Interested in the material culture of religion. Currently delving into artistic and decolonial education. Earned a PhD in Heritage Studies – History of Art (University of Porto, 2022) with a thesis on the practice of clothing miraculous images of the Virgin after Fr. Agostinho de Santa Maria’s “Santuário Mariano” (financed with a scholarship granted by FCT with funds from the ESF and the Portuguese MCTES, under the POCH).

Interested in the material culture of religion. Currently delving into artistic and decolonial education. Earned a PhD in Heritage Studies – History of Art (University of Porto, 2022) with a thesis on the practice of clothing miraculous images of the Virgin after Fr. Agostinho de Santa Maria’s “Santuário Mariano” (financed with a scholarship granted by FCT with funds from the ESF and the Portuguese MCTES, under the POCH).