Nuno Medeiros

Nuno Medeiros (nuno.medeiros@fcsh.unl.pt) is a researcher in Sociology and History of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, at IHC – NOVA FCSH, Instituto de História Contemporânea/IHC – NOVA FCSH, Institute of Contemporary History in full membership, in the Research Group “Culture, Identities, Power”, specially devoted to the investigation of culture and cultural matters. He is also Professor of Sociology at Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa of Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa/Lisbon School of Health Technology of IPL – Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal, where he teaches since 1999 (currently head of the Department of Psychology and Sociology).

In Universidade Nova de Lisboa he collaborates as a researcher in Sociology and History with CICS.NOVA – Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais/CICS.NOVA – Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences. He is also a researcher in Sociology and History of Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, at H&TRC – Centro de Investigação em Saúde e Tecnologia/H&TRC – Health & Technology Research Center, since it was founded.

He holds a bachelor of arts in Sociology (1996), a master’s degree in Historical Sociology (2007), and a PhD in Sociology – Speciality in Sociology of Culture, Knowledge and Education (2018), awarded by Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

He was a visiting scholar at Brown University (USA) and invited speaker at Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (Brazil), at Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), and at Universidade de Campinas (Brazil). He was a lecturer at Universidade do Algarve and at Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz (Portugal), and invited professor at Universidad CEU San Pablo, in Madrid (Spain).

He is currently the principal investigator (PI) of a fully-financed research project related with social perceptions of forest landowners regarding rural world, foresting, local communities, risk and fires. He has participated in and co-authored various structural R&D projects funded by the major funding institutions in Portugal, namely Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (the Portuguese science funding public agency) and the renowned Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. These research projects focused on themes such as urban popular culture, reading in Portugal in the 20th century, the social nature of reading, publishing and bookselling, popular books and mass market publishing, and book circulation and print culture in the Atlantic in colonial and post-colonial contexts. His master’s thesis, from which his book, Edição e Editores: o mundo do livro em Portugal, 1940-1970 [Publishing and Publishers: the book world in Portugal, 1940-1970], is based upon, was awarded the Prémio Fundação Mário Soares, the most prestigious prize in Contemporary History in Portugal.

He has been the recipient several scientific fellowships or grants from such entities as Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), Fundação Luso-Americana/Luso-American Foundation (Portugal), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa Científica do Estado de São Paulo (Brazil) or Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa/European Union (Portugal/EU).

He is an expert reviewer/evaluator with international recognition (European Union database expert reviewer/evaluator no. EX2014D201311). Recently he was an appointed expert reviewer in 2018 EEA Grants – Collaborative Research Projects evaluation process (EEA Grants – Collaborative Research Projects 2018 call within EEA Research Programme 2014-2021), by invitation of the Romanian national agency for science, UEFISCDI, in the domain of social sciences and humanities.

One of the main areas of scientific inquiry in which Nuno Medeiros has become specialized is Historical Sociology of Culture, cultural practices and representations, cross-cultural circulation, and cultural heritage. For many years, one of his main focus resides in Historical Sociology of the book, publishing, bookselling, reading and print culture and communication. On these subjects he has published extensively.

His current research is centred on mass publishing, popular culture and the study of publishing house archives as means of exploring the intricacies of the contemporary book in the Portuguese speaking world, with a special focus on Portugal, Brazil, and the cross Atlantic book trade. He is also engaged in exploring the social and historical realm of cooking, cuisine, and gastronomy, fields in which he intends to deepen the study of food as a social practice heavily inscribed in everyday life, both symbolically and culturally, as well as the study of national and local culinary traditions.

He has also been working for almost two decades from a sociological and historical perspective on the topics of health and social structure, and health professions, having two books published on these subjects, both co-authored.