Carolina Junqueira dos Santos

Carolina Junqueira dos Santos holds a Ph.D in Arts from the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Minas Gerais/UFMG [2015/FAPEMIG], including a research stay at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Strasbourg [2014/CAPES]. She held postdoctoral positions at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Sao Paulo/USP, and the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences/EHESS, in Paris, with a research project on Monuments and Memorials to the Dead [2016-2020/FAPESP]. She did her B.A. in Arts [UFMG, 2003] and her M.A. in Visual Arts [UFMG, 2006]. She works mostly in the area of Art and Photography, focusing on the study of image, especially from an anthropological perspective. She developed a comprehensive research program on images belonging in the context of mourning and loss, along with several studies on death and representation of the disappeared body. She has conducted research on the impact of memorials in culture such as museums, cemeteries, monuments, ephemeral altars, sites of conscience and memory, photography. She has been awarded the 2016 edition of the CAPES Prize for the best doctoral dissertation (?Body, death, and image: the invention of a presence in memorials and post-mortem photographies?) in the area of Arts/Music. She is a member of GRAVI, Group of Visual Anthropology of the University of São Paulo-USP. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)