SARA MORAIS
Born in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. At an early age, she moved to Minas Gerais and later settled in Brasília, the country’s capital, pursuing her academic studies at the University of Brasília (UnB). During her bachelor studies, she conducted research on students from Palop (Portuguese speaking African countries) in Brazilian universities. In 2011, she developed her master’s field research in Maputo (Mozambique) on the return of Mozambican students who had graduated in Brazil. More recently, she investigated and analyzed the place of timbila in Mozambique’s nation-building project with a focus on its patrimonialization process within her doctoral thesis project defended at the University of Brasília. Since late 2013 she has been working at Iphan (Institute of National Historical and Artistic Heritage), a Brazilian public institution whose mission is the implementation of preservation policies for cultural heritage. In this institution, she works in the Department of Intangible Heritage, in the area of articulation and execution of safeguarding actions for cultural assets recognized as Cultural Heritage of Brazil. Passionate about the research world and the development of multidisciplinary and collective projects, she wants to keep on working on these fronts for a long time to come…
