Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES-UC)

Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (CES-UC) and lecturer in the doctoral programme “Postcolonialism and Global Citizenship” (CES/FEUC). She is currently working on the research project ‘Transnational histories of solidarity in the south – researching “other” knowledges and struggles for rights across the Indian Ocean’ on the history of solidarity relations between Mozambique and Timor-Leste (1975-1999), funded by FCT. Between 2019 and 2021, she was the principal investigator of the EDULIBERA project ‘Education as an instrument for liberation in Mozambique and Timor-Leste – histories of solidarity and contemporary reflections’, funded by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie/Widening grant (Horizon 2020, EU).

Since 2017, she has been a member of the International Advisory Board of the Chega! National Centre (CNC), an Institute of Memory under the aegis of the Office of the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste. Marisa holds a PhD from the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong (Australia) in the field of history and human rights. Between 2007 and 2012, she lived and worked in Timor-Leste as a visiting lecturer and researcher at the National University of Timor Lorosa’e (UNTL) and, between 2011 and 2015, she taught at the Australian Catholic University and the University of Wollongong in Australia.

Timor-Leste

Southeast Asia