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PhD Candidate in Modern and Contemporary History at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, with research funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through the Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the CIES - Iscte. She was a visiting researcher at The Open University, United Kingdom (2025). She holds a Master’s degree in Modern and Contemporary History from Iscte – IUL (2022) and a Bachelor’s degree in History from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) (2019). She is an integrated researcher in the project CINCRA – International Collaborations: Criminality and Police Cooperation in the Ibero-Atlantic, c. 1870–1940, funded by the FCT. Her research experience and interests include Modern and Contemporary History, Transnational History, White-Collar Crime, and International Cooperation in combating transnational crime in Europe during the Interwar Period.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rebecca Ferreira Dias
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Dias, Rebecca

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
EB15-1A00-859F
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7053-6025

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - History

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/10 - 2027
Ongoing
Modern and Contemporany History (Doutoramento)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"Diplomacy and Transnational Crime: The Alves Reis Case and International Cooperation against Crime in Interwar Europe" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2019/09/25 - 2022/01/10
Concluded
Modern and Contemporany History (Mestrado)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"A Parade of Bulls Abroad: Gado Bravo (1934) and the Dream of a European Film Industry in Portugal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015/02/01 - 2019/09/01
Concluded
History (Bachelor)
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"An International History of the May Revolution" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2017 - 2018 Internship in the Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary History of Brazil (CPDOC) Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil
Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil
2016 - 2016 Internship in Special Education 2a Coordenadoria Municipal de Educação do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Escola Municipal Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazil
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/12/01 - Current Diplomacy and Transnational Crime: The Alves Reis Case and International Cooperation agaisnt Crime in Interwar Europe
PRT/BD/154744/2023
PhD Student Fellow
Governo da República Portuguesa Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/06/01 - Current International Collaborations: Criminality and Police Cooperation in the Ibero-American Atlantic, c. 1870-1940
PTDC/HAR-HIS/3580/2021
Researcher
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal

Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
2018 - 2019 Atlantic Surveillance: A Sociocultural History of Transnational Crime Control in the Ibero-American Space, c. 1830-1939
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Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Rebecca Ferreira Dias. "Persecuted by the Nation, exalted by cinema : Communism in The May Revolution". Em Tempo de Histórias 1 37 (2020): https://doi.org/10.26512/emtempos.v1i37.34001.
    Open access • Published • 10.26512/emtempos.v1i37.34001
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/07/24 The Man Who Stole Portugal: Representations of a Criminal and Mass Culture. VIII Simposio Internacional de la Red de Historiadores e Historiadoras del Delito en Las Américas
Universidad Nacional de General San Martín (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2025/03/28 The Scandal of the Bank Angola e Metrópole: Exploring White Collar-Crime and Transnational Circulation in Interwar Europe European Social Science History Conference
International Institute of Social History (Leiden, Netherlands)
2024/11/16 Thousands of Coins in Counterfeit Notes: The Bank of Portugal in the Fight Against Currency Counterfeiting (1925-1932) XLIII Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History
ISEG – Instuto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024/06/08 International Cooperation and Criminal Networks: the Fight Against Counterfeiting in Interwar Europe. Global History Student Conference 2024
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut of the Freie Universität (Berlim, Germany)
2024/04/22 In the Footsteps of Alves Reis: The Policeman, the Forger, and the Internationalization of Surveillance in Interwar Europe Transnational Crime: Atlantic Surveillance
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2024/03/24 Diplomacy and Transnational Crime: The Alves Reis Case and International Cooperation in Combating Crime in Interwar Europe Reading Group of the CINCRA Project
Iscte- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/11/24 Transnational Crimes and Police in Action: The International Efforts of the Portuguese Criminal Investigation Police in the 1925 "Great Fraud" Investigations I International Meeting of New Researchers in Police and Crime History
Iscte- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal)
2023/10/19 International Connections: The Portuguese Police in the Investigations of the Alves Reis Fraud International Congress on Police(s) and Regimes
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/07/06 Banking and Diplomatic Archives in the Study of International Cooperation in Combating Crime in Interwar Europe: The Alves Reis Case IX Meeting of Young Researchers
Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares – CEIS20 (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/10 Diplomatic Sources and State Cooperation in the Fight Against Crime, 1870-1930 International Congress on Studying Police(s): History, Sources, and Methodologies
Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais e Segurança Interna (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018 Everything for the Nation, Nothing Against the Nation: The Foreigner in Portuguese Cinema in the 1930s History Week at PUC-RJ
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro , Brazil)
2018 Everything for the Nation, Nothing Against the Nation: The Foreigner in Portuguese Cinema in the 1930s Scientific Initiation Day (JIC); VII History Week at UNIRIO "Construction of Brazil: Race, Customs, Faith, and Tradition"
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro , Brazil)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2022/09 - Current Organization of the Monthly Reading Group of the "CINCRA Project - International Collaborations: Criminality and Police Cooperation in the Ibero-American Atlantic 1870-1940" (2022/09)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
Cincra - Colaborações Internacionais: Criminalidade e Cooperação Policial no Atlântico Ibero-Americano 1879-1940, Portugal
2023/06 - 2033/12 Member of the organizing and scientific committee of the I International Meeting of New Researchers in Police and Crime History (2023/11/22 - 2023/11/24)
Congress (President of the Organising Committee)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2025/04/10 - 2025/04/29 Convenor of the panel "Transnationalizing Criminal Networks" at the European Social Science History Conference (2025/03/26 - 2025/03/29)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands
2025/03/24 - 2025/03/29 Convenor of the panel “Transnationalization of Criminal Networks” at the European Social Science History Conference 2025 (2025/03/24 - 2025/03/29)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Leiden University College The Hague, Netherlands

Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Netherlands
2024/07/12 - 2024/12/05 Member of the organizing and scientific committee of the " II International Meeting of New Researchers in Police and Crime History" (2024/11/27 - 2024/11/28)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/03/07 Member of the organizing and scientific committee of The International Seminar - Transnational Crime, Police and Diplomacy, c.1870-1940 (2023/03/06 - 2023/03/07)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/01/01 - 2018/01/01 Monitor at the III National Seminar on History and Cultural Heritage; Heritage, Democracy, and Public Policies (2018/01/01)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
Associação Nacional de História, Brazil
2018 - 2018 Monitor at the III National Seminar on History and Cultural Heritage: Heritage, Democracy, and Public Policies (2018/10/01 - 2018/10/05)
Seminar (Other)
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Associação Nacional de História, Brazil
2016/10/27 - 2016/10/28 Monitor at the II National Meeting of the Gender Work Group (2016/10/27)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
Associação Nacional de História, Brazil

Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2021 - 2023 Oré - Student Journal of History Studies

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2018/10 - 2018/11 Organization and Review of the Abstracts Book for the VII History Week at UNIRIO "Construction of Brazil: Race, Customs, Faith, and Tradition" Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/03/07 - 2024/03/07 New Perspectives in Modern and Contemporary History Master's in Modern and Contemporary History (Mestrado) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/11/02 - 2023/11/02 Analysis of Archives and Other Documentary Sources Master's in International Studies (Mestrado) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization Funding entity
2018/10 - 2018/11 Member of the organizing and scientific committee of the VII History Week at UNIRIO "Construction of Brazil: Race, Customs, Faith, and Tradition"
Evaluator
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2025/04/01 - 2025/05/31 Visitant Student at The Open University