Research interests

• History of Technology;
• History of Transports and Mobility;
• Urban History.

Projects

• "A difusão do automóvel em Portugal no século XX" [The diffusion of the automobile in Portugal in the 20th century] (provisory title). PhD project ("co-tutelle") in History, Philosophy and Heritage of Science and Technology (Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon) and in Cultural History (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3). Supervision: Maria Paula Diogo and Catherine Bertho Lavenir. (FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BD/36043/2007), 2008-2012.

Publications (selection)

1. M. Luísa Sousa, Maria Paula Diogo, "Giving with one hand and taking away with the other: the automobile assembly industry in Portugal (1960-1988)", Revista de Historia Industrial, 48: 1 (2012), 155-181.
2. M. Luísa Sousa, "History of Transport and Mobility in Portugal: a non-field", in Peter D. Norton, Gijs Mom, Liz Millward and Mathieu Flonneau (eds.), Mobility in History. Reviews and Reflections (T2M Yearbook 2012) (Neuchâtel: Editions Alphil – Presses Universitaires Suisses, 2011), pp. 133-143.
3. M. Luísa Sousa, "Technology as a social collective experience of nation building: David Nye’s American Technological Sublime", HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, Vol. 4 (2010).
4. M. Luísa Sousa, "Constructing (auto)mobility system in a peripheral European country in the 1930s: visions and realities of the authoritarian Portugal" Tensions of Europe and Inventing Europe Working Paper, 2010-22, (2010).
5. Álvaro Ferreira da Silva, Maria Luísa Sousa, "In search of the urban variable : Understanding the roots of urban planning in Portugal", Métropoles, 6, Des mobilités urbaines à la ville mobile. Sur les traces des circulations urbaines, [En ligne], mis en ligne le 18 novembre 2009.
6. Álvaro Ferreira da Silva, Maria Luísa Sousa, “The 'script' of a new urban layout: mobility, environment and embellishment. Street’s uses in Lisbon between 1880 and 1920”, Sixth International Conference on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M), Otava, (2008) (Cd-rom da conferência). Dr. Cornelius Lely Prize.
7. Maria Luísa Sousa, Uma Perspectiva Institucional do Desenvolvimento: O Caso da Indústria Automóvel em Portugal (1960-1990), MA Thesis, (Lisboa: Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 2005).

Scientific Societies and other institutions

• International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility: Member of the Institutional Membership Campaign Committee.