Nelson Ribeiro (PhD in Communication and Culture Studies, University of Lincoln) is Full Professor of Communication Studies and Vice-Rector for Transformation, Collaboration and International Affairs at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
He coordinates the research group Media Narratives and Cultural Memory at the Research Center for Communication and Culture (CECC) where he is also Member of the Board of Directors and Director of the PhD in Communication Studies.
He was the Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa between 2016 and 2025. Dr. Ribeiro is the founding director of the Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication, organized in partnership with the Annenberg School for Communication (University of Pennsylvania), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (University of Southern California) and the University of Helsinki with the support of the Europaeum. Since 2016 he is the Chair of the Communication History section at the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Previously he was Vice-Chair and Chair of the Communication History Division at the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Ribeiro was the PI of the research project Broadcasting in the Portuguese Empire: Nationalism, Colonialism, Identity funded by FCT and Lisbon2020 (2018-2022) and the coordinator of the Portuguese team of the Horizon2020 support action Compact: Social Media and Convergence (2018-2021).
Dr. Ribeiro is affiliated with the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE). In 2022 he was the recipient of a fellowship from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University for his research on the relations between Radio Free Europe, the American government, and the Portuguese dictatorship during the Cold War. In 2023 he was elected member of the Academia Europaea. His main research interests are media history, propaganda and disinformation, media and colonialism and journalism studies. His latest book, co-edited with Barbie Zelizer, is Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation (Routledge, 2025).