Darlene Abreu-Ferreira
is History Professor at the University of Winnipeg. Her research focuses on early modern European women in general, and Portuguese women in particular. Her publications have dealt primarily with questions of property ownership, inheritance, crime, and early modern slavery. She is presently working on a study of women and children of African descent in early modern Portugal.
Vanda Anastácio
is Associate Professor of Portuguese literature and culture at the University of Lisbon and coordinates the cultural activities of the Fundação das Casas de Fronteira e Alorna. She holds a PhD in Portuguese studies and a master’s degree in Portuguese literature. Her main research interests are textual criticism and scholarly editing, Portuguese literature and culture from the early modern period, and Portuguese women writers (1500–1830). Her most recent publications include an anthology of the poetic works of the Marchioness of Alorna (published in 2015) and an anthology of early modern Portuguese women writers (Uma Antologia Improvável. A Escrita das Mulheres 1495–1830), published in 2013. She coordinates the website www.escritoras-em-portugues.eu launched in 2015.
Francisco Bethencourt
is Charles Boxer Professor of History at King’s College London. He is the author of Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century (Princeton, 2013) and The Inquisition: a Global History, 1478–1834 (Cambridge, 2009). He organised an exhibition on Racism and Citizenship at the Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Lisbon (May-September 2017). He was awarded a major Leverhulme fellowship to research the New Christian trading elite, 1497–1773 (2017–19). The resulting book will be published by Princeton University Press. His long-term research project focuses on the history of social inequality in the world.
Dorothée Boulanger
is Leverhulme early career fellow in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. After training in international relations and gender studies, she completed a PhD in history at King’s College London, analysing Angolan fiction written after independence and the ambiguous relations between writers and politics in post-colonial Angola. Her research focuses on fiction as a historical source, with particular emphasis on gender, masculinities and the coloniality of power in post-colonial Africa.
has a PhD in History from Porto University and is a researcher at CITCEM (the Transdisciplinary Research Centre for Culture, Space and Memory). Her current interests include women as agents of medical practice in sixteenth and seventeenth century Portugal, and women as intermediaries, as well as gender, sex and sexuality in the Portuguese overseas empire, and the production and circulation of medical knowledge in the Iberian empires. She obtained a nursing degree at the Faculty of Nursing of Santiago de Compostela University in 1998 and has an additional qualification in medical ethics. She has worked on emergency wards in northern Portugal and Galicia, Spain.
Maria Judite Mário Chipenembe
was born in 1975 in Chimoio/Mozambique and has been working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Eduardo Mondlane University since 2004 and at the University of St. Thomas in Mozambique since 2010. She has a PhD in gender and diversity studies awarded jointly by the University of Ghent and the Free University of Brussels, a master’s in economic sociology and organizations from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (ISEG/UTL) and a BA in anthropology at the European University of Madrid. Her research interests relate to poverty, gender diversity, human rights, and sexual and reproductive health in Africa.
Gily Coene
(PhD in ethics and moral sciences, Ghent University) is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Archaeology, Arts and Philosophy, and in the Department of Political Sciences, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. She is Director of RHEA, the Research Centre on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality, and teaches feminist thought, gender studies, humanist philosophy, empirical and applied ethics and the philosophy of sexuality. Her research is mainly concerned with gender equality and moral diversity. She has contributed extensively to journals and books and is engaged in multiple cross-disciplinary research projects on migration, diversity and citizenship, sexual and reproductive rights, gender-based violence, and empirical bio-ethics in European and non-European countries.
Philip J. Havik
(PhD in social sciences, Leiden University, The Netherlands) is a senior researcher at the Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT) of the Universidade NOVA in Lisbon, and also teaches at the same institution. His multidisciplinary research centers on the fields of global health and tropical medicine, health systems, the anthropology of health, the history of tropical
Ben James
is completing a PhD at King’s College, London, having received a master’s degree in early modern history. His thesis focuses on the economies and networks of Lisbon’s female convents between 1640 and 1750.
Anna M. Klobucka
is Professor of Portuguese and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She is the author of The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth (2000; Portuguese translation 2006), O Formato Mulher: A Emergência da Autoria Feminina na Poesia Portuguesa (2009), and O Mundo Gay de António Botto (2018). She has also coedited After the Revolution: Twenty Years of Portuguese Literature 1974–1994 (1997), Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality (2007; Portuguese edition 2010), and Gender, Empire and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections (2014).
Chia Longman
(PhD in comparative sciences of culture) is Associate Professor of Gender Studies in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University, Belgium. She directs the Centre for Research on Culture and Gender (CRCG) and is Programme Director of the Inter University Master’s Programme in Gender and Diversity. She is also a board member of the International Association for the Study of Religion and Gender. Her primary research focus is women’s identity and agency within different religious communities and movements in Europe, ranging from Orthodox Judaism to new spiritualities. Publications include Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices: Gender, Culture and Coercion, with T. Bradley (Routledge, 2015); Féminisme et multiculturalisme. Les paradoxes du débat, with G. Coene (Peter Lang, 2010); and various book chapters and articles in journals such as Citizenship Studies; Ethnicities; European Journal of Women’s Studies; Gender, Place & Culture; Politics & Gender; Religion & Gender; Religions; Social Anthropology; Social Compass; and Women’s Studies International Forum.
Amélia Polónia
is Professor of early modern history and colonial studies at Porto University. She is the scientific coordinator of CITCEM (the Transdisciplinary Research Centre
Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
(Agregação, Universidade do Minho; PhD, University of Minho; MA, University of Paris) is Professor of medieval history at the University of Lisbon. Previously, she lectured at the University of Minho (1984–2002). She was also Deputy Co-ordinator of the National Commission for the Commemoration of Portuguese Discoveries (1999–2002). She teaches courses in medieval history and gender history at graduate and post-graduate levels (MA and PhD). Her recent research mainly concerns medieval queenship and gender identities.
Isabel dos Guimarães Sá
took her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence and is currently Associate Professor in the History Department of the University of Minho, where she teaches early modern European history. She is also a research member of the Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade (CECS) of the same university. She has undertaken extensive research on Portugal and its empire from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and has written several books on the Portuguese confraternities of Misericórdia, as well as biographies of Portuguese Renaissance queens (Leonor de Lencastre, Isabel and Maria of Castile and Aragon). Her most recent book, O Regresso dos Mortos: os doadores da Misericórdia do Porto e a expansão ibérica (séculos XVII–XVIII) (Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2018) was awarded the Embaixador João de Deus Ramos prize.
Ana Cristina Santos
with a background in sociology and a PhD in gender studies from the University of Leeds, is senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. She has coordinated a number of research projects on LGBTQI+, gender and intimate citizenship. After being awarded a research grant by the European Research Council to lead INTIMATE - Citizenship, Care and Choice: The micropolitics of intimacy in Southern Europe (2014–2019), and acting as Vice-Chair of the European Sociological Association Sexuality RN (2012–2016), she is currently the PI in Portugal of CILIA LGBTQI+ Lives,
João Paulo Silvestre
is Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro. He wrote his PhD thesis on early modern Portuguese lexicography (eighteenth century), with a focus on cross-linguistic contact, and developed his post-doctoral research on the history of Portuguese linguistics at the University of Lisbon. His research covers lexicology, morphology and historical linguistics. He was director of the Camões Centre at King’s College London from 2015 to 2020.