Biography

Carla Nicolau Miranda has a degree in History from the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in History, specialising in Contemporary History, at the same institution. She is currently writing her Master’s thesis on the role of Criminology in the repression of the anarchist movement in the last decades of the Monarchy. She is currently an IHC Research Fellow at the University of Évora, where she is a member of the Research Group on the History of Science, Technology and the Environment.

Research fields

• History of anarchism
• History of criminology
• History of criminal anthropology
• History of psychiatry

Selected publications

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Main projects

• “O contágio anarquista (1887-1910): patologizar, criminalizar e deportar o anarquismo” [The anarchist contagion (1887–1910): pathologising, criminalising and deporting anarchism] — Individual research project supervised by Quintino Lopes (IHC — University of Évora). 2025-  (UID/04209/2025)