Catarina Simões
Postdoctoral fellow at the TRANSMAT project. Between 2017 and 2023, she was research fellow at the National Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Lisbon, where she worked with Portuguese colonial scientific collections from the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2021, she completed her doctoral thesis in History at NOVA FCSH, on the presence and political appropriation of non-European animals at the Portuguese court in the 15th and 16th centuries. Her research focuses on the intersections between propaganda and natural history in imperial contexts, with an approach centred on the relations between humans and non-human animals as well as the processes of knowledge production and its multiple agents. 


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