Raquel Carvalheira is a full-member researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), where she coordinates the thematic line Azimuth – Studies in Arab and Islamic Contexts. She is an Invited Assistant Professor at Nova University and the University of Algarve in Southern Portugal. Raquel Carvalheira earned her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Lisbon in 2015. Her doctoral research was published in the book Feminine Morocco: Conjugality and Family (2020). She is also the co-author of The State from Within: An Ethnography of Power and Public Administration in Portugal (2017), a work based on her ethnographic research within the Portuguese Environmental Agency. Between 2023 and 2024, Carvalheira served as Principal Investigator for the Study on the Social Integration of Muslims in the Sintra Region, the first ethnographic study on Muslims in Portugal led by a team of anthropologists. This research will culminate in a forthcoming book she co-coordinates and co-authors. She is the co-producer and co-director of the documentary A Ramadan in Lisbon and co-principal Investigator of the project research leading to the film. Raquel Carvalheira will lead the Portuguese case study “Go with the tide”, part of the HERA-funded Liminal Waterways project, starting in January 2025. The study will focus on water as a metaphor to understand the ecological crisis in a Portuguese fishing community. Her ethnographic research covers countries such as Mauritania, Morocco, and Portugal. Her research interests encompass gender, community-making, citizenship, Islam, environmental expertise, and state ethnography.