Madalena da Costa Lima

PhD in History, with a specialization in Art, Heritage, and Theory of Restoration, from the University of Lisbon (UL), with a dissertation on the concepts and attitudes of architectural intervention in Portugal (1755-1834), funded by FCT, approved with distinction and praise, in 2014. She is part of the inter-university team preparing the project Portugal 900 Years, hosted by SHIP; she is a researcher on the “Pombal Global” project, hosted by UL and UAb; she is a member of the organizing committee of the “Dicionário Global de Maria: Culto e Cultura” project, coordinated by IPPEM institute for Mariology Studies and promoted by the CEG-UAb. Until recently, she was the contracted doctoral researcher on POMBALIA project (PTDC/HAR-HIS/32197/2017), hosted by the School of Arts and Humanities, UL. She has participated in various other research projects, several of them funded by FCT or Gulbenkian Foundation. She investigates, has delivered presentations and published articles on heritage history, religious orders, and Portuguese culture during the long 18th century and the transition to Liberalism.