Daniel Gamito-Marques

Research Fellow
Department of Applied Social Sciences, NOVA-FCT

Research interests

  • Science and Imperialism (19th-20th cent.);
  • History of Natural History (18th-19th cent.);
  • Urban History (19th-20th cent.);
  • Science Education;
  • Literature and Science;
  • Theater and Science

Projects

Participation

Publications (selection)

  1. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. “Intellectuals and the city. Private matters in the public space.” In Science, Technology and Medicine in the Making of Lisbon (1840–1940), coordenado por Ana Simões e Maria Paula Diogo, 344–365. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

  2. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Science as power in the Scramble for Africa: Scientific networks and the diplomatic colonization of Africa in the late nineteenth century". In Inventing a Shared Science Diplomacy for Europe. Interdisciplinary Case Studies to Think with History, coordenado por Claire Mays, Léonard Laborie, e Pascal Griset, 27-34. Paris: Zenodo, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6600885

  3. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. “The golden age (1862–1910) of the Zoological Section of the Museu Nacional de Lisboa (National Museum of Lisbon), Portugal.” Archives of Natural History 49 (2022): 160–174. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2022.0765

  4. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. “A ciência ao serviço do império. Andrade Corvo, Barbosa du Bocage e a defesa das pretensões coloniais portuguesas em África.” In Ciência, Tecnologia e Medicina na Construção de Portugal. Volume 3: Identidade e «Missão Civilizadora» - Séc. XIX, coordenado por Ana Carneiro, Isabel Amaral, e Teresa Salomé Mota, 119–139. Lisbon: Tinta-da-China, 2021.

  5. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. “In Praise of a Historical Storytelling Approach in Science Education.” Isis 111 (2020): 582–587. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/711126

  6. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. “Science for Competition among Powers: Geographical Knowledge, Colonial-Diplomatic Networks, and the Scramble for Africa.” Berichte zur Wissenschafstgeschichte 43 (2020): 473–492. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/bewi.202000016

  7. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. “A Space of One’s Own: Barbosa du Bocage, the Foundation of the National Museum of Lisbon, and the Construction of a Career in Zoology (1851–1907).” Journal of the History of Biology 51 (2018): 223–257. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-017-9487-6

  8. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. “Defending metropolitan identity through colonial politics: The role of Portuguese naturalists (1870–91).” History of Science 56 (2018): 224–253. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0073275317722240

  9. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. “Antievolucionismo.” In Dicionário dos Antis. A Cultura Portuguesa em Negativo, coordenado por José Eduardo Franco, 688–696. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, 2018.

Scientific societies and other institutions

  • Member of the Science and Empire Commission, DHST-IUHPST (since 2021).
  • Member of the International Commission of the History of Oceanography, DHST-IUHPST (since 2021).
  • Member of the Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy, DHST-IUHPST (since 2019).
  • Member of the Inter-Divisional Teaching Commission, DHST-IUHPST (since 2017).
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