Postdoctoral researcher specializing in the history of the Portuguese Empire, with a focus on the metropolis but with knowledge of Brazil, and with a general historiographical view of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century.

Two-year contract (January 2026–December 2027), to work one year on an 18th-century period in the metropolis (preferably the Pombal era), and the other year on a 19th-century period in the American empire. The topics may include cultural issues (temporality and imperial self-perception), conceptions of the subject (emergence of individuality-citizenship versus corporate-collective imaginaries), and/or dialectics between political crises, reforms, and revolutions.

The activities to be carried out are:

• Publish two articles, one per year, on the chosen research topics, plus a more general historiographical chapter for a collective volume.
• Participate in the project's monthly seminar sessions (8 sessions per year) and contribute to the organization of two sessions per year.
• Participate as a lecturer in the School of Conceptual History of Imperial Cultures in the Transition to Modernity (February 2027).
• Contribute to the development of applications for European COST projects and the doctoral network.
• Collect extracts from texts of the period and translate them into English to feed the project's website.

Contracting opens: November 2025.