Ana Mafalda Lopes

Integrated Researchers, PhD

Biography

She holds a PhD in History from an Inter-University Doctoral Program in History at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PD/BD/135297/2017 and COVID/BD/152030/2021). Her PhD thesis is entitled “The widows of Porto: patrimony, business and family (1700-1832)” and was supervised by Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro and Isabel dos Guimarães Sá. She has a Degree from the University of Minho in 2014 and a Master from the University of Minho in 2017, both in History

Her main specialisation is Modern History. During the master’s degree she studied rituals of mourning and consolatory letters between 15th and 16th centuries, linking social, political, and cultural history with the history of emotions. Currently, her main interest are social and economic history, and gender and family history, studying the Ancien Régime in Portugal, mainly the 18th century and the transition to the Liberal period.

Research fields

  • Gender history
  • Family history
  • Social and economic history

Selected publications

  • Matos, Paulo Teodoro de Matos & Ana Mafalda Lopes, “Property ownership by widows, a study of nineteenth century inheritance practices on the island of Sao Jorge (Azores archipelago) Portugal,” in Women and Family Property, edited by Beatrice Moring. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2024. [link]
  • Lopes, Ana Mafalda Pereira. “As viúvas do Porto: património, negócios e família (1700-1832)”. PhD Thesis in History: change and continuity in a global world, Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, 2024. [link]🔓
  • Lopes, Ana Mafalda. “The invisibility of Portuguese stepfamilies: the relationships between stepparents, stepchildren and half-siblings in eighteenth– and nineteenth–century Porto.” The History of the Family 27 (2022): 521-545. [link]
  • Lopes, Ana Mafalda Pereira. “Confortando reis e rainhas: as cartas consolatórias entre a política e o luto (séculos XV-XVI).” Master’s in History dissertation presented to the University of Minho, 2017. [link]🔓

Main projects

  • Research assistant in the project “VINCULUM. Entailing Perpetuity: Family, Power, Identity. The Social Agency of a Corporate Body (Southern Europe, 14th-17th Centuries)” — Coordinated by Maria de Lurdes Rosa (IHC — NOVA FCSH) and funded by the European Research Council (Grant agreement ID: 819734). [link]

CONTACTS

Institute of Contemporary History
NOVA FCSH
Av. Berna, 26 C 1069-061 LISBOA
 Tel.: +351 21 7908300 ext. 1545
Email: ihc@fcsh.unl.pt

WORKING HOURS

Monday to Friday
10.00h – 13.00h / 14.00h – 18.00h

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