Marco Oliveira Borges

e-mail | marcoliveiraborges@gmail.com

Marco Oliveira Borges is a full researcher at the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon and full member of the Portuguese Naval Academy. He holds an M.A. in Maritime History from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, and also a PhD, carried out under the auspices of an FCT (Foundation for the Science and Technology) grant. His doctoral thesis is titled The Carreira da Índia in the return voyage (1500-1640). His main research area is the History of European Seaborne Expansion (fifteenth-seventeenth centuries). He has also developed a great deal of interest in studying the Maritime History of Mafra, Sintra, Cascais and Oeiras councils in a wide timespan, from the Antiquity to the Early Modern period. Highlighting the concept of maritime cultural landscapes, his work entails an interdisciplinary methodology, usually resorting to scientific fields such as Geography and Coastal and Underwater Archaeology. The outputs of his research have been presented in national and international events and he has been published in several national and international specialized journals.