Bárbara Pinto Teixeira Direito (AB11-26CF-A258)

Curriculum Vitae

Bárbara Pinto Teixeira Direito

Bárbara Direito holds a PhD from the University of Lisbon (2013), where she wrote a doctoral thesis on land and colonialism in central Mozambique in the late 19th and early 20th. Between September 2017 and August 2019 she was a post-doctoral fellow at CIUHCT (Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology), Department of Social Sciences, FCT-NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal). She was awarded a CEEC individual contract in the FCT 2017 CEEC call. In the context of this award, since September 2019 she has been a Research Fellow at CIUHCT. Working in the broad fields of colonial history, the history of health and socio-environmental history, in the past years she has been developing research on pastoralism and veterinary health in 20th century colonial Mozambique. Between September and December 2022 she was a FLAD Visiting Professor at the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University. Since September 2023 she is Chief Editor of HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology. In recent years she has also developed research on the rural history of modern Portugal, namely in the context of the "Fireuses - Burning landscapes: A political and environmental history of the large wildfires in Portugal (1950-2020)" project. Se is also a co-Investigator of the "Climate history of nineteenth century Mozambique", funded by a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Bárbara Pinto Teixeira Direito

Citation names

Direito, Bárbara

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: AB11-26CF-A258
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9322-9757
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lKOOaPsAAAAJ&hl=en
Researcher Id: L-5486-2014
Scopus Author Id: 55769295600

Email addresses

barbaradireito@gmail.com (Professional)
b.direito@fct.unl.pt (Professional)

Addresses

CIUHCT - FCT/Nova. Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Pólo Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Campus de Caparica, Edif. VII, Piso 2, 2829-516 , Caparica, Almada, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

http://ciuhct.org/membros/barbara-direito (Scholar)
https://www.dcsa.fct.unl.pt/pessoas/barbara-direito (Professional)
https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/persons/b%C3%A1rbara-direito-2 (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - History and Archaeology - History

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2008/09 - 2013/06/26 Concluded	I Programa de Doutoramento em Ciência Política da Universidade de Lisboa (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal "Políticas coloniais de terras em Moçambique: o caso de Manica e Sofala sob a Companhia de Moçambique, 1892-1942" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovada com distinção e louvor
2002/09 - 2003/09 Concluded	European Master's Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA) (Mestrado) Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy "Victims’ Rights in national and particularly in international criminal procedure, origins and issues: the special status of victims before the International Criminal Court" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1997/09 - 2002/07 Concluded	BA in Law/Licenciatura em Direito (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Direito, Portugal "N/A" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/09/01 - 2025/08/31	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
	Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal (...)
2017/09/01 - 2019/08/31	Postdoc (Research)	Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2015/05/15 - 2017/07/31	Scientific officer/Bolseira de Gestão de Ciência e Tecnologia	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

2014/10 - 2015/05	Research assistant/Project "An International Collaboration on the Political, Social, and Cultural History of the Emergence of HIV/AIDS"	Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, United States

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2025/02/01 - Current	CATTLE IN MOTION: Knowledge, circulation and environments in the history of cattle in Portugal, 1750-1960 2023.12421.PEX Principal investigator Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2023/03/01 - 2025/05/31	Fireuses - Paisagens de fogo: Uma história política e ambiental dos grandes incêndios em Portugal (1950-2020) PTDC/HAR-HIS/4425/2021 Researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2023/01/01 - 2024/12/31	Climate history of nineteenth century Mozambique SRG22\220361 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) University of Lincoln, United Kingdom Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Portugal	The British Academy Leverhulme Trust Ongoing
2014/10 - 2015/05	An International Collaboration on the Political, Social, and Cultural History of the Emergence of HIV/AIDS RZ-51523-13 Post-doc Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, United States	National Endowment for the Humanities Concluded
2011 - 2014	Terras Além dos Mares: Direitos de Propriedade no Império Português Moderno/Lands Over Seas: Property Rights in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire PTDC/HIS- HIS/113654/2009 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2013/03/01 - 2013/06/30	1615, 1798, 1878, 1961 e 1975. Construindo um Estado-Império: Uma Sociologia Histórica do Colonialismo Português PTDC/CS-SOC/108650/2008 Research Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa - CESNOVA, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2008/02/01 - 2008/09/01	Direitos Sociais em Portugal: a sua Constitucionalização e Implicações Sociopolíticas PDCT/CPO/71295/2006 Research Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2014/02/01 - 2014/05/31	Participação portuguesa na I Guerra Mundial N/A Research Fellow

