Biography

Inês Nascimento Rodrigues is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra, where she is vice-coordinator of the research line Europe and the Global South: Heritage and Dialogues. Her current project, "GHOST. The Afterlives of Contract and Enslavement: Narratives on Indentured Labour between Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe", funded by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Global Fellowship (2024-2027), sits at the intersection of memory studies, postcolonial theory, and the cultural history of forced labour in African archipelagic contexts. She was also awarded funding under the Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC) from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (2023-2029). Her work is part of a broader research trajectory focused on colonial and postcolonial histories and their present-day legacies. Between 2017 and 2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded project "CROME. Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence: The Colonial and Liberation Wars in Post-Colonial Times", coordinated by Miguel Cardina. Her doctoral research, developed within the PhD programme in Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (CES/FEUC), resulted in a book on the Batepá Massacre in São Tomé and Príncipe, recognised with the CES Prize for Young Portuguese-Speaking Social Scientists and honourable mentions from two national history prizes. Alongside her research, she has taught since 2023 in the doctoral programme Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship, coordinating the course "Postcolonialisms, Identities and Cultural Citizenship". She was vice-coordinator of the CES Trauma Observatory (2022-2024) and co-coordinator of the research group NHUMEP. Humanities, Migration and Peace Studies (2020-2022). She serves as Reviews Editor and Editorial Board member of Práticas da História: Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past (NOVA FCSH) and Cadernos de Estudos Africanos (CEI-Iscte).