Biography

ANA NENO is a PhD student in the programme "Cultural Heritages of Portuguese Influence" at the Centre for Social Studies (CES-UC) of the University of Coimbra, organised in partnership with the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research (III-UC) of the same University and supervised jointly with the programme "Tourism, Heritage and Territorial Management" at the Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences of the Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech (FLSH-UCAM). She graduated in Architecture from the University of Coimbra, Department of Architecture (DArq-FCTUC), and took part in a scholarly exchange programme at the National School of Architecture in Grenoble (ENAG). She then worked as an architect from October 2004 to September 2010. At present, she is a collaborator at the Network Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) and integrates the UCAM Laboratory on Culture, Heritage and Tourism. The subject of her doctoral thesis is "Processes and Politics of Heritagisation in the Town of Safi".