Elizabeth Edwards

Researcher in Visual Anthropology

Elizabeth Edwards is a visual and historical anthropologist and is currently Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Victoria and Albert Museum Research Institute, London. She is Professor Emerita of Photographic History at De Montfort University, Leicester, where she was Director of the Photographic History Research Centre from 2011- 2016. She is also Honorary Professor in the Department of Anthropology University College London. Until 2005 she was Curator of Photographs at Pitt Rivers Museum and lecturer in visual anthropology at ISCA, University of Oxford, where she is a Curator Emerita and Research Affiliate. Specialising in the social and material practices of photography, she has worked extensively on the relationships between photography, anthropology and history for over 30 years. Elizabeth Edwards is a scientific consultant of the research project Photo Impulse.

Joseph Tonda

Researcher in Anthropology and Sociology

Joseph Tonda is Professor of sociology and anthropology at Omar Bongo University in Libreville, Gabon. He is the author of inumerous articles and publications, having published various books, including Afrodystopie – La vie dans le rêve d’Autrui [Karthala, 2021]; L’Impérialisme Postcolonial – Critique de la Société des Éblouissements [Karthala 2015]; The Modern Sovereign: The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo, Gabon) [Karthala 2005 / Seagull Books 2020], La Guérison Divine en Afrique Centrale (Congo, Gabon) [Karthala 2003]. He is also a literary writer and has published Tuée-tuée Mon Amour (LA DOXA éditions, Paris, 2017) e Chiens de Foudre (ODEM, Libreville 2013). Joseph Tonda is a scientific consultant of the research project Photo Impulse.

Richard Cleminson

Researcher in Iberian Studies

Richard Cleminson is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He has published on the history of sexuality in Iberia, concentrating on the history of eugenics, homosexuality and themes related to the labour movement. His most recent publications include Catholicism, race and empire: Eugenics in Portugal, 1900-1950 (Budapest/New York, 2014) and Anarchism and eugenics: An unlikely convergence (Manchester, 2019). Currently, he is working on a history of anticolonialism in Portugal between 1900 and 1940 and has published on this topic: Anarchism and anticolonialism in Portugal (1919-1926): Mário Domingues, A Batalha and black internationalism, in Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 25(3), 2019, pp. 441-465. Richard Cleminson is a scientific consultant of the research project Photo Impulse.

Inocência Mata

Inocência Mata is professor of Literature, Arts and Culture (LAC) at the College of Letters, School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies (CEComp/FLUL) and director of the PhD Program in Portuguese as a Foreign Language/Second Language. She holds a PhD in Letters from the University of Lisbon and a postdoctoral degree in Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonial Studies, Identity, Ethnicity, and Globalization) from the University of California, Berkeley. Her teaching and research are mainly in the field of Post-colonial Studies, focusing on the following topics: African literatures and cultures, aesthetic relations between literatures in Portuguese, world-literature, memory studies, literary production by authors of African descent in Portugal and intercultural communication. Visiting professor at many foreign universities, she is also a member of the Editorial and Scientific Board of numerous specialist journals, both national and foreign.