Outputs

Publications

Book	Direito, Bárbara. Terra e colonialismo em Moçambique/Land and colonialism in Mozambique. Portugal: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. 2020. Published
Book chapter	Direito, Bárbara. "(Forthcoming) From squatters to smallholders? Configurations of African land access in central and southern colonial Mozambique, 1910s- 1940s". In Lusophone Land Legacies in Comparative Perspective, ed. Susanna Barnes and Laura Yoder. Calgary, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 2025. In press Direito, Bárbara. "(Accepted; Volume under contract) Livestock farming and hunting". In Routledge Handbook on the economic history of natural resources edited by Madeleine Dungy, Espen Storli and Audrey Gerrard. 2025. Accepted Direito, Bárbara; Ágoas, Frederico. "(Accepted, Volume in press) Science and knowledge". In Oxford Handbook of Modern Transimperial History, ed. Damiano Mataschi, Cyrus Schayegh, Lale Can, Daniel Hedinger, Nadin Heé, and Shellen Wu.. 2025. Accepted Direito, Bárbara. "Visions of wildlife and hunting in the sportsmens paradise Exploring hunting photography from the Mozambique Company's archive". In Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860-1975, edited by Vicente, Filipa; Dias Ramos, Afonso, 95-116. United Kingdom: Palgrave, 2023. Published Direito, Bárbara. "Imprensa africana em Moçambique no início do século XX (The African press in Mozambique in the begining of the XXth century)". In Pobreza e Fome, uma história contemporânea. Temas, metodologias e estudos de caso (Poverty and hunger, a contemporary history. Themes, methodologies and case studies), ed. Ana I. Queiroz, Bárbara Direito et al, 145-152. Portugal: Imprensa de História Contemporânea, 2022. Published Ana Isabel Queiroz; Direito, Bárbara; Silva, Helena da; Pinto, Lígia Costa. "[Introduction to the themes of poverty and hunger in a historiographical context] Introdução aos temas da pobreza e da fome em contexto historiográfico". In Pobreza e fome, uma história contemporânea. Temas, metodologias e estudos de caso, edited by Ana Isabel Queiroz; Direito, Bárbara; Silva, Helena da; Pinto, Lígia Costa, 13-31. Lisboa, Portugal: Imprensa de História Contemporânea, 2022. Published Direito, Bárbara; Varanda, Jorge. "Biomedical health care in Guinea-Bissau, 1900-1974". In Learning from Empire: Medicine, Knowledge and Transfers under Portuguese Rule, edited by Bala, Poonam, 230-253. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. Published Direito, Bárbara. "African access to land in early 20th century Portuguese colonial thought". In Property Rights, Land and Territory in the European Overseas Empires, 255-263. Portugal: CEHC-IUL, 2015. Published Direito, Bárbara. "Caçados e caçadores nas fotografias do arquivo da Companhia de Moçambique/Hunter and hunted in the photographies of the archive of the Mozambique Company". In O império da visão: fotografia no contexto colonial português (1860-1960). Portugal: Edições 70, 2014. Published Direito, Bárbara. "Terra, trabalho e colonialismo em Moçambique: o caso do distrito de Inhambane, c.1900 c.1930/Land, labour and colonialism in Moambique: the case of Inhambane, c.1900-c.1930". In O Império Colonial em Questão (secs. XIX-XX). Poderes, Saberes e Instituições, edited by Domingos, Nuno; Jerónimo, Miguel, 197-222. Portugal: Edições 70, 2012. Published
Book review	Direito, Bárbara. "Rencensão a 'Grandiosos Batuques. Tensões, arranjos e experiências coloniais em Moçambique (1890-1940)'". Review of '"Grandiosos Batuques". Tensões, arranjos e experiências coloniais em Moçambique (1890-1940) LVI, 238 (2021): 187-190. http://analisesocial.ics.ul.pt/documentos/n238a08.pdf. Published Direito, Bárbara. "Administration and Taxation in Former Portuguese Africa 1900-1945". 226, (2018): 224-227. http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0003-25732018000100012. Published Direito, Bárbara. "Women, Migration & the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique: 1945-1975". Review of Women, Migration & the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique: 1945-1975 218, (2016): 204-206. http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0003-25732016000100011. Published
Conference abstract	Direito, Bárbara; Bárbara Direito, Cristina Luís, Daniel Gamito-Marques, Francisco Malta Romeiras, Hugo Pereira, Inês Gomes, José Carlos A. "Perspectivas cruzadas na construção do conhecimento. 6.º Encontro Nacional de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia. Livro de resumos/Conference Abstract Book". 2018. Published • Editor
