Senior Researcher
Contact
cccvieira@gmail.comResearch Group
Social, Economic, and Political Dynamics
ORCID
Ciência ID
NOVA RESEARCH PORTAL
Carla Vieira is a senior researcher at the CHAM and coordinates the Digital Paradigm thematic line. 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 (New York) and the American Jewish Archives (Cincinnati) in 2022. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the Katz Center of the University of Pennsylvania (September-December 2024). She collaborates with the project 4-Oceans and is also part of the ANIMALIA project's research team.
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); and “The Nação Rules: A Comparative Analysis of the Bylaws of Western Sephardic Congregations in the Early Modern Atlantic”, Religion(s) (2023).
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