Sofia José Santos
Biography
Sofia José Santos is an Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, and a Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, where she coordinates the UNCOVER project as a Principal Investigator. Since 2008 she has developed research on media, peace and violence, media and foreign policy; internet and technopolitics; and media and masculinities. Within CES, she is also co-editor of Alice News. She holds a PhD and an MA in International Politics and Conflict Resolution from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, a degree in International Relations from the same university, and a Diploma in Advanced Studies in Communication Sciences from ISCTE-IUL. Previously, she was an Invited Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (2016-2019), a postdoctoral researcher at OBSERVARE / UAL (2015/2016) and CES (2015), and researcher and coordinator of media and communication in Promundo-Europa (2014-2015). She was also a visiting scholar at the Flemish Peace Institute and a Marie Curie fellow at the Universiteit Utrecht. In addition to publications, conferences and national and international research projects, it is also worth mentioning her work in co-coordinating and co-editing the P@x Bulletin of the NHUMEP Peace Studies Group, her involvement in international networks, social movements, and the several research works she has undertaken for international think tanks and development agencies such as NOREF, UKAID, Palladium, and Promundo-US. Her current research interests focus on media, international relations, peace and violence; media and masculinities; and critical internet studies.
ORCID
Agenda
May 22, 2025, 15h00 (GMT+1)
Workshop | Identifying and critiquing the tropes of victimhood: a practical exercise
News
2025-04-23 Canal CES
Victimhood as a politics of pain and power
Latest Publications
Book Chapter
Santos, Sofia José; Basílio Simões, Rita; Amaral, Inês (2025), Masculinities and the digital realm across Europe: Exploring heterogeneity, diversity, and non-linearity, in Inês Amaral, Rita Basílio SImões & Sofia José Santos (org.), Renegotiating Masculinities in European Digital Spheres. London: Routledge, 1-16
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Basílio Simões, Rita; Santos, Sofia José; Inês, Amaral (2025), New horizons for researching masculinities in the new media age, in Inês Amaral, Rita Basílio SImões & Sofia José Santos (org.), Renegotiating Masculinities in European Digital Spheres. London: Routledge, 155-171
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Amaral, Inês; Basílio Simões, Rita; Santos, Sofia José (orgs.) (2025), Renegotiating Masculinities in European Digital Spheres. London: Routledge
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