Tiago Luís Lavandeira Castela (B81C-F6C2-512D)

Curriculum Vitae

Tiago Luís Lavandeira Castela

Tiago Castela (Lisbon, 1974) is a historian of architecture and spatial planning, as well as an architect. He does research on peripheral urbanism and the politics of housing, with a focus on Portugal and southern Africa in the late colonial period. He holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. His outside fields of study were Urban Geography and Global Planning Knowledge. He also holds a professional degree in Architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is a researcher and an invited assistant professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where he is affiliated with the interdisciplinary Center for Social Studies (CES) and the Department of Architecture. At CES, he contributes to the thematic line "(Semi)Peripheral Capitalism: Crises and Alternatives." He also teaches graduate seminars at the Faculty of Economics, and is a member of the faculty of the College of the Arts. He is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) of the exploratory research project "Regulating the Colonial Rural," and was the PI for the exploratory project "Urban Aspirations in Colonial/Postcolonial Mozambique," funded by the Portuguese state Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). He is the main instructor for 3 doctoral seminars, on research design for the PhD in Architecture, on theories of space for the PhD in Cities and Urban Cultures, and on political spaces for the PhD in Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship. He is currently the dissertation chair for 6 PhD students, and a co-advisor for 3 other PhD students. He is the co-advisor of 2 completed PhD dissertations, and has supervised 2 postdoctoral research fellows. He has lectured at the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa), at University Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique), as well as at various Portuguese universities; and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Internacional Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE). His documentary "Urban Aspirations" (2016) was selected for inclusion in the online Film Geographies collection. He lives in Porto, Portugal with his 6-year-old daughter.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Tiago Luís Lavandeira Castela

Citation names

Castela, Tiago

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: B81C-F6C2-512D
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0921-3470
Google Scholar ID: 6v2b2oMAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT&oi=ao
Scopus Author Id: 57202831234

Telephones

Telephone

(+351) 239855570 (Professional)

Addresses

Centro de Estudos Sociais, Colégio de S. Jerónimo, 3000-995, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Urban Studies

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
German	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2005/08 - 2011/12/16 Concluded	Architecture (Doctor of Philosophy) Major in History of Architecture and Urbanism University of California Berkeley Department of Architecture, United States "A Liberal Space: A History of the Illegalized Working-Class Extensions of Lisbon" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1992/10 - 1999/10/29 Concluded	Architecture (Licenciatura) Universidade Técnica de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/04/15 - 2024/04/14	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

