Rodrigo Dominguez
Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
Department of Management
Career Line, Faculty
Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management of the David Eccles School of Business.
Prior to that, he was a Visiting Scholar at Appalachian State University (Boone, North Carolina) during the Fall Semester 2016, and the Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences (CICS) at the University of Minho, in Braga, Portugal, between 2022 and 2024. He also taught in several other universities in Europe.
He is also a member of international economic and business history associations in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Latin America and United States, being also President of the Economic and Business History Society (EBHS) for the mandate 2022-2023.
Dr. Dominguez’z areas of research have been Economic and Business History of Portugal and of the Portuguese Empire in the long-run (15th-20th centuries). With an emphasis on the Economic History of Warfare and State Formation, he tries to identify how warfare was a key element for the consolidation of fiscal institutions in Portugal and in its colonies in a comparative perspective. Moreover, he is also interested in identifying patterns of transition from Warfare to Welfare states in the long run, i.e., how the European Colonial Powers became successful welfare states in the 20th century in most cases.
Dr. Dominguez also participates in several international research projects related to Portugal’s trade and shipping in the modern times and the History of Warfare and State Formation. He is referee of Medieval and Early Modern History Journals and Economic History Journals in Portugal, Brazil and US, and have published in various refereed journals, such as the Journal of Medieval History and the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History. Moreover, he edited and authored books for refereed international publishers.
B.A. in History (2002) – University Center of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
M.A. in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2006) – University of Porto, Portugal
Ph.D. in History (2013) – University of Porto, Portugal
His main areas of study are:
Economic and Business History of the Portuguese Empire in the long-run (15th -20th centuries); Portugal’s colonial shipping and trade during the early modern times; Economic history of warfare and state formation, with an emphasis on the fiscal history of the Portuguese empire, the building and the consolidation of its financial institutions.
Mota, M. S., Atallah, C. C. A., Dominguez,R. da C. (eds.) (2023). Portuguese Colonial Cities: Local Dynamics, Global Flows (c. 1500-1900). Buenos Aires, Editorial Teseo, DOI:10.55778/ts911693086.
Dominguez, R. da C., Andrade, A. A. (eds.) (2023). Portugal in a European Context – Essays on Taxation and Fiscal Policies in Late Medieval and Early Modern Western Europe, c. 1100-1700. London-New York, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance Series).
Dominguez, R. da C., TRIANO-MILÁN, J. M. (2023). “The price of the throne. Public finances in Portugal and Castile and the War of the Castilian Succession (1475–9)”, Journal of Medieval History, 49:1, 93-110, DOI: 10.1080/03044181.2022.2155988.
Carrara, A. A., Menz, M. M., Melo, F. S., Dominguez, R. da C. (2023). “The Brazilian Economy during the Old Regime crisis (c. 1750-1807)”, Revista de Historia Economica – Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Volume 41, Issue 1, March, 119-146.
Dominguez, R. da C. (2019). Fiscal Policy in Early Modern Europe: Portugal in Comparative Context. New York-London, Routledge.
Dominguez, R. da C., Carrara, A. A. (2018). “Taxation in Brazil in the Napoleonic Wars: Neutrality, economy and the outcomes of a royal court in transit,” in Eloranta, J., Golston, E., Hedberg, P., Moreira, M. C. (eds.). Small and Medium Powers in Global History: Trade, Conflicts and Neutrality from the 18th to the 20th Centuries. New York-London, Routledge, 95-115, ISBN 978-1-13-874454-7.
