). He is a member of the groups História das Inquisições and Expansão Religiosa: Civilizações e Cultura (CEHR-UCP, Lisboa), and Religiosidad nativa, idolatría e instituciones eclesiástica en los mundos ibéricos, moderna época, (PAPIIT-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

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Inês de Sá
Researcher

CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Inês de Sá holds a degree in History from the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. She is a scholarship holder at CHAM - Center for the Humanities and is currently attending the Master's in History at the FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

Joana Vieira Paulino
Researcher: Digital Humanities

Laboratório de Humanidades Digitais IHC, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Joana Vieira Paulino has a PhD in History, with a specialization in Contemporary History from Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and is an integrated researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History from the same institution. Currently, she develops her activity as a junior researcher in the Digital Humanities Lab (IHC - NOVA FCSH).

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Margarida Ramos
Researcher: Controlled vocabularies and data organisation

Centro de Linguística, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Margarida Ramos is an integrated member of the Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology (LLT) group at the Linguistic Center of NOVA University of Lisbon (NOVA CLUNL). Her main research interests focus on the terminological analysis of specialised corpora, resorting to semi-automatic tools for text analysis in order to (semi)formally model special field knowledge, namely in the scope of e-Lexicography and ontologies.

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Maria Aires Carmo
Researcher

FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Maria de Aires Carmo is a PhD student in Archival Sciences with a Master Degree in Heritage Archive Collections. She is an Art Historian, Archivist and Librarian, who has developed collaborative curation projects in libraries, archives and museums, in the context of Artists archive collections. She has collaborated in Open Access, Open Sciences and Digital Humanities projects, such as the Google Books, at the British Library, and the ROSSIO project, at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Library, which integrates and feeds the Europeana platform. At present, she works as an academic archivist and information curator at FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

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Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço
Researcher

CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas Alberto Benveniste, FLUL, CEHR, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço is a researcher at the CHAM – Center for Humanities (Universidade Nova de Lisboa); at the CEHR-Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and at the Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas Alberto Benveniste (Universidade de Lisboa). He is Visiting Professor at the University of Saint Joseph- USJ (Macau). His area of ​​expertise is the history of Macao and the Philippines in the 16th and 17th centuries, with special focus on the presence and activities of the Inquisition in these territories. He is the author of the book A Articulação da Periferia. Macau e a Inquisição de Goa published by Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau and by Fundação Macau (Lisbon – Macau, 2016).

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Pedro Pinto
Researcher

CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Pedro Pinto is an integrated researcher at the CHAM - Center for the Humanities, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. His research is focused on the publication of primary sources related to Portuguese Medieval Parliament and Chancellery, and related to the Arabian Gulf and East Africa during the Modern Ages. He is one of the editors of the online journal Fragmenta Historica.

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Rui Bressiani Queirós de Faria
Researcher

Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

Graduated in History and MA student in Medieval Studies at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. His research is focused on the socio-economic profile of the Jewish communities in Medieval Portugal, with a particular approach on micro-history. He is finalizing his MA dissertation on the Jewish community of Porto in the 15th century. His research interests also touch on Medieval conversos and Hispanic multiculturalism, namely on poetic culture.

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Susana Bastos Mateus Researcher

Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas Alberto Benveniste, FLUL, CIDEHUS, Universidade de Évora, CEHR, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Susana Bastos Mateus is researcher at CIDEHUS, Universidade de Évora, at the Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas Alberto Benveniste, Universidade de Lisboa, and member of CEHR – Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Her principal research field focuses on the impact of forced conversion on the first generations of New Christians, for instance in the dynamics of the Sephardic diaspora of the 16th century.

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Teresa Oliveira
Researcher

CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Maria Teresa Oliveira holds a master's degree in Museology and is currently studying for her PhD in Art History at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Besides her studies in Museology, she has participated in several research projects as a paleographer, working in the transcription and publication of documents from the Medieval and Modern eras and in data insertion and organization.

Callenciane Ferreira Jung
Collaborator for social media and external communication

FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Callenciane Ferreira Jung has a degree in Social Communication - Journalism (UFC / Brazil) and is pursuing her Master's Degree in Information Management and Curation (FCSH / NOVA IMS) at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She is currently a social media collaborator on the WSD Roadmap project and teaches remote classes at the Volkshochschule Nördlicher Breisgau (VHS / Germany).

Inês Pinto Coelho
Project manager

CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Andreia Amoroso Domingues
Project manager

DAI, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Maria João Estêvão
Translation and revision

João Vicente
Design

Integrated students

Ana Rebeca Cassiano, MA student

António San-Payo, PhD student

Camila Silva, undergraduate student

Constança Migueis de Almeida, undergraduate student

Lara Rodrigues, undergraduate student

Mariana Lourenço Reis, MA student

Miguel Torres de Carvalho, MA student