António Costa Pinto

António Costa Pinto
Born 1953
Portugal
Residence Lisbon
Citizenship Portugal
Fields Political sciences, European history
Institutions Stanford University, Georgetown University, St Antony's College, Oxford, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris
Alma mater University of Lisbon, European University Institute

António Costa Pinto (born 1953 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a research professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, and Professor of Politics and Contemporary European History at ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, Portugal.

Career

He obtained a BA in history from the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon (1982) and holds his doctorate from the European University Institute, Florence (1992). He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University (1993), Georgetown University (2004), a senior associate member at St Antony's College, Oxford (1995), and a senior visiting fellow at Princeton University (1996) and at the University of California, Berkeley (2000 and 2010). From 1999 to 2003 he was a visiting professor at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He has been an assistant director of the Contemporary Portuguese History Research Centre since its creation in 1998. He was president of the Portuguese Political Science Association (2006-2010) and his research interests include authoritarianism, political elites, democratization and transitional justice in new democracies, the European Union, and the comparative study of political change in Southern Europe. [1]

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