Rui Ramos

Rui Manuel Monteiro Lopes Ramos GOIH (born 1962) is a Portuguese historian.

Biography

Rui Ramos was born in Torres Vedras. He graduated in History from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at NOVA University Lisbon in 1985; after a brief stint as a trainee assistant in the 1985–1986 academic year at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, he pursued a research career at the Institute of Social Sciences of the same university and is currently a senior researcher. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Oxford in 1997.

As well as being a researcher, he was also a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the New University of Lisbon from 1998 to 2001 and, since 2001, at the Institute for Political Studies of the Catholic University of Portugal.

At the Institute of Social Sciences, he was a member of the Postgraduate Committee in 1998–2000 and a member of the Standing Committee of the Scientific Council between 2001 and 2004, as well as a member of the editorial board of the journal Análise Social between 2003 and 2004.

As a historian, he has specialized in the history of Portugal in the 19th and 20th centuries, studying above all the political and cultural aspects. He has dedicated himself in particular to researching the period at the end of the Constitutional Monarchy and the First Portuguese Republic. He is also interested in the History of Political Ideas in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, a subject on which he has given several seminars at the Institute of Social Sciences, as part of the MA and PhD programs in Comparative Politics.

He is the author of dozens of articles published in Portuguese and foreign scientific journals, and several books, including A Segunda Fundação (The Second Foundation), 1994, volume VI of the History of Portugal edited by José Mattoso, João Franco e o Fracasso do Reformismo Liberal (João Franco and the Failure of Liberal Reformism, 2001), and the 2006 biography of King Carlos I of Portugal, in the Kings of Portugal series. He was also one of the coordinators of the three-volume Dicionário Biográfico Parlamentar (Parliamentary Biographical Dictionary) and author of A Monarquia Constitucional (The Constitutional Monarchy, 2004–2005). He is currently working on the international project El Léxico Político y Social de la Modernidad Iberoamericana (Proyecto Iberconceptos), which brings together researchers from dozens of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American universities to produce a Dictionary of the History of Political and Social Concepts in the Ibero-American World between 1750 and 1870.

He was one of the founders and a member of the editorial board of the journal Penélope. Revista de História e Ciências Sociais, between 1988 and 2006 and one of the organizers of the two Social History of Elites Congresses, in 1991 and 2003.

In October 2002, the Academia Europaea awarded him the distinction of Burgen Scholar "in recognition of excellent academic achievement".

In addition to his university work and historical research, he has been writing a weekly current affairs column in the daily newspaper Público since 2006, and collaborated on the monthly magazine of ideas and debate Atlântico between 2005 and 2008. He was also the author of the 12-part television series "O Portugal de..." (2007), which aired on RTP1.

In 2009 he was awarded the D. Dinis Prize, alongside Bernardo de Vasconcelos e Sousa and Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro for their work História de Portugal.

On June 7, 2013, he was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the newspaper Observador, with Duarte Schmidt Lino and José Manuel Fernandes (who is the publisher), which is chaired by António Carrapatoso.

External links

• Works by Rui Ramos at Observador