Biography

Degree in History from FLUL, DEA from the University of Paris I Sorbonne, PhD in History from the University of Paris I Sorbonne. Associate Professor (retired) of the Department of History of Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and at CIES-IUL.

Member of the editorial board of the journal Ler História, of which she was director between 2014-2016 and also co-founder. Coordinator of the Portuguese team of the international project IBERCONCEPTOS since 2005; she was also coordinator of the group on Languages of Identity and Difference: classes, corporations, castes and races of the same project, an activity she maintains with the Brazilian historian Lúcia Bastos Pereira das Neves.

She is the author/organiser of, among others, the following books:
Linguagens da Identidade e da Diferença no Mundo Ibero-Americano (1750-1890) (org.) with Lúcia Bastos Pereira das Neves and Guilherme Pereira das Neves, Paco Editorial , 2018.
Contra-Revolução, Espírito Público e Opinião no Sul da Europa: séculos XVIII e XIX, (org.),Lisbon, CEHCP, 2009.
D. Miguel (with Maria Alexandre Lousada), Lisbon, Circulo de Leitores, 2006.
Rebeldes e Insubmissos. Resistências Populares ao Liberalismo, 1834-1844, Porto, ed. Afrontamento , 2002.

Research fields

• 19th century political and cultural history
• History of the counter-revolution, of resistance to liberalism, of politization, and of popular politics
• History of concepts and laguanges
• 19th century history

Selected publications

• Neves, Lucia Maria Bastos Pereira das, Fátima Sá e Melo Ferreira & Guilherme Pereira das Neves (Orgs.). Linguagens da Identidade e da Diferença no Mundo Ibero-americano (1750-1890). Jundiaí: Paco Editorial, 2018. [link]
• Ferreira, Fátima Sá e Melo (Coord.). Contra-Revolução, Espírito Público e Opinião no Sul da Europa: séculos XVIII e XIX. Lisbon: CEHCP, 2009.
• Lousada, Maria Alexandre & Maria de Fátima Sá e Melo Ferreira. D. Miguel. Lisbon: Círculo de Leitores, 2006. [link]
• Ferreira, Maria de Fátima Sá e Melo. Rebeldes e Insubmissos. Resistências Populares no Liberalismo (1834-1844). Porto: Edições Afrontamento, 2002. [link]

Main projects

• Researches in the project “IBERCONCEPTOS — Historia Conceptual Comparada del Mundo Iberoamericano” — Coordinated by Javier Fernández Sebastian (University of Basque Country). [link]