Scholar. Educator. Practitioner.
I am a visual anthropologist, curator, and filmmaker who is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of London, where I also convene the MA in Visual Anthropology. Combining ethnographic research and multimodal media production, I unpack how the past is reconstructed and the future reimagined through collective and individual engagements with the traces of political violence, displacement, and decolonization in Spain, Portugal, and the Iberian Atlantic.
I was the Head Researcher for the project “Militant Imaginaries, Colonial Memories” (MSCA-IF-2019-895197) which analyzed individual and collective uses of the material and visual traces left by entangled historical events: the Carnation Revolution that marked an end to Portugal’s Estado Novo dictatorship; the conclusion of the Portuguese imperial project; and the return migrations sparked by these events. Prior to my work at the IHC, I was an Associate Lecturer in anthropology and visual culture at New York University-Madrid and a Research Fellow in the Collections Department at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.
I am the Co-Editor in Chief of Visual Anthropology Review, a member of the Writing with Light Editorial Collective, and a Working Group Leader for the TRACTS Cost Action Network.
As a scholar, educator, and practitioner, I am committed to forms of collaborative visual research capable of mobilizing anthropological research findings across disciplines and borders. In this spirit, I have undertaken multimodal media projects to elucidate how the past bears on the present through diverse visual forms.
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