Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

e-JPH Aims and Scope

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e-JPH Aims and Scope

The e-JPH main objective is to provide the publication of original, high-quality and innovative scholarly work on diverse historical subjects, covering any period within any sub-field of historical research.

The e-JPH devotes special attention to themes and topics on the history of Portuguese-speaking societies, analyzed in different contexts and geographies, including from a comparative perspective and mobilizing international, transnational, and global approaches and methodologies, and dialoguing with the most important and state-of-the-art research being done elsewhere. Historically oriented contributions from the different social sciences are also welcome and the e-JPH is interested in promoting transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches.

The ethos of e-JPH is a pluralist one. It does not subscribe to any particular ideological, theoretical or methodological approach.

Founding Editors

The founding editors of e-JPH were Luís Adão da Fonseca (University of Porto, Portugal), Onésimo T. Almeida (Brown University, USA), José Luís Cardoso (ICS-University of Lisbon, Portugal), Mafalda Soares da Cunha (University of Évora, Portugal) and António Costa Pinto (ICS-University of Lisbon, Portugal).

Editorial Vision

Continuing the efforts of the previous team, the new editorial team of the E-Journal of Portuguese History (e-JPH) aims to consolidate and enhance its status as an important academic resource that showcases the best, most innovative, and original scholarly work presently being written about the histories of Portuguese-speaking societies and territories.

The new team will continue publishing on all aspects of Portugal’s many historic entanglements, covering any period and geographical focus within all sub-fields of history broadly conceived. The e-JPH will publish individual and joint works, freestanding or within thematic issues. It will give special attention to critical historical and historiographical reinterpretations that are both relevant and rely on state-of-the-art insights. Thereby the e-JPH will contribute to the internationalisation of high-quality research on Portuguese and Portuguese-related histories from across the world. Through the e-JPH, innovative research can participate and shape the most urgent and relevant global historiographical debates. Publications will chiefly be published in English to encourage a more accessible and comprehensive historical analysis, allow for comparisons, and facilitate discussion and debate.

By bringing together scholars studying different periods and subject, from across diverse institutions and academic traditions, the new editorial team is committed to reducing the disparities between the Global North and South, as well as the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. Through the e-JPH, the team intends to amplify and enrich the excellent work of scholars, regardless of their background or whereabouts, their academic background, generational belonging, source of inspiration, or institutional affiliation.

Our Goals

The new editorial team is committed to five specific goals.

First, to showcase—in English—publicly and privately funded research by historians interested in the diverse histories of Lusophone societies worldwide.
Second, to transform the e-JPH into a window through which an international, English-speaking audience can access subjects and historiographical discussions that are topical within the Portuguese-speaking academic community.
Third, to provide a space wherein the multiple Lusophone experiences can be historically contextualised in relation to international historiographical currents. Hereby the e-JPH will publish historical case studies of Lusophone communities that can contribute to international historiographical debates, also in terms of theory, conceptualisation, and method.
Fourth, to provide a unique opportunity for scholars of the Lusophone world to present their research ideas to a larger, international audience, with the intention to also draw the attention of international research and funding institutions worldwide.
Last, these four goals will be achieved by promoting a culture of excellence, as well as recognising and rewarding ground-breaking research. This will be achieved by ensuring an extensive and double-blind peer-review process, in addition to providing funding for excellent scholarship in the form of annual prizes for best article and an annual e-JPH conference.

To fulfill these five goals, the team kindly invites all scholars interested in the histories of the Lusophone world to submit their work to the journal. The team encourages submissions from all senior, mid-career, and young scholars regardless of academic and national backgrounds and welcomes all innovative, transformative, and—above all— excellent ideas.

Prolonging numerous past efforts by the previous team, the new editorial team aims to consolidate, and enhance, the status of the e-Journal of Portuguese History (e-JPH) as a pivotal academic resource that showcases the best, innovative and original, scholarly work being produced about the history of Portuguese-speaking societies, engaging with its manifold historical entanglements and manifestations, covering any period and geographical focus within any sub-field of historical research. The e-JPH will publish individual and collective works, isolated or within thematic issues, that offer critical historical and historiographical reinterpretations and insights, dialoguing with the most pertinent and state-of-the-art historically-oriented research, therefore contributing to the internationalization of high-quality research on Portuguese histories, in lato sensu, being produced across the world. This innovative research deserves to be an active voice in the most pressing and relevant historiographical debates, mostly carried out in the English language, fostering more grounded and comprehensive historical analysis, enabling comparisons, facilitating new conversations and research avenues.

Gathering different scholars, focused on distinct chronologies and topics, and connected to diverse institutions and academic traditions, the new editorial team is committed to contribute to the transformation of still existing disparities between north-south and east-west institutional and intellectual politics of display and recognition, offering its services to amplify and enrich the showcasing of high-quality interventions in our field, irrespective of geographic origin and scholastic tradition, generational belonging and intellectual inspiration, or institutional affiliation.

The current editorial team stands for five specific goals. In the first place, showcase, in the English language, publicly and privately funded research of excellence by historians with a broad interest in the diverse histories of Portuguese-speaking societies worldwide. Secondly, transform the e-JPH into a window to the English-speaking scholarship regarding subjects and historiographical discussions that are currently urgent within the Portuguese-speaking historiography as well as in the international arena. In the third place, provide a space for the contextualization of the multiple Portuguese-speaking experiences historically in relation to international strains of historiographical discussions, offering thus the possibility to use historical cases of Portuguese-speaking communities as transformative in terms of theorization, conceptualization and methodology to approach large historiographical questions currently pursued internationally. In the fourth place, provide an unique opportunity for scholars of the Portuguese-speaking worlds to present, test-drive and pilot their research ideas and pitch them to a larger international audience, as part and parcel of targeting research granting institutions worldwide. Finally, these four goals will be achieved by promoting a culture of excellence and recognition for ground-breaking works, through a system of broad, double-blind, peer-review and financial support for scholarship of excellence in the form of annual prizes for the best submitted article and one yearly e-JPH conference regarding a subject of particular interest for the Portuguese speaking historiographies in comparative perspective

In order to fulfil our collective goal, we kindly invite all scholars with particular or comparative interest in the history of the Portuguese-speaking worlds into submitting their individual, collective or thematic work to our journal. We stand open to the participation of senior, mid-career and young scholars, of different academic and national backgrounds, and welcome everyone’s innovative, transformative, but above all, excellent ideas.

Journal Scope

Contributions to e-JPH will be considered for the following sections:

All papers submitted are first screened by the editors and subject to a double-blind refereeing process.

This section includes commissioned contributions on selected topics   providing a critical systematization of new insights and controversy on recent historiographical developments.

It is the purpose of this section to provide critical assessment and appraisal of scholarly work and research undertaken in both Portuguese and non-Portuguese institutions.

This section includes a critical review of a particular, recent and relevant, book by several experts on the its field of expertise.

Should be commissioned by the editorial team of the e-JPH who encourage reviews of books published in any language on Portuguese history. International and Portuguese publishers are kindly invited to send books for review to the mailing address of the journal.

The e-JPH will only evaluate and publish texts in correctly written English. The acceptance of texts in Portuguese is only possible in relation to the application to the Prizes for Academic Excellence.