{"id":42841,"date":"2021-03-19T12:08:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T16:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=42841"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:34:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:34:36","slug":"daniela-melo","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/daniela-melo\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniela Melo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Research and Teaching Interests<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Contentious Politics (Activism and Social Movements, Revolutions), Gender and Politics, European Politics, Foreign Policy, European Union, Transnational Activism, Non-State Actors<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Melo, Daniela and Timothy D. Walker (eds.). <em>The Captain\u2019s Coup: Portugal After the Carnation Revolution <\/em>by Wilfred Burchett. Verso, forthcoming 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Melo, Daniela and Paul Manuel (eds.). <em>After the Carnation Revolution: Social Movements in Portugal since 25 April 1974<\/em>. Sussex Academic Press, forthcoming 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Melo, Daniela F. 2019. \u201cOutmaneuvering Kissinger: Role Theory, US Intra-Elite Conflict, and the Portuguese Revolution (1974-6),\u201d <em>Foreign Policy Analysis<\/em>, 15 (2): 224-243.<\/p>\n<p>Melo, Daniela F. 2016. \u201cWomen\u2019s Mobilization in the Portuguese Revolution: Context and Framing Strategies,\u201d Social Movement Studies, 403-416.<\/p>\n<p>Melo, Daniela F. 2016. \u201cWomen\u2019s Movements in Portugal and Spain: Democratic Processes and Policy Outcomes,\u201d Journal of Women in Politics &amp; Policy.<\/p>\n<p>Melo, Daniela F. and Stockemer, Daniel. 2014. \u201cAge and Political Participation: A Comparative Analysis of Germany, France, and the U.K.,\u201d Comparative European Studies 12 (1) (2014), 33-53.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Chapter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Melo, Daniela F. 2016. \u201cThe European Union, Executive Politics, and Women\u2019s Movements in Portugal,\u201d in MaryAnne Borrelli and Janet Martin (eds.), The Gendered Executive: A Comparative Analysis of Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Chief Executives, Temple University Press.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Varela, Raquel (2020). <em>A People\u2019s History of the Portuguese Revolution<\/em>. London: Pluto Press. In <em>International Review of Social History<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Conferences and Talks<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>2023\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Keynote: <span>&#8220;The Diaspora and the Revolution: Luso-American Diasporic Activism in 1974-75,&#8221; at the 47<sup>th<\/sup> Conference of the Luso-American Education Foundation, PBBI, California State University Fresno. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>2021 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Keynote: \u201cDesafios no Estudo dos Feminismos em Portugal \u2013 \u00c0 Conversa com Daniela Melo\u201d [Challenges in the study of feminisms in Portugal \u2013 A conversation with Daniela Melo], for the launching of the new Gender Studies thematic line (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal).<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Other Professional Activity and\/or Awards<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Frequent contributor of political analysis on US politics and US foreign policy across various Portuguese media outlets, including CNN Portugal, SIC Not\u00edcias, RTP, RDP, Antena 1, among others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Fellowships and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fulbright research scholarship to Portugal (2010-11);<\/p>\n<p>Best Paper on Women and Politics Award by the Northeastern Political Science Association (2016),<\/p>\n<p>Tinker Foundation Fellowship (2010),<\/p>\n<p>Luso-American Development Foundation Fellowship (2008)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Engaged Scholarship\/Expert Invitations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2022: Consultant for the U.S. State Department on Domestic Politics in Portugal<\/p>\n<p>2018: Consultant for the U.S. State Department Political Leadership in Europe<\/p>\n<p>2017: Consultant for the U.S. State Department on the Catalonian Crisis in Spain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16662,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/42841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16662"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/42841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47872,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/42841\/revisions\/47872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}