Anne Cova is a research fellow at ICS-ULisboa. She has a PhD in History from the European University Institute (1994) and an Habilitation from the University of Lisbon (2013). She has been visiting scholar at Stanford, Princeton and California-Berkeley universities in the US. She has been the scientific officer of the Social History Archive of the ICS-ULisboa during five years (2006-2011). Currently, she is vice-president of the Portuguese Association for Research in Women’s History (Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Histórica sobre as Mulheres, APIHM), affiliated to the International Federation for Research in Women's History (IFRWH). Among her publications: Maternité et droits des femmes en France, XIXe-XXe siècles, Paris, Anthropos-Économica, 1997; «Au service de l'église, de la famille et de la patrie». Femmes catholiques et maternité sous la IIIe République, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2000; Writing Women's History in Southern Europe, 19th-20th Centuries, Oeiras, Celta, 2003 (With Gisela Bock, Ed.) and Ed., Comparative Women's History: New Approaches, Boulder and New York, Social Science Monographs/Columbia University Press, 2006 (Portuguese updated translation: História comparada das mulheres. Novas abordagens, Livros Horizonte, 2008; in French: Histoire comparée des femmes. Nouvelles approches, École Normale Supérieure Éditions, 2009, with a foreword by Françoise Thébaud and in open access since 2022: OpenEdition Books; in Spanish: Historia comparada delas mujeres, Nuevos enfoques, Trabe, 2012); Destins de femmes. Religion, culture et société (France, XIXe-XXe siècles), Paris, Letouzey et Ané, 2011 (With Bruno Dumons, Ed.); Féminismes et néo-malthusianismes sous la IIIe République : «La Liberté de la maternité», Paris, L'Harmattan, collection Logiques sociales, 2011 (in Spanish: Feminismos y neomaltusianismos durante la Tercera República francesa : «La liberdad de maternidad», Uviéu, Trabe, colección Deméter, 2015); Mulheres e associativismo em Portugal, 1914-1974, Lisbon, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2022 (With Vanda Gorjão, Ana Isabel Freire, Ana Costa Lopes and Natividade Monteiro, Eds.); «Introduction: Transnational women’s activism» (With Ann Taylor Allen, Ed.), Women's History Review, 2023, vol. 32, Issue 2.

Her field of research focuses on Comparative History and transnational women’s and gender history of the twentieth century. Currently, she is carrying out a research project on several women’s associations called ‘national councils of women’ in Southern Europe and Latin America, 1888-1945.