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Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira

University of York, United Kingdom

Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre, University of York (United Kingdom), where she looks at how waterscape to landscape migrations shape heritage with the aim to harness knowledge of the sea for climate-change solutions. Her research focuses on the Tanka community in Macau and uses a heritage lens to challenge fixed geographies as the main scale for understanding social processes. Mariana was based for her PhD research at the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), where she focused on the ways diaspora communities use cultural heritage to construct and navigate identity. Her PhD was funded by Portugal’s Foundation for Science and Technology and her case study sites were two cultural events organised by the Macanese in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking communities in Macau (China); Mariana comes from the Portuguese-descendant community of Macau, the Macanese. She holds an MPhil in Archaeological Heritage and Museums (University of Cambridge), an MA in World Heritage Studies (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany) and an MA in Archaeology (University of Porto, Portugal). Mariana is a board member of ICOMOS and a member of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Chapter of the Association for Critical Heritage Studies.

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