Vanda Maria Neves Gorjão Duarte. She completed her Master's and PhD in Sociology, the two of them focusing on women's political participation. The master's degree, completed in 2000, was on women's opposition to the Estado Novo. Her PhD, completed at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade Nova and the Institute of Social Sciences of Lisbon - ICS-UL, was on the first generation of female MPs in the Assembly of the Republic from 1974 to 1987. She graduated in Sociology in 1996 from ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, specializing in the Sociology of Art. With a long academic background in modern and contemporary art, performance, and visual culture, Vanda Gorjão has been a lecturer at the University of Évora's School of Arts, Department of Visual Arts and Design since 2006. She teaches various courses on art theory, visual theory, and artistic research in the bachelor's and master's programs. She also teaches courses on art theory, sociology of art, and media studies (including performance, sound, cinema, and photography). Additionally, she has organized seminars and lectures at prestigious institutions such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Porto Museum of Modern Art. She also organized events such as ‘E criamos assim. Creators and Audiences in Conversation' (2016-2018), a collaborative event with Teresa Furtado, and co-produced by Évora University, CHAIA, and the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, Évora. Since 2007, she has been a researcher at CHAIA—Centre for Art History and Artistic Research at the University of Évora, a unit under the supervision of the FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology), in the Visual Arts and Design Research Line. Since 2023, she has been an Invited Assistant Professor on the Master's program in Women's Studies at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, in charge of the subject ‘Representations of Women in Contemporary Art’. From 2016 to 2022, she was a collaborating researcher at CICS. Nova - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She began her research career in academic projects in 1995. She was a co-responsible researcher in the last research project she carried out, called Women and Associativism in Portugal, 1914-1974, which was part of the Institute of Social Sciences of Lisbon - ICS-UL and was funded by FCT WOMASS PTDC/HAR-HIS/29376/2017. She has participated in several conferences, colloquia, forums, and events, both in the academic and cultural, and artistic fields. In terms of scientific publications, beyond scientific-institutional reports, articles, and papers in collaboration with other researchers, she has published 4 books, 3 chapters in books, and papers.