Teaching Staff

Silvia Rodríguez Maeso (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)
PhD in Political Sociology. Principal Researcher at CES and member of the Research Group on Democracy, Citizenship and Law. She lectures in the PhD Programmes: "Democracy in the 21st Century" and "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies"; and Master "Roads to Democracy(ies)". Her interests have centred on the following areas: social theory, racism and anti-racism in European contexts;  Eurocentrism and Knowledge production; Truth Commissions in Latin American contexts.

João Vargas (University of California / San Diego)
PhD. and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California - Riverside. His publications include Catching Hell in the City of Angels (2006), Never Meant to Survive (2008), State of White Supremacy, co-edited by Moon-Kie Jung and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2011), and The Denial of Antiblackness. Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering (2018). His written work is the result of engaging individuals and collectives to combat gendered blackness. It draws on collaborative projects in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Salvador (in Brazil), and in Austin and Los Angeles (in the United States). The projects focus on and attempt to propose alternatives to the current dynamics of social death and early physical death from preventable causes. These dynamics include youth and adult imprisonment, repressive policing, punitive schooling, hyper-residential segregation, exposure to environmental hazards, and blocked access to health care and welfare. By exploring the possibility and terms of collaboration between black and non-black people, the projects aim to contribute to imagining and practicing worlds where black lives are possible.

Danielle Pereira de Araújo (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)
PhD student in Political Science from University of Campinas São Paulo, where developed her thesis on the process of implementation of affirmative policies in Public Higher Education Institutions in the state of S. Paulo. Master's degree in Political Science, where she concluded her dissertation which mainly includes the following themes: election campaign financing, elections, political configurations in the Northeast, Workers' Party. She holds a degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Ceará..

Luana Xavier Pinto Coelho (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)
Luana is a junior researcher at the project POLITICS: The politics of anti-racism in Europe and Latin America: knowledge production, decision-making and collective struggles, coordinated by Silvia Maeso. She is current PhD student at the Program "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies"(CES/IIIUC). She has a bachelor in Law and a master in Urban Development and International Cooperation
(IUG-UPMF, Grenoble/ France and TUD, Darmstadt/Germany).

Cayetano Fernández  (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)
Cayetano is a junior researcher at Center for Social Studies (CES), currently integrated in the project POLITICS - The politics of anti-racism in Europe and Latin America: knowledge production, decision-making and collective struggles, particularly in the research stream "Cultures of Scholarship and State Universities: the study of racism and (post) colonialism in higher education". In collaboration with the University of Granada (Spain) and other entities he has been working in several researches.

Sebijan Fejzula  (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)
I have developed my research interest in the areas of Gender Studies, critical theories of race, with an interest in the contemporary visual representation of Romani women and its ideology. Currently, my interdisciplinary research work focusses on theorizing cases of racist police brutality as mechanisms for controlling and disciplining the “Other/non-human” body, in concrete, the historically rooted colonial power relations over the Roma body.

Houria Bouteldja
She is a founding member of the Parti des Indigènes de la république, a decolonial political member based in France. She has written several theoretical or strategic articles on decolonial feminism, racism, autonomy and political alliances, as well as articles on Zionism and state philosemitism. She is the author with Sadri Khiari of Nous sommes les indigènes de la république (Amsterdam Editions) and With Whites, Jews, and Us. Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love (Semiotext(e)).

Akwugo Emejulu (University of Warwick)
Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a co-editor of Politics, Groups and Identities and an inaugural winner of the Flax Foundation's Emma Goldman Prize. Her research interests include the political sociology of race, class and gender and women of colour’s grassroots activism in Europe and the United States. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, Politics & Gender, Race & Class and the European Journal of Women’s Studies. Her co-authored book, Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (2017, Policy Press) and Fugitive Feminism (2021, Silver books).

Malick Gueye (Sindicato de Manteros)
Malick has a long history of activism against racism and for migrants' rights and is a member and one of the spokespersons of the collective Manteros in Madrid. A collective formed in 2010 to fight racism and to achieve the decriminalisation of their livelihood, street vending.

SOS Racismo PT e ESP/Grupo Amiafro-Teatro Oprimido Lisboa/ Campanha Por Outra Lei da Nacionalidade, Portugal/ Kale Amenge, Sindicato de Manteros/ Colectivo Ayllu [participantes a ser confirmadxs]
Um dos objetivos da escola de Inverno é aprofundar o debate entre as agendas dos coletivos antirracistas e a produção académica. Para tal, realizar-se-á uma mesa redonda na qual serão convidados coletivos como o SOS Racismo de Espanha y Portugal (uma organização que tem vindo a desenvolver trabalho de advocacia e contencioso antirracista desde os anos 90), Kale Amenge (uma organização política decolonial romani que trabalha para construir o anti-racismo político e a autonomia dos movimentos racializados), Sindicato de Manteros (uma organização de vendedores de rua que enfrenta o racismo antinegro) ou Colectivo Ayllu (uma organização que reúne migrantes de Abya Yala para combater o racismo institucional e a supremacia branca); representantes da Campanha Por outra Lei da Nacionalidade em Portugal que tem lutado pela mudança política da legislação portuguesa sobre acesso à nacionalidade e aberto a discussão sobre lei e racismo; uma representante do grupo do teatro do Oprimido de Lisboa que trabalha com jovens negrxs de bairros da periferia de Lisboa.