Cláudia Castelo

Cláudia Castelo has a degree in History, MA in the History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), and PhD in Social Sciences – Historical Sociology (Universidade de Lisboa). She has also a specialization course in Library and Archival Sciences (Universidade de Lisboa) and training in Oral History (ISCTE-IUL). Currently she is assistant professor at the
Department of History, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, and research fellow at the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon. She has published books, book chapters and articles on several topics related with her research interests: the circulation of people, colonial and anticolonial ideas, and scientific knowledge, in the late Portuguese empire; trans-imperial cooperation;
concepts and practices of African development; colonial archives and oral memories.

E-mail: ccastelo@letras.ulisboa.pt