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Patrícia Martins Marcos. Completed the Licenciatura in Licenciatura em História (pré-Bolonha) in 2006/12/01 by Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Doctor of Philosophy in History and Science Studies in 2022/12/10 by University of California San Diego, Master in Master of Public Administration and Cultural Studies in 2012/10/02 by Roskilde Universitet and Master in School of Public Policy in 2015/06/15 by Oregon State University. Published 8 articles in journals. Works in the area(s) of Humanities with emphasis on Philosophy, Ethics and Religion with emphasis on History and Philisophy of Science and Technology. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Colonialismo and pos-colonialismo português; história do corpo; trauma e história; história brasileira; Portuguese colonialism and postcolonialism; history of the body; trauma and history; Brazilian history; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Patrícia Martins Marcos

Citation names

  • Patrícia Martins Marcos
  • Marcos, Patrícia Martins

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
DA1D-FF26-5453
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4802-5488

Email addresses

  • pmarcos@ou.edu (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Italian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Danish Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
German Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Latin Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/09/21 - 2022/12/10
Concluded
 History and Science Studies (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in History and Science Studies
University of California San Diego, United States
"Configurations of the Human: Population, Patriarchy, and Medical Power in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic (1720-1800)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 20
2013/09/15 - 2015/06/15
Concluded
 School of Public Policy (Master)
Major in Public Policy and Science and Technology Studies
Oregon State University, United States
2007/09/01 - 2012/10/02
Concluded
 Master of Public Administration and Cultural Studies (Master)
Roskilde Universitet, Denmark
2001/09/07 - 2006/12/01
Concluded
 Licenciatura em História (pré-Bolonha) (Licenciatura)
Major in História
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
 15
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/01/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) The University of Oklahoma Department of History of Science, United States
2025/12/31 - 2026/08/15 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/08/01 - 2025/12/15 Professor Visitante Universidade de São Paulo Departamento de História, Brazil
Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin, Brazil
2022/12/01 - 2024/12/01 UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow University of California Los Angeles, United States
University of California at San Diego Department of Biomedical Informatics, United States
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2026/05/01 - 2026/07/31 (Brazil) CNPq Bolsa Nº 49/2024 PVE UFMG: Imperial Whiteness: Patriarchy, Population, and the Sciences of Racial Improvement in the Archives of Minas Gerais (1600—1850)
Nº 49/2024
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Escola de Ciência da Informação, Brazil
 Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
2015/09/25 - 2022/11/18 Configurations of the Human: Population, Patriarchy, and Medical Power in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic (1720-1800)
Configurations of the Human
University of California San Diego, United States

Brown University John Carter Brown Library, United States

University of Toronto, Canada

Philadelphia College of Physicians, United States

The Huntington Library Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, United States

University of California Los Angeles, United States

American Philosophical Society, United States

BBQ+ Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies, United States

Yale School of Medicine Harvey Cushing John Hay Whitney Medical Library, United States

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, United States
Concluded
2005/04/01 - 2006/04/04 Projecto Portugal e a Europa: Salazarismo e as Instituições Internacionais
Portugal e a Europa
Master Student Fellow
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2025/02/03 - 2026/08/02 Nursing in Mozambique: African nurses, colonial dynamics, and anti-colonial imaginaries (1909-1975)
2023.11331.PEX
10.54499/2023.11331.PEX
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/12/01 - 2024/11/30 PPFP Fellow Rising to the Challenge UC Presidents Postdoctoral Program -- Imperial Whiteness. Post-Dissertation Research and Book Proposal Development
PPFP Fellow - Rising to the Challenge
Post-doc
University of California Los Angeles, United States

University of California Los Angeles Department of History, United States

University of California Los Angeles Center for Afro-American Studies, United States

University of California Office of the President, United States
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2025/09/01 - 2025/12/31 Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin, Universidade de São Paulo. Imperial Whiteness: Book Manuscript Development Writing and Research Residency
Nº 49/2024
Principal investigator
Universidade de São Paulo Departamento de História, Brazil

Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin, Brazil
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Branquitude Antes do Conceito: Anacronismo e Precedentes Históricos Através do Caso de Estudo do Colonialismo Português". In Branquitude: Diálogos Latino-Americanos sobre Convivialidade e Desigualdade, edited by Pinho, Patricia de Santana; Cárdenas, Roosbelinda; Silva, Mário Augusto Medeiros; Céron-Anaya, Hugo. São Paulo, Brazil: HUCITEC, 2026.
    In press
  2. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Blanquitud antes del concepto. Anacronismo y precedentes históricos a través del estudio de caso del colonialismo portugués". In Branquitudes/Blanquitudes: Diálogos Latino-Americanos sobre la Convivialidad y Desigualdad, edited by Pinho, Patricia de Santana; Silva, Mário Augusto Medeiros; Cárdenas, Roosbelinda; Céron-Anaya, Hugo, 35-66. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Mecila/CLACSO, 2025.
    Published
  3. Patrícia Martins Marcos; Mylonakis, Leonidas. "Gender, Enslavement, and Trafficking". In A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Age of Empire, (1700-1900), edited by Candido, Mariana, 103-120. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
    Published
Book review
  1. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Politics and the Arts in Lisbon and Rome: The Roman Dream of John V of Portugal ed. by Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira. Eighteenth-Century Studies 57, no. 3 (2024): 392-395.". 57, 3 (2024): 392-395.
    Published
  2. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Kalle Kananoja. Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1850. (Global Health Histories.) 258 pp., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. $75 (cloth); ISBN 9781108491259.". (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/719627.
    Published • 10.1086/719627
Journal article
  1. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Refusing the Fictions of Unmarked Whiteness: Challenging Human Rank, Race, and History". Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ecf.36.1.127.
    10.3138/ecf.36.1.127
  2. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "White Innocence, Black Erasure: Reviewing Alcindo (2020) Against the Fictions of Portuguese Colonial Bonhomie". Práticas da História. Journal on Theory Historiogr (2023): No. 16 (2023)-No. 16 (2023). https://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/31177.
    10.48487/PDH.2023.N16.31177
  3. Inês Beleza Barreiros; Patrícia Martins Marcos; Pedro Schacht Pereira; Rui Gomes Coelho; Víctor Barros. "Reparar o futuro: mesa-redonda. Repairing the future: rountable". Práticas da História. Journal on Theory Historiogr (2023): N.º 15 (2022)-N.º 15 (2022). https://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/30061.
    10.48487/PDH.2022.N15.30061
  4. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Praxis is no Metaphor: Diasporic Knowledges and Maroon Epistemes to Repair the World". Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0008.
    10.1353/sec.2023.0008
  5. Marcos, Patrícia Martins. "Blackness ou of Place: Black Countervisuality in Portugal and Its Former Empire". Radical History Review 2022 144 (2022): 106-130. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-9847830.
    10.1215/01636545-9847830
  6. Patrícia Martins Marcos; Sarah E. Naramore; Myrna Perez Sheldon; Sarah Pickman; Sarah A. Qidwai; Kathleen Sheppard. "HSS Virtual Forum: Futures Series". Isis (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/715711.
    10.1086/715711
  7. Marcos, Patrícia Martins. "Decolonizing Empire: Corporeal Chronologies and the Entanglements of Colonial and Postcolonial Time". (2021): https://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/24291.
    10.48487/pdh.2021.n11.24291
Magazine article
  1. Patrícia Martins Marcos; Barreiros, Inês Beleza; Schacht Pereira, Pedro. "Como Reparar a Violência Colonial: Reflexões sobre Descentrar o Império e Reparar o Futuro", Agenda Anual SOS Racismo, 2023
  2. Patrícia Martins Marcos; Barreiros, Inês Beleza; Schacht Pereira, Pedro; Rui Gomes Coelho. "The Unbearable Lightness of Anachronism: Practices of Monument-Making and the Guardians of Historical Consensus", GCG: BROJ Issue 3, Magazine for Contemporary Art and Social Issues: From the Citizens to Their City Initiative, 2021
  3. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "A Estética do Facto: Ler as Ciências Contra a Normatividade", Virada, 2020
  4. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "A História e os Narcisos ao Espelho // History and Narcissus Reflected", La Rampa. Art, Life & Beyond , 2020, https://griotmag.com/en/latest-issue-indie-anthology-la-rampa-unearths-history-black-portugal/.
Newspaper article
  1. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Fact-Checking colonial: O Salão Nobre e o mito do império simpático", Shifter, 2021, https://shifter.pt/2021/10/fact-checking-colonial/.
  2. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "O colonizador afoito: o museu que Medina fantasiou e as lições que insiste em não aprender", 2020, Opinião
  3. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "Interview: Patrícia Martins Marcos sobre estátuas, Black Lives Matter e colonialismo: “Há que evitar o narcisismo do presente e a presunção da nossa eternidade", Shifter, 2020, https://shifter.pt/2020/07/patricia-marcos-estatuas-blm-colonialismo/.
  4. Patrícia Martins Marcos; Schacht Pereira, Pedro; Barreiros, Inês Beleza; Rui Gomes Coelho. "O Padre António Vieira no País dos Cordiais", Público, 2020, P2, https://www.publico.pt/2020/02/02/sociedade/noticia/padre-antonio-vieira-pais-cordiais-eterna-leveza-anacronismo-guardiaes-consenso-lusotropical-1902135.
  5. Schacht Pereira, Pedro; Rui Gomes Coelho; Inês Beleza Barreiros; Marcos, Patrícia Martins. "O Padre António Vieira no País dos Cordiais", Público, 2020, https://www.publico.pt/2020/02/02/sociedade/noticia/padre-antonio-vieira-pais-cordiais-eterna-leveza-anacronismo-guardiaes-consenso-lusotropical-1902135.
  6. Patrícia Martins Marcos. "O Magnânimo Museu da Mitologia Colonial", Público, 2018, Opinião
Online resource
  1. Patrícia Martins Marcos. Four Points Panorama: Carlos Julião c.1780 PODCAST EPISODE. 2021. https://podme.com/fi/jakso/1512096/.
  2. Patrícia Martins Marcos. Portugal, Race and Memory: a Conversation, a Reckoning Producing the Fiction of Unmarked Whiteness: Unarchiving Race and the Making of Difference in Portugal. 2021. https://www.buala.org/en/to-read/portugal-race-and-memory-a-conversation-a-reckoning.
  3. Patrícia Martins Marcos; Rui Gomes Coelho; Barreiros, Inês Beleza; Schacht Pereira, Pedro. A Eterna Leveza do Anacronismo: os guardiães do consenso e o regime da cordialidade. 2020. https://www.buala.org/pt/mukanda/a-eterna-leveza-do-anacronismo-os-guardiaes-do-consenso-e-o-regime-da-cordialidade.
Preface / Postscript
  1. Patrícia Martins Marcos; Patrícia, Lino. "O império é (a) sério". Postscript to O Kit de Sobrevivência do Descobridor Português no Mundo Anticolonial, 103-115. Lisbon, Portugal: Douda Correria. 2020.
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Configurations of the Human: Population, Patriarchy, and Medical Power in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic (1720-1800)". PhD, University of California San Diego, 2022. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dp9t91f.

