Project Coordinators
Principal Investigator of the Coordinating Institution
Pedro Cardim
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Associate Professor at NOVA FCSH. He focuses on the history of early modern Iberian polities and their imperial rule across the Atlantic, with a particular focus on the period when Portugal was part of the Spanish Monarchy (1580-1640). He also delves into the political and administrative reforms of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A recent outcome of this research is the volume he co-edited with Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro titled ‘Political Thought in Portugal and its Empire (1500-1800),’ published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.
Scientific Coordinator
Rodrigo Lacerda
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia
Researcher at the Centre for Research Network and coordinator of Politics and of the Practices and Politics of Culture research group in Anthropology (CRIA) . He has been an invited assistant professor at NOVA FCSH since 2017 and held that position at the University of Coimbra from 2019 to 2020. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology: Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH) and ISCTE-IUL. Completed a postgraduate degree at the National Film and Television School (UK) and a BA (Hons) in Film and Broadcast Production at London Metropolitan University. Co-organized the Amerindian Film Screening ¿ Paths of Indigenous Cinema in Brazil (2019), held at the prestigious Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and brought the Indigenous curator Ailton Krenak and several Indigenous filmmakers and artists to Portugal. His research areas are visual anthropology, Indigenous cinema, Indigenous ethnology, and heritage.
Scientific Coordinator
Camila Marinelli
University of St Andrews
Doctor in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews. Her doctoral research examines the potential for dialogue between indigenous and non-indigenous knowledge in Brazilian universities. Since 2020, she has conducted ethnographic fieldwork with Indigenous academics in Brazil, focusing on knowledge systems and epistemic traditions as experienced by these scholars. She holds an MRes in Social Anthropology from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil (2016), and the University of St Andrews, UK (2019), where she explored perceptions of knowledge and the criteria that define it within academia.
Previous PI
(2024-2025)
Pablo Ibañez-Bonillo
Universidad de Sevilla
PhD in the History of the Americas from Universidad Pablo de Olavide (2016), in cross-affiliation with the University of St Andrews (2016). Previously, he was a Researcher at CHAM – NOVA FCSH, UNL and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil (2017–2018). He is the Chief Editor of Americanía. Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos, published by Universidad Pablo de Olavide. His research focuses on ethnohistory, colonial history, and the history, identities, and heritage of Amazonia. He is the author of El Martirio de Laureano Ibáñez: Guerra y religión en Apolobamba, siglo XVII (La Paz, 2011) and has published articles in international journals, including Ethnohistory and Revista de História.
Project Manager
Maria de Jesús Lança
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Researcher at the Centre for Research Network and coordinator of Politics and of the Practices and Politics of Culture research group in Anthropology (CRIA) . He has been an invited assistant professor at NOVA FCSH since 2017 and held that position at the University of Coimbra from 2019 to 2020. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology: Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH) and ISCTE-IUL. Completed a postgraduate degree at the National Film and Television School (UK) and a BA (Hons) in Film and Broadcast Production at London Metropolitan University. Co-organized the Amerindian Film Screening ¿ Paths of Indigenous Cinema in Brazil (2019), held at the prestigious Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and brought the Indigenous curator Ailton Krenak and several Indigenous filmmakers and artists to Portugal. His research areas are visual anthropology, Indigenous cinema, Indigenous ethnology, and heritage.
Project Manager
Carla Pereira
Universidade Nova de Lisboa