Senior Researcher . Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH
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raquelribeiro@fcsh.unl.ptResearch Group
Transcultural, Literary, and Postcolonial Studies
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Raquel Ribeiro holds a degree in Communication Sciences from NOVA FCSH and a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Liverpool, UK (2009). She was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship – Nottingham Advanced Research Fellowship (University of Nottingham, UK, 2010-2012) – to develop a project on the memory of Cuba's presence in the Angolan civil war. She was a Visiting Fellow at St Peter’s College, University of Oxford (2013-2014), where she taught Brazilian Literature, and a lecturer in Portuguese Studies at the University of Edinburgh (Assistant Professor and Associate Professor, between 2014- 2021). In Edinburgh, she developed several collaborative projects funded by the AHRC: “Afro-Latin (in)visibility and the UN Decade: Cultural politics in motion in Nicaragua, Colombia, and the UK” and “Visibilizing Afro Cultural Connections and Geopolitical Dynamics in Nicaragua, Colombia, San Andrés, and Providencia”; and “Ixchel: Building understanding of the physical, cultural, and socio-economic drivers of risk for strengthening resilience in the Guatemalan cordillera” (funded by the National Environment Research Council/NERC).
In 2021, she received a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship (United Kingdom), before returning to Portugal in 2022 as a Junior Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC). She received an FCT - CEEC contract as Principal Investigator, also at the Institute of Contemporary History (2023-2025). Since November 2025, she is an Assistant Professor of Ibero-American History in the Department of Modern Languages, Cultures, and Literatures at NOVA FCSH. As a freelance writer and journalist, she has published in various media outlets (Portugal, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, and Latin America). She was a Gabriel García Márquez Fellow in Cultural Journalism, awarded by the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Latinoamericano (Colombia), and is a member of the Cuba Research Forum (Nottingham).
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