Biography

Isabel Corrêa da Silva is research fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. She is also visiting professor at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon and at the Northeastern University (Portugal’s program at the CIEE, Lisbon). Since 2023 she is member of the ICS’ Scientific Council and School Council. She is co-director of the ICS History Doctoral Program (PIUDHist) and member of the Scientific Council of the Master on Brazilian Studies, University of Lisbon, where she coordinates the course “Topics on Brazilian History II.”

Graduated in History, Dynamics of the Contemporary World (University of Lisbon, 2012), she also holds the equivalence of “Maître de Conférences” in “Histoire et Civilisations: histoire des mondes modernes et contemporaines” (Ministère de l’Education Nationale et de la Formation Professionnelle, 2018). Her PhD thesis was granted with two important awards on Portuguese contemporary history: the Mário Soares Foundation award and the Victor de Sá/Minho University award), and was published by the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2013).

She is currently co-editor of the Atlantica - Lisbon Historical Studies collection (Lisbon University), and the Portuguese coordinator of the international network Conexões Lusófonas (http://raededepesquisa.wixsite.com). She has participated in many competitive funded international projects and presently she is member of the Marie Curie Mobility project RESISTANCE. Between 2018-2020 she was member of the Directory Board of ASPHS (Association of Spanish, Portuguese Historical Studies), and between 2016-2019, she co-coordinated the Graduate History Seminars at ICS. She has been lecturing and collaborating with many international academic institutions, mainly in France, Italy and Brazil. In 2016 she was a visiting fellow at the European University Institute, Florence.

Her research agenda revolves around the 19th century political and social landscapes of liberalism in Portugal and Brazil. She as studied many features of Luso-Brazilian political, cultural, and social relations, such as: migrations, circulation of ideas, intellectual and political networks. She is also particularly interest in the articulation between citizenship and women’s rights in 19th century Portuguese political culture