Dictionary entry	Direito, Bárbara. "Andrada, Joaquim Paiva de (1846-1928)". In e-Dicionário da Terra e do Território no Império Português, 2013. http://edittip.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/andrada-joaquim-paiva-de-1846-1928. Published Direito, Bárbara. "Companhia de Moçambique/Mozambique Company". In e-Dicionário da Terra e do Território no Império Português, 2013. http://edittip.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/companhia-de-mocambique. Published Direito, Bárbara. "Companhias majestáticas/Chartered Companies". In e-Dicionário da Terra e do Território no Império Português, 2013. https://edittip.net/category/companhias-majestaticas/. Direito, Bárbara. "Manica e Sofala". In e-Dicionário da Terra e do Território no Império Português, 2013. https://edittip.net/category/manica-e-sofala/. Published Direito, Bárbara. "Reservas indígenas/Native reserves". In e-Dicionário da Terra e do Território no Império Português, 2013. https://edittip.net/category/reservas-indigenas-africa/.
Edited book	Ana Isabel Queiroz; Direito, Bárbara; Silva, Helena da; Pinto, Lígia Costa. Pobreza e Fome, uma história contemporânea. Temas, metodologias e estudos de caso (Poverty and hunger, a contemporary history. Themes, methodologies and case studies), ed. Ana Isabel Queiroz, Bárbara Direito et al.. Lisboa, Portugal: Imprensa do Instituto de História Contemporânea. 2022. Published • Editor Property rights, land and territory in the European Overseas Empires. Portugal: CEHC, ISCTE-IUL. 2015. Published • 10.15847/cehc.prlteoe.945X000 • Editor
Journal article	Direito, Bárbara. "Cattle circulation, beef market control strategies and african agro-pastoralists in southern Mozambique, 1900s-1930s". Journal of African History (2024): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history/article/cattle-circulation-beef-market-control-strategies-and-african-agropastoralists-in-southern-mozambique-1900s30s/D5327D610DD2EE28A33BAA9116AB85A2. Published Bárbara Direito. "Exploring the dynamics of the relationship between South Africa and southern Mozambique (Book review)". South African Journal of Science 119 7/8 (2023): https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2023/15840. Published • 10.17159/sajs.2023/15840 Bárbara Direito. " ‘A Livestock Country Cannot Be Improvised’: Cattle Improvement, Economic Ambitions, and the Environment in Southern Mozambique, 1910s–1940s". South African Historical Journal (2022): https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2022.2064909. 10.1080/02582473.2022.2064909 Direito, Bárbara. "Livestock and veterinary health in southern Mozambique in the beginning of the twentieth century: the case of the fight against East Coast fever". História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos 28 4 (2021): 939-959. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-59702021000400003. Open access • 10.1590/s0104-59702021000400003 Direito, Bárbara. "The land question in early-20th century Portuguese colonial thought". Portuguese Journal of Social Science 16 2 (2017): 181-193. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/pjss/2017/00000016/00000002/art00004;jsessionid=8iumqqc46erf1.x-ic-live-03. Published • https://doi.org/10.1386/pjss.16.2.181_1 Direito, Bárbara. "Terra e africanos no pensamento colonial português, c. 1920 - c. 1945/Land and Africans in Portuguese colonial thought, c.1920-c.1945". Análise Social 213 (2014): 768-793. http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0003-25732014000400001. Published Direito, Bárbara. "Land and colonialism in Mozambique-policies and practice in Inhambane, c.1900-c.1940". Journal of Southern African Studies 39 2 (2013): 353-369. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84879176339&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1080/03057070.2013.795812
Thesis / Dissertation	Direito, Bárbara. "Políticas coloniais de terras em Moçambique:o caso de Manica e Sofala sob a companhia de Moçambique, 1892-1942/Colonial land policies in Mozambique: the case of Manica and Sofala under the Mozambique Company, 1892-1942". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/8723.
Translation	Direito, Bárbara. Translation of David Washbrook's work collected in "Histórias da Índia. Entre Impérios e Mundos Globais" (Histories of India. Between Empires and Global Worlds). Lisboa, Portugal: Edições 70. 2022. Published Direito, Bárbara. Translation of Frederick Cooper's work, collected in Histórias de África. Capitalismo, Modernidade e Globalização (Histories of Africa. Capitalism, Modernity and Globalization). Portugal: Edições 70. 2016. Published Direito, Bárbara. «Querem fazer um mar...» - Ensaio sobre a barragem do Alqueva e a aldeia alagada da Luz, de Fabienne Wateau. Portugal: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. 2014. Published

