Research interests

• History of Technology in Portugal and in the Portuguese African Empire (Angola and Mozambique) (19th to 21st centuries);
• History of Science, especially of electricity (19th to 21st centuries);
• Globalisation of Science and Technology (knowledge transfer, networks, centre(s)/peripherie(s)).

Projects

• "The Electrification of African Portuguese Colonies”, post-doc research project, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, (FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BPD/44257/2008), 2009-2010.

Publications (selection)

1. Ana Paula Silva, “Power (dis)illusions – electricity networks in Portuguese African colonies”, in the proceedings of Reusing the Industrial Past – ICOHTEC & TICCIH Conference, 10-15 August 2010 Tampere, Finland.
2. Ana Paula Silva, “Cabos Submarinos” [“Submarine Cables”] in Maria Fernanda Rollo et al. (eds.), Dicionário da I República e do Republicanismo [Dictionary of I Republic and Republicanism] (forthcoming).
3. Ana Paula Silva, “Portugal, os cabos submarinos e a globalização: 1869-1939” [“Portugal, the Submarine Cables and Globalization: 1869-1939”], in the proceedings of Scientiarum Historia II - Encontro Luso-Brasileiro de História das Ciências [Scientiarum Historia II – Luso-Brasilian Meeting of History of Science], Rio de Janeiro, 28-30 October, 2009.
4. Ana Paula Silva, “Portugal e os cabos submarinos (1869-1939) – O papel do País no desenvolvimento da rede internacional” [“Portugal and the Submarine Cables (1869-1939) – the Role of the Country in the Development of the International Network”], in Seminário Marconi, Setembro de 2008, Lisboa: Fundação PT.
5. Ana Paula Silva, “Portugal and the Building of Atlantic Telegraph Networks – the role of a loser or a winner?”, HoST – journal of History of Science and Technology, Vol. 2, fall 2008.
6. Ana Paula Silva, Maria Paula Diogo, “Host and Hostage: Portugal, Britain and the Atlantic Networks”, in Erik van der Vleuten, Arne Kaijser (eds.), Networking Europe. Infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, (Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 2006), pp. 51-69.
7. Ana Paula Silva, “As Redes de Comunicações Eléctricas” [“Networks of Electric Communication”], in Luís Nuno Madureira (ed.), A História da Energia. Portugal 1890-1980 [The History of Energy. Portugal 1890-1980], (Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2005), pp. 141-170.
8. Ana Paula, “Shaping the 29th Century Portuguese Empire: the Telegraph and the Radio”, ICON. Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology, 2001, vol. 7, 106-122.

Scientific Societies and other institutions

• Associação de Professores de Filosofia: Founding Member.