2012/02/01 - 2018/04/14	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/02/08 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Arquitectura, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021 - Current	Dominance and mass-violence through Housing and Architecture during colonial wars. PTDC/ART-DAQ/0592/2020 Consultant ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2023/06/30	Regulating the Colonial Rural: Wartime Villagization in Late Portuguese Colonialism EXPL/GES-URB/1284/2021 Principal investigator Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2023/06/30	Financialised housing in 21st century Portugal: Social representations, practices, and political stakes EXPL/PSI-GER/0269/2021 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2016/01 - 2019/12	Inhabiting in Financial Times: Housing and the Production of Space in Democratic Portugal grant.Provided by PTCRIS: 140988 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2013/07 - 2014/12	Urban Aspirations in Colonial/Postcolonial Mozambique: Governing the Unequal Division of Cities, 1945-2010 grant.Provided by PTCRIS: 131500 Principal investigator Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2017/02 - 2018/12	Task “Housing for More: Consolidation, Revolution, Decolonization, 1968-1982” Habitação: 100 anos de Políticas Públicas em Portugal Principal investigator Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Instituto da Habitação e Reabilitação Urbana (IHRU) Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Castela, Tiago. "[I used to come for walks here in the 1980s] Eu por acaso vinha fazer aqui caminhadas nos anos 80". In [I Did Not Even Know That Marvila Existed] Eu Nem Sabia Que Marvila Existia, 5-others. Lisbon, Portugal: Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, 2021. Published Castela, Tiago. "Empire in the City? Politicizing Urban Memorials of Colonialism Today". In Instituto - Yearbook '20, 34-37. Porto, Portugal: Instituto, 2021. Published Castela, Tiago. "[Propertied citizenship and the emergence of the financialization of housing in Portugal after 1968] Cidadania proprietária e emergência da financeirização da habitação em Portugal após 1968". In A nova questão da habitação: uma abordagem de economia política, edited by Santos, Ana Cordeiro, 259-274. Lisbon, Portugal: Conjuntura Actual Editora, 2019. Published Bandeirinha, José António; Castela, Tiago; Alves, Joana Gouveia; Aristides, Rui. "[The Housing Development Fund from 1969 to 1982: Order, alternatives, and market.] O Fundo de Fomento da Habitação de 1969 a 1982: Ordenamento, alternativas, e mercado.". In Habitação: Cem Anos de Políticas Públicas em Portugal, 1918-2018., edited by Agarez, Ricardo Costa, 234-279. Lisbon, Portugal: Instituto da Habitação e da Reabilitação Urbana, 2018. Published Castela, Tiago. "Empire in the City: Politicizing Urban Memorials of Colonialism in Portugal and Mozambique". In Whose Tradition? Discourses on the Built Environment, edited by AlSayyad, Nezar; Gillem, Mark; Moffat, David, 188-209. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. Published Castela, Tiago. "[Sad and joyful: artistic practice in an understanding of the unequal plurality of social space-time.] Triste e alegre: a prática artística na compreensão da pluralidade desigual do espaço-tempo social.". In Estranhos dias recentes de um tempo menos feliz., edited by Dinis, Hugo, 59-62. Lisbon, Portugal: Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, 2017. Published Castela, Tiago; Meneses, Maria Paula. "Naming the Urban in Twentieth-Century Mozambique: Towards Spatial Histories of Aspiration and Violence". In Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries, edited by Silva, Carlos Nunes, 215-224. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015. Published Castela, Tiago. "Anti-Utopias, Science Fiction and Architecture: a Critical Comment on Clifford Simak's City". In Interartes 2, edited by Neves, Maria. Loulé, Portugal: Instituto Superior Dom Afonso III, 2006. Published
Conference abstract	Castela, Tiago. "Architecture as a State Expertise: Imagining a New Tradition in Portugal's Housing Development Fund, 1969-1982". Paper presented in International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments [IASTE] conference, Nottingham, 2021. Published
