Publications
Peer-reviewed
with Paul Taku Bisong, Jason Dunlop. 2023. "Mammalian type material from Cameroon in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin," Zoosystematics and Evolution 99(2): 503-517. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.99.110878
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with Déborah Dubald. 2022. "Introduction. Situated Nature: Field Collecting and Local Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century", Special Issue Journal for the History of Knowledge, 3 (1) 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55283/jhk.11379
2022. “Authentic provenance”: Locality and Colonial Collecting for the Lisbon Zoological Museum, 1860s-1880s, Journal for the History of Knowledge, 3 (1) 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55283/jhk.11951
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2017. "Expert at a Distance. Barbosa du Bocage and the Production of Scientific Knowledge on Africa", HoST - Journal for the History of Science and Technology, 11, 57-74. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/host-2017-0004
Contributions to Edited Volumes
2025. "Camões as a motto for geography. A literary hero, the periodical press, and the creation of two Geographical Societies in Portuguese Africa, 1880–1881," in Maximillian Georg (Ed.) Geographical Societies in the Nineteenth Century, Springer book series Historical Geography and Geosciences (Cham: Springer), 121-135. ISBN: 978-3-031-97468-7.
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with Katja Kaiser 2025. “Objekte aus kolonialen Kontexten identifizieren und kennzeichnen. Der Entscheidungsbau.” In Katja Kaiser and Ina Heumann (Eds.) Umgang mit kolonialen Objekten der Naturkunde. Empfehlungen – Forschung – Reflexionen. (Dresden: Sandstein Kultur), 18-19. ISBN: 978-3-954-98903-4
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​2025."The zoology museum as a place for dislocated dead animals." in Not a Penguin Pool: Echoes of More-than-Human Entanglements, edited by Regina Bittner, Yujia Bian, Daniella Camarena (Eds.) Bauhaus Taschenbuch Series (Leipzig: Spector Books) 52-55. ISBN: 978-3-95905-811-7
2021. “A Comunidade Portuguesa de Naturalistas: museus, periódicos e redes de circulação” in Ana Carneiro, Teresa Salomé Mota, and Isabel Amaral (Eds.), Ciência, Tecnologia e Medicina na Construção de Portugal: 3. Identidade e «Missão Civilizadora», Séc. XIX (Lisboa: Tinta da China), 69–89. ISBN: 978-989-671-596-0
Book & Exhibition Reviews
2023. “Review: Mobile Museums. Collections in Circulation, by Felix Driver, Mark Nesbitt, and Caroline Cornish, eds.” Nuncius, 38(3): 744–746.
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2021. “Review: Ulrike Kirchberger, Brett M. Bennett. Environments of Empire: Networks and Agents of Ecological Change. (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges.)” Isis, 112(3), 620-621.
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2019. “Review: Hugh Cagle, Assembling the Tropics (Cambridge University Press, 2018)” Isis, 110(4), 820-821.
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with Ana Simões. 2015. “Review: O Laboratorio Chimico da Escola Politécnica de Lisboa. História, Colecções, Conservaçao e Musealização”, Ambix, 62(3), 295–296.
with Francisco Malta Romeiras. 2013. “360º Ciência Descoberta. Um Esboço Historiográfico” Brotéria 176, 281-284.
Highlight
2024. “Cameroon in Berlin. I. Archives, II. Collections” Texts from Catarina Madruga and Paul Taku Bisong.
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
Other Publications
with Katja Kaiser, Catarina Madruga. 2024. “Tagging Objects from Colonial Contexts. A Decision Tree for Natural History Collections.” Magdeburg: Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste (Working Paper, 7). DOI: https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2024-00005
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2022. “Purchased from a Caravan. Animal skulls tell a story” in Ina Heumann and Tahani Nadim (Eds.) Animals as Objects. Zoological Gardens and Natural History Museum in Berlin, 1810 to 2020.. https://doi.naturkundemuseum.berlin/data/64y2-m311/58 German version: “Von einer Karawane gekauft. Geschichten, die uns Tierschädel erzählen”
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2022. “The German-Colonial Hunting Exhibition. Displaying wild animals as colonial appropriation” in Ina Heumann and Tahani Nadim (Eds.).Animals as Objects. Zoological Gardens and Natural History Museum in Berlin, 1810 to 2020. https://doi.naturkundemuseum.berlin/data/64y2-m311/74 German version: “Die Deutsch-Koloniale Jagdausstellung. Die Zurschaustellung wilder Tiere als koloniale Aneignung”
with Alicia Hughes. 2017. “The BSHS Postgraduate Conference goes to Europe!” in Viewpoint. Magazine of the British Society for the History of Science, 110, 12-13.
2014. “O Museu Nacional de Lisboa como Centro e como Periferia” in Alice Santiago Faria, Pedro M. Raposo (Eds.), Mobilidade e circulação: perspectivas em História da Ciência e da Tecnologia (Lisboa, CIUHCT/CHAM), 35-41. ISBN: 978-989-96231-4-9
2012. “The Zoological Collections of the Museu de Lisboa and the Networks of Scientific Correspondence and Exchange (1858-1898)” in Antoni Roca-Rosell (Ed.), The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the ESHS, Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010 (Barcelona: SCHCT-IEC, 2012), 928-934.
Dictionary Entries
2022. "Anchieta, José Alberto de Oliveira," in Dicionário Biográfico de Cientistas, Engenheiros e Médicos em Portugal (Lisboa: CIUHCT, 2022). https://doi.org/10.58277/EQQX9417
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2019. "José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage" in Ferreira, Monteiro, and Henriques (Coords.) Dicionário Quem é Quem na Museologia Portuguesa, 44-46.
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2019. "Artur Ricardo Jorge" in Ferreira, Monteiro, and Henriques (Coords.) Dicionário Quem é Quem na Museologia Portuguesa, 154-156.