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Joana Brites

Joana Brites holds a Master’s degree in Art History and a PhD in History, specialising in Art History, from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. She is an Associate Professor at the same faculty, where she coordinates the PhD programme in Art History and serves as Director of the journal Revista de História das Ideias. She is also an integrated researcher at the Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Universidade de Coimbra (CEIS20), where she co-coordinates a research group, and a collaborating researcher at the Instituto de História da Arte da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

Main interests and research topics: Modernism; Art under Authoritarian and Totalitarian Regimes; Architecture of the Estado Novo (Portugal); Public Works in the Portuguese Colonial Empire (1933–1975); Dissonant Heritage; Portuguese Sculpture (nineteenth and twentieth centuries).

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9857-1722

Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/1510-0395-8C81

Repository: https://uc-pt.academia.edu/JoanaBrites

Research field(s): Heritage, Cultures and Identities