Isabela Vieira Bertho has a degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (USP, 2010) and a master's degree in Sociology from the University of Geneva, Switzerland (2014). She has also a specialization in gender and sexuality from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ, 2016) and more than ten years of professional experience in social projects. Between 2022-2024, she completed the curricular part of her master's program in Comparative Studies at FLUL, while she also had a scholarship from CeiED at Universidade Lusófona. She is currently a Phd candidate in Comparative Studies at FLUL, where she is researching interart representations of mourning, migration, memory and gender. She is a member of the Aesthetics of Memory and Emotions research subgroup of MORPHE - Text and Memory research group at CeComp. Her current research focuses on the intersectionality between migration, materialities of memory, transculturality and the production of activist discourses in literature and photography, especially in the border region between Mexico and the USA.
Areas of research
Estudos de Memória
Migração
Género
Literatura e Artes Visuais
Selected Publications
Bertho V., Isabela. Somos todas/os Migrantes - Acesso a direitos para Migrantes e Servidoras/es Públicos.. São Paulo, Brasil. 2016
Bertho V., Isabela. "Revue. William Dab, Danielle Salomon, Agir face aux risques sanitaires. Pour un pacte de confiance". Socio-anthropologie 29 (2014): 204-206.
