Áreas Científicas
History of Technology and Engineering History in Portugal and in the Portuguese African Empire (Angola and Mozambique) (18th to 20th centuries);
History of Science in Portugal (18th to 20th centuries);
Globalisation of Science and Technology (knowledge transfer, networks, centre(s)/peripherie(s)).
Publicações Representativas
John K. Brown, Gary Lee Downey, Maria Paula Diogo, "Engineering Education and the History of Technology", Technology and Culture, 50: 4 (2009), 737-752.
Ana Cardoso de Matos, Maria Paula Diogo, Irina Gouzevitch, André Grelon (eds.), Jogos de Identidade: os engenheiros entre a formação e a acção (Les enjeux identitaires des ingénieurs: entre la formation et l’action) (Lisboa: Colibri, 2009).
Maria Paula Diogo, “Domesticating the wilderness: Portuguese engineering and the occupation of Africa”, in Ana Cardoso de Matos, Maria Paula Diogo, Irina Gouzevitch, André Grelon (eds.), Jogos de Identidade: os engenheiros entre a formação e a acção (Les enjeux identitaires des ingénieurs: entre la formation et l’action) (Lisboa: Colibri, 2009), pp. 471-482.
Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Cardoso Matos, “Being an engineer in the European Periphery: three case studies on Portuguese engineering", History of Technology, 27 (2007), 125-146.
Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro e Ana Simões, “El Grand Tour de la Tecnología: El Estrangeirado Manuel de Azevedo Fortes”, in Antonio Lafuente, Ana Cardoso Matos, Tiago Saraiva (eds.), Maquinismo Ibérico – Tecnologia y cultura en la península ibérica, siglos XVIII-XX,(Aranjuez: Doce Calles, 2006), pp.119-139.
Ana Paula Silva, Maria Paula Diogo, “Host and Hostage: Portugal, Britain and the Atlantic Networks”, in Erik van der Vleuten, Arne Kaijser (eds.), Networking Europe. Infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, (Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 2006), pp. 51-69.
Perfil Profissional
Full Professor of History of Technology and Engineering at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the New University of Lisbon (FCT/UNL), Portugal.
Currently Head of the Department of Social Sciences at the FCT/UNL and Co-Coordinator of the major research centre in Portugal in the field of the History of Science and Technology (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT).
She pioneered the research and courses on History of Technology in Portugal, both to undergraduate and graduate students. She is currently working on Portuguese engineers and engineering, mainly during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Presently she coordinates two national projects (Reshaping Africa: Portuguese engineering and territory management in the colonies of Angola and Mozambique (1870-1974) and Popularization of Science and Technology in Portugal, 18th-20th centuries), she participates on several other projects concerning the Portuguese and the Iberian History of Science and Technology, both in Portugal and in Spain, and she is co-author of volume 6 (Europe in the Global World) of the book series Making Europe: Technologies and Transformations, 1850-2000. She is a founding member of STEP (Science and Technology in the European Periphery) and of INES (International Network on Engineering Studies). She is also a member of the Tensions of Europe -Technology in the Making of the 20th century Europe network. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Studies and of HoST (History of Science and Technology Journal).
She participates in a large number of national and international meetings in the field of the History of Science and Technology and she has organized in Lisbon the meetings of two main societies in the field of History of Technology (ICOHTEC 1998 and SHOT 2008).
She publishes on regular bases internationally in journals high-ranked in the international indexes.
