Sarita Mota is an integrated researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) of the University Institute of Lisbon (Iscte), since 2015. At CIES-Iscte, she is a member of the research group Historical Dynamics and Global Integration of the World, and coordinates the project Land, Power and Territorialities in Portuguese America (16th-19th centuries), and the permanent seminar cycle Cities & Empires: Local Dynamics, Global Flows. She is also a lecturer on Environmental History in the Master's Seminars on Modern and Contemporary History. Her research interests center on Portuguese America and Brazil as a nation, focusing on the intersection History and Law, mainly on topics related to agrarian and environmental history, land tenure, land rights, and the administrate of justice. She has authored and co-authored papers in these areas in books, thematic dossiers, and international reviews. She has co-edited the following books: Land, Power, and Wealth: Studies on the Formation of Agrarian Societies in Southeast Brazil, 18th-19th centuries (with V. Schettini and C. Malaquias, 2024); The Land and its Historians: Lessons in Agrarian History in Latin America (with M.V. Secreto and C. Christillino, 2023); Criminalities, Law, and Justice in the Iberian World (with J. Subtil and C. Atallah, 2022); Portuguese Colonial Cities: Local Dynamics, Global Flows, c.1500-1900 (with C. Atallah and R. Dominguez, 2022). She has authored of 20+ book chapters, 25+ conferences papers, and several entries for dictionaries (e-Dictionary of Land and Territory in the Portuguese Empire; Rebellions in the Early Modern Iberian World; Lexicon of Resistance in the Iberian Empires, 1500-1850). Since 2018 she has been an invited professor at the University of Lisbon, collaborating on the Master's in Brazilian Studies, also with several foreign universities: Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro; Federal Fluminense University; Federal University of Pernambuco; Salgado de Oliveira University; State University of Rio de Janeiro; State University of Paraíba, The College of Michoacán. In past decades, she was principal investigator (PI) and a member of several projects funded by CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ, Action-Aid/Brazil, Mincyt (Argentina), and currently Rebellion and Resistance in the Iberian Empires, 16th-19th centuries (RESISTANCE-778076-H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017). She is a member of the research groups Justices and Iberian Empires of the Old Regime (CNPq/UFF/Brazil), and Politics, Society and Economy of Brazil in the Long 19th Century (CNPq/UNIVERSO/Brazil). She was a reviewer ad hoc for Ler História; Historia Agraria; Tempo; Trashumante; Intellèctus; Maracanan; História (U. Porto), e-Janus.Net, e-journal of International Relations, and others scientific journals. From 2012 to 2018, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Foundation for Science and Technology (Ref. SFRH/BPD/80189/2011). She holds a PhD in Social Sciences (2009) from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (with a doctoral internship at the National University of Quilmes/Argentina), with a specialization in Development, Agriculture and Society, and holds a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History (2018) from Iscte, with a specialization in Society and Economy, Politics and Citizenship. Before joining Iscte (2011), she had a career as a teacher (1998-2010) and experience in supervised teaching practice. She also held positions as an S&T manager in the Brazilian Public Administration (1988-1999). At UERJ - State University of Rio de Janeiro, she was as a coordinator of the Cultural Department of the Rectory (1999-2001). In Portugal, from 2011 to 2014, she was a researcher integrated at CEHCP - Center for Studies for Contemporary History of Portugal (ISCTE), until its extinction. She is a member of several professional associations in Europe and Latin America.