This year, the Portuguese Academy of History awarded works by four researchers from the Algarve: Andreia Fidalgo, Carla Vieira, Maria Graça Ventura and Nelson Vaquinhas.
After it was announced that Maria da Graca Ventura saw your book «Por Este Mar Adentro» be distinguished with the «History of the Presence of Portugal in the World» prize, from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the names of three other award-winning researchers from the Algarve are already known.
carla vieira was awarded the «History of Europe» prize, also from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with her book «Nation between Empires: Portuguese Jews and the Luso-British Alliance (Século XVIII».
Carla Vieira is an integrated doctoral researcher at CHAM — Centro de Humanidades and a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences/Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
She is also a researcher at the Alberto Benveniste Chair of Sephardic Studies (CESAB) at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. She is also the principal investigator of the project Western Sephardic Diaspora Roadmap, financed by Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe🇧🇷 She is also editor of the journal Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas, edited by CESAB.
The Portuguese Academy of History also distinguished the book «Mesa da Consciência e Ordens Militares. The Information System (XNUMXth century)", by Nelson Vaquinhas, with the «CTT – Correios de Portugal, SA – D. Manuel I» Prize.
Nelson Vaquinhas, PhD in Information and Documentation Sciences (University of Évora, 2018), is a doctoral integrated member of the Interdisciplinary Center for History, Cultures and Societies at the University of Évora.
For its part, the jury of the “Pina Manique. From the Enlightenment to the Liberal Revolution» decided to award the prize to the doctoral thesis of Andreia Hidalgo, on «The Restoration of the Kingdom of the Algarve: economic reformism at the end of the Old Regime», presented at ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.
Andreia Lopes Fidalgo is an invited assistant professor at the University of Algarve.
The award ceremony will take place at Academia Portuguesa da História, in Lisbon, on December 7, at 15 pm, with a speech by D. Tolentino de Mendonça.
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