Speakers Portraits > Mélanie Toulhoat
Mélanie Toulhoat Mélanie Toulhoat is a historian and researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the New University of Lisbon. She holds a PhD in history from the University of São Paulo and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (2019), and was awarded the 2020 thesis prize by Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (book to be published in April 2024). She was a post-doctoral researcher at the HASTEC Laboratory of Excellence at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) and affiliated with the Institut des Mondes Africains during the 2020-2021 academic year, and a scientific member of the Casa de Velázquez - École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (EHEHI) in 2021-2022. She is currently conducting research on popular education, adult literacy and international militant movements in post-independence Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (1970-1980s). She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Lusotopie, president of the Association pour la recherche sur le Brésil en Europe (ARBRE), a member of the organizing committee of the international network "História das Pedagogias, Patrimónios Culturais e Materiais Didáticos em Língua Portuguesa" and a coordinating member of the international public history project " História da Ditadura". *** |
