Maria Paula Diogo

Founding member; due to a position on FCT.IP board ceases to be a member of CIUHCT on April 19, 2023
Department of Applied Sciences, FCT/NOVA

Research interests

  • History of Technology and Engineering History in Portugal and in the Portuguese African Empire (Angola and Mozambique) (18th to 20th centuries);
  • History of Science in Portugal (18th to 20th centuries);
  • Globalisation of Science and Technology (knowledge transfer, networks, centre(s)/peripherie(s)).

Projects

As leader

  • "Anthropolands - Construir o Antropoceno; o papel da Ciência, Tecnologia e Medicina coloniais na alteração da paisagem Africana", (PTDC/IVC-HFC/6789/2014), 2016-2018;
  •  InsSCide - Inventing a Shared Science Diplomacy - PI of WP3 "Science Diplomats".
  • "Reshaping Africa: Portuguese engineering and territory management in the colonies of Angola and Mozambique (1870-1974)", (PTDC/HIS-HCT/118359/2010), 2012-2014;
  • "Textbooks for Iberian Engineers: a comparative study (17th-18th centuries)", (AI/CRUP: E-75/09), 2009-2010.
  • "The Popularization of Science and Technology (19th-20th centuries)", (Compromisso com a Ciência, FCT/MCTES), 2007-2012.
  • "Engineering and Scientific Culture in Catalunya and Spain", (HUM2007-62222/HIST, Ministerio da Educácion y Ciencia, Espanha), 2009-2012. Coordinator of the Portuguese Group (General Coordinator: Antoni Roca-Rosell, ETSEIB/UPC).
  • "Making Europe: Technologies and Transformations, 1850-2000" (book series editor: Johan Schot), 2009-2012.

As member

  • “Reading newspapers: an open window to representations of science and technology in the Portuguese press (1900-1926)”, (PTDC/HCT/68210/2006), 2008-2011.
  • “Nuclear Portugal: Physics, Technology, Medicine and Environment (1910-2010)”, (HC/0063/2009), 2010-2013.
  • “The spaces of Portuguese Technoscience (1837-1947)”, (PTDC/HCT/70798/2006), 2008-2011.

Publications (selection)

  1. M.P.Diogo, T. Saraiva, Inventing a European Nation: Engineers for Portugal, from Baroque to Fascism, Williston (VT)/London, Morgan & Claypool, 2020.

  2. A. Simões, M. P. Diogo, “Portugal”, in H. R.Slotten, R. L. Numbers, D.N. Livingstone, eds. Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context, The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 8, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp.390-400.

  3. M. P. Diogo, “The Perfect Pair: Bloch, Febvre and the History of Science and Technilogy”, HoST, 14 (2):61-80.

  4. M. P.Diogo, A. Simões, A.D. Rodrigues, D, Scarso (eds), Gardens and human agency in the anthropocene, New York, Routledge, 2019.

  5. M. P.Diogo, A. Simões, A.D. Rodrigues, D, Scarso, “Introduction: Nature and gardens in the history of science and technology and in garden and landscape studies”, in M. P.Diogo, A. Simões, A.D. Rodrigues, D, Scarso (eds), Gardens and human agency in the Anthropocene, New York, Routledge, pp. 1-16.

  6. A.Simões, M.P.Diogo, “Urban utopias and the Anthropocene”, in M. P.Diogo, A. Simões, A.D. Rodrigues, D, Scarso (eds), Gardens and human agency in the Anthropocene, New York, Routledge, pp.58-72.

  7. “Ciência para o povo: espaços de ensino superior para adultos na Lisboa Republicana”, in T. Saraiva, M. Macedo eds, Capital Científica. Práticas da Ciência em Lisboa e a História Contemporânea de Portugal, Lisboa: ICS, pp. 251-282.

  8. T. Saraiva, M. P. Diogo,“O Estado Novo dos engenheiros: Instituto Superior Técnico e Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil”, in T. Saraiva, M. Macedo, eds, Capital Científica. Práticas da Ciência em Lisboa e a História Contemporânea de Portugal, Lisboa: ICS, pp.285-324.

  9. M.P. Diogo, I. Louro, D, Scarso, “Why the concept of anthropocene is relevant for historians of technology”, ICON, 23 (2019):25-35.

  10. M. P. Diogo, B. Navarro, “Re-Designing Africa: Railways and Globalization in the Era of the New Imperialism”, in L. Camprubi, D. Pretel, eds. Technology and Globalization. Netwrks of Experts in World History, London/New York,  Palgrave Macmillan, pp.105-128.

  11. M.P. Diogo, A. Simões, “História da Ciência e História da Tecnologia: reflexões sobre ética e práticas disciplinares”, in M. C. Neves. M. G. Carvalho, eds., Ética Aplicada. Investigação Científica, Lisboa: Ed.70, pp: 83-102.

  12. M. P. Diogo, A. Simões, K. Gavroglu (eds.), “FORUM STEP Matters”, Technology & Culture, 57 (4), 2017:926-997.

  13. M. P. Diogo, K. Gavroglu, A. Simões, “STEP Matters. Historiographical Considerations”, in M. P. Diogo, K. Gavroglu, A. Simões, eds., “FORUM STEP Matters”, Technology & Culture, 57 (4), (2017):926-929.

  14. M.P.Diogo,"“To be or not to be”: la construction d’une identité civile pour les ingénieurs militaires portugais", Quaderns d'història de l'enginyeria (Special issue/ Festschriften to André Grelon), April, 2017: 243-256.

  15. I.Gouzévitch, A.C.Matos, M.P.Diogo, D.Gouzévitch, D. Martykánová, A.Roca-Rosell, "Introduction. "L’ingenieur Dans Tous Ses Etats": L’essor d’un Champ de Recherche Pluridsciplinaire et Transnational", Quaderns d'història de l'enginyeria (Special issue/ Festschriften to André Grelon), April, 2017:1-25.

  16. M.P.Diogo, D. van Laak, Europeans Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging, London/New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Scientific societies and other institutions

  • Leonardo Da Vinci Medal 2020 from the Society for the History of Technology.
  • Society for the History of Technology (SHOT): Member of the Finance Committee (2012-2014); Member of the Executive Committee (2009-2011); Member of the Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship (2008-2011).
  • International Network in Engineering Studies (INES): Founding Member; Co-coordinator.
  • Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP): Founding Member.
  • Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Studies (Taylor and Francis).
  • ESF Standing Committee for Humanities (SCH): Expert in STS (Science, Technology and Sociey).
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