Biography

MA in Contemporary History from the FCSH, with the thesis A Revolução dos Cravos e o Mito Revolucionário da Esquerda Francesa [The Carnation Revolution and the Revolutionary Myth of the French Left]. She is currently beginning a PhD thesis on female political prisoners and their families, entitled Corpos Femininos, Presos Políticos: A Violência Policial face às Mulheres na Resistência ao Regime Fascista [Female Bodies, Political Prisoners: Police Violence against Women in the Resistance to the Fascist Regime]. The main aim of this thesis is to collect and reflect on oral testimonies of the prison experience.

Research fields

• Political history
• Cultural history
• Social history

Selected publications

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Main projects

• “Corpos Femininos, Presos Políticos: A Violência Policial face às Mulheres na Resistência ao Regime Fascista” [Female Bodies, Political Prisoners: Police Violence against Women in the Resistance to the Fascist Regime] — PhD thesis to be presented to the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, supervised by Giulia Strippoli and Maria Alice Samara (IHC — NOVA FCSH). Individual PhD project funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology and the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage (PRT/BD/152869/202). 2022-