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PhD Candidate in Modern and Contemporary History at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, with an FCT scholarship (Diplomatic Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs / CIES - Iscte). Visitant Student at The Open University (UK). 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). Integrated researcher in the project "CINCRA - International Collaborations: Criminality and Police Cooperation in the Ibero-Atlantic, c. 1870–1940", funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Has experience and research interests in Modern and Contemporary History, Transnational History, White Collar Crime and International Cooperation against transnational crime in Interwar Europe.
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)
2025/03/28 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
2024/04/10 - 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
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