Alice Santiago Faria

Alice Santiago Faria is graduated in Architecture at Coimbra University (1997), she holds a PhD. in Art History at the Université de Paris I (2011). Presently she is auxiliary researcher at CHAM – Centre for the Humanities, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, working on an individual research project titled Circa 1892: Public Works Departments and the everyday building of the Portuguese empire with Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) support (CEEC IND 2017). Co-coordinating, with Sandra M.G. Pinto (PI) the exploratory research project CONFORM - Conflicting Neighbours over the Built Form: Exploring Lisbon's Legal Building Disputes in a Time of Regulatory Transition (2022.05965.PTDC), starting in 2023. Member of the COST-Action, DecolDEV - Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching and Practice (CA19129; 2020-2024). She is a member of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire since 2016 and currently a member of its executive committee. She is interested in the study the study of the colonial built environment in the former Portuguese empire during the long 19th century, specifically the local structures of the Public Works, with approaches between the history of architecture and the history of science and technology and in using digital methods of researching in the humanities. Having always used the colonial periodical press as a source, she is interested in exploring other type of relationship between the built environment and the colonial periodical press, namely public discourse, representations and power relations.

​Works in the field of the colonial press 
(2022). Faria, Alice Santiago; Shelley, Anne; Lobo, Ataíde Sandra (eds). The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Press. Routledge Studies in Cultural History. New York & London: Routledge.

Fields of interest
Colonial built environment; public discourse; representation; 19th century.

Key words
Colonial built environment; public discourse; representation; 19th century.