Maria da Graça Ventura admitted as a member of the Portuguese Academy of History

Algarve researcher Maria da Graça Ventura has just been admitted as a member of the Portuguese Academy of History.

This is «institutional recognition for her career as a researcher with a vast pioneering historiographical work on Ibero-America».

The ceremony for imposing the insignia will take place at the Palácio dos Lilazes, in Lisbon, on the 10th of January.

Maria da Graça Ventura is an integrated researcher at the Center for History of the University of Lisbon, an associate researcher at CHAM, a member of the Asociación Española de Americanistas and the Association of European Latin American Historians, and is co-founder and current president of the Instituto de Cultura Ibero-Atlântica, created in 1995 in Portimão.

She has published seven books, most of which on Ibero-America, regularly participating in numerous collective works, with book chapters and articles in Portuguese and international journals, and is also an external evaluator of several national and Ibero-American journals.

And still director of the magazine «Meridional», which is already preparing its third issue.

The most recent book by the Algarve researcher is «Por este Mar Adentro», about which the Sul Informação did a video interview with Graça Ventura, as you can (re)see here.