Other

Other output

History, Activism and the Environment - An interview with Vinita Damodaran. Vinita Damodaran. 'History, Activism and the Environment. An interview by Bárbara Direito and José Miguel Ferreira'. Práticas da História, Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past, n.º 10 (2020): 269-285.. 2020. Direito, Bárbara; Ferreira, José Miguel Moura. https://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/21842/15991.
As histórias da história de África - Entrevista a Isabel Castro Henriques/The histories of the history of Africa - An interview with Isabel Castro Henriques. Isabel Castro Henriques. As histórias da história de África - Interview by Elisa Lopes da Silva and Bárbara Direito. Práticas da História, Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past, n.º 8 (2019): 221-257.. 2019. Direito, Bárbara; Silva, Elisa Lopes da. https://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/22419/16511.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/09/19	Entre secas e ciclones – Notas de uma investigação em curso sobre a história do clima de Moçambique no século XIX	Conferências CIUHCT CIUHCT (Portugal)
2024/08/20	The climate of Southern Mozambique in different nineteenth century documentary sources	World Congress of Environmental History University of Oulu (Oulu, Finland)
2024/07/12	Understanding the history of livestock farming since 1750 – themes, methods and approaches	European Business History Association – Annual Congress NOVA SBE/ISEG (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/06/14	“Trypanosomiasis control and the environment in Mozambique in the first half of the 20th century”	5th Luso-Brazilian Conference on the History of Tropical Medicine (Lisboa e Braga, Portugal)
2023/06/03	Islands in a sea of flies: livestock, animal disease and the environment in Mozambique, 1900s-1940s	Environmental Impact of the Portuguese Empire King's College (London, United Kingdom)
2023/04/27	Gado e colonialismo: o percurso do gado Landim no Sul de Moçambique entre ciência zootécnica, economia e ambiente	Encontro às quintas Caso Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz
2023/02/02	Climate and the environment in Southern Mozambique. Some evidence from 19th and 20th century missionary sources	International Symposium Drought, Famine and Portuguese Colonialism in Africa - History and Memory (19th-21st centuries) Instituto de História Contempoânea; CIUHCT - NOVA FCT (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/07/04	A socio-environmental history of livestock practices in Magude, Mozambique, 1890s-1930s	Conference of the European Society for Environmental History - University of Bristol European Society for Environmental History (Bristol, United Kingdom)
2022/06/30	'A livestock keeping country cannot be improvised' Improving indigenous and imported bovine cattle breeds in Southern Mozambique, 1920s-1940s	Society for the Social History of Medicine 50th Anniversary Conference: Resilience - Swansea University Society for the Social History of Medicine (Swansea, United Kingdom)
2022/03/16	Studying Land and Colonialism in Mozambique – Evidence from the region of Manica and Sofala under the rule of the Mozambique Company, c.1890s-c.1940s (online)	Global Legal History on the Ground – Seminar Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Berlin, Germany)
2021/06/22	Epizootias no Sul de Moçambique colonial – O caso da East Coast Fever/Epizooties in colonial Southern Mozambique - The case of East Coast Fever	4º Encontro Luso-brasileiro de História da Medicina Tropical/4th Luso-Brasilian Meeting on the History of Tropical Medicine (21-24 June 2021)
2021/05/24	From squatters to smallholders? Land policies regarding African populations in late 1920s-early 1940s colonial Mozambique	Symposium on Lusophone Land Legacies in Global Perspective Hosted virtually at University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
2019/10/03	Imprensa/Press	Oficina - História da Pobreza e da Fome - Contextos Coloniais Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/07/20	Colonialism, economic ambitions and the environment: cattle expansion in Southern Mozambique, 1910s-1940s	CHAM2019: Innovation, Invention and Memory in Africa CHAm, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/06/25	Terra e colonialismo no centro de Moçambique, 1892-1942/Land and colonialism in central Mozambique, 1892-1942	Lisbon Economic History Seminars Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/11/06	Curar, repovoar e ordenar: o caso do combate a doenças veterinárias no Sul de Moçambique, c.1900-1930/Heal, resettle and organise: the case of the fight against veterinarian disease in Southern Mozambique, c.1900-1930	III Encontro Luso-brasileiro de História da Medicina Tropical/III Luso-brazilian Meeting of Tropical Medicine Universidade de Manaus (Manaus, Brazil)
