Pedro UrbanoPhd

About me

Pedro Urbano is integrated researcher at Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities / IN2PAST — Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory (IHC – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST) and collaborator researcher at Classic Studies Centre – School of Arts and Humanities (CEC – FLUL). He is invited professor at ISPA – Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida and at School of Education of the Polytechnic University of Setúbal. He has received his Master´s degree in Contemporary History in 2006 and his PhD in Historical Sciences in 2014, founded by FCT. This thesis won the 23rd edition of the Victor de Sá Prize (Minho University). He has taken part in numerous national and international research projects, including two COST-Action projects. Since 2019, he leads the research project: Women (e)go: Nineteenth Century Portuguese female self-writing, which aims to identify women's textual production in family archives. He was a member of the scientific council of the scientific journals Herança - History, Heritage, and Culture Journal, and RomantHis - História, Arte, Cultura e Património do Romantismo, as well as being a peer reviewer for several other academic publications.