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Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida
Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida is a political science researcher at CIES-IUL, ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, and a guest assistant professor at ISCTE-IUL. She has a Ph.D. in modern and contemporary history and two post-doctoral research projects in political science, focusing on local government. She is a former researcher at CIUHCT, Centro Interuniversitário de História da Ciência e Tecnologia, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Her interests are in political transitions, local government, political and economic elites, memories and identities, rural and urban history and biographies. She has written many books and articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as Public Understanding of Science, Rural History, História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, Notes & Records of The Royal Society, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, European Societies, AGER and Continuity and Change.