Senior Researcher . Assistant Professor at the University of the Azores
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Social, Economic, and Political Dynamics
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Nuno Camarinhas is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of the Azores. He holds a PhD in History from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris, 2007), where he developed research on magistrates, jurisdictions and legal culture in early modern Portugal and its empire, from a comparative and trans-imperial perspective. He also holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL) and a BA in History from NOVA University Lisbon. His research focuses on the history of justice, institutions and governance in the Ancien Régime and during the transition to liberalism, with particular emphasis on the pluricontinental dynamics of the Portuguese Empire. His work addresses topics such as the circulation of agents and normative models, territorial administration, local judicial practices, legal pluralism, colonial hinterlands, and cultures of governance. More recently, he has expanded his work to nineteenth-century Luso-Brazilian political and administrative history, analysing provisional governments, political communication and the territorialisation of state power. He is the author of Juízes e administração da justiça no Antigo Regime (2010), the critical edition of Memorial de Ministros (3 vols., 2017–2022), and 1851 (2019, co-authored with Joana Estorninho de Almeida). He has also published widely in national and international journals and collective volumes, including contributions to the Oxford Handbook of Law in Early Modern European Colonies and the Routledge Handbook of the History of Portugal (both forthcoming). He has participated in several funded research projects (FCT, ESF, CNPq), in international networks on the history of justice and law, and in collaborative Digital Humanities initiatives applied to the study of magistracies and colonial administrations. Between 2023 and 2025, he was Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), where he coordinated projects on justice, territorial governance and frontiers.
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