Conference paper	Castela, Tiago; Abreu, Cesaltina; Monteiro, Eurídice; Mello, Marina; Cardoso, Ricardo; Freire, Jacqueline. "[What higher education and knowledge in SSH in the 21st Century? The experience of AILPcsh and of the CONLAB.] Que educação superior e produção de conhecimentos em ciências sociais e humanas no século XXI? A experiência da AILPcsh e dos CONLAB.". Paper presented in Arte e Cultura na Identidade dos Povos: 19º Encontro AULP, Lisboa, 2019. Published Carrozza, Chiara; Castela, Tiago. "[For Common Universities: Space and Genealogy of Emergences in Contemporary European Universities.] Por Universidades Comuns: Espaço e Genealogia das Emergências na Universidades Europeias Contemporâneas.". Paper presented in IX Congresso Português de Sociologia, Portugal, 2017. Published Castela, Tiago. "[Tradition of property? Delegitimation and everyday geographies of renting in Portugal, 1974-1982.] Tradição da propriedade? Deslegitimação e geografias quotidianas do arrendamento em Portugal, 1974-1982.". Paper presented in 9th Conference of Portuguese Geography, Porto, 2017. Published • 10.18803/capsi.v17.185-193 Castela, Tiago; Bandeirinha, José António. "Knowledge Formation by Architects and Workers in Assisted Self-help: Recalling the Fractured History of Portuguese Experiments from the Dictatorships to Political Democracy, 1950-1980". Paper presented in Fourth International Conference of the European Architectural History Network, Dublin, 2016. Published Castela, Tiago. "Opening Keynote Lecture: Towards a Science of Sea Space". Paper presented in Heritages and Memories from the Sea, Évora, 2015. Published
Dictionary entry	Castela, Tiago. "Academic Employment". In Words beyond the pandemic: a hundred-sided crisis. Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, 2020. https://ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/palavras-pandemia/?lang=2&id=30510. Published Castela, Tiago. "Housing Architecture". In Words beyond the pandemic: a hundred-sided crisis. Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, 2020. https://ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/palavras-pandemia/?lang=2&id=30508. Published
Journal article	Aristides, Rui; Castela, Tiago. "“[Wartime Villagization in Late Portuguese Colonialism in Guinea] Aldeamento de Guerra no Colonialismo Português Tardio na Guiné”". e-cadernos CES (2022): Open access • Under revision Emiliana Marques; Castela, Tiago. "[From Countryside Education to the Right to the Countryside? Situated Practices and Discourses of Portuguese Rurality] Da Educação do Campo ao Direito ao Campo? Práticas e Discursos Situados do Rural Português". Roteiro (2022): Open access • Accepted Castela, Tiago. "Daydream Continent: Europe as a Space-Time Horizon in Architectural History". Architectural Histories 6 1 (2018): 1-7. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ah.274. Open access • Published • 10.5334/ah.274 Castela, Tiago. "[The space-time of forced refuge: colonial villagization in the formation of the state?] O Espaço-tempo do Refúgio Forçado: Os Aldeamentos Coloniais na Formação do Estado?". Biblos 4 (2018): 13-30. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/0870-4112_3-4_1. Open access • Published • 10.14195/0870-4112_3-4_1 Castela, Tiago. "[For Situated Histories of Urban Division: The Illegalized Extensions of Lisbon in the Social Harmony Program of the Dictatorships in Portugal.] Por Historias Situadas de la División Urbana: Las Extensiones Ilegalizadas de Lisboa en el Programa de Armonía Social de las Dictaduras en Portugal.". Estudios del ISHiR 5 11 (2015): 10-36. http://revista.ishir-conicet.gov.ar/ojs/index.php/revistaISHIR/article/view/417. Open access • Published Castela, Tiago. "Studying built Architecture as an intangible heritage in unequally divided cities". Joelho: Revista de Cultura Arquitectónica 6 (2015): 225-235. https://digitalis.uc.pt/pt-pt/node/113516. Open access • Published • 10.14195/1647-8681_6_23
Magazine article	Eliana Pereira de Sousa Santos; Castela, Tiago. "Politics of Housing and Architecture in Portugal: An Interview with Helena Roseta", Jornal dos Arquitectos, 2022 Rede H. "[Investment, housing vulnerabilities and transversal problems in the Recovery and Resilience Plan] Investimento, vulnerabilidades habitacionais e problemas transversais no PRR", Le Monde Diplomatique (Portuguese Edition) , 2021, https://pt.mondediplo.com/2021/06/investimento-vulnerabilidades-habitacionais-e-problemas-transversais-no-prr.html. Castela, Tiago. "[Ambiguities of Cosmopolitanism and Financialization: Recalling the 2004 Mérida competition.] Ambiguidades do Cosmopolitismo e da Financeirização: Recordando o Concurso de Mérida de 2004.", Arqa: Arquitetura e Arte, 2015 Castela, Tiago. "[A Liberal Space.] Um Espaço Liberal.", Arquitectura 21, 2010
Newspaper article	Rede H. "[Ceci n'est pas a National Housing Program] Ceci n'est pas um Programa Nacional da Habitação", Público, 2021, https://www.publico.pt/2021/12/27/opiniao/opiniao/ceci-nest-pas-programa-nacional-habitacao-1989949.
Thesis / Dissertation	Castela, Tiago. "A Liberal Space: A History of the Illegalized Working-Class Extensions of Lisbon". PhD, University of California Berkeley Department of Architecture, 2011. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1fj0856h.
Working paper	Castela, Tiago. 2010. "Imperial Garden: Planning Practices and the Utopia of Luso-Tropicalism in Portugal/Mozambique, 1945-1975". Castela, Tiago. 2009. "Contending Tradition: Planning Working-Class Extensions of the City in Late Twentieth Century Portugal".

