Hélder Carvalhal
Post-Doc Researcher
- E-mail: helder.carvalhal@iisg.nl
- Department: Research
Hélder Carvalhal is a MSCA Research Fellow working on the project Subaltern Work, Labour Relations, and Empire Building in the Portuguese Estado da Índia (1510-1663). He obtained his PhD at the Universities of Évora and Lisbon (2022). Before arriving to Amsterdam, he held research and teaching positions in Manchester and Uppsala. His research focuses in global living standards, gender, and work and occupational structures since 1500. His work tackles a number of issues in historical perspective, such as the rise and maintenance of inequalities, as well as the evolution of the wellbeing of past populations in a compared perspective.
