Nuno Medeiros (nuno.medeiros@fcsh.unl.pt) is a researcher in Sociology and History at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, at IHC – NOVA FCSH, Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC – NOVA FCSH, Institute of Contemporary History) as a full member of the Culture, Identities, Power Research Group, dedicated especially to investigation into culture and cultural matters. He has worked at the same university as a researcher in Social Sciences with CICS.NOVA – Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (CICS.NOVA – Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Centre) since its foundation. He has also been a sociology and history researcher at Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, at H&TRC – Health & Technology Research Center, since it was founded.

He is also Assistant Professor of Sociology at Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa – Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa (Lisbon School of Health Technology – IPL-Politécnico de Lisboa), Portugal. From 2017 to 2020 he was Head of Department at the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology (1996), a Master’s degree in Historical Sociology (2007), and a PhD in Sociology, specializing in Sociology of Culture (2018), awarded by Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

He has been a university professor since 1999, essentially lecturing in undergraduate and master’s programs not only in sociology but also in other areas, such as anthropology, publishing studies and the history of print culture. In Portugal, he has lectured at Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Universidade do Algarve and Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz as a permanent or visiting professor. He has also taught once a year at Universidade de Aveiro (master’s in Publishing Studies). He has had short-term lecturing experiences in Brazil, at Universidade Federal Fluminense (classes in Portuguese on the History of the Book and Reading Practices in Brazil in the 19^th and 20^th Centuries), and in Spain, at Universidad CEU San Pablo, with a visiting professor grant.

He has been a visiting scholar at Brown University (USA) and at Universidade de Campinas (Brazil), and a keynote or guest speaker at major Brazilian institutions: Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade de Campinas, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, and Universidade Federal da Bahia.

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 structural R&D projects funded by the major funding institutions in Portugal, such as Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (the Portuguese public science funding agency) and the renowned Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. The focuses of these research projects included popular urban 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 times. His master’s thesis, on which his book, Edição e Editores: o mundo do livro em Portugal, 1940-1970 [Publishing and Publishers: The Book World in Portugal, 1940-1970] (Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2010), is based, was awarded the Prémio Fundação Mário Soares, the most prestigious award in Contemporary History in Portugal.

He has been the recipient of scientific fellowships or grants from such organizations 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) and 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 expert reviewer in the following processes: 2018 and 2019 EEA Grants – Collaborative Research Projects evaluation process (in the EEA Research Programme 2014-2021), at the invitation of the Romanian national agency for science, UEFISCDI, in the field of social sciences and humanities; 2019 and 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships evaluation process (under the Horizon 2020 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation), at the invitation of the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission, in the field of social sciences; 2020 grants of the call for Individual Scientist Project Proposals for the Fundamental and Applied Research evaluation process, at the invitation of the Latvian national agency for science, LZP/LCS, in the arts and humanities, cultural studies and history; 2020 grants of the call Latvian Culture, a Resource for National Development evaluation process, at the invitation of the Latvian national agency for science, LZP/LCS, in the field of cultural heritage and cultural memory.

One of the main areas of scientific research in which he has specialized is historical sociology of culture, cultural practices and representations, cross-cultural circulation, and cultural heritage. For many years, one of his main focuses has been the historical sociology of the book, publishing, bookselling, reading, print culture, and culture and communication. He has published extensively on these subjects.

One of his current research interests is mass publishing, popular culture, marginal literature, and the circulation of ideas as means of exploring the intricacies of contemporary culture in the Portuguese-speaking world, with special focus on Portugal and Brazil. He is also currently exploring the social and historical realm of cooking, cuisine, and gastronomy. He plans to dig deeper into food as a social practice symbolically and culturally ingrained in everyday life and national and local culinary traditions.

He has also been working on health and social structure, and health professions from a sociological and historical perspective for more than twenty years and has co-authored two books on these subjects.