Glória de Santana Paula holds a PhD (2022) in History, specialty in African History, from the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, and a MA (2000) in Early Modern History, of the same University. She is a researcher at the Centre of History of the University of Lisbon. She develops her professional activity as a History teacher, since 1991, at Júlio Dantas School Groupment, in Lagos, and recently as guest lecturer at the School of Education and Communication of University of Algarve, teaching the following curricular units: History and Geography of Portugal; From the Ancient World to the construction of the Portuguese Kingdom: Power and Space. In the scope of Education, she is trainer accredited by the Pedagogical Scientific Council for Continuing Teacher Training, with registration no. CCPFC/RFO-21676/07, in the areas or domains of History of Portugal, History of Africa, History of Civilizations and Pedagogical Assessment. Her main research interests are the representations of the African peoples and territories of Southeast Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries, through Portuguese documentation; perceptions of otherness, the production of discourses and processes of transmission of categories, concepts and stereotypes; shipwreck accounts and the echoes of the integration of shipwrecked people into the communities of Southeast Africa.