Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues
Biography
She is an invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto and a professor at the University Lusíada Norte. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Coimbra. Her thesis "Antigos Combatentes Africanos das Forças Armadas Portuguesas: a Guerra Colonial como Território de (Re)conciliação" [Former African Combatants of the Portuguese Armed Forces: the Colonial War as a Territory of (Re)conciliation] won the 2014 Fernão Mendes Pinto Award. She developed her postdoctoral studies within the scope of the MEMOIRS- Children of Empires and European post memories project, funded by the European Research Council, (n.º 648624). She is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra in the research line Europe and the Global South: heritages and dialogues. She is a researcher in the MAPS (FCT - PTDC/LLTOUT/7036/2020) and TRAMES - (Erasmus +) projects. She is vice-president of the COST Global Atrocity Justice Constellations Action (CA18228). Her main research interests are related to issues on colonial/liberation wars, memory and postmemory, colonization, decolonization and postcolonialism, and crimes committed in war contexts.
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