Historian, Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon
Rita Almeida de Carvalho was born in Lisbon in 1969. She holds a PhD in History and is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS). She has been participating in several research projects on the Portuguese New State (1932- 1974) and more recently she has entailed comparative studies on European interwar dictatorships. She is also an archivist and as such she is now responsible for the Social History Archive also at Institute of Social Sciences (University of Lisbon).