Artistic / Performance

Visual artwork

Castela, Tiago. Urban Aspirations (2016).

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2022/06	Manuals of global counterinsurgency in late colonial war: guiding the architecture of Portugal's forced resettlement camps in Africa, 1961-74	EAHN 2022 (Madrid, Spain)
2022/05/03	Strategic Hamlets in Portuguese Guinea: Their Designed Intent and the Afterlife	Decolonization Seminars CSU Bakersfield (Bakersfield, CA, United States)
2022/04/15	Regulating the Colonial Rural: Wartime Villagization in Late Portuguese Colonialism	Race and Architecture Lecture Series Department of Architecture, UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, United States)
2022/03/03	Politics of Housing after 1945 in Portugal and the USA: the Legacy of a Disjunctive Dialogue	3rd Fulbright Alumni Conference Cycle Fulbright Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/09/02	Architecture as a state expertise: imagining a new tradition in Portugal's Housing Development Fund, 1969-1982	International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments [IASTE] conference (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
2018/10/06	The production of colonial space in state theory: wartime villagization in occupied Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau, 1961-1974	IASTE conference (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/09/08	The decolonisation of planning in Mozambique: the Maputo school of urban theory, 1975-1985	2nd International Planning History Society [IPHS] conference, on African Urban Planning (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/06/03	Knowledge Formation by Architects and Workers in Assisted Self-Help: Recalling the Fractured History of Portuguese Experiments from the Dictatorships to Political Democracy, 1950-1980	4th International Meeting of the European Architectural History Network [EAHN] (Dublin, Ireland)
2016/12/19	Tradition and the spaces of financialization in late-twentieth-century Portugal	IASTE conference (Kuwait City, Kuwait)
2016/07/18	Forms of Citizen Resilience and Urban Homeownership in Portugal'¿s Political Democratization	17th IPHS conference (Delft, Netherlands)
2015/01/14	Opening keynote lecture: Towards a Science of Sea Space	First international conference on Heritages and Memories from the Sea UNESCO Chair on Intangible Heritage of the University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2014/12/15	Empire in the City: Memorials of Colonialism in Contemporary Portugal and Mozambique	IASTE conference (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
2014/08/26	On the provenance of spatial violence: a history of planning the peripheral in late colonial Mozambique	School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa)
2014/08/19	[“On the provenance of spatial violence: a history of planning the peripheral in late colonial Mozambique”] “Sobre a proveniência da violência espacial: uma história do planeamento do periférico no colonialismo tardio em Moçambique”	Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning, University Eduardo Mondlane (Maputo, Mozambique)
2014/07/22	Peripheries in a History of Urban Futures: Planning for the Government of Informal Spaces in Late Colonial Mozambique	16th IPHS conference (Saint Augustine, FLA, United States)
2013/09/06	Naming the Urban in Twentieth-Century Mozambique: Towards Spatial Histories of Aspiration and Violence	1st IPHS conference on African Urban Planning (Lisbon, Portugal)
2013/06/27	The Periphery in Planning: Urban Aspirations and the Right to Urban Life in the Government of Suburbs in Mozambique, 1945-2010	6th European Conference of African Studies [ECAS] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012/10/04	Self-building for a New Europe: Workers' Suburbs and the State in European Development	IASTE conference (Portland, OR, United States)
2012/10/01	Governing the Social: Planning Coimbra in Postwar Development	Portuguese Studies Program Lecture Series University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, United States)
2010/12/05	Imperial Garden: Planning Practices and the Utopia of Luso-Tropicalism in Portugal/Mozambique	IASTE conference (Beirut, Lebanon)
2010/06/20	Architecture as Experimentation: Creating Suburban Environments under Conditions of Informalization in the Lisbon Area, 1958-1997	1st International Meeting of EAHN (Guimarães, Portugal)
2009/12/02	Citizenship and the Economy of Spatial Illegalisms in Late Twentieth Century Portugal	108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Philadelphia, PA, United States)
2009/03/23	‘Clandestine’ Land Commodification and Class Formation in the Lisbon Area, 1960-1990	Annual conference of the Association of American Geographers (Las Vegas, NV, United States)
2008/12/12	Contending Tradition: Working-class Extensions of the City in 20th Century Portugal	IASTE conference (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2008/05/04	Moving to the City: Self-Built Suburban Landscapes in the Lisbon Area, 1960-2000	Annual Meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum (Fresno, CA, United States)
2008/02/27	Illegalism and Citizenship: Urban Space in Late Twentieth Century Portugal	7th European Social Science History Conference (Lisbon, Portugal)
2007/04/14	Architecture and Propaganda in Portugal’s New State (1926-1974): the 1940 Exposition of the Portuguese World	60th Annual International Conference, SAH (Pittsburgh, PA, United States)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/01 - Current	TBD Supervisor of Ferlanda Luna	Political Economy (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2020/09 - Current	Modernity, dictatorship and eugenics: the construction and collapse of an artificial society in the Amazon. Supervisor of Priscilla Brasil	Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2018/12 - Current	The Right to the Country: Education, Culture and Social Mobilization in Portuguese Everyday Life Supervisor of Emiliana Marques	Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2018/11 - Current	Psychic ruins of colonialism in neoliberal times: contributions from an ethnography of youth quotidians in São Paulo, Brazil Supervisor of Isabela Lemos	Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2018/02 - Current	From the drawing board to the construction site: How to collective inhabit the architectural project Co-supervisor of Bernardo Amaral	Architecture (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Arquitectura, Portugal
2017/02 - Current	Towards a Pluralistic Wayfinding Design in Hospital Architecture: A Comparative Study of Hospitals in Portugal and Iran Supervisor of Bayan Khalighi	Architecture (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Arquitectura, Portugal
2017/01 - Current	Public Art and Speculation: An Ethnography of Emergent Artistic Spaces in Eastern Lisbon Supervisor of Luís Barata	Contemporary Art (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Colégio das Artes, Portugal
2016/07 - Current	A feminist look on ethno-racial questions: The architecture of Lino Bo Bardi in Salvador, Brazil Co-supervisor of Cíntia Ataliba Domingos	Architecture (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Arquitectura, Portugal
2015/02 - Current	In the Periphery of a Peripheral Empire: Colonial Urban Spaces in Mozambique's Northern Coast Co-supervisor of Margarida Gomes	Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2021 - 2022	Postdoctoral research project Supervisor of Mustapha El Moussaoui	Urban Studies (Other) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019/09 - 2021/12	Limits and possibilities of an emancipatory urban education: Reflections on contemporary public spaces Co-supervisor of Ana Paola Alves	Architecture (PhD) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
2017/09 - 2021/12	Neighborhood Sociability and Mutual Support in Madrid's Tetuán: An Experience of Social Transformation from the Margins Co-supervisor of Ivonne Herrera	Social Anthropology (PhD) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2018 - 2021	Postdoctoral research project Supervisor of Rui Aristides Lebre	Architecture (Other) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2017/02 - 2019/02	[Songs, Dances, Rhymes and Resistance in the Choir Community Trovadores do Vale] Cantos, Danças, Rodas e Resistência na Comunidade Coral Trovadores do Vale Co-supervisor of Pedro Dutra	Education (PhD) Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
2014/09 - 2015/10	[Inhabiting the Country: Temporary Zones in relation to the City] Abitare il Campo: Zone Temporanee verso la Città Co-supervisor of Sofia Moriconi	Architecture (Master) Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2016/10/01 - 2018/10/31	Local Coordinator, IASTE 2018 “The Politics of Tradition”, Coimbra, Portugal (2018/10/04 - 2018/10/07) Conference (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2017/06/08 - 2017/06/08	Chair, Paper Session "Heritage and History in sub-Saharan Africa”, 70th Annual International Conference, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), Glasgow, Scotland (2017/06/07 - 2017/06/11) Conference (Other)	Society of Architectural Historians, United States

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2021/09 - Current	International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE)	Advisory Board
2019/10 - Current	Association for Portuguese-Language Social Sciences and Humanities (AILPcsh)	Reviews Editor and President of the Fiscal Board
2015/08 - 2019/10	Association for Portuguese-Language Social Sciences and Humanities (AILPcsh)	Treasurer

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2021/09 - Current	Instructor of record, "Doctoral Seminar #1"	Cities and Urban Cultures (Doutoramento)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2016/03 - Current	Co-instructor, "Dissertation Prospectus" doctoral seminar, with instructors of record José António Bandeirinha (2016-2022) and Paulo Providência (2020)	Architecture (Doutoramento)	Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Arquitectura, Portugal
2016/03 - Current	Instructor of record, “Political Spaces in the Postcolonial State” doctoral seminar	Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (Doutoramento)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2012	FCT Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2007	Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Grant for PhD Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2005	Fulbright/Luso-American Foundation Grant for PhD United States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Fulbright Program, United States