Biography

Maria Teresa Oliveira has a degree in History of Art from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (2016) and a master’s degree in Museology from NOVA FCSH (2020). Throughout her professional career, she has worked as a research assistant, fello and freelancer on various research projects related to the creation of databases and the publication of sources from the medieval and modern periods, based at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University Coimbra and NOVA FCSH; and in the production of communication content for museums, having written content for the National Palace of Sintra, the county of Branca and the Castle Museum of Torre de Moncorvo. She was also a trainee at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and the National Library of Portugal. She also works as a palaeographer, helping researchers transcribe documentation from the 13th century to the present day.

Research fields

• Museology
• Heritage
• Archives

Selected publications

• Oliveira, Maria Teresa Morujão Novais de. “Estágio no Departamento de Divulgação do Museu Calouste Gulbenkian.” Master’s Degree in Museology internship report, NOVA School in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2020. [link]🔓

Main projects

• Research assistant in the project “VINCULUM. Entailing Perpetuity: Family, Power, Identity. The Social Agency of a Corporate Body (Southern Europe, 14th-17th Centuries)” — Coordinated by Maria de Lurdes Rosa (IHC — NOVA FCSH) and funded by the European Research Council (Grant agreement ID: 819734). [link]
• Research assistant in the project “TechNetEMPIRE – technoscientific networks in the construction of the built environment in the portuguese empire (1647-1871)” — Coordinated by Alice Santiago Faria and Renata Malcher de Araujo (CHAM — NOVA FCSH) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/ART-DAQ/31959/2017). 2017 [link]
• Collaborator in the project “Post Scriptum: A Digital Archive of Ordinary Writings (Early Modern Portugal and Spain)” — Coordinated by Rita Marquilhas (CLUL) and funded by the European Research Council (Grant agreement ID: 295562). 2016-2017