Dr Rui Gomes Coelho

Rui is an historical archaeologist working on colonialism, decolonisation, conflict and resistance in Southern Europe and in the Atlantic World, and committed to the ongoing struggle to decolonise the discipline. Rui studied History and Archaeology at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where he obtained his BA (2005) and MA (2010), and later completed a PhD in Anthropology at Binghamton University (2017). Rui joined the Department of Archaeology as an Assistant Professor in Historical Archaeology in the summer of 2020, after having lived in Portugal, Brazil and the United States for several years. Prior to coming to Durham, he was a researcher with the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi in Brazil (2010), a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University (2019-20), and a Postdoctoral Associate in the Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies program at the Department of Art History, Rutgers University (2017-19). Rui is also affiliated with the Centre for Archaeology at the Universidade de Lisboa, where he have been a junior researcher funded by Portugal’s Foundation for Science and Technology.

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