Personal Presentation

Lisbeth Rodrigues holds a PhD in History (specialised in Early Modern History) from the University of Minho (2013). Before becoming an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, she conducted her postdoctoral research at ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon (2014-2019) and served as a Guest Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Minho (2020-2022) and also at Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2022-2024). She is currently an Integrated Researcher at CITCEM (Transdisciplinary Research Centre for Culture, Space and Memory) and a member of the College of Expert Reviewers of the European Science Foundation (2025-2028).

She has participated in several nationally and internationally funded research projects on material culture, welfare institutions, and the capital market.

She is currently conducting research on demographic ageing in comparative perspective within the scope of the project "GrowingOLD: Welfare, Retirement and Support Systems for the Elderly in Portugal (1500-1820)".

She served on the Board of the Portuguese Association for Economic and Social History (APHES), holding the positions of Board Member (2019-2021), Secretary (2021-2022), and Vice-President (2022-2023). Since 2023, she has been the Co-Editor of the journal Ler História, a member of the editorial board of História - Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (2024-present), and a member of the Class of Letters of the 4th Seminar of Young Scientists at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (2023-2026).

Research Interests

Economic and Social History of the Early Modern period;
Demographic ageing in historical perspective;
Support systems for the elderly in the early modern period;
Welfare and charity in the Ancien Régime (Old Regime);
Financial markets and institutions;
The historical role of women in the labour market;
The uses of justice in the Ancien Régime;
Material culture.

Publications (Selection)

Edited Books

(with Isabel dos Guimarães Sá). Global Confraternities: Portuguese Diasporas and the Misericórdias during the Early Modern Period. Leiden: Brill, 2023. https://brill.com/display/title/64985

Articles

(with Susana Munch Miranda and Bruno Lopes). “The social distribution of public debt in Portugal, 1529c.-1680”. e-Journal of Portuguese History 22(1) (2024): 29-60. https://doi.org/10.1163/16456432-20040020

“Institutional Investors and the Portuguese Credit Market, 1550-1800”. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 42(1) (2024): 91-119. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610923000137

(with Nuno Palma and Jaime Reis). “Historical Gender Discrimination Does Not Explain Comparative Western European Development: Evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900”. Explorations in Economic History 88 (2023): 101481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2022.101481

“Debt Litigation and the Performance of the Law Courts in Eighteenth-Century Portugal”. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 50(2) (2019): 237-268. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_01411

“Os padrões de juro da Misericórdia de Lisboa (1767-1797)”. Ler História 74 (2019): 137-160. https://doi.org/10.4000/lerhistoria.4730

Book Chapters

“Financing Early Modern Misericórdias in Portugal and its Overseas Territories (1500-1800)”, in Global Confraternities: Portuguese Diasporas and the Misericórdias during the Early Modern Period, eds. Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, Lisbeth Rodrigues. Leiden: Brill, 2023, pp. 62-93. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004547681_005

“As Misericórdias: uma instituição de caridade?”, in Atualizar a História. Uma nova visão sobre o passado de Portugal, eds. Roger Lee de Jesus, Paulo M. Dias. Lisbon: Desassossego, pp. 251-258