Abel Rodrigues

Abel Rodrigues is an Historian and Archivist. He is a PhD candidate in joint-custody in
NOVA University Lisbon and École Nationale des Chartes-Paris Sciences et Lettres
(2020-2025). He holds a degree in History (Scientific Branch), a postgraduate degree
and a master’s degree in Modern and Contemporary History and a postgraduate
degree in Information Science (Archivistics).

He was Research Fellow and Scientific Consultant of VINCULUM project (ERC Grant
Agreement ID 819734) (2019-2021; 2023-2024); Information Manager at the Rectory of
University of Porto and at the Faculty of Fine Arts/University of Porto (2017-2018);
Coordinator of the Marques da Silva Foundation/University of Porto (2015-2017);
Coordinator of the Archive of the Casa de Mateus Foundation (2009-2015) and
Archivist at the Braga District Archive/University of Minho (2000-2008).

He develops his research on personal and family archives, institutional archives and
Modern and Contemporary History. He published several books, book chapters and
articles in academic journals, and was also scientific and editorial coordinator of the
book series “Casa de Mateus – Estudos & Manuscritos”; and technical and scientific
coordinator of two research projects co-financed by the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation. He co-supervised professional and curricular internships and master’s
thesis, having also participated in master’s juries. He has given conferences and
seminars in Portugal and abroad and is referee of several scientific publications in
Portugal and Brazil.

E-mail
abelrodrigues@fcsh.unl.pt