Selected Short-Term Research Fellowships 2026

The fellows of the 2026 edition of the FLAD Short-Term Research Fellowships have already been chosen at Torre do Tombo, at the National Library of Portugal and in archives and libraries across the country.

These programs are aimed at students, teachers and researchers with ties to teaching or research institutions in the United States, providing a productive stay in Portugal and access to the necessary resources for the development of their research projects.

The grants awarded by FLAD in partnership with DGLAB – National Archive of Torre do Tombo and the National Library of Portugal support research projects in the areas of Portuguese history, culture and language, as well as in other areas related to the Portuguese-speaking space. The FLAD Portuguese Archives Grant also reinforces the promotion of face-to-face research in Portugal, expanding access to archives and libraries throughout the national territory.

Get to know the selected fellows and their respective research projects:

FLAD Torre do Tombo Bag

• Christen (Sigi) Macias (Brown University) was selected with the project Preventing Plagues: Epidemics, Overseas Empires, and Public Health in the South Atlantic (1750-1850).
• Joseph Fouse (New York University) was selected with the project Enrichment and Restructuring of Metadata of Passport Registries (ANTT).
• Marta Ribeiro Figueiredo (Temple University) was selected with the project Mapping Theatrical Censorship in Portugal (1933-1935): Processes in the Torre do Tombo National Archive.

• Tingting Lyu (University of Wisconsin-Madison) was selected with the project Archiving Silence: State, Memory, and the Erasure of Returnees in Post-Imperial Portugal.

FLAD National Library of Portugal Scholarship

• Daria Bozzato (University of Richmond) was selected with the project Domesticating the Deviant: Photography, Honor, and the Surgical Policing of Women in the Luso-Italian-American Asylum.
• Eva Michelle Wheeler (Providence College) was selected with the project Colonial Discourses and Pan-African Voices in Portugal in the Twentieth Century (1890-1960).

• Fernanda Ferreira (Bridgewater State University) was selected with the project Building “Correct Portuguese”: Linguistic Ideology, Grammar and Dialect in a Transatlantic Context.
• Filipe Dias Vieira (Indiana University) was selected with the project Opening Wings Beyond the Sea: Portuguese Archives and the Reinvention of Chiquinha Gonzaga’s Memory.

• Giuseppe Formato (Lesley University) was selected with the project Visualizing Azorean Emigration: Santa Maria, New England and Diasporic Memory.
• João Nemi Neto (Columbia University) was selected with the project The Linguistic Path of Gender Identities in the Trajectory of the Portuguese Language through Historical Documents of the National Library of Portugal.
• José Maria Bandeira Pinto Ramos do Ó (University of Massachusetts Amherst) was selected with the project The New Portuguese Literature of the 60s.
• Luciana Namorato (Indiana University Bloomington) was selected with the project Critical Edition of Dona Branca, or The Conquest of the Algarve (1826), by Almeida Garrett.

• Susana Maria Loureiro da Silva Matos Antunes (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) was selected with the project Correspondence and Intellectual Networks in the Iberian Space: The Epistolary of Alice Pestana (Late 19th Century – Early 20th Century).

• Thais Silveira (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) was selected with the project Reconfiguring Narratives: The Media and Black Women in the Diaspora of Portuguese-Speaking Countries.

FLAD Portuguese Archives Scholarship

• Abiodun Ademiluwa (Emory University) was selected with the project “Exclusively Female Industries”: Palm Oil, Violence and Yoruba Women in the Atlantic World (1750-1899). During your stay you will consult documentation at the National Archive of Torre do Tombo and the Overseas Historical Archive.
• Daniela Melo (Boston University) was selected with the project Activism of the Luso-American Diaspora during the Portuguese Revolution. The research foresees consultation of documentation at the Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• Emily Barber (University of Massachusetts Amherst) was selected with the project Revolution and Transformation in the Literatures and Cinemas of Portugal and Lusophone Africa. The research will use the Michel Laban Archive of the Mário Soares and Maria Barroso Foundation, the Torre do Tombo and the National Library of Portugal.
• Gabriel Miguel (Rice University) was selected with the project Converging Sovereignties: African Political Autonomy and European Imperialism in Angola in the Eighteenth Century. The research will take place in several Portuguese archives and institutions, including the Torre do Tombo, the Overseas Historical Archive, the Lisbon Geographical Society, the Ajuda National Palace and the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.
• Marcelo Hazan (University of South Carolina) was selected with the project Music in the Royal Chapel of Rio de Janeiro at the Torre do Tombo National Archives.
• Wilson Oliveira da Silva Filho (Yale University) was selected with the project Expanded/Experimental Cinemas and Nature in Luso-Brazilian Dialogues: Tracing Links and Borders through the Lens of Media Ecology. The research will be developed through the consultation of documentation from the Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema.