Susana DORES DE MATOS VIEGAS

Susana DORES DE MATOS VIEGAS is a Visiting Professor (March-May 2025) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice's Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, Department of Humanities. She concurrently serves as a Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. She holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Coimbra (2003).

Her research focuses on:

• Indigenous territorialities and landscape revitalization
• Climate crisis impacts on traditional communities
• Ancestral historicities in the Indigenous Atlantic
• Cross-cultural analysis of land associations (Brazil, Timor-Leste, Portugal)

She coordinates the University of Lisbon team for the EU Marie Curie project Entangling Indigenous Knowledges in Universities and edits Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America.

She teaches Territorialità indigene e rigenerazione della vita (Indigenous Territorialities and Life Regeneration) at Ca' Foscari.