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Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida Print E-mail
Researcher Compromisso com a Ciência, Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas (DCSA), FCT/UNL (Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon).
map.almeida(at)fct.unl.pt

Research interests

  • Popularisation of Science;
  • Contemporary Political and Social History.

Projects

  • "The Popularization of Science and Technology (19th-20th centuries)", (FCT/MCTES, Compromisso com a Ciência 2007), 2007-2012
As Member
  • "Reading newspapers: an open window to representations of science and technology in the Portuguese press (1900-1926)" (PTDC/HCT/68210/2006), 2008-2011.

Publications (selection)

  1. Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida, "Imagens da epidemia de cólera de 1853-1856 na imprensa portuguesa", História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, vol. 18, n. 4, 2011.
  2. Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida, «The Portuguese cholera morbus epidemic of 1853-56 as seen by the press», Notes & Records of The Royal Society, published online August 17, 2011.
  3. Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida, "Bocage, Carlos Roma du"; "Bocage, José Vicente Barbosa du"; "Borges, Domingos Pinheiro"; "Câmara Pestana, Luís da"; "Correia, Fernando da Silva"; "Garrett, António de Almeida"; "Gomes, Bernardino António"; "Jorge, Ricardo de Almeida"; "Sousa Martins, José Tomás de" Biografias de Cientistas e Engenheiros, CIUHCT, 2011.  
  4. Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida, Memórias Alentejanas do Século XX, (Cascais: Princípia, 2010).
  5. Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida, "Women in Portuguese politics", Portuguese Journal of Social Science, vol. 8, n. 2, 2009, 177-189.
  6. Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida, "Party politics in Portugal: municipalities and central government", European Societies, vol. 10, nº 3, Ed. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008, 357-378.
  7. Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida, "Independents and Citizen’s Groups in Portuguese Municipalities", in Marion Reiser, Everhard Holtmann (eds.), Farewell to the Party Model? Independent Local Lists in East and West European Countries, Urban and Regional Research International, vol. 11, (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften, 2008), pp. 233-251.
  8. Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida, "Fontes e metodologia para o estudo das elites locais em Portugal no século XX", Análise Social, vol. XLIII (188), 2008, 627-645.
  9. Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida, A Revolução no Alentejo. Memória e Trauma da Reforma Agrária em Avis, (Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2006).
  10. Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida, Família e Poder no Alentejo (Elites de Avis: 1886 – 1941), (Lisboa: Edições Colibri, 1997).