Alexandra Pelúcia

Office: B621

ap.pelucia@fcsh.unl.pt

Research unit: CHAM - Centre for the Humanities (CHAM)

Research areas: History of Portuguese Discoveries and Expansion, Social History (Early Modern), Political History (Early Modern)

Training
YearDegreeAreaInstitution
1994GraduateHistoryFCSH-UNL
1999MasterHistory of Portuguese Discoveries and ExpansionFCSH-UNL
2007DoctorHistory of Portuguese Discoveries and ExpansionFCSH-UNL
  • João de Barros, Decades of Asia  
  • The Private Circle of an Unexpected King  
  • Vimos Buscar Cristãos e Especiarias  
  • O Mundo em Mudança sob o signo de D. Manuel I  
  • The Portuguese  
TitleFunding sourceStartState
Nobility and the State of India in the First Half of the 16th Century, 2001-2005, member of the research teamCompleted
Nobility and the State of India in the 16th Century, 2006-2008, member of the research teamCompleted
E-cyclopaedia of Portuguese Expansion, 2008-present, scientific coodinatinatorCompleted
All His Wordly Possessions. The Estate of the 5th duke of Bragança, D. Teodósio I, 2010-2013, member of the research teamCompleted
In the King's Privacy: Interpersonal Relations and Dynamics of Factions Around Manuel I, 2014-2015, principal investigatorCompleted
PositionStartEnd
Research Fellow of CHAM (Portuguese Centre for Global History - unit research of the FCSH/Nova and the Azores University), since 1995.
Professor at the Department of History of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities/NOVA, since 1st October 2001.
Member of the board of CHAM (2004-2018)
Visiting Professor of the post-graduation program (MA and PhD) on "History of Latin America, Indigenous Worlds", at Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain), since the academic year of 2007-2008.
Member of the Editorial Board of "European Expansion and Indigenous Response" collection published by Brill, 2009-2013.
Member of the Editorial Board of "Americanía. Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla", 2011-2014.
Consultant of the project Christian-Muslim Relations 1500-1900, developed at the University of Birmingham (2015-2017)
Member of the Editorial Board of "Fronteiras: Revista de História", published bt the Federal University of Grandes Dourados, Brazil (since 2015).
Corresponding Member of the Lisbon Maritime Academy, Maritime History Class (since 2016)
Representative of NOVA FCSH and CHAM with the World Network of Magellan Universities for Research, Science and Culture (since 2017)
Coordinator of the MA in History, NOVA FCSH (since August 2017)
Visiting Professor of the National University of Colombia (Medellín, July-August 2018).