Ana Carneiro

Collaborating Researcher
Department of Applied Sciences, FCT/NOVA

Research interests

  • History of Geology (19th century);
  • History of Chemistry (19th century);
  • History of Science in Portugal (18th to 20th centuries).

Projects

As leader

As member

  • "Antropolands - Engineering the Anthropocene: The role of colonial Science, Technology and Medicine on changing of the African landscape", (PTDC/IVC-HFC/6789/2014), 2016-2018.
  • "The Sites of Chemistry/Chantiers de la Chimie", (member of the steering committee). Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, Maison Française d’Oxford, e Wellcome Trust, 2010-2014.
  • “Reading newspapers: an open window to representations of science and technology in the Portuguese press (1900-1926)”, (PTDC/HCT/68210/2006), 2008-2011.
  • “Science, technical training and the construction of Liberalism in Portugal: the case of the Polytechnic School of Lisbon (1837-1911)”, (HC/0084/2009), 2010-2013.
  • “The spaces of Portuguese Technoscience (1837-1947)”, (PTDC/HCT/70798/2006), 2008-2011.

Publications (selection)

  1. Teresa Salomé Mota, Ana Carneiro, "'A Time for Engineers and a Time for Geologists': Scientific Lives and Different Pathways in the History of Portuguese Geology," Earth Sciences History, 32 (2013), 23–38.
  2. Ana Simões, Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro, "The Physical Tourist. Physical Sciences in Lisbon", Physics in Perspective, 14 (2012), 335-367.
  3. Ana Simões, Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro, Citizen of the World. A Scientific Biography of the Abbé Correia da Serra (English translation), (Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies Press/University of California, 2012).
  4. Ana Simões, Ana Carneiro, Maria Paula Diogo, "Riding the wave to reach the masses: natural events in early twentieth-century Portuguese daily press," Science & Education, 21 (2012), 311-333.
  5. Isabel Amaral, Ana Carneiro, Teresa Salomé Mota, Vítor Machado Borges, José Luís Dória, (eds.), Percursos da Saúde Pública nos séulos XIX e XX – a propósito de Ricardo Jorge, (Lisboa: CELOM-Centro Editor Livreiro da Ordem dos Médicos, 2011).
  6. Ana Carneiro, Marianne Klemun (eds.), Seeing and Measuring, Constructing and Judging: Instruments in the History of the Earth Sciences, Centaurus, special issue, 53 (May 2011), 77-189.
  7. Jesús Catalá-Gorgues, Ana Carneiro, "Like birds of a feather: the cultural origins of Iberian geological cooperation and the European Geological Map of 1896," The British Journal for the History of Science, (2011), 1-32 (online version).
  8. Marta C. Lourenço, Ana Carneiro (eds.), Spaces and Collections in the History of Science. The Laboratorio Chimico Overture, (Lisboa: Museum of Science of the University of Lisbon, 2009).
  9. Ana Carneiro, Vanda Leitão, “Engineers, the Geological Survey of Portugal (1857-1908), and the Professionalization of Geologists,” in Ana Cardoso de Matos, Maria Paula Diogo, Irina Gouzevitch, André Grelon (eds.), Jogos de Identidade: os engenheiros entre a formação e a acção (Les enjeux identitaires des ingénieurs: entre la formation et l’action) (Lisboa: Colibri, 2009), pp. 277-310.
  10. Ana Carneiro, “L’Usage Technique et Symbolique des Cartes à la Commission Géologique du Portugal (1857-1908), ” in Isabelle Laboulais, (dir.), Les Usages des Cartes (XVIIe-XIXe Siècle). Pour une Approche Pragmatique des Productions Cartographiques, (Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2008), pp. 257-270.

Scientific Societies and other institutions

  • History of the Earth Sciences Society (HESS): President elect for 2015 and 2016.
  • On-line international Journal HoST, History of Science and Technology: Editor.
  • Journal HESS (History of the Earth Sciences Society): “Councillor” (2006-2007).
  • Núcleo de História da Química da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química: Coordinator (2004 - 2007).
  • Museu de Ciência da Universidade de Lisboa (Laboratorio Chimico): Scientific Consultant since 2006.
  • Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP): Founding Member.
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