Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century (PDF)

Philip J. Havik (PhD Social Sciences, Leiden University, NL) is Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT) of the Universidade NOVA in Lisbon, Portugal, while also teaching at the same institution. His research engages with global health, public health, anthropology of health, history of tropical medicine and the colonial and post-colonial development of Lusophone African countries.

Helena Pinto Janeiro (PhD in Contemporary History) is a historian at the Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal and a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) of the Universidade NOVA in Lisbon. Her current research centres on the World Wars and the League of Nations; memorial museums and transitional justice; archives and oral history; and political prisons and camps.

Pedro Aires Oliveira (PhD in Contemporary History) is Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA in Lisbon, Portugal, and an integrated researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History. He has authored, co-authored and edited several books on Portuguese foreign relations and overseas/imperial history, and has contributed to several international peer-review journals.

Irene Flunser Pimentel (PhD Institutional History and Contemporary Politics) is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Universidade NOVA in Lisbon, Portugal. She has (co-) authored several books on the Portuguese Political Police (PIDE/DGS), the Portuguese New State Dictatorship, Women's Organizations and Portugal during the Second World War.