CV Summary

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/. )

Academic Qualifications
University/Institution Type Degree Period
ISCTE
Aggregation Antropologia Urbana 2004
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Portugal - Lisboa
PhD Antropologia Social 1990 - 1996
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Portugal - Lisboa
M.Sc. Antropologia Cultural e Social e Sociologia da Cultura 1984 - 1988
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Portugal - Lisboa
Licenciate Antropologia 1978 - 1982
Research Interests
Urban Anthropology
Urban Ethnography
Urban sociability
Urban ethnicity
Migration and diaspora
Urban community and street life
Urban heritage and imagining
Portuguese Speakers (EUA)
Other Humanities Humanities
Anthropology Social Sciences
Anthropology Social Sciences
Anthropology Social Sciences