Interested in the material culture of religion. Currently delving into artistic and decolonial education. Earned a PhD in Heritage Studies – History of Art (University of Porto, 2022) with a thesis on the practice of clothing miraculous images of the Virgin after Fr. Agostinho de Santa Maria’s “Santuário Mariano” (financed with a scholarship granted by FCT with funds from the ESF and the Portuguese MCTES, under the POCH).