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Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa is currently a hired PhD researcher at the VINCULUM project, funded by the European Research Council and hosted by NOVA University of Lisbon. She is also an integrated member of the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities / IN2PAST — Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory, and former Sub-director of the Medieval Studies Institute of NOVA. She has a PhD in Historical Archivistics from Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne and NOVA University of Lisbon. For the past fourteen years, her research has focused on pre-modern family archives and the epistemologies of historical knowledge relating to the implications of archival (il)literacy in the interpretation of the past. This research path led Rita to a three-year postdoctoral individual research project at University of Porto, which allowed her to further her understanding of pre-modern families as information producing institutions. Seeking to contribute to higher education and knowledge transfer, Rita has co-coordinated a Post-Graduation in Historical Archivists, has well as several other training courses and published resources in related fields, working briefly as Invited Assistant Professor at NOVA. Having dedicated her MA to the study of medieval leper houses, she has maintained the history of contagious diseases as a secondary research interest, contributing over the years with a handful of academic and non-academic articles and presentations. Her recent publications include Recovered voices, newfound questions. Family archives and historical research, a co-edited book volume published in 2019, and the co-edition of two special issues on the Paths of Historical Archivisitics, published in 2023 and 2024.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rita Luís Sampaio da Nóvoa

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C918-FC2A-1908

Email addresses

  • ritasampnovoa@gmail.com (Professional)

Addresses

  • IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST Colégio Almada Negreiros, sala 372 Campus de Campolide, 1070-312, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

  • https://unl-pt.academia.edu/RitaN%C3%B3voa (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - History
Education
Degree Classification
2022/08/01 - 2025/11/30
Ongoing
 Hired PhD researcher at the project VINCULUM (funded by the European Research Council) (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2017/06 - 2021/01
Concluded
 Post-doctoral FCT fellowship (Pós-doutoramento)
Centro de Estudos da População Economia e Sociedade, Portugal
2010/09 - 2016/07
Concluded
 Historical Archivistics (Doutoramento)
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne UFR 09 Histoire, France

