Sérgio Campos Matos

Sérgio Campos Matos is Full Professor of Contemporary History and Theory of History at the University of Lisbon, where he has been teaching since 1985. His main areas of research are: historical and political cultures, historiographies, social memories, nationalisms, history of universities , the relations between Portugal and Spain and Iberisms , from a transnational and comparative historical perspective within American and European contexts. He has authored and co-authored papers in these areas in books and international reviews . He is author of Historiografia e memória nacional no Portugal do século XIX (1846-1898) (Lisbon, 1998) [Historiography and national memory in nineteenth-century Portugal (1846-1898)], Consciência histórica e nacionalismo. Portugal (séculos XIX e XX) (Lisbon: 2008) Historical consciousness and nationalism. Portugal (19th and 20th centuries)] and Iberismos ¿ nação e transnação, Portugal e Espanha (c.1807- c.1931) (Coimbra: 2017) [Iberisms – nation and transnation, Portugal and Spain]. He is co-editor with Mª Isabel João of Historiografia e memórias (séculos XIX a XXI) (Lisbon, 2012) [ Historiography and memories (19th to 21st centuries) ] A Universidade de Lisboa séculos XIX e XX (with Jorge do Ó, foreword by António Nóvoa) (Lisbon, 2013) [The University of Lisbon in 19th and 20th centuries], Historiografia e Res Publica [Historiography and Res Publica] with Mª Isabel João ( Lisbon, 2017) and A Península Ibérica: nações e transnacionalidade entre dois séculos [ The Iberian Peninsula: nations and transnationality between two centuries],with Luís Bigotte Chorão (Vª NªFamalicão, 2017). He is editor of the Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses (1779-1974) [Dictionary of Portuguese Historians: it includes international historians who have dedicated themselves to the history of Portugal, themes, institutions and periodicals which have contributed to the development of historical studies and other social sciences], online at the Portugal National Library (BNP) site.

He belongs to the international network research Iberconceptos on Comparative Conceptual History on Iberoamerican World in the Group “Lenguajes políticos de las identidades y las diferencias en el mundo iberoamericano, siglos XVIII-XX”

He also collaborated in the ESF project Representations of the Past: National histories in Europe and Institutions, Networks and Communities (2003-2007). He directed the research project Manuel de Arriaga, primeiro Presidente da República Portuguesa (2001-2006), sponsored by the Assembleia da República and the Direcção Regional da Cultura dos Açores. He was Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo (1998) and  collaborated with several other foreign universities such as the Universities of Valencia, Autonoma de Barcelona, Pisa and the Sorbonne (Paris III and IV). He was Visiting Scholar at Brown University in 2006.

He is member of the scientific board of Ayer (since 2016), Studia Historica. Historia Contemporánea (since 2019), Revista de História das Ideias (since 2019), História da Historiografia (since 2011), História – Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto (since 2014), e- Journal of Portuguese Studies (since 2013), and Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past (since 2015). He was member of the editorial board of the following reviews: Ler História (2016-2024), Revista da Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa (1997-2004) and Clio (2002-2009).