Senior Researcher
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cccvieira@gmail.comResearch Group
Social, Economic, and Political Dynamics
ORCID
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NOVA RESEARCH PORTAL
Carla Vieira is a senior researcher at the CHAM and its deputy director. Her research has focused on the history of conversos in Portugal and the Western Sephardic diaspora in England and Colonial North America. Her postdoctoral project, "Nation Between Empires: New Christians and Portuguese Jews in the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance," was funded by FCT. She was the Principal Investigator of the project Western Sephardic Diaspora Roadmap, funded by the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe (2020-2022), which resulted in the development of an online portal on archival collections with materials related to the Western Sephardic Diaspora. She was a visiting researcher at the Center for Jewish History in New York (March-May 2022), the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, OH (June 2022) and the Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania (September-December 2024). She is an invited researcher of the ERC Synergy 4-OCEANS project and part of the research team of ANIMALx - Animals of Lisbon, a project funded by FCT (the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology).
Carla Vieira is the author of the books Judeus Portugueses na América (2021) and Nação entre Impérios (2022) and of numerous articles and book chapters, such as “The Prisoner, the Fugitive, and the Returnee: three portrayals of the Eighteenth-century Sephardi diaspora to England”, Jewish Historical Studies 52 (2021); “Pombal and the Jews: Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo’s views on the Jewish question”, e-Journal of Portuguese History 19 (2021); “The Puzzling Path of a Recondite Text: The Composition, Circulation, and Reception of the Notícias Recônditas in Eighteenth-Century England”, Church History 88: 2 (2019); “The motivations behind E. H. Lindo's The History of the Jews of Spain and Portugal (London, 1848)”, Journal of Jewish Studies (2023); “The Nação Rules: A Comparative Analysis of the Bylaws of Western Sephardic Congregations in the Early Modern Atlantic”, Religion(s) (2023); and "A Merchant Prince in the Twilight of the Western Sephardic Diaspora: Aaron Lopez and his Business Organization”, American Jewish History (2024).
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