Biography

He is studying for a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science, specialising in Museology (University of Évora), and has a degree in Archaeology from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. He was museography assistant between 2001 and 2007 at the Natural History Museum of the University of Porto in the Mendes Corrêa Anthropology and Archaeology section, and in 2018 he joined the technical team at the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum where he worked as a museography technician and archaeologist. He has been involved in archaeological work since 1999 (Porto, Murça, Dublin, County Meath, and Figueira da Foz). In addition to his technical work in archaeology and museography, he is also studying 19th century photographic techniques. He took part in the research project ‘EcoMusic – Práticas sustentáveis: um estudo sobre o pós-folclorismo em Portugal no século XXI’ [EcoMusic – Sustainable practices: a study of post-folklorism in Portugal in the 21st century] (PTDC/ART-FOL/31782/2017) and is currently participating as an invited researcher in the project ‘TRANSMAT — Transnational Materialities (1850-1930): Reconstituting collections and connecting histories’, also funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/FER-HFC/2793/2020).

Research fields

• History of science
• History of archaeology
• Imaging in science

Selected publications

• Batista, Carlos, Ana-Margarida Ferreira & Raquel Vilaça. “Un ídolo-placa inédito del dolmen de Facho (Figueira da Foz, Portugal) en su contexto local y regional.” Cuadernos de Arqueología de la Universidad de Navarra 33 (2025): 213-240. [link] 🔓
• Batista, Carlos, Elisabete Pereira & Maria de Fátima Nunes, “Com os pés no Atlântico: o Observatório Meteorológico da Figueira da Foz – século XIX,” in Imaginários do Mar – volume 4. Uma antologia crítica – O mar contemporâneo, edited by Carlos F. Clamote Carreto, Luís Martins and Ângela Salgueiro, 169-186. Lisbo: IELT / IHC, 2024. [link] 🔓
• Batista, Carlos E. F. & Ana M. S. Bettencourt, “Contributo para o estudo da ocupação Pré-histórica da Figueira da Foz: a “estação humana do Arneiro,” in Santos Rocha, Arqueologia e Territórios da Figueira da Foz, coordinated by Ana Margarida Ferreira and Raquel Vilaça, 128-137. Figueira da Foz / Coimbra: Município da Figueira da Foz / Instituto de Arqueologia da Universidade de Coimbra, 2021. [link] 🔓
• Pinto, Inês Maria Jordão & Carlos Eduardo Batista, “José Augusto Ferreira da Silva, músico. Contributos para uma nota biográfica,” in II Encontros de Cultura e Património na Figueira da Foz. A Visita Real de 1882, coordinated by Guida Cândido and Margarida Perrolas, 128-137. Figueira da Foz: Município da Figueira da Foz, 2019. [link] 🔓

Main projects

• “A imagem fotográfica na Arqueologia em Portugal (1850-1950): práticas, atores e processos de construção de conhecimento” [The photographic image in archaeology in Portugal (1850-1950): practices, actors and processes of knowledge construction] — PhD thesis to be presented to the University of Évora, supervised by Elisabete Pereira (IHC — University of Évora) and Nadia Vargaftig (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne).
• Invited researcher of the project ‘TRANSMAT — Transnational Materialities (1850-1930): Reconstituting collections and connecting histories’ — Coordinated by Elisabete Pereira (IHC — Universidade de Évora) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/FER-HFC/2793/2020). [link]