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/ present position /
Doctoral student, Dept. of Political Science, University of Chicago, 2002-present.
Preceptor, Committee on International Relations, University of Chicago, 2005-present.
/ research interests /
International relations theory; security studies; revolution and international politics; philosophy of (social) science.
/ education /
M.A. in Political Science, University of Chicago, 2004.
M.A. in Political Science, summa cum laude, Catholic University of Portugal, 2003.
B.A. in International Relations, Minho University (Portugal), 1997.
/ honors and awards /
Grodzins Prize Lectureship, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, 2006.
Junior Fellow, John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy, University of Chicago, 2004-05.
Joseph Cropsey Prize for outstanding MA Thesis in classical political philosophy, Dept. of Political Science, University of Chicago, 2004.
Prince Henry the Navigator Distinction, Catholic University of Portugal, 2002.
/ publications /
books
Democracia Electrónica, Lisbon, Gradiva, 1999.
chapters in edited volumes
"Richard Rorty," in Pensamento Política Contemporâneo: Uma Introdução, João C. Espada and João C. Rosas, eds., Lisbon, Bertrand, 2004.
articles
"Machiavelli's Morality," in Diacrítica, no. 16, Braga (Portugal), Humanities Study Center of the Minho University, 2001.
academic theses
"No Privacy, No Poetry, No Progress: Towards a Notion of Privacy as the Right to Non-Justification," MA Thesis written under the supervision of Professors Charles Larmore and Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago, 2004.
"No Knights in the Bazaar!? The Role of the Private / Public Distinction in Richard Rorty's Political Philosophy," MA Thesis written under the supervision of Professor João Carlos Espada, Catholic University of Portugal, 2002.
/ conferences, presentations, and proceedings /
Presenter, "Revolution, Ideology, and War: Elements of a Realist Constructivism," III annual conference of the Portuguese Political Science Association, Lisbon, March 30-31, 2006.
Participant, IQRM 2006 (Institute for Qualitative Research Methods), organized by the Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, January 3-13, 2006.
Participant, SWAMOS 2005 (Summer Workshop for the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy), organized by the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies of Columbia University, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, July 10-29, 2005.
Presenter, "No Privacy, No Poetry, No Progress: Privacy as Non-Justification," Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, October 18, 2004.
Presenter, "No Knights in the Bazaar: The Role of the Private / Public Distinction in Richard Rorty's Political Philosophy," Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, April 14, 2003.
Executive Director, "Ideas and Policies for Our Times" conference series, Braga and Lisbon, 2001-02.
Participant, VIII International Meeting in Political Science, "Left and Right: Ideological Divides in the 21st Century," Seteais (Portugal), October 16-20, 2000.
Presenter, "No Knights in the Bazaar: Citizenship and Political Engagement in Richard Rorty's Political Philosophy," workshop in "Citizenship and Political Theory," 7th conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Bergen, August 14-18, 2000.
Participant, VII Arrábida Summer University program in Political Science, "Pluralism without Relativism: Remembering Sir Isaiah Berlin," Arrábida (Portugal), October 4-8, 1999.
Participant, VI Arrábida Summer University program in Political Science, "Liberalism Old and New," Arrábida (Portugal), October 5-9, 1998.
/ fellowships /
IQRM participant fellowship, Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods, 2006.
SWAMOS participant fellowship, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies of Columbia University, 2005.
Doctoral fellowship, Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, 2002-06.
Research travel grant, Luso-American Development Foundation, 2001.
Masters fellowship, Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, 2000-02.
Research travel grant, Mário Soares Foundation, 1998.
Research travel grant, Luso-American Development Foundation, 1998.
/ teaching experience /
at the university of chicago
Power in International Politics (Grodzins Prize Lectureship, Department of Political Science), 2006.
Perspectives on International Relations: Research Design and Methodologies (Preceptor for C.I.R.), 2005.
Strategy (TA for Prof. Robert Pape), 2005.
War and the Nation State (TA for Prof. John J. Mearsheimer), 2005.
World Politics in the Nineteenth Century (TA for Prof. Charles Lipson), 2004.
From Reform to Revolution: Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse? (TA for Prof. Ronald G. Suny), 2004.
at minho university (portugal)
European Integration, 2001-02.
History of Political and Social Thought, 2000-01.
National Identity and European Integration, 1999-2002.
/ languages /
English, French, Italian (reading), Portuguese, Spanish.
/ professional affiliations /
American Political Science Association; Committee for the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy; International Studies Association; Portuguese Political Science Association.
(updated: june 2006)