Diego Amoedo

He holds a degree in Forest Engineering from the University of Vigo (2007). He has a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP, 2019) with a doctoral thesis titled: "Houses, lands, cows, and plants: the agricultural system of Tourém and Pitões das Júnias (Alto Barroso, Portugal)." The research was funded by CNPq. He obtained a Sandwich Fellowship Abroad (PDSE-CAPES) at the University of Santiago de Compostela, in the Research Group on Agrarian History and Politics of the 19th-20th Centuries (HISTAGRA) from August 2017 to November. He holds a Master's degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP, 2014), with a FAPESP scholarship from May 2013 to March 2014. He did a Sandwich Internship for his Master's degree at the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies for Development (CETRAD) based at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (May to August 2013, BEPE – FAPESP Research and Internship Abroad Scholarship). Since December 2017, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA) in the Anthropology course, part of the Anthropology and Archaeology Program. He won the Vicente Risco Social Sciences Award (2018) with an essay titled "Uses and Disuses of the Lands of Tourém: Socio-territorial Transformations in a Rural Border Village in Northern Portugal." He is the coordinator of the research project "Territories of Sociobiodiversity in Maranhão and Pará: Environment, Knowledge, and Sustainability," approved in the first Amazônia+10 call for proposals.