Specialisation in History
DOCHIS-2024-01: Digital Heritage
Digital Heritage is the study and use of technology and digital media to understand and preserve cultural or natural heritage. The Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage of UNESCO defines digital heritage as embracing "cultural, educational, scientific and administrative resources, as well as technical, legal, medical and other kinds of information created digitally, or converted into digital form from existing analogue resources". At USJ, we want to focus the research on the local Macao environment and its link to the Digital Heritage field.
Principal Supervisor: Denis Zuev(denis.zuev@usj.edu.mo)
Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
DOCHIS-2024-02: Architectural History
Architectural History is a research topic studying buildings and their built environment, history, corresponding architectural theory, and architectural historiography in all places and periods. It traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates. At USJ, we are primarily concerned with the architectural history of Macao's local architectural buildings, their historical context and their cultural or religious background.
Principal Supervisor: Francisco Antonio Lopes do Rego Vizeu Pinheiro(francisco.pinheiro@usj.edu.mo)
Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
DOCHIS-2024-03: Cultural Heritage Tourism
Cultural Heritage Tourism is a research topic studying a branch of tourism oriented towards the cultural heritage of the location where tourism is occurring and its preservation. It can include understanding places, artefacts and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past and their identity. It encompasses and has cultural, historical and natural resources and studies the impact of tourism in areas such as economic or social impact.
Principal Supervisor: Denis Zuev(denis.zuev@usj.edu.mo)
Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
DOCHIS-2024-04: International/Global History
This research area covers the Western-Asian relations and the making of foreign policy in the Anglosphere (the United States, Great Britain, and the British dominions) from the late 19th to early 21st centuries. At USJ, we envisage research embracing aspects of international transitions of power and the role of elites, as private individuals and through official and non-official institutions, in diplomacy in the Western world, with particular emphasis on the role of foreign policy think tanks and the nexus between formal and informal diplomacy.
Principal Supervisor: Priscilla Roberts(priscilla.roberts@usj.edu.mo)
Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
DOCHIS-2024-05: Macau Studies
This research area covers the Macau territory’s history, especially regarding its global significance and, more broadly, in the Portuguese-speaking world. The research will be intertwined with the Macau in Global Archives project, which seeks to identify and explore information in Macau-related documents scattered in numerous archives and libraries worldwide. Moreover, we are looking for prospective doctoral students seeking to research the history of the development of modern higher education in Macau as well as other aspects of this international territory inheriting centuries of history in between Asia, Europe and the Portuguese-speaking world.
Principal Supervisor: Priscilla Roberts(priscilla.roberts@usj.edu.mo)
Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
DOCHIS-2024-06: Post-Colonial History
Post-Colonial History is a research area to study Postcolonialism (better known as postcolonial). It is the critical academic study of colonialism's cultural, political and economic legacy. It focuses on its economic, social, cultural or environmental impact after the end of the colonialism period. At USJ, we focus our research on Post-Colonial History in Macao territories.
Principal Supervisor: Wah Kwan Cheng(wkcheng@usj.edu.mo)
Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
DOCHIS-2024-07: Ecclesiastical History
Ecclesiastical History studies Christianity and the Christian Church from a historical perspective. As St John Henry Newman observed, "Christianity has been long enough in the world to justify us in dealing with it as a fact in the world's history." If we are to do so, we must bring together the best scientific approaches to the study of history and a profound understanding of the philosophical and theological realities that have played a central role in the 2,000-year history of Christianity. Research in the field of Ecclesiastical History is concerned with more than simply what happened in the past. It is concerned with a wide range of research questions and areas including but not limited to: offering explanations for events in the history of Christianity; the history of ideas; the people, places, cultural and political aspects of Christianity in history; how historians have written and continue to write about Christianity and the Church; the history of the interaction between different Christian communities and between Christianity and other religions. At USJ, there is a particular interest in the history of the Church in Macao, China and the Asian missions, as well as the connection with Portugal and the Portuguese-speaking world.
Principal Supervisor: Stephen Morgan(stephen.morgan@usj.edu.mo)
Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
DOCHIS-2024-08: History of Trade and Enterprises
This research area aims to explore and record the development of Macau from a small village to one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Interest also lies with the ever-increasing private enterprises and foreign investments in Mainland China since the 80s. Through narratives of business people who witnessed the enterprise and trade development in Macau or China, and historical data analysis, we intend to look at the history of Macau from the point of view of its business development, including comparative studies and international analysis.
Principal Supervisor: Jenny Oliveros Lao Phillips(jennylao@usj.edu.mo)
Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
