Judite Gonçalves de Freitas

Judith A. Gonçalves de Freitas is Full Professor since 2010. She completed his Master (1991) and PhD (1999) and defended proofs of aggregation in History and Political Studies in 2007 at University of Porto. She is PhD in Political Science at Faculty of Social Sciences and Arts of New University of Lisbon.  She recently finished a book (2018) for publication on comparative European political studies, focusing on the genesis and development of the State (political systems and forms) in France, Spain and Portugal from the Ancien Regime to the Contemporary Age, under the Portuguese Institute of International Relations at New University of Lisbon.  Since obtaining his PhD degree, J. G. de Freitas wrote more than 52 articles on History (Middle Age to Contemporary Age),  Political Institutions and Social Studies (including the relation between State and law, and making prosopographical studies on political elites). She  is an expert on comparative politics, political institutions and processes, power elites and contemporary historiography. Nowadays, it is working on a project on Political and Economic Elites in Contemporary Portuguese Era (19th-21th centuries). She has published seven original books  and sixteen chapters of books in the areas of State and political institutions, and Information Science. She was guest lecturer at International Conferences in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, England, Italy, France; Morocco et al. (between 2001-2017) under international projects. She has published several papers in journals and publishers of reference (Mélanges Casa de Velázquez, E-journal of Portuguese History,  Revista da Universidade de S. Paulo (Brasil), e-Spania,  Revue interdisciplinaire d'études hispaniques médiévales et modernes et al.). She was Assistant coordinator of Medieval and Renaissance Studies / Center for Population, Economics and Society Studies - University of Oporto - FCT (2006-2013). She is a member of international and national collaborative research projects in Political and Social studies at the Centre for Population, Economics and Society Studies (CEPESE/FCT), since 2000. She is member of  Portuguese Institute for International Relations (FCSH / UNL) since 2016 and the  European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). His research and teaching interests include Comparative politics, State and Government, Political institutions and proccedings, Political Societies, Power elites, State files, State and Law, Historiography. She has been Co-coordinator and lecture of 1st and 2nd cycle of studies in Information Science and Documentation since 2000- 2015.