José Manuel Sobral has a degree in History and a PhD in Anthropology. Having been an Assistant Professor of History at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon for some years, he joined the Institute of Social Sciences of the same University in 1985, where he is currently Senior Researcher and Sub-Director. He has dedicated himself to the study of several subjects such as the Portuguese rural society - family, kinship, social structure, religion, power and politics - political clientelism, nationalism, migrations, transnationalism, racism, social memory, heritage, food and cuisine and pandemics, and has publications on all of them. He is now a member of the international research team of the project "From 1918 Spanish Flu to COVID-19: representations and consequences in a compared perspective (Europe and Latin America)”, funded by the BBVA Foundation (2020). Among his most recent publications as editor and author are the following books: A Pandemia Esquecida: Olhares Comparados sobre a Pneumónica, with M. L. Lima, P. Castro, P. S. e Sousa (2009); Identidade Nacional, Inclusão e Exclusão Social, with Jorge Vala (2010); Portugal, Portugueses: Uma Identidade Nacional (2012); Etnicidade, nacionalismo e Racismo: Migrações, Minorias Étnicas e Contextos Escolares, coeditor with M. C. Silva, (2015); Desigualdades e Políticas de Género, with M. C. Silva, F. B. Ribeiro, H. Araújo and M. L. Lima (2016); and, in english, Food between the Country and the City: Ethnographies of a Changing Global Foodscape, with N. Domingos and H. G. West (London, Bloomsbury, 2014). Several of his recently published studies are dedicated to nationalism, pandemics, memory and food: Sobral, J. M.Lima, M. L.Sousa, P. S. (2014) “And to Make Things Worse, the Flu: The Spanish Influenza in a Revolutionary Portugal”, in M. I. Porras-Gallo and R.A Davis (Eds.)The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas , pp.75-92, University of Rochester Press; Sobral, J. M.(2015 ) “State power and the genesis of Portuguese national identity”, in D. Sindic, M. Barreto, R. Costa-Lopes, Power and Identity, pp. 31-49, Psychology Press; Lima, M. L. Sobral, J. M.(2020) “Threat and Oblivion: Interpreting the Silence Over the Spanish Flu (1918–19)”, in D. Jodelet, J. Vala, E. Drozda-Senkowska (Eds.) Societies Under Threat: A Pluri-Disciplinary Approach, pp.187-199, Springer; Sobral, J. M.Lima, M. L.(2019); “Public science: the memory of the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 in Portugal”, In H.da Silva, P. Teodoro de Matos, J. Sardica (Eds.) War Hecatomb: International Effects on Public Health, Demography and Mentalities in the 20th Century (Series Population, Famille et Société, Vol. 32), pp.99-119, Peter Lang; Sobral, J. M.(2019) “Salt cod and the making of a Portuguese national cuisine”, in A.Ichijo, V. Johannes, R. Ranta (Eds.), The Emergence of National Food: The Dynamics of Food and Nationalism, pp.17-27 Bloomsbury. He has supervised or co-supervised 16 PhDs and 27 master’s dissertations. and currently supervises 5 PhDs. He has been a professor in several doctoral programmes and collaborates regularly with the media (newspapers, television, podcasts). He is a former president of APA (The Portuguese Anthropological Association) and has been the Editor- in-Chief of the journal Análise Social since 2015.