Graça Índias Cordeiro is an urban anthropologist and associate professor at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon. She has extensive teaching experience in social sciences and urban studies, particularly in ethnography and urban social history, both in Portugal and abroad. She has been a visiting professor in the United States, Spain (Catalonia), and Brazil. Lisbon has been one of her primary research fields, where she has explored the relationship between sociability practices and place identities, including popular associativism and, more recently, Greater Boston, where she has researched ethnicity and the sense of belonging in the Azorean American diaspora. With several authored and co-authored publications, she is currently a researcher in the ExPORT project at ICS - University of Lisbon (FCT- REF. 2022.08653.PTDC - https://export.ics.ulisboa.pt/index.php/en/home-en/. )