2018/09/06	Tropical medicine and colonialism in Africa – The institutionalization of veterinarian medicine in Mozambique, 1900s-1930s	46º Congress of International Society for the History of Medicine Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/07/09	Percursos da medicina tropical entre Portugal e a antiga África colonial portuguesa – O caso da tripanossomíase animal/Trajectories of tropical medicine between Portugal and former portuguese colonial Africa - The case of animal trypanossomiasis	6.º Encontro Nacional de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa)
2018/06/25	Conflitos em torno da conservação da natureza no período tardo-colonial: o caso do parque da Quiçama, Angola/Conflicts surrounding nature conservation in the late colonial period: the case of Quiçama Park, Angola	Oficina Ciência e Império Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/04/11	Medicina veterinária e império em África, séc. XX – Notas de um projecto de investigação em curso/Veterinarian medicine and empire in Africa, 20th century - Notes from an ongoing project	Seminário Ciência e Império Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/12/14	The relationship between human health and veterinary health in 20th century colonial Mozambique – A view from the colonial health system	Workshop on the History of Tropical Medicine Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (Lisboa)
2015/10/06	Wildlife, hunting and colonialism in central Mozambique in the early 20th century	Human And Nonhuman Animals: Liberation, History And Critical Animal Studies, 4th Eu Conference for Critical Animal Studies FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa)
2015/04/15	HIV-2 in Guinea-Bissau – Life, health and liberation under/of the colonial yoke	The Political, Social and Cultural History of the Emergence of HIV/AIDS Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2015/02/04	A construção dos saberes veterinários em Moçambique colonial, séculos XIX-XX – Uma perspectiva geral/Building veterinarian knowledge in colonial Mozambique, 19 and 20th centuries	VII CONLAB – Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa)
2014/11/14	As populações africanas nas políticas de ‘desenvolvimento rural’ e de povoamento em Moçambique no pós-II Guerra Mundial – Objectivos, resultados, reacções/African populations in the "rural development" and settlement policies in Mozambique in the post-II World War period	34ª Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de História Económica e Social (APHES) – Saber. Produzir. Abastecer, Da Idade Média ao Século XXI CHAM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa)
2014/09/12	Debates on nagana control in colonial Mozambique in the 1940s	41st Congress of the World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine Imperial College (London)
2014/06/27	African access to land in early twentieth century Portuguese colonial thought	Conferência internacional «Property Rights, Land and Territory in the European Overseas Empires ISCTE, IUL (Lisboa)
2014/06/11	Wetlands and colonialism in Mozambique: the case of the machongos of Inhambane, c. 1890-c. 1940	Second World Congress of Environmental History, Environmental History in the Making Universidade do Minho (Guimarães)
2013/11/13	Organizar o espaço, organizar a população: reservas «indígenas» no território da Companhia de Moçambique, 1914-1942/Organize the space, organize the population - Native reserves in the territory of the Mozambique Company, 1914-1942	Workshop A propriedade na construção do Império Português FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa)
2013/06/27	'Rural development’ and African land tenure in late colonial Mozambique	European Conference on African Studies, African dynamics in a multipolar world ISCTE (Lisboa)
2013/03/11	The fight against animal trypanosomiasis in 20th century colonial Mozambique	Shaping Landscapes and Building Expertise – The role of imperial technology in the making of the 19th and 20th century world Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa)
2012/10/25	‘O terror dos homens e o flagelo dos animais’: A doença do dono animal como problema em Moçambique	Congresso Internacional Saber Tropical em Moçambique: História, Memória e Ciência Instituto de Investigação Científica e Tropical (Lisboa, Portugal)
2011/11/18	Terra e colonialismo em Moçambique: o caso de Inhambane, c. 1900-c. 1930	XXXI Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de História Económica e Social Universidade de Coimbra (Lisboa, Portugal)
2010/11/16	Colonial state and ‘natural resources’ in Mozambique: The case of Gorongosa Park	Conference: States, Culture & Society in Africa: Continuities and Changes Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Lisboa, Portugal)
