CURRICULUM VITAE
(abridged)
Paula M Santos
DEGREES
Univ College London, UK
2005 PhD Anthropology
Porto’s Historic Centre and the Materiality of Belonging
(PhD finnanced by FCT grant)
Univ of Reading, UK
1988 M.A. Archaeological Studies
Torres and Torrentes: A New Approach to the Settlement of Mallorcan Talaiots
Porto University Portugal
1986 BA History/Archaeology
CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor
Dept of Political and Behavioural Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
Fernando Pessoa University – Porto- Portugal
SPECIAL FIELDS OF INTEREST
Social identity and systems of representation;
Memory and embodiment;
Globalization; Tourism; Photography;
Film Making and Film Studies (theory and history of; documentary)/visual anthropology;
Urban Studies
RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
2006-2009
TRESEGY – Towards a Social Construction of European Youth-ness: Experience of
Inclusion and Exclusion in the Public Sphere among Second Generation Migrated
Teenagers
(6th Frame Work Program; financed by European Commission www.tresegy.eu )
2005-2007
Migrant Communities and Urban Systems: Chinese and Ukrainian Communities and their
Integration in Greater Porto - an exploratory study (financed by FCT Fundação Ciência e
Tecnologia, part of the Portuguese Ministry of Science)
GRANTS
2008 – Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia sabbatical leave grant; Gulbenkian Foundation short term
grant
1999- 2003
Doctorate scholarship - Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia- Programa Praxis XXI
Also several travel grants (in order to attend congresses) by Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia
(FCT), Fundação Luso Americana Para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD); the British Council
supported the coming of Dr Paul Basu to act a commentator to the panel organised in 2006
within the National Congress of Anthropology.
LECTURING EXPERIENCE/APPTS HELD
PG
2006/08
PG course Archaeology
MA Anthropology
UG
1996-2007
BAs: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, International Relations, Media Studies and other.
Summer Courses
Portuguese Studies Program- Inst of European Studies – Univ of California Berkeley, USA
(2006;2007)
Portuguese Studies Program – Dept of Anthr – Univ of Louisville, Kentucky, USA(2005; 2006)
Other
2006/…
co-coordinator/PG course on Public Policies and Urban Settings, Fac of Technology UFP
2006/…
member of the Editorial Board of DOC on-Line,international journal of documentary film
(www.doc.ubi.pt)
2004
Member of the Jury Committee – section TV series – of the Film Festival of Science Film
TELECIÊNCIA/ Festival de Filme Científico TELECIÊNCIA – Maia, Portugal
1997/..
founding member of Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Aplicada - CEAA has undertaken several
tasks within this research unit such as member of the Direction Board and co-editor of the journal
ANTROPOlógicas
PUBLICATIONS
as co-editor
2003
Pluralidades Portuenses – Símbolos Locais, Relações Globais, Porto, Civilização Ed
1998
Cultura e Arquitectura - Incursións Antropolóxicas no Espacio Construído, Santiago de
Compostela, Edicións Lea
in books
2003 “Territórios Patrimonializados: Centros Históricos e Metapolização”,
in Oliveira, V O, (ed), Arquitectando Espaços: da Natureza à Megapólis, Porto-Coimbra,
Porto Univ/Coimbra Univ pp257/266
“O Centro Histórico do Porto: experiênciação e construção identitária”
in Araújo, H, Santos, P and Seixas, P, (ed), Pluralidades Portuenses: símbolos locais,
relações globais, Porto, Ed Civilização pp 23/57
2002
“A Place in the City – The Historic Centre of Oporto and the Intangible Dimension of the
Patrimonial Subject” in Campos, J (ed) Porto – A dimensão Intangível na Cidade
Histórica (proceedings of the annual CIVVIH/ICOMOS meeting in 2001) pp 41/62
in journals
(in press)
“Being in or out of place : shifting visibilities of a collective ethnic other in the city of
Porto”, in Trabalhos de Antropologia e Etnologia, vol 47 (2007), Sociedade Portuguesa de
Antropologia e Etnologia, Porto.
