Biography

André Caiado is Junior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies and PhD candidate in 'Heritages of Portuguese Influence', at the University of Coimbra. He is developing a PhD thesis about the politics of memory and commemoration and memorialization processes of the Portuguese Colonial War. His research focuses the monumentalization and musealization of the conflict. He worked as Research Administrator between 2009 and 2022. He was member of the project "CROME - Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence: The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times", coordinated by Miguel Cardina and funded by the European Research Council. He holds a Master's degree in International Economics and Management from the University of Porto and a graduation in Political Science and International Relations from the New University of Lisbon. Current research interests focus on the history and memorialization of the Portuguese Colonial War/liberation struggle, war memory studies, monumentalization, musealization, military pilgrimages, and battlefield tourism.