Nuno Estêvão Ferreira is an integrated researcher and a member of the Board at the Center of Religious History Studies (Catholic University of Portugal) and assistant professor at Faculty of Human Sciences (Catholic University of Portugal, since 2017). He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL). His dissertation focused on the role of the Corporatist Chamber on the Portuguese New State (1933-74). He currently coordinates one of CEHR's ongoing collaborative programmes aimed at promoting documentary heritage: the Network of Archives of Religious Institutions (RAIR - Rede de Arquivos e Instituições Religiosas). He interacted with 25 collaborators in authorship of scientific works. He has published 7 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, 16 chapters of books and 1 book. He has published on corporatism and Catholicism, including: propaganda and religion in Portugal; Portuguese catholicism and the debate on economical development in the 60's; the construction of the corporate system in Portugal (1933-1974); the Corporatist Chamber of the New State. His research interests include: political decision-making processes in European authoritarian regimes since the inter-war period; the relationship between programmes, institutions and corporate apparatuses in 20th century Iberian dictatorships; secularisation processes in contemporary European societies; and the affirmation of social economy organisations throughout the 20th century.