Teacher
Giulia Cavallo

Resume

I have been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the ISCSP (University of Lisbon) since 2021, teaching various courses. My current research interests include public anthropology, the anthropology of religion, and the global economy and development. I am also interested in graphic ethnography, as I am an illustrator too. I have an MA from the University of Turin in Italy. I have dedicated my research to African Studies, particularly African Religious Studies. I undertook my first fieldwork in Kenya in 2003. In 2005, I volunteered in Mozambique for two years with two NGOs, working in urban contexts in Maputo and its outskirts. Following this experience in international cooperation, I resumed my studies, moving to Lisbon in 2007. I graduated from the ICS, University of Lisbon, in 2013 with a thesis on the healing practices of the Zion churches in Maputo. Over the past ten years, I have pursued a professional career in drawing and illustration, incorporating ethnographic and anthropological principles into my work. I have exhibited my work in Portugal, Spain, and Italy. I have also drawn on ethnographic data that I collected in Maputo, Mozambique, in line with the trend of art based on ethnography. In October 2017, I opened my art studio in Lisbon, providing a space for collaboration and exhibitions with other illustrators and artists. In 2018, I began collaborating with Professor Anna Fedele (CRIA-ISCTE-IUL) to collect ethnographic data in Lisbon for the FCT research project, 'Fátima, a Century After the Apparitions: Pilgrimage, Gender and Lived Religion', conducting qualitative interviews with Fátima devotees from Portuguese-speaking African countries. Since May 2019, I have been working at CRIA-ISCTE as a postdoctoral researcher on the HERA project 'HERILIGION: The Heritagisation of Religion and the Sacralisation of Heritage in Contemporary Europe', again under the supervision of Anna Fedele (CRIA-ISCTE). As a postdoctoral researcher, I collaborated in organising the final exhibition of the HERILIGION project: Enchanted Places, Heritage Spaces, which was held at the National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon from 31 January to October 2020: http://www.patrimoniocultural.gov.pt/pt/agenda/exhibitions/exposicao-lugares-encantados-espacos-de-patrimonio/. As a CRIA researcher, I coordinated the "Pequena Oficina de Antropologia" project, which was funded by the Lisbon City Council and involved a primary school.

Graus

• Doutoramento
  I Doutoramento em Antropologia
• Mestrado
  Mestrado em Antropologia: Multiculturalismo e Identidade
• Magister
  Filosofia Endereço Socio-antropologico

Publicações

Artigo em revista

• 2025-08-08, Christy K. Schuetze. Spirit Wives and Church Mothers: Marriage, Survival, and Healing in Central Mozambique. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 286 pp. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $79.95. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780299343804., African Studies Review
• 2024-10-01, Uma etnografia gráfica como forma de afeto e de memória: aflições, espíritos, e processos de cura nas igrejas Zione em Maputo, Etnográfica

Tese / Dissertação

• 2013, Doutoramento, Curar o passado:mulheres, espíritos e "caminhos fechados" nas igreja Zione em Maputo, Moçambique
• 2003-12-15, Mestrado, La parrocchia e il monastero. Due realtà a confronto nella chiesa Cattolica di Nanyuki (Kenya centrale) - The Parish and the Monastery. Comparing Two Realities in the Catholic Church of Nanyuki (Central Kenya)

Capítulo de livro

• 2024, O «trabalho de Zione»: as práticas terapêuticas das igrejas Zione em Maputo, Moçambique, Sofrimento psíquico e linguagens da cura em Moçambique, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais
• 2018, L’universo spirituale nel sud del Mozambico, Un ventennio di democrazia. Il Mozambico tra successi, limiti e nuove sfide, in Luca Bussotti and Umberto Merin (org.), 1, 1, Bookabook
• 2010, "Sofrimento, doença e práticas terapêuticas na Igreja Zione em Maputo”, Grassi, M. (org) (2010). PALOP: investigação em debate. Lisboa: ICS, 2010, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais

Recurso online

• 2020-02-12, “When Paths are Closed”. Personal reflections on fieldwork, ethnography, and drawing., https://allegralaboratory.net/when-paths-are-closed-giulia-cavallo-on-the-fluid-mosaic/?fbclid=IwAR2qzfVE0bYeItuKKKLgSRtSfFPXBVMhhClnJx-sJV8qRE_VKlfjKeh9In0

Artigo em conferência

• 2017-02, Between Caniço and Cement City: the Small Zion Churches and the Heterogeneity of the Urban Space of Maputo, Mozambique, Workshop "Contemporary Christianities in the Lusophone World - SOAS London
• 2014-03-24, Biomedicine, religion and uncertainty: childlessness and infertility healing in Maputo, Mozambique, International Symposium Biomedical Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa
• 2014, Religion and Biomedicine as Management Tools of Uncertainty for Childhood and Infertility Healing in Maputo, Mozambique, Beyereuth VAD - Panel Uncertainty and Future
• 2013, Mademonio and angels. The spirit world according to Zion churches in Maputo and Matola, Southern Mozambique , ECAS 5 (Panel 171- Religion in a Multipolar World)
• 2012-11, O trabalho das igrejas Zione em Maputo (Moçambique): a experiência do presente na reimaginação do passado, International Seminar " O Trabalho da Imaginação na Textura do Presente. Reflexões antropológicas a partir de etnografias desenvolvidas em Angola e Moçambique
• 2011-06, Healing the past: the case of the Zion Church in Maputo, Mozambique, ECAS 4 (Panel 125 - Interpreting African Christianity)
• 2011-04-19, The different ways of being Zion in Maputo, Mozambique / https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/sief2011/paper/6502, 10th Congress of Sief (Panel 228 - Religion: Dynamics on the move)

Exposição artística

• 2025-07-16, Abrir os caminhos: cura, materialidade e cores nas igrejas Zione em Maputo, Moçambique. Uma retrospetiva (etno)gráfica., ADORN R. Manuel Espregueira 93, 4900-323
• 2023-10-26, Sermos Impermanentes - Exposição de desenhos originais
• 2016-07-16, Art in House. Una mostra alla scoperta dell’abitare ispirato - Exhibition in collaboration with photographer Franco Scarpino
• 2016-07-15, Quando os Caminhos estão fechados. Exposição sobre igrejas Zione, mulheres, espíritos e sofrimento em Maputo, Moçambique
• 2016-06-06, Quando os caminhos estão fechados. Mulheres, sofrimento, espíritos e igrejas Zione em Maputo, Moçambique” (When the paths are closed. Women, Suffering, Spirits and Zione Churches in Maputo, Mozambique , Instituto de Ciências Sociais Universidade de Lisboa