Paula Godinho is a doctor in anthropology from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is currently a professor at the Instituto de História Contemporânea - IHC. His subjects of study are: Issues and problems of Portuguese anthropology and the European ethnographic context, uses of culture and memory, heritage practices and commodification of culture; celebrations, rituals and performances; topographies of power, construction of national identities, border cultures and diaspora nationalisms; rural social change, resistance, social movements and extreme left.