Marta Macedo

Research interests

• History of Science and Technology (19th and 20th centuries);
• Colonialism (19th and 20th centuries);
• Environmental History;
• Laboratories and landscapes.

Projects

• "Inventing the cocoa islands: science and the Portuguese colonial landscape". Post-doctoral research project (FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BPD/61049/2009), 2010-2013.

Participation

• "Anthropolands - Engineering the Anthropocene: The role of colonial Science, Technology and Medicine on changing of the African landscape", (PTDC/IVC-HFC/6789/2014), 2016-2018.
• “Os Espaços da Tecnociência Portuguesa (1837-1947)”, (FCT/MCTES, PTDC/HCT/70798/2006), 2009-2010.

Publications (selection)

1. Marta Macedo, "Império de cacau: ciência agrícola e regimes de trabalho em São Tomé no início do século XX" in Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (org.), O império colonial em questão: poderes, saberes e instituições, (Lisboa: Edições 70, 2012), pp. 289-316.
2. Marta Macedo, Projectar e construir a Nação. Engenheiros, ciência e território em Portugal no séc. XIX (Lisboa: ICS, 2012).
3. Marta Macedo,"Port Wine Landscape: Railroads, Phylloxera and Agricultural Science", Agricultural History, 85:2, 2011, 157-173.
4. Marta Macedo, "Recensão: Karl-Eugen Kurrer, The History of the Theory of Structures: From Arch Analysis to Computational Mechanics (Berlin: Ernst & Sohn, 2008)", Host: journal of history of science and technology, 3, 2010.
5. Marta Macedo, "Recensão: Marc Desportes, Paysages en mouvement: 
Transports et perception de l’espace XVIIIe-XXe siècle (Paris: Gallimard, 2005)", Host: journal of history of science and technology, 1, 2007.
6. Marta Macedo, "Recensão: Tiago Saraiva, Ciencia y ciudad: Madrid y Lisboa: 1851-1900(Madrid: Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 2005)", Murphy: journal of architectural history and theory, 2, 2007.