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"The Gama Lobo Salema Archive and the production, management and uses of noble family archives (15th - 16th centuries)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Very Good
2008/09 - 2010/11
Concluded
 Medieval History (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
 18
2004/09 - 2008/06
Concluded
 History (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
 16
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/08/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2017/06/01 - 2021/01 Postdoc (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Centro de Estudos da População Economia e Sociedade, Portugal
2011/01/01 - 2015/12/31 Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/02/01 - 2022/06/30 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021 - 2023 Organic Unit Sub-director Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/05/01 - 2017/05/30 Editing and revision of scientific publications VMSA arquitectos, Portugal
2007/12/17 - 2008/07/17 Internship in the Portuguese National Archives Direção-Geral do Livro dos Arquivos e das Bibliotecas, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/01 - Current VINCULUM - Entailing Perpetuity: Family, Power, Identity. The Social Agency of a Corporate Body (Southern Europe, 14th-17th Centuries)
grant agreement No. 819734
Researcher
European Research Council
Ongoing
2013 - 2015 ARCHIFAM. Family archives in the Iberian Peninsula (late 13th - early 17th centuries)
n/a
Researcher
École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques , Spain
 École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques
Concluded
2013 - 2015 INVENT.ARQ. Family archives inventory (15th-16th centuries): from management and proofs to lost memories. Rethinking the pre-modern archive.
EXPL/EPH-HIS/0178/201
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques , Spain
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa. "Inventorier des archives de familles nobles de l’Ancien Régime : deux études de cas portugais entre la fin du XVIIe et le XIXe siècle". In Proceedings of the conference "Logiques de l’inventaire : classer des archives, des livres, des objets (Moyen Âge - 19e siècle)", edited by Presses Universitaires de Rennes. France, 2024.
    Submitted
  2. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa. "Les archives Gama Lobo Salema et les traces documentaires de la famille Queimado de Vilalobos". In Book about family archives to be published by the Casa de Velázquez Publications. 2021.
    Submitted
  3. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa. "Os arquivos de família e os vínculos: um estudo de caso português (sécs. XV-XIX)". In Os arquivos familiares: sumando miradas. Actas do III Encontro Olga Gallego de Arquivos, edited by Fundación Olga Gallego, 48-80. Spain, 2021.
    Published
  4. Nóvoa, Rita. "The memory of the House of Lapa: an analysis of the Index Geral and of an inventoried archive". In Recovered voices, newfound questions. Family archives and historical research, 70-83. Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2019.
    Published
  5. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa. "Family archives, archival practices of noble families, and the social logic of archival preservation (Portugal, 15th - 19th centuries)". In Recovered voices, newfound questions. Family archives and historical research, edited by Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa, 177-198. Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2019.
    Published
  6. Margarida Maria de Carvalho Ortigão Ramos Paes Leme; Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa. "The expert paleographer João Filipe da Cruz (c. 1798-1827)". In Rethinking the Archive in Pre-Modern Europe: Family Archives and their Inventories from the 15th to 19th Century, edited by Maria de Lurdes Rosa; Randolph Head, 77-81. Portugal: IEM / FCSH - UNL, 2015.
    Published
  7. Nóvoa, Rita. "O Arquivo Gama Lobo Salema (sécs. XV – XX): temas e problemas entre a História e a Arquivística". In Actas do 3º Congresso Internacional “Casa Nobre, um património para o futuro", 354-369. Portugal: Município de Arcos de Valdevez, 2013.
    Published
  8. Nóvoa, Rita. "As atitudes face à doença no Portugal dos séculos XIV e XV: a lepra, os leprosos e as leprosarias". In Incipit 1. Workshop de Estudos Medievais da Universidade do Porto, 2009-10, 77-87. Portugal: Universidade do Porto - Faculdade de Letras - Biblioteca Digital, 2012.
    Published
  9. Rita Nóvoa. "O Arquivo Gama Lobo Salema: perspectivas de estudo". In Arquivos de Família, sécs. XIII-XX: que presente, que futuro?, edited by Lurdes, {Rosa Maria de, 507-522. Portugal: IEM/CHAM/Caminhos Romanos, 2012.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa; Maria de Lurdes Rosa; Alice Borges Gago; Maria João da Câmara, ed. Recovered voices, newfound questions. Family archives and historical research. Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra. 2019.
    Published • Editor
  2. Rosa, Maria de Lurdes; Nóvoa, Rita Sampaio da, ed. Arquivos de família: memórias habitadas. Guia para a salvaguarda e estudo de um património em risco. Portugal: IEM - Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. 2014.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.34619/fbyt-k15w • Editor
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa. "[Pública-forma do inventário e partilhas do bens de Vasco Queimado]". In Rethinking the Archive in Pre-Modern Europe: Family Archives and their Inventories from the 15th to 19th Century. Instituto de Estudos Medievais, 2015.
    Published
  2. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa. "Inventário Geral dos Papéis que se acharam por falecimento do Principal D. António Xavier de Miranda Henriques". In Rethinking the Archive in Pre-Modern Europe: Family Archives and their Inventories from the 15th to 19th Century. Instituto de Estudos Medievais, 2015.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa. "Nota de apresentação". Boletim do Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra 37 1 (2024):
    In press
  2. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa; Maria de Lurdes Rosa. "Nota de apresentação". Boletim do Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra 36 2 (2023): 7-14.
    Open access • Published
  3. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa. "A Casa de São Lázaro de Lisboa no alvorecer da modernidade". Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa 11 (2019): 27-45.
    Open access • Published
  4. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa. "“«Breviora reddet ordo, et mens, et ratio»: o "Inventário Geral dos papéis de António Xavier de Miranda Henriques" (1815)". Boletim do Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra vol. XXXII 2 (2019): 59-85.
    Open access • Published
  5. Nóvoa, Rita; Rosa, Maria de Lurdes. "The Study of Ancien Régime Family Archives in Portugal: Research Pathways and Themes". Revista Brasileira de História 38 78 (2018): 75-95.
    Open access • Published
  6. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa; Maria de Lurdes Rosa. "Arquivística Histórica e arquivos de família, entre História e Ciência arquivística. Reflexões sobre um percurso académico e científico". Revista Portuguesa de História XLIX (2018): 85-98.
