The Center for Portuguese studies is proud to announce that the following professors have received funding for the Faculty exchange program:
Bryan Wagner is Professor in the English Department, Director of the Folklore Program, and Professor in the American Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley.
His research focuses on African American expression in the context of slavery and its aftermath, and he has interests in legal history, vernacular tradition, urban studies, and digital humanities.
Professor Wagner will bring Professor Walter Rossa to deliver the Alan Dundes lecture in the Folklore department in Spring 2027
Massimo Mazzotti is the Thomas M. Siebel Presidential Chair in the History of Science, a professor in the Department of History. His primary field is the History of Science. He studies the history of science from the early modern period to the present, with a focus on the mathematical sciences, technology, and computing. He is interested in the social dimension of technical knowledge - and particularly in the way this knowledge is made, and made credible and authoritative. Professor Mazzotti will bring Profesor Maria Elvira Callapez from Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (CSTMS). Prof. Callapez is a specialist of the history of plastics and polymeric materials, material culture, and the relationships between science, industry, and society. Her work has examined the emergence and development of the plastics industry in Portugal within broader international contexts, combining historical analysis with perspectives from heritage studies and science and technology studies (STS). She is currently a researcher at the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, where she has been affiliated since 2006. She recently retired from her formal teaching position (January 2026), but remains actively engaged in academic research, leading funded projects and participating in international collaborations.