Other

Other output
  1. Historical Consultant on Portuguese Imperialism for Human Resources Podcast. Series on the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Broccoli Productions.. 2021. Patrícia Martins Marcos. https://open.spotify.com/show/6DFKmhsCeMdOQUTfShcdx9.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2025/09/01 - 2026/05/15 Sheetal Kumari (PhD Candidate, Indian Institute of Technology), Andrew Mellon Travel Fellowship, Visiting Scholar, History of Science, Medicine and Technology Special Collections, University of Oklahoma. PhD Thesis: Child Abuse and Trauma in Select Sex Trafficking Narratives: Intervening Commodity, Cultural Ambivalence, and Resilience
Co-supervisor
 History of Science, Medicine and Technology; History of Reproduction (PhD)
The University of Oklahoma Department of History of Science, United States

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2025/11/30 PhD Dissertation Committee Member (External Departmental Member), Stopping Short on Thinking “Normative” Desire, Kyle Callan, PhD in Sociology, University of Oklahoma
(Thesis) Arguer
 Kyle Callan (PhD)
The University of Oklahoma Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences, United States

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2025/05/01 - 2025/06/30 Book Series Imagining Black Europe Book Proposal Reviewer Peter Lang
2024/08/21 - 2024/10/06 Endeavour(History and Philosophy of Science) (1873-1929) Elsevier
2023/07/01 - 2023/08/01 Varia História (1982-4343) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2023/06/01 - 2023/07/10 Hispanic American Historical Review (00182168) Duke University Press
2023/02/01 - 2023/04/01 Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie IV: História Moderna (1131-768X)
2023/02/01 - 2023/03/01 Práticas da História, Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past (2183-590X.) 1
2022/08/01 - 2022/10/01 Endeavour (History and Philosophy of Science)
2022/04/01 - 2022/06/01 Journal of Luso-Brazilian Studies (00247413) University of Winsconsin Press

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2016/06/01 - Current History of Science Society Co-Chair of Early Sciences Forum, Jury Best Early Modern Science Prize and Elected Early Career Representative (2023-2025)

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2025/12/27 - 2026/02/01 2026 European Society for the History of Science/History of Science Society Joint Meeting University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2025/03/01 - Current Faculty Mentor, African American Student Group, University of Oklahoma multiple students
2024/04/01 - Current Professional Training PhD Candidacy, Prospectus and Dissertation Development Chase Caldwell Smith -- UCLA
2023/01/01 - Current UCLA Claire Votava Professional Training PhD Candidacy, Prospectus and Dissertation Development Claire Votava
2022/07/01 - Current Mishika Parikh, Master of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University Mishika Parikh
2022/01/01 - Current Mag Spaulding (UCLA) Professional Training PhD Candidacy, Prospectus and Dissertation Development Margaret Spaulding
Distinctions

Award

2023 University of California Los Angeles Chancelor’s Postdoctoral Research of Excellence Award. Department of History
University of California Los Angeles, United States

Other distinction

2013 Fulbright Fellow
Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal