Gonçalo Matos Ramos

e-mail | goncalocbr@gmail.com

I was born in Lisbon, in 1991. I am currently Invited Adjunct Professor in the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. I teach Islamic History and Economic and Social History of the Middle Ages. I have recently earned my PhD on the History of late medieval Western Maghrib. This research was made possible by a doctoral grant provided by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). I was supervised by Professor Hermenegildo Fernandes (University of Lisbon) and Professor Christophe Picard (Université de Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne.) The thesis was awarded the Summa Cum Laude classification. I obtained my M.A. in History of the Medieval and Islamic Societies in the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon in 2014, with a grade of 19 out of 20. I also hold a B.A. in History from the same institution (2012), with a grade of 18 out of 20. I am also a researcher of the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon. I was also a teaching assistant of “History of Medieval Islam” in the same university, in tandem with Professor Hermenegildo Fernandes (Fall semester of 2017/2018 and 2018/2019). I have been awarded 4 University of Lisbon-sponsored merit-based grants due to exceptional scholarly performance (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014), as well as 2 research grants (University of Lisbon- and Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa-sponsored, respectively in 2012 and 2016). I have delivered national (Lisbon, Porto, Évora) and international talks (Ceuta, Madrid, Leeds, Catania, Washington DC, Barcelona, Alicante, Paris, Durham, Montreal) and published in national and international scientific journals and volumes. My research is centred on Christian-Muslim relations in Western Maghrib and al-Andalus from the 5th/11th to the 10th/16th centuries, with special focus on building frontier societies, and Theory of History and Historiography, particularly in historical writing, the historical trajectory of human societies and Digital Humanities.