Inês Thomas Almeida next FLAD/Saab Visiting Professor at UMass Lowell

Inês Thomas Almeida will be the next FLAD/Saab Visiting Professor in Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The program aims to promote the Portuguese studies program at this North American university and develop the university’s relationship with the Portuguese-American community in the region.

The FLAD/Saab Visiting Professor in Portuguese Studies is a partnership between the Luso-American Development Foundation, the Saab Family, and the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Lowell College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. This collaboration provides support for a three-year visiting professor of Portuguese studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Inês Thomas Almeida is a musicologist, with a PhD in Historical Musical Sciences from the New University of Lisbon, where she is an invited assistant professor, she is a researcher at IELT and INET-md.
Lecturer at international colloquia and at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
She is the creator and co-coordinator of the Research Thematic Line “Studies on Women, Gender and Sexualities” (INET-md).
He has articles published in specialized scientific journals, maintains an intense activity as a lecturer in international colloquia and also as a lecturer at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
She is the principal investigator of the project FEMUS 18 – Female music practice in 18th century Portugal: spaces and profiles of women making music.
funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) for 2024-2030.
In the first two editions of this Program, FLAD selected Cristiana Bastos, anthropologist and Principal Investigator at ICS, and Bernardo Pinto da Cruz, Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon (NOVA FCSH) and Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI-NOVA).