    Open access • Published
  7. Nóvoa, Rita. "Los leprosos en el Portugal de los siglos XIV y XV: contribución para una «historia de los asistidos»". Miscelánea Medieval Murciana vol. XXXII (2009): 143-173. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/13317.
    Published • http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/j103431
Journal issue
  1. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa. "Caminhos da Arquivística Histórica II: epistemologias, práticas, propostas". Boletim do Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra 37 1 (2024):
    In press • Coeditor
  2. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa. "Caminhos da Arquivística Histórica I: materialidades, contextos de produção de informação, representações". Boletim do Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra 36 2 (2023):
    Published • Coeditor
Magazine article
  1. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa. "A nossa pandemia, a peste medieval e o medo do contágio", Jornal Sete Margens , 2020
  2. Nóvoa, Rita. "Lepra, entre o medo e a compaixão", Visão História, 2017
Online resource
  1. Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa. Chapel of Isidro de Almeida. 2022. https://www.vinculum.fcsh.unl.pt/entail-of-the-month/chapel-of-isidro-de-almeida/.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Nóvoa, Rita Luís Sampaio da. "O Arquivo Gama Lobo Salema e a produção, gestão e usos dos arquivos de família nobre nos séculos XV-XVI". PhD, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/19004.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023 «...e perpetuamente tragam as armas...»: a presença da heráldica nas disposições vinculares portuguesas (sécs. XIV-XVII) Congreso Internacional de Genealogía y Heráldica
Real Maestranza de Caballería de Ronda (Spain)
2023 Emoções e sentimentos nos documentos de instituição de vínculos (sécs. XIV-XVII) Seminário Internacional: Sociedade, Emoções e Sentimentos
História Social a Norte (Portugal)
2023 “Enquanto o mundo durar”: instituição e evolução de morgadios e capelas em Aveiro entre os séculos XIV e XVII XVII JORNADAS DE HISTÓRIA LOCAL E PATRIMÓNIO DOCUMENTAL 2023 LUGARES DE MEMÓRIA _ OS ARQUIVOS DE AVEIRO
Câmara Municipal de Aveiro (CMA) e ADERAV (Portugal)
2021 Os arquivos de família e o estudo do fenómeno vincular em Portugal III Encontro da Fundación Olga Gallego
Fundación Olga Gallego (Spain)
2020 “Contra a lepra, pelos leprosos”: as leprosarias medievais e a utopia biomédica do Estado Novo Using the Past: The Middle Ages in the Spotlight
Using the Past: The Middle Ages in the Spotlight (Portugal)
2019/10/23 Partnership experiences between universities and private owners of family archives in Portugal Xornadas O patrimonio moble, entre o comunitario e o privado
Consello da Cultura Galega (Spain)
2019/07/11 Family archives, community archives: history, archival science, anthropology Archival Education and Research Institute
2017/12/14 The memory of the House of Lapa: inventories, archival organization and their problematics Sessões académicas do Instituto Português de Heráldica
Instituto Português de Heráldica (Portugal)
2017/11/05 Archivists, historians and family archive's private owners: a collaborative work Arquivos de Família: desafios actuais
Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Regional de Ponta Delgada (Portugal)
2015/11/13 Uses of the archives by families of Portuguese nobility, 15th – 16th centuries Noble houses and their archives in a comparative perspective: Portugal-Spain-France (14th-19th centuries)
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, United States)
2013/04/15 The documentary production of the Queimado Vilalobos family in the Gama Lobo Salema archive Les archives de famille. Formes, histoires et sens d’une genèse (XIVe-XVIIe siècles)
École des Hautes Études Hispaniques et Ibériques (Spain)
2012/11/21 From the archival turn to the tournant documentaire: historiographical perspectives for the study of pre-modern portuguese family archives séminaire d'historiographie des doctorants du LaMOP
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/10 - 2033/05 Course "Proof, information, memory. Training in Archivistics and AtoM" (2022 - 2023)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2021/02 - 2021/07 Archival Research and Education Institute (2021/07) Archival Education and Research Institute, United States
2021 - 2021 Course "Unraveling an unknown past. Content creation and science communication for History and cultural and local tourism" (2021/10)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020 - 2020 Post-Graduation in Historical Archivistics (2021/10) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019/03/22 - 2019/03/22 International conference "The history of pre-modern nobilities: models of institutional and social reproduction - the entailment model (2019/03/22)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Centro de Estudos da População Economia e Sociedade, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal
2016/09 - 2017/06 International seminar Archives & History (9 sessions) (2016/09 - 2017/06)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2017/03/21 - 2017/05/04 Course Understanding the Archive (11 sessions) (2017/03/21 - 2017/05/04)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2017/03/21 - 2017/05/04 International seminar "Family archives & historical research" (3 sessions) (2017/03/21 - 2017/05/04)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2021 The Armando Côrtes-Rodrigues Archive: contributions to its study and organization
(Thesis) Arguer
 Patrícia do Rego Duarte (Master)
Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2020/09/21 The low nobility of Setúbal and the building of the Portuguese Overseas Empire - the case of the Queimado family
(Thesis) Arguer
 Ana Rita Pereira da Conceição (Master)
2019/09/13 The “Conde de Siete Fuentes” fonds: building the memory of the lineage and the aristocratic identity in the atlantic world through a family archives (16th-20th centuries)
(Thesis) Arguer
 Judit Gutiérrez de Armas (PhD)
Universidad de La Laguna, Spain

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/03 - Current Research-oriented elective course "History and Archival Science" Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/07/11 - 2019/07/11 Workshop "Family archives, community archives: history, archival science, anthropology" Archival Education and Research Institute, United States
2017/05/12 - 2017/05/12 Workshop "Family archives: work hypothesis" Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Regional de Ponta Delgada, Portugal
2017/03/21 - 2017/05/04 Course "Understanding the archive" Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2017 - 2019 Archival description and historical analysis of a 19th century family archive inventory 13 History undergradute students
Distinctions

Other distinction

2017 Honorable mention of the second edition of the Premio Olga Gallego - Research on archives
Fundación Olga Gallego, Spain
2014 Grant to attend the workshop "The materiality of the record. A workshop on sources"
ARCHIves project, United Kingdom
2011 Best Master Student in History of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas / Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2010-2011)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal