Senior Researcher . Hired Researcher at NOVA FCSH
Contact
capinto@fcsh.unl.ptResearch Group
Environment, Interactions, and Globalisation
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NOVA RESEARCH PORTAL
Carla Alferes Pinto is a senior researcher at CHAM. She is head of the Heritage and Current Challenges thematic line and President of the CHAM's Scientific Commission. She is a guest lecturer in the History Department of NOVA FCSH in the master's programs in History of Portuguese Empire (e-learning, since 2015) and Heritage (since 2019). Since July 2020, she has also coordinated the master's program in Heritage. With a master's degree in the History of Art of the early modern period (1997) and a PhD in History of Art (specialization in Museology and Artistic Heritage, 2014), she leads the project VESTE (Dressing the Court: Costume, gender and identity(ies)) which focuses on the history and cultures of fashion during the early modern period in Portugal.
Her cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research calls for teamwork and different skills. Her areas of interest also encompass:
- Heritage studies as an interdisciplinary field of work that addresses methodologic, safeguarding, and societal challenges;
- The commission, production and use of artistic objects by women during the early modern period;
- The history and study of everyday objects entangling archaeology and visual resources;
- The study of artistic relationships between Portugal and Portuguese India during the early modern period.
Carla Alferes Pinto is also an active member of several networks and research projects, such as the UNESCO Chair on The Oceans' Cultural Heritage (member of the scientific board) and HPIP - Heritage of Portuguese Influence (Head of the Board until 2024). She is also a member of several professional organizations like ICOM, the Portuguese Association of Art Historians, The Association of Dress Historians, and the European Association of South Asian Studies.
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