About
Research Context
Portugal | Cape Verde
Research Interests
whaling | heritage | social memory | maritime mobilities
Institutional Subunit
NOVA FCSH
Biographical Note
Holds a BA in Sociology (2003) from the NOVA University of Lisbon, an MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2009) and a PhD in Anthropology (2018) from the University of Lisbon.
During the master and the PhD, her main focus was Cape Verde. More recently, her attention has also been drawn to another Atlantic archipelago: the Azores.
In her doctoral research – which resulted in a thesis entitled «Class, memory and identity in Cape Verde: an ethnography of the carnival of São Vicente» – she conducted archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in the São Vicente island.
Between 2019 and 2021, she was a researcher at CECS – Communication and Society Research Centre (University of Minho) under the project FESTIVITY.
Currently she is a researcher at CRIA – Centre for Research in Anthropology (NOVA University of Lisbon) where she develops the research project WHAlands – Whaling Heritage in the Atlantic islands: America, the Azores and Cape Verde entangled by the sea (19th-21st centuries).
Her methodological approach combines historical and ethnographic research and her research interests include whaling, class, social memory, identity, heritage, maritime mobilities and colonialism.
