Bernardo Pinto da Cruz has a PhD in Global Studies (NOVA-FCSH), with a thesis on villagization and violence moderation during Angola's anti-colonial war. He works as a researcher at IPRI-NOVA, where he is currently leading, as Co-PI, the FCT funded project JUSELTRA on the soecioeconomic effects of portuguese colonialism in Africa (Cape Verde, Angola and Mozambique). He has a Master in Political Science and is co-author of Políticas Coloniais em Tempo de Revoltas (Porto: Ed. Afrontamento, 2016). He is the coordinator of Descontrolo em Luanda: urbanismo, polícia e lazeres nos musseques do império (Lisboa: Outro Modo, 2020) and co-author of "A democracia na Europa" (IDN, 2018), output of a FLAD-IPRI research project. His recent research on penal concentration, rural development and colonial institutional change was published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Studies, the Portuguese Studies Review and Comparativ. He was also a member of the research team of CEI-ISCTE in charge of collecting data about and analyzing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the external dimension of Portuguese sovereignty (project funded by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos). He is Invited Assistant in the Global Studies Doctoral Program, in the Master on Migrations, Inter-ethnicities and Transnationalism and in the Political Science and International Relations BA (at NOVA-FCSH). He is the Spring 2024 FLAD/Saab Visiting Professor in Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.