The grantees of the 2024 edition of the short-term research grants at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Torre do Tombo and in archives and libraries across the country have already been chosen. The initiative aims to support the promotion of the Portuguese language and culture in the USA.

These programs are aimed at students, teachers and researchers with a link to educational or research institutions in the USA, with a view to providing a productive stay in Portugal and access to research tools necessary for the research projects of the selected candidates. The grants awarded by FLAD in partnership with DGLAB – Torre do Tombo and Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal are aimed at researching Portuguese history, culture and languages, and other related topics, based on the collections of both archives. The FLAD Portuguese Archives Scholarship, created last year to reinforce the promotion and accessibility of face-to-face research, extends to archives and libraries throughout the country (mainland Portugal and the Islands). Those selected will receive a scholarship, with a maximum duration of 3 months, in the amount of 1400 euros/month, with an additional support of 750 euros for travel-related expenses.
Find out who the grantees are and the title of their research projects:

Torre do Tombo:

  • Anne Gerard Hanley (Professor, Northern Illinois University) – “American Rice in the Portuguese Market throughout the Eighteenth Century”;
  • Prapti Panda (PhD student, Northwestern University) – “Portuguese colonialism, urban organization and social dynamics on the Concan Coast: a historical-archaeological analysis of the maritime cities of Chaul and Janjira, India, 1400-1700”;
  • Ana Paula Nadalini Mendes (Student, University of Pennsylvania) – “Portugal in the abolition of slavery from a gender perspective”;
  • João Nemi Neto (Senior Lecturer, Columbia University) – “From nefarious sin to crimes against honor. The linguistic trajectory of homosexual identities in the Portuguese language”;
  • Luiz Francisco Guizzo Gutierrez Osorio (Master’s student, Texas State University) – “Visions of a National-Catholic Future: Iberian Education under Salazar and Franco, 1933-1959”;
  • Micah Henrique Mugge (Researcher/Historian, Princeton University) – “Building an Empire in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: A Global History of Brazilian Diplomacy (1822-1831)”.

 

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal:

  • Pedro Schact Pereira (Associate Professor, Ohio State University) – “Black Subjectivities in Portuguese Literature: Spectrums, Ventriloquism and Authorship (1840-2020)”;
  • Maria João Bastos-Stanek (PhD student, Southern Methodist University) – “Mapping the Empire: Drawing, Cartography and Colonial War in the Portuguese Empire of the XVIII century. XVIII”;
  • Maria Vitória de Rezende Grisi (PhD student, Ohio State University) – “Spatial narratives: the Arab influence on northeastern popular poetry in Brazil”;
  • Paulo Rodrigues Ferreira (Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) – “Contemporary cases of Iberianism and anti-Iberianism: from Leandro Blasques to Luís Taboada”;
  • Aline Moreira de Almeida (PhD student, University of California, Santa Barbara) – “A history of Luso-Brazilian Licensiosa Literature: from the century. XVII to the beginning of the century. XX”;
  • Giacomo Berchi (University Professor, University of Minnesota) – “The Figure of the Adamastor in World Literature”;
  • Malcolm McNee (Associate Professor, Smith College) – “Vestiges and translations of verbal arts and indigenous voices in the Luso-Brazilian colonial archive”.

 

Portuguese Archives:

  • Beatriz Barros (PhD Student, Indiana University) – “Archaeology During the Estado Novo: The Role of Regional Institutions” | Lisbon Municipal Archive, Arq.
    Archaeol.
    DG Cultural Heritage, F.Letras-ULisboa Library, Arq.
    Cascais and Faro, Arq.
    Moura Municipal;
  • Giuseppe Formato (Senior Lecturer, Lesley University) – “Community of Azorean origin that has been established since the beginning of the century. XX in the Cambridge and Somerville region, USA” | Public Library and Regional Archive of Ponta Delgada;
  • Inês Pedrosa e Melo (PhD student, University of California, Santa Cruz) – “Feminine visual imaginaries in Portuguese culture, law and science” | Lisbon Municipal Archive – Video Library;
  • Juan Camilo Vargas Hernández (PhD Student, University of Notre Dame) – “Portuguese Who Fought in the Spanish Civil War” | T.Tombo, Military Historical Archive, Arq.
    Portalegre District, Arq.
    District Porto, Arq.
    District Guard;
  • Leonardo Renda Bella Amaral (PhD Student, Indiana University) – “Ferreira de Castro’s Amazon” | Ossela Library and Ferreira de Castro Museum Houses;
  • Patrícia Martins Marcos (UC Chanellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles) – “Imperial Whiteness: Population, Patriarchy, and Race in the South Atlantic (1600-1800)” | Overseas Historical Archive;
  • Roberto Amado (PhD student, Indiana University) – “Jorge Amado and the convergence between the novel of the 30s and neo-realism in Portugal” | Ferreira de Castro Museum, Museum of Neo-Realism, BNP and T.Tombo Estate.