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Clara Carvalho
Department of Political Science and Public Policy
Office AA2.02
Locker 202-B
Telephone 217650233
(ext:) 220085
Research Fields
Development Studies
Gender and Development
Education in Development
Global Health
African Studies
Research Group
Societal and Development Challenges
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Clara Carvalho (PhD Anthropology, ISCTE, 1999) is an Associate Professor at Iscte-IUL, department of Political Science and Public Policies. President of AEGIS (European Association of African Studies) (2015-2019) and director of the Centre of African Studies/ Centre of International Studies at ISCTE-IUL (2007-2016). As a Visiting Professor, she lectured at Brown University (US). She gave short courses at the universities of Lille (France), Rovira i Virgil (Spain), Mainz (Germany), Lomé (Togo), Libreville (Gabon), Cotonou (Benin), Amilcar Cabral (Guinea-Bissau), UP Maputo (Mozambique). She coordinated evaluation commissions for FCT, A3ES, Leiden University (as a member) and on development policies for Camões IP and Gulbenkian Foundation. She was PI in seven projects with competitive funding. Her main research interests are Development and African Studies, and she has published on development policies, focusing on gender, health, and education. She is the editor of the journal Cadernos de Estudos Africanos and director of the PhD program in ... [more info]
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