Patrícia Ferraz de Matos is an Integrated Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Education and Development Studies (CeiED) at Lusófona University since 2026. She was an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (ULisboa) (2013–2025), and is a member of the teaching staff of the PhD Programme in Anthropology at ULisboa since 2013. She is an Associate Editor of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures (2020–present), Coordinator of the Europeanist Network of the EASA (2020–2026), Deputy Director of Análise Social (2021–2026), and, since 2019, corresponding member in Portugal of HOAN (History of Anthropology Network, EASA). She is Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, elected in 2019, and since 2025 is Secretary-Elect of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE, American Anthropological Association). She is the author of The Colours of the Empire (Berghahn 2013 [Victor de Sá Prize of Contemporary History 2005]) and co-editor of Decolonizing Europe: Ethnographies of National and Transnational Projects (Berghahn 2026).

Livio Sansone is Professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia. He is the head of the Factory of Ideas Programme – an advanced international course in ethnic and African studies – and coordinates the Digital Museum of African and Afro-Brazilian Heritage. His most recent books are La Galassia Lombroso, l’Africa e l’America Latina (Laterza, 2022), Field Station Bahia: Brazil in the Work of Lorenzo Dow Turner, E. Franklin Frazier and Frances and Melville Herskovits, 1935-1967 (Brill, 2022).