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Maria Paula Diogo, Head of the UNL Group Print E-mail
Associate Professor (Agregação), Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas (DCSA), FCT/UNL(Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon)
mpdiogo(at)netcabo.pt , mpd(at)fct.unl.pt

Research interests

  • History of Technology and Engineering History in Portugal and in the Portuguese African Empire (Angola and Mozambique) (18th to 20th centuries);
  • History of Science in Portugal (18th to 20th centuries);
  • Globalisation of Science and Technology (knowledge transfer, networks, centre(s)/peripherie(s)).

Projects

As Leader
  • "Textbooks for Iberian Engineers: a comparative study (17th-18th centuries)", (AI/CRUP: E-75/09), 2009-2010.
  • "The Popularization of Science and Technology (19th-20th centuries)", (Compromisso com a Ciência, FCT/MCTES), 2007-2012.
  • "Engineering and Scientific Culture in Catalunya and Spain", (HUM2007-62222/HIST, Ministerio da Educácion y Ciencia, Espanha), 2009-2012. Coordinator of the Portuguese Group (General Coordinator: Antoni Roca-Rosell, ETSEIB/UPC).
  • "Making Europe: Technologies and Transformations, 1850-2000" (book series editor: Johan Schot), 2009-2012.
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.
  • “Nuclear Portugal: Physics, Technology, Medicine and Environment (1910-2010)”, (HC/0063/2009), 2010-2013.
  • “The spaces of Portuguese Technoscience (1837-1947)”, (PTDC/HCT/70798/2006), 2008-2011.

Publications (selection)

  1. John K. Brown, Gary Lee Downey, Maria Paula Diogo, "Engineering Education and the History of Technology", Technology and Culture, 50: 4 (2009), 737-752.
  2. Ana Cardoso de Matos, Maria Paula Diogo, Irina Gouzevitch, André Grelon (eds.), Jogos de Identidade: os engenheiros entre a formação e a acção (Les enjeux identitaires des ingénieurs: entre la formation et l’action) (Lisboa: Colibri, 2009).
  3. Maria Paula Diogo, “Domesticating the wilderness: Portuguese engineering and the occupation of Africa”, in Ana Cardoso de Matos, Maria Paula Diogo, Irina Gouzevitch, André Grelon (eds.), Jogos de Identidade: os engenheiros entre a formação e a acção (Les enjeux identitaires des ingénieurs: entre la formation et l’action) (Lisboa: Colibri, 2009), pp. 471-482.
  4. Maria Paula Diogo, Entrada “Engineers”, The Dictionary of Transnational History, Akira Iriye & Pierre-Yves Saunier (eds.), (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 330-333.
  5. Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Cardoso Matos, “Being an engineer in the European Periphery: three case studies on Portuguese engineering", History of Technology, 27 (2007), 125-146.
  6. Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro e Ana Simões, “El Grand Tour de la Tecnología: El Estrangeirado Manuel de Azevedo Fortes”, in Antonio Lafuente, Ana Cardoso Matos, Tiago Saraiva (eds.), Maquinismo Ibérico – Tecnologia y cultura en la península ibérica, siglos XVIII-XX,(Aranjuez: Doce Calles, 2006), pp.119-139.
  7. Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Cardoso Matos, “Aprender a ser ingeniero: La enseñanza de la ingeniería en el Portugal de los siglos XVIII y XIX”, in Antonio Lafuente, Ana Cardoso Matos, Tiago Saraiva (eds.), Maquinismo Ibérico – Tecnologia y cultura en la península ibérica, siglos XVIII-XX,(Aranjuez: Doce Calles, 2006), pp.141-165.
  8. 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.
  9. Ana Simões, Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro, Cidadão do Mundo. Uma biografia científica do Abade Correia da Serra (Porto: Porto Editora, 2006), English translation forthcoming 2010.
  10. Ana Simões, Ana Carneiro, Maria Paula Diogo (eds.), Travels of Learning: towards a geography of science in Europe, (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003).

Scientific Societies and other institutions

  • Society for the History of Technology (SHOT): Member of the Executive Committee (2009-2011); Member of the Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship.
  • International Network in Engineering Studies (INES): Founding Member; Co-coordinator.
  • Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP): Founding Member.
  • Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Studies (Taylor and Francis).
  • ESF Standing Committee for Humanities (SCH): Expert in STS (Science, Technology and Sociey).