The PhD in History provides advanced-level training in the field of History and in the areas of Archaeology and Historical Archivists, with a view to enabling students to become capable of contributing to the development of teaching, research and dissemination of these areas of knowledge within the national and international framework.

This PhD programme is based on:

• a teaching staff of recognised national and international quality and merit;
• a vast group of researchers belonging to the three Research Units linked to the Department of History’s activities and other researchers attached to the remaining research units of NOVA FCSH;
• an intellectual environment of knowledge diversity and effective interdisciplinarity provided by its insertion into NOVA FCSH (where there are more than fifty courses in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities) and by the interaction with the other faculties of the NOVA University of Lisbon;
• a series of international exchanges established the History Department, the various Research Units associated with the programme, NOVA FCSH and NOVA University of Lisbon as a whole, with direct consequences for the range of activities offered at the level of teaching and scientific research in the field of History.