José Neves

Biography
José Neves is an Assistant Professor at the History department if NOVA FCSH, since 2011. He graduated in Modern and Contemporary History at ISCTE-IUL, where he also completed his PhD in Modern and Contemporary History (2008), and was a postdoctoral researcher at ICS-ULisboa. He was also Camões Visiting Professor at King’s College London in 2011. He directed the Culture, Identities and Power research line at the IHC between 2011 and 2016. He was the editor-in-chief of Práticas da História — Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past. Currently, he is the IHC’s President of the Board.
Research fields
- History of contemporary Portugal
- Nationalism studies
- Theory of history, historiography, and uses of the past
- Cultural history
- Cultural studies
Selected publications
- Neves, José. “The foreign road to the homeland. Paris and the national turn of a Portuguese communist,” Twentieth Century Communism 7 (2014).
- Neves, José (Coord.). Como se Faz um Povo – Ensaios para a História do Portugal Contemporâneo. Lisbon: Tinta da China, 2010. [link]
- Neves, José. “The Role of Portugal on the Stage of Imperialism: Communism, Nationalism and Colonialism (1930–1960),” Nationalities Papers 37 (2009): 485-499. [PDF]
- Neves, José. Comunismo e Nacionalismo em Portugal – Política, Cultura e História no Século XX. Lisbon: Tinta da China, 2008. [link] *
* Victor de Sá Award of Contemporary History (2008); CES Award fos Young Social Scientists (2009); A. Sedas Nunes Social Sciences Award (2010).
Main projects
- Researcher in the project “Amílcar Cabral, from Political History to Politics of Memory” — Coordinated by Rui Lopes and funded by the Foundation for Sciences and Technology. [PTDC/EPH-HIS/6964/2014] 2016-2020
- Coordinator of the project “The Making of State Power in Portugal: Institutionalization Processes from 1890 to 1986” — Hosted by the IHC – NOVA FCSH and funded by the Foundation for Sciences and Technology. [PTDC/HIS-HIS/104166/2008] 2010-2013
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News
Sara Albuquerque and Quintino Lopes lead new FCT projects
Jul 28, 2022
Two of the IHC’s projects were approved in competition for grants opened by the Foundation for Science and Technology.
Luís Augusto Costa Dias — In Memoriam
Jul 25, 2022
Note of regret for the passing of historian Luís Augusto Costa Dias.
IHC studies the history of the Portuguese graphic industry
Jul 21, 2022
The IHC started a research project funded by APIGRAF.
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