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Integrated Researcher

Ana Mehnert Pascoal

research interests

Architectural History, Art History, Difficult Heritage, Historiography, Twentieth Century Dictatorships

Short Bio

Ana Mehnert Pascoal is an integrated researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-IUL.

She holds a Ph.D. in Art History, specialty in Art, Heritage and Restoration (2023) and a M.A. in Art, Heritage and Restoration Theory (2011), both from the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. She specialises in the history of twentieth-century dictatorships, focusing on relationships between political power, architecture and visual arts; architecture and bureaucracy; history of public buildings; and difficult heritage.

She collaborated with several funded research projects, and has been a researcher at ARTIS - Instituto de História da Arte (2017-2023). She also gathered experience in the museum sector as a research fellow at Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência (University of Lisbon, 2011-2017).

research project at dinâmia'cet-Iscte

ReARQ.IB – Built Environment Knowledge for Resilient, Sustainable Communities: Understanding Everyday Modern Architecture and Urban Design in the Iberian Peninsula (1939-1985) (ERC Starting Grant ref. GA949686)

Main publications

Os palácios da "Representação Nacional". Identidade e poder nos edifícios do Governo no Estado Novo. Tese de Doutoramento, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras. 2023

"Influências estrangeiras e concretizações nos intentos de regionalização da rede hospitalar em Portugal (1946-1974)". Interface - Comunicação, Saúde, Educação 25 (2021)

"Harald Bodenschatz and Max Welch Guerra (eds.), Städtebau unter Salazar. Diktatorische Modernisierung des portugiesischen Imperiums 1926-1960". ABE Journal 19 (2021)

"Encenação do Estado Novo na exposição Quinze Anos de Obras Públicas (Lisboa, 1948)". Midas 12 (2020)

A Cidade do Saber. O património artístico integrado nos edifícios de Pardal Monteiro para a Cidade Universitária de Lisboa (1934-1961). Lisboa, Portugal: Universidade de Lisboa/Tinta-da-China. 2012.

Main projects

ReARQ.IB – Built Environment Knowledge for Resilient, Sustainable Communities: Understanding Everyday Modern Architecture and Urban Design in the Iberian Peninsula (1939-1985) (ERC Starting Grant ref. GA949686)

Last update

5 de setembro de 2023
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