Research interests

• History of the First Portuguese Republic;
• History of Estado Novo Portuguese regime;
• History of Technology in Portugal;
• History of the Portuguese Colonial Empire (19th to 20th centuries).

Projects

• "The Contribution of the Portuguese Engineering in the projection of the Portuguese Colonial Empire: Angola and Mozambique (c. 1910 to c. 1930)". PhD programme in History, Philosophy and Heritage of Science and Technology, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon. Supervision: Maria Paula Diogo. (FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BD/68283/2010), 2010-2014.

Participation

• "Reshaping Africa: Portuguese engineering and territory management in the colonies of Angola and Mozambique (1870-1974)", (PTDC/HIS-HCT/118359/2010), 2011-2013. Project coordinated by Maria Paula Diogo.
• "«Portugal is not a small country»: The End of the Portuguese Colonial Empire in a Comparative Perspective", (PTDC/HIS-HIS/108998/2008), 2010-2012. Project coordinated by António Costa Pinto.

Publications (selection)

1. Bruno J. Navarro, "A Reorganização Monárquica de 1915: Esperança e Desilusão" ["The Monarchist Reorganization of 1915: Hope and Disappointment"] in Cadernos do Museu da Presidência da República, Volume III: Actas do Congresso Nacional de História e Ciência Política Outras Vozes na República. 1910-1926, (Lisboa: Museu da Presidência da República, 2012, forthcoming).
2. Bruno J. Navarro, "Governo do General Pimenta de Castro - breve análise politológica" ["Government of General Pimenta de Castro – brief politological analysis"], Forum – Revista do Conselho Cultural da Universidade do Minho, (2011, forthcoming).
3. Bruno J. Navarro, "«Ditadura» de Pimenta de Castro" ["Pimenta de Castro «dictatorship»"] in Maria Fernanda Rollo (coord.), Dicionário Histórico da I República e do Republicanismo, (Lisboa: Assembleia da República, 2011, forthcoming).
4. Bruno J. Navarro, "Golpe contra Pimenta de Castro (14 de Maio de 1915)" ["Military coup against Pimenta de Castro (14 May 1915)"] in Maria Fernanda Rollo (coord.), Dicionário Histórico da I República e do Republicanismo, (Lisboa: Assembleia da República, 2011, forthcoming).
5. Bruno J. Navarro, Governo de Pimenta de Castro. Um General no labirinto político da I República [Pimenta de Castro government. A General in the political labyrinth of the First Republic ], (Lisboa: Assembleia da República, 2011).
   Prize for Contemporary History Dr. Victor de Sá - 2010, awarded by the Cultural Council of the University of Minho.
   Award "Parliament and the Republic" - 2010, awarded by the National Assembly.
   Distinction awarded by the National Committee for the Commemoration of the Centennial of the Republic, under the Editing Program Theses and Dissertations "Republic and Academy" - 2010.
6. Bruno J. Navarro, "Orientação diplomática do Governo de Pimenta de Castro, no contexto da Grande Guerra e das relações peninsulares (Janeiro-Maio de 1915)" ["The political orientation of government Pimenta de Castro in the context of the Great War (January-May 1915)"] in Actas do Colóquio Internacional Os Açores, a 1ª Guerra Mundial e a República Portuguesa no contexto internacional, (Angra do Heroísmo: Direcção Regional da Cultura, 2011), pp. 437-467.