Eugénia Rodrigues

e-mail | rodrigues6@campus.ul.pt

Eugénia Rodrigues (PhD in History, New University of Lisbon, 2003) is Researcher at the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon (Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa) and she teaches History of Africa and History of Empires at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa). She is also Subdirector of the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon (since 2018) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-University Doctoral Programme in History: Change and Continuity in a Global World – PIUDHIST (sinde 2022). She was also member of the School Council of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (2019-2023). In the past, she was Researcher at the Institute for Tropical Research (Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon). She specialized in the History of the Portuguese Empire and History of East Africa and the Indian Ocean from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Her work focuses on slavery, gender, agrarian history, intercultural relationships and knowledge circulation. She participated in several research projects such as lately in SLAFNET (Horizon 2020-RISE). Currently, she researches on slavery and slave trade in Mozambique in the framework of the project OriKunda (ANR, France).