Sandra Araújo holds a PhD in Anthropology completed at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Currently, she is a Junior Researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (2021.03337.CEECIND/CP1696/CT0011. Her research project, Intelligence and Empire in the Portuguese Late Colonial Period, 1961-1975: Comparisons, Connections and Epistemes, focuses on the Serviços de Centralização e Coordenação de Informações (Intelligence Centralization and Coordination Services) and aims at examining the historical trajectory of this intelligence service branches’ within the framework of Portuguese imperial politics and administration, as well as to assess their part during the liberation wars. In 2022, she was an awardee of the First Book Grant competition by the Independent Social Research Foundation, with the project Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-74, which explores how Portuguese intelligence services sought to exploit Muslim communities to back its counter-insurgent war during the liberation struggle in colonial Mozambique. For the duration of the award, she was a visiting researcher at the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick.

Activity Areas: Colonial History and Post-Colonial Studies

Keywords: Colonial History | Intelligence Servisse | Counterinsurgency | Psychological Warfare| Colonial War