Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira

I completed my BA and MPhil in Archaeology at the University of Porto, Portugal. Afterwards, I broadened my expertise by pursuing a second MPhil in World Heritage Studies (Cottbus, Germany). For the thesis, I focused on community involvement in the nomination of archaeological sites as World Heritage. I then worked as an archaeologist and heritage expert in my hometown Macau (SAR of China). For my MPhil in Archaeological Heritage and Museums at the University of Cambridge, I explored the distinction between movable and immovable heritage. Currently, I am a PhD candidate looking at how diaspora communities use heritage to construct and express their identity.