2009/11/05	Políticas coloniais fundiárias no século XX	Seminário “Os Palop no ICS: objectos e metodologias Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/10/02 - 2023/10/03	Gado no Mundo Lusófono – Perspectivas Históricas e Antropológicas (2023/10/02 - 2023/10/03) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/06/14 - 2023/06/20	5th Luso-Brazilian Conference on the History of Tropical Medicine (2023/06/14 - 2023/06/20) Conference (Co-organisor)	Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/02/02 - 2023/02/03	International Symposium Drought, Famine and Portuguese Colonialism in Africa - History and Memory (19th-21st centuries) (2023/02/02 - 2023/02/03) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2022/01 - 2022/12	CIUHCT Conferences in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, co-convener in 2022 (2022/01 - 2022/12) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/06/21 - 2021/06/24	4º Encontro Luso-brasileiro de História da Medicina Tropical/4th Luso-Brasilian Meeting on the History of Tropical Medicine (21-24 June 2021) (2021/06/21 - 2021/06/24) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Medicina, Brazil Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019 - 2021	Seminário Ciência e Império/Science and Empire Seminar (2019 - 2021) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2019/10/03 - 2019/10/03	Oficina - História da Pobreza e da Fome - Contextos Coloniais/Workshop - History of Poverty and Hunger - Colonial Contexts (2019/10/03) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Portugal
2018/07/09 - 2018/07/11	6.º Encontro Nacional de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia/6th National History of Science and Technology Meeting (2018/07/09 - 2018/07/11) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2015/03 - 2015/06	Marcas Do Império – Colonialismo e Pós-Colonialismo na Época Contemporânea/Legacies of Empire - Colonialism and post-colonialism in the contemporary period (2015/03 - 2015/06) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2014/04 - 2014/06	Marcas Do Império – Colonialismo e Pós-Colonialismo na Época Contemporânea (2014/04 - 2014/06) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2022/02/03 - 2022/02/03	Committee member of the Master's thesis defence entitled "Secas e Fomes em Cabo Verde no Alvorecer do Século XX – A crise de 1901-1904. Causas e consequências" Member	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2022/01/09 - 2022/12/15	Environment, Health and Colonial Society in Africa, 19th and 20th centuries (Fall semester 2022, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University)	Environment, Health and Colonial Society in Africa – 19th and 20th centuries	Brown University, United States
2021/09/24 - 2021/09/24	Learning from the past in biomedicine: An introduction to the history of medicine	NBR - Nova Biomedical Research Master - Critical Skills Course (Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
2020/09/25 - 2020/09/25	Learning from the past in biomedicine: An introduction to the history of medicine	NBR - Nova Biomedical Research Master - Critical Skills Course (Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
2019/09/26 - 2019/09/26	Learning from the past in biomedicine: An introduction to the history of medicine	NBR - Nova Biomedical Research Master, Critical Skills Course (Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
2018/09/18 - 2018/09/18	Learning from the past in biomedicine: An introduction to the history of medicine	NBR – Nova Biomedical Research Master, Critical Skills Course (Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2022/01 - 2022/02	Jury member, Call to select three post-doctoral fellows for the Institute of Contemporary History, FCSH, NOVA University, Lisbon) (Jan-Feb 2022) Evaluator	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024/04/01 - Current	(Member of Editorial Board) Historia Agraria (1139-1472)
2023/09/01 - Current	(Chief Editor) HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology (1646-7752)	Sciendo

Distinctions

Award

2021	FLAD Visiting Professor at Brown University Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Other distinction

2022	Visiting Fellow, African Studies Center Leiden, Universiteit Leiden (1 May-3 June 2022) Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden, Netherlands
2018	Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus/Concurso Estímulo ao Emprego Científico Individual Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2017	Post-Doctoral Fellowship Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2014	Prêmio Império – Terra & Território (Empire Prize - Land and Territory), for the best PHD thesis on land issues
2008	PhD Fellowship Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal