Paulo Jorge de Sousa Pinto

Paulo Jorge de Sousa Pinto holds a MA on History of the Portuguese Expansion and a PhD. in Historical Sciences. His post-doctoral project focused on “Conflict and Collaboration - Presences and Representations of the Overseas Chinese in the Ibero-Asian Societies (16th-19th centuries)”. He is currently a researcher at CHAM – Centro de Humanidades (NOVA FCSH). He is the coordinator of the collaborative set of projects Portugal-Philippines: Connected Histories aimed at promoting contacts and enhancing mutual knowledge between Portugal and the Philippines (https://portugalphilippines.fcsh.unl.pt/). His fields of work are the Iberian overseas empires (16th-18th centuries) and Early Modern Southeast Asia. He has published several works on these subjects, namely The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619: Power, Trade and Diplomacy (Singapore University Press, 2012), Tinan 500 Portugal-Timor (Dili, East Timor, 2015) and The Islands Beyond the Empire: Portuguese Essays on Early Modern Philippine History (16th-18th Centuries) (co-ed. Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço) (Manila, Foreign Service Institute, 2023).