Cristina Nogueira (1967-2025), a researcher at the IHC for over a decade, passed away on 10 October. A kindergarten teacher, she graduated and obtained her PhD in Education Sciences from the Faculty of Psychology and Education Science of the University of Porto, with the thesis ‘De Militantes a Clandestinos: Práticas e Processos de Formação na Clandestinidade Comunista (1940-1974)‘ (From Militants to Clandestines: Practices and Training Processes in Communist Clandestinity (1940-1974)), partially published in Vidas na Clandestinidade (Lives in Clandestinity) (Lisbon: Avante!, 2011), a pioneering work in the study of the phenomenon of communist clandestinity in Portugal in all its complexity. In 2021, she conceived and co-authored Vozes ao alto! 100 Histórias na História do Partido Comunista Português (Voices Aloud! 100 Stories in the History of the Portuguese Communist Party), together with Maria Alice Samara (also from the IHC), Vanessa de Almeida, Isabel Nogueira, Adriano Miranda, Egídio Santos and Paulo Pimenta.

Having started out as part of the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education at the University of Porto (CIIE-UP), she moved to the IHC where she contributed to the Institute’s strong tradition in the study of collective memory, oral history and resistance to dictatorship, namely through the analysis of informal education processes. Among other things, he was part of the team working on the project State and Memory: Public Policies on the Memory of the Portuguese Dictatorship (1974-2009), hosted by the IHC and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology.

Civically and politically committed, Cristina Nogueira was a communist activist and a prominent trade unionist in the education sector within FENPROF and CGTP-IN. Few people knew how to combine research and civic action as well as she did, with her courage, persistence and generosity.