Paula Godinho (Lisbon, 1960), PhD in Anthropology, FCSH-NOVA, researcher at IHC and professor in the Department of Anthropology at FCSH-NOVA since 1991. In addition to her career as a professor at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels, both in and outside Portugal, supervising numerous theses, she has conducted fieldwork for the past forty years in various locations in Portugal, on the border, in Galicia, in Brazil and in other parts of Latin America. She is a founder of the Red(e) Ibero-Americana Resistência e/y Memória (2013), a member of 4 working groups of the Consejo Latino Americano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), and has participated in 13 funded scientific projects, several of them international, notably in recent years: (1) REVFAIL: Reversing the Genealogies of Unsuccess, 16th-19th centuries, within the framework of the RISE program, Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions, among several European and American universities, among which is NOVA, lasting 48 months, 2019-2022, within which she carried out fieldwork on overcoming failure among landless populations in Ceará, and initiated work on memory policies, uses of the past and expectations of the future in Mexico; (2) “The resilience of borders between cooperation and securitization: challenges of current crises (cases in the EU and MERCOSUR)”, coordinated by Heriberto Cairo and María Lois, Complutense University of Madrid, 2023-2026, which corresponds to the third phase of research work on borders, in which she worked intensively and extensively in the field and in archives on various scales present in national delimitations, with a team of anthropologists, historians, geographers, philosophers, political scientists, and on which she produced abundant bibliography, including a work that earned the Spanish Xesús Taboada Chivite prize, in 2008, and the titles of honorary Xuíza from the Association of Friends of Couto Mixto (Galicia, 2011), of Arraiana Maior from the Association of Arraianos (Galicia, 2017), and of member of the Academy of Social Sciences of Couto Mixto (Galicia, 2023); (3) Migration and Future: Ideal of Return, Modes of Belonging and Temporal Orientations in Mezquital Migration to the United States”, UNAM, coordinated by Raúl Contreras Román, Program for Support of Research and Technological Innovation Projects, Mexico (2023-2025), carrying out teamwork with colleagues from various fields of knowledge, from several countries in Latin America and Europe, to whose reflection she contributed through a work of reflection on “possible practices” (Godinho, 2017) in anthropology for the future, between cold currents of reality and warm currents of hope (Godinho, 2025). She was part of several other international research teams on festivities, transitions to democracy, resistance and rural social movements, uses of memory, border dynamics and temporalities, topics on which she produced several works and articles. She was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Federal Fluminense University, Brazil (July-August 2022) and Marie Curie Fellow at UNAM, Mexico (April-May 2023), she received several sabbatical leave grants from the FCT and was a JNICT fellow between 1987-89. She coordinated the project of Inventory of the Festa dos Tabuleiros de Tomar, in a partnership between the IHC and the Tomar City Council (2018-2019). "On the 1864 Borders between Portugal and Spain" at the National Archives of Torre do Tombo (2014-2015). Participated in FCT evaluation panels, consultancies, and competition juries for various academic institutions. Supervised 29 masters’ dissertations, 10 doctoral theses, and 67 undergraduate monographs. Organized summer courses and international conferences, participated in numerous congresses, and served on the scientific council of several international congresses and conferences. Is a member of the advisory board of the Aljube Museum – Resistance and Freedom.