Participant Info

First Name
Margarida
Last Name
Portela
Affiliation
HTC | NOVA/FCSH, CH-ULisboa, CINAV – EN
Website URL
https://margaridapereira201.wixsite.com/margarida-portela
Keywords
First World War; Military Medicine; Military History; Portugal
Additional Contact Information
For my complete CV, please check: https://www.academia.edu/127986792/Curriculum_Vitae_Margarida_Portela

Personal Info

Photo
About Me

My name is Margarida Portela and I have a PhD in Contemporary History from Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas | Universidade Nova de Lisboa where, on November 9, 2020, I publicly defended my doctoral thesis entitled O Serviço Médico-Militar Português na Grande Guerra. Organização, Funcionamento e Repercussões [The Portuguese Army Medical Service in the Great War. Organization, Logistics and Repercussions]. 

As a Military Historian, I´m currently working the First World War and the Portuguese presence in its African and European operational theaters, visible during the fateful years of 1914 – 1918. My main topics of interest are the Portuguese military healthcare system during the Great War and the internationalization of Portuguese Medicine during the 19th and 20th centuries.

​From November 2012 to June 2020, I was an Integrated Researcher at Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC FCSH/NOVA). In mid-2020, I became one of the researchers of “História, Territórios e Comunidades” (HTC  FCSH/NOVA) and since 2024, I´m also one of the members of Grupo de História Militar / Centro de História (CH-ULisboa) and CINAV – Escola Naval, where I continue to persue my goals in Military History / Social History of Medicine. 

Recent Publications
Margarida Portela, Serviço de Saúde Português em Campanha – a frente africana, 2018 (https://www.academia.edu/39876475/Servi%C3%A7o_de_Sa%C3%BAde_Portugu%C3%AAs_em_Campanha_a_frente_africana).
Margarida Portela, Estudo Introdutório e Cronologia, in Jaime Cortesão, Memórias da Grande Guerra, DHCM/Quartzo Editora, Março 2016 (https://www.academia.edu/24024789/Estudo_Introdut%C3%B3rio_e_Cronologia_in_Jaime_Cortes%C3%A3o_Mem%C3%B3rias_da_Grande_Guerra_DHCM_Quartzo_Editora_Mar%C3%A7o_2016)
Margarida Portela, Vítor Manuel Rita: um Mutilado de Arroios. (https://www.academia.edu/33059824/V%C3%ADtor_Manuel_Rita_um_Mutilado_de_Arroios)
Media Coverage
Country Focus
Portugal
Expertise by Geography
Expertise by Chronology
20th century
Expertise by Topic
Disability, Medicine, Military, World War I