Contact

catarinagarcia@gmail.com
catarinagarcia@fcsh.unl.pt

Research Group

Environment, Interactions, and Globalisation

ORCID

0000-0002-5225-5983

Ciência ID

D11A-5504-28A5

NOVA RESEARCH PORTAL

Profile

Ana Catarina Garcia has a PhD in History - Archaeology from NOVA FCSH (2021) with the thesis entitled: “Port Systems of the Portuguese and British Maritime Empires in the Atlantic: A Comparative Approach (15th-17th Centuries)”. Has a Master's degree in Insular and Atlantic History from the University of the Azores (2009), and a degree in History - Archaeology (1996). She is an integrated researcher at CHAM, in the Environment, Interactions and Globalization research group, which she coordinates. She is an associate researcher at ERC Synergy Grant 4-OCEANS Project (2021-2027), Human History of Marine Life Extraction, Knowledge, Drivers and Consumption of Marine resources, c.100 BCE to c. 1880 CE”. She is the PI for the CHAM-funded exploratory project “DUST - Spoils and debris in modern port cities: contributions to a marine environmental history” and had the CEEC 2023 application, approved with the project “TRASH - Human waste and marine debris during the first globalization: Past and future perspectives on ocean pollution”. He is a founding member of the International Network of Atlantic Seaports and Global Interactions, created on March 11, 2024, and is also an elected member of this network's scientific committee. She is a member of the UNESCO Chair for the Cultural Heritage of the Oceans, awarded to the University of Lisbon in 2016. She has been involved in several projects, including CONCHA project “The construction of early modern global Cities and oceanic networks in the Atlantic: An approach via Ocean's Cultural Heritage” (2018-2023); H-WHALE: “A chronology of change: an Heritage network of historical WHALing in Europe” (2021-2023); MARINE LEXICON: “Bilateral construction of a cross- European thesaurus about early modern marine mammals”, funded by EEA Grants (2020-2022); DRESS - ‘Designing Fashion from 16th-century Sources’ (2018-2021), funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and OPP - Oceans Past Platform (COST Action IS1403) (2015-2018). Prior to this, she was the archaeologist uncharged for archaeological heritage management of the Autonomous Region of the Azores (2000-2011) and underwater archaeologist at the National Center for Nautical and Underwater Archaeology (1996-2000), participating in and coordinating various scientific projects in the field of underwater archaeology.

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