2007
“The Cinematographic Representation of the City of Porto (as seen by the author in six
films), in Doc-online nº 2
2006
“Chaves de Oliveira, un quartier de Porto au passé present” in L’architecture
d’Aujourdhui- themed issue on Portugal, nº 366 September-October pp 94/99
2005
“Through the Looking Glass: historic production, photographic representation and the sense
of place in Porto’s old city” in Santos, PM and Vasconcelos, L (ed) ANTROPOlógicas, nº9,
themed issue Identity/Identities, p303/330
FILMS
2006/…
(in pre-production)
Two documentaries as part of the deliverables of the research project TRESEGY
2001 The Rusga – visual essay on belonging, locality and social identity (28’) – documentary
exhibited in the Porto 2001 European Capital of Culture 1st works competition Odisseia das
Imagens
RECENTLY ORGANISED PANNELS
2006
Situating “Glocalization”: Articulating Ethnographic, Historical and Literary Approaches
to Spatial Forms and Identifications in Western Iberia
AAA annual Conference, San Jose Cal- USA Nov 06
Socio-anthropological perspectives on the challenges facing the integration of migrant
communities within EU: reality and options
International Metropolis Conference Lisb October 06
A produção do espaço: experienciação humana e a construção de um sentido do lugar
Cong Nacional de Antropologia Lisb April 06
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2006 “Being in Place: the Visibility and Invisibility of the Chinese Community in Porto
(Portugal)
In the Panel: Situating “Glocalization”: Articulating Ethnographic, Historical and Literary
Approaches to Spatial Forms and Identifications in Western Iberia
AAA Annual Conference, San Jose, Cal- USA Nov 06
“Now I see you, now I don’t.- Identity and shifting visibilities of a collective ethnic other in
the city of Porto, Northern Portugal”
Anthropological Research in Contemporary Portugal
Portuguese Studies Program- University of California, Berkeley, USA Nov 06
“Território, língua e sangue – recursos estratégicos na construção de EU vs o Outro”
(Territory, Language and Blood- strategic resources in the construction of an I vs an Other)
International Conference Me and the Other (Eu e o Outro), Faculty of Letters- Porto
University, October 06
“Visibility and Invisibility of the Chinese Community in Porto”
in the Panel: Socio-anthropological perspectives on the challenges facing the integration of
migrant communities within EU: reality and options; International Metropolis Conference,
Lisbon October 06
“The city as a Landscape: Porto’s old city as differentially constructed chronotope of
identity”
Annual Congress of the Societèe Française de Geographie, Tahiti, June 06
(paper accepted but not presented due to impossibility of attending)
“Localidade e Transnacionalidade: breve apontamento sobre a comunidade chinesa do
Porto”
(Locality and transnationality: brief note on the Chinese community of Porto)
Citizens/Citizenships- International Congress, University Fernando Pessoa June/July 06
“ A Monstruosidade como Encorporação do Interdito – o caso do monstro de Frankenstein
(M Shelley) e de Dr Jekyll e Mr Hyde (L Stevenson)”
(“Monstruosity as the embodiment of the forbidden- the case of the monster in Frankenstein (M Shelley) and of
Dr Jekyll e Mr Hyde (L Stevenson)”)
Literatura e Religião – III Encontro de Estudos Sobre Ciências e Culturas
Universidade Fernando Pessoa, September 06
“Visibility and Invisibility of Communities in Urban Systems”
(co-authored with J Borges de Sousa- Faculty of Engineering. Porto University)
EURODIV International Conference – Fundazione E Mattei, Milano Jan 06
(http://www.feem.it/NR/rdonlyres/B00A70DA-CB19-42D0-BFF4-D96CB9E8F7D4/1986/7006.pdf)
2005
“Racialized Discourses, Symbolic Centrality, and Embodiment in Porto's Old City”
in the panel: Locating Racial Formation: Urban, Regional and National Spaces in Portugal,
Spain, and Cuba in AAA Annual Conference, Washington, DC,- USA Nov
“Embodied Forms of Social Identity: the cinematographic representation of the city of
Porto”
II International Conference -The Voice and Choice of Women; In Portugal and in the
Diaspora.
Portuguese Studies Program- University of California, Berkeley, USA, April
2003 “The tourist gaze revisited – tourist experientiation of place in Porto’s old city” in Tourism &
Photography, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Sheffield Hallam University – UK
“Through the Looking Glass – photographic representation and the sense of place in Porto’s
old city (Northern Portugal)” In Tourisms and Histories: Representations and Experiences,
University of Central Lancashire, Preston – UK (June)
2002
“Heritage Dissonance: The Construction of Memory in Porto’s Old City” in Bounded
Landscapes: Heritage and Historical Production, session part of the Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
2001 “The Past in the Present: Europe’s Historic Centres as themed cities”, in International
Postgraduate Studies Socrates Conference, Department of Anthropology, University College
London- UK
“A Place in the City – The Historic Centre of Oporto and the Intangible Dimension of the
Patrimonial Subject” in annual CIVVIH/ICOMOS meeting
“Género e construções fílmicas”
(Gender and Cinematographic Representation)
in Seminário de Co-Educação, Fernando Pessoa University, Porto
2000
“Porto’s Historic Centre: space, place, identity and human agency as an urbanscape” in
Anthropology in Post-Democracy Portugal: Trends in Contemporary Fieldwork, session
part of the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA)
“Porto’s Historic Centre and its images – the dialogic relation between ‘self’ and ‘other’ in
a urban space”, in the session City and Culture part of the 6th Congress ‘European
Culture’, Centro de Estudios Europeos - Navarra University - Spain
ARCHEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK
2002
Director of the archaeological digs in the industrial heritage site of the Fábrica de Cerâmica
das Devesas, (nineteenth and twentieth centuries ceramics factory) Gaia, Portugal
1996
Field survey in north-eastern Portugal related to rock art location in the landscape; work
done in cooperation with Richard Bradley (University of Reading) Ramon Fábregas
(University of Vigo) and Mª de Jesus Sanches (Porto University)
1995
Director of systematic field survey in the surrounding area of the Chaves basin (Northern
Portugal)
1993
Director of the 5th campaign of archaeological digs at the prehistoric settlement of Vinha da
Soutilha - Chaves (Northern Portugal)
1991
Director of the 1st campaign of archaeological digs at the prehistoric settlement of Alto de
Stª Ana - Chaves (Northern Portugal)
1990
Co-director of dig (2nd campaign) of the prehistoric settlement of S. Lourenço - Chaves
(Northern Portugal)
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
AAA –American Anthropological Association
APA – Portuguese Society of Anthropology/Sociedade Portuguesa de Antropologia (2003/06
directing board member - elected)
APA – Professional Association of Archaeology/Associação Profissional de Arqueologia
CEA – Centre of Anthropology Studies/Centro de Estudos de Antropologia
ICHTT - International Commission for the History of Travel and Tourism
SPAE – Portuguese Society of Anthropology and Ethnology/Sociedade Portuguesa de Antropologia
e Etnologia (2000/... directing board member- elected)
LANGUAGES
Portuguese (mother tongue)
English (near native speaker)
French (fluent spoken, read and written)
Spanish (fluent spoken and read; middle-range written)
Italian (middle/upper-range spoken and read; basic written)
Chinese/Mandarin (basic level spoken, read and written)
Catalan (read)