Rui Manuel Monteiro Lopes Ramos (born 1962 inTorres Vedras) is a Portuguesehistorylecturer and researcher. He is a co-founder[1] and a member of the Board of Directors of the online newspaperObservador. In 2013, he was awarded theOrdem do Infante D. Henrique.[2]
Ramos graduated in History from the Faculty of Letters of theUniversity of Lisbon (FLUL) in 1985. He had a brief period as a trainee assistant at FLUL and later served as a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the New University of Lisbon (1998–2001). Since 2001, he has been a guest lecturer at the Institute of Political Studies of the Portuguese Catholic University.
At the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL), Ramos was a member of the Standing Committee of the Scientific Council (2001–2004), the Postgraduate Committee (1998–2000), and the editorial board of the journalAnálise Social (2003–2004).
Specialising in the history of Portugal during the 19th and 20th centuries, Ramos focuses on political and cultural aspects, particularly the period at the end of the constitutional monarchy and the First Republic. He is also an expert on the history of political ideas in Europe during these centuries.
Ramos earned hisPhD in Political Science fromOxford University in 1997. He has authored numerous articles in both Portuguese and international scientific journals, and several books, includingA Segunda Fundação (The Second Foundation, 1994), Volume VI of theHistory of Portugal directed byJosé Mattoso,João Franco e o Fracasso do Reformismo Liberal (João Franco and the Failure of Liberal Reformism, 2001), and a biography of King Carlos I of Portugal in the Kings of Portugal series (2006).
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the online newspaperObservador, where he has also collaborated on several radio programmes. Ramos has written weekly columns forDiário Económico (2005),Público (2006–2009),Correio da Manhã (2009), andExpresso (2010–2013). He has contributed to weekly debate programmes onRTP3,TVI 24,SIC Notícias, andCanal Q, and was the author of the 12-part seriesPortugal de... onRTP1 (2006–2007).[3][4][5][6][7]
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