PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER

Silvia Maeso
srodrig@ces.uc.pt

PhD in Political Sociology. Principal Researcher at CES and member of the Research Group on Democracy, Citizenship and Law. She lectures in the PhD Programmes: "Democracy in the 21st Century" and "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies"; and Master "Roads to Democracy(ies)". Her interests have centred on the following areas: social theory, racism and anti-racism in European contexts;  Eurocentrism and Knowledge production; Truth Commissions in Latin American contexts.

PROJECT MANAGER

Danielle Araújo
daniellearaujo@ces.uc.pt

PhD student in Political Science from University of Campinas São Paulo, where developed her thesis on the process of implementation of affirmative policies in Public Higher Education Institutions in the state of S. Paulo. Master's degree in Political Science, where she concluded her dissertation which mainly includes the following themes: election campaign financing, elections, political configurations in the Northeast, Workers' Party. She holds a degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Ceará.

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Bruno Muniz
brunomuniz@ces.uc.pt

Completed his PhD in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2016, holds a degree in Economics from University of Rio de Janeiro and a Master's degree from University of Rio de Janeiro throughthe Postgraduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology - PPGSA. He has been a Specialist in Public Policy and Government Management at the Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro at SEPLAG-RJ and has experience in fundraising for NGOs.


 

DOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Cayetano Fernández
cayetanofernandez@ces.uc.pt

 

Cayetano is a junior researcher at Center for Social Studies (CES), currently integrated in the project POLITICS - The politics of anti-racism in Europe and Latin America: knowledge production, decision-making and collective struggles, particularly in the research stream "Cultures of Scholarship and State Universities: the study of racism and (post) colonialism in higher education". In collaboration with the University of Granada (Spain) and other entities he has been working in several researches.

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Marcos Silva
marcossilva@ces.uc.pt

Postdoctoral fellow in the Social Studies Center of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where the project integrates POLITICS The politics of antiracism in Europe and Latin America: knowledge production, decision-making and collective struggles. Ph.d. in Social Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP),iInternship in the PhD course at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, support Capes. with research on the theme of racial-ethnic relations.

DOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Luana Coelho
luanacoelho@ces.uc.pt

Luana is a junior researcher at the project POLITICS: The politics of anti-racism in Europe and Latin America: knowledge production, decision-making and collective struggles, coordinated by Silvia Maeso. She is current PhD student at the Program "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies"(CES/IIIUC). She has a bachelor in Law and a master in Urban Development and International Cooperation
(IUG-UPMF, Grenoble/ France and TUD, Darmstadt/Germany).

 

Doctoral Researcher

Sebijan Fejzula
sebifejzula@ces.uc.pt

I have developed my research interest in the areas of Gender Studies, critical theories of race, with an interest in the contemporary visual representation of Romani women and its ideology. Currently, my interdisciplinary research work focusses on theorizing cases of racist police brutality as mechanisms for controlling and disciplining the “Other/non-human” body, in concrete, the historically rooted colonial power relations over the Roma body.