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Stefanie Gil Franco

Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura, Instituto de Historia da Arte, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

ORCID iD 0000-0003-1091-0908
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Stefanie Gil Franco completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, developing the project “Between Difficult Heritages and Art Studios: Mapping Discourses and Practices on Art and Mental Health from a Transdisciplinary Perspective.”
Her academic background combines Social Sciences and Art History, culminating in a PhD awarded in 2019 by the Institute of Art History at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Her doctoral thesis "Os Imperativos da Arte: encontros com a loucura em Portugal do Século XX" [The Imperatives of Art: Encounters with Madness in 20th-Century Portugal] was subsequently published as a book in the Coleção Estudos de Museus series (Caleidoscópio).
A Master’s degree in Social Anthropology was obtained from the Universidade de São Paulo (FFLCH-USP, 2011), following a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from FESPSP (2009).
Her research addresses the institutionalization of madness, difficult heritage, unstable archives, psychiatric nosographic practices, and the role of madness as a discursive element in art.

From 2019 to 2023, she served as a guest lecturer at the Department of Art History (FCSH-NOVA) and worked as a researcher at Banco de Arte Contemporânea - Maria da Graça Carmona e Costa (EGEAC) [Bank of Contemporary Art]

Employment

  • Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura researcher
    2025 - Present
  • Universidade Católica Portuguesa Post-doctoral fellowship
    2024 - 2026
  • EGEAC Research, preservation and conservation of contemporary art archives
    2021 - 2024
  • Instituto de Historia da Arte researcher
    2020 - Present
  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)
    2020 - 2023
  • Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo Research internship (etnographic, quantitative and qualitative research)
    2006 - 2008

Education

  • Universidade Católica Portuguesa Pós-Doc
    2024 - 2026
  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa Doctor
    2014 - 2019
  • Universidade Federal de São Paulo bachelor (Attended)
    2013 - 2015
  • Universidade de São Paulo master
    2009 - 2011
  • Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo Bachelor
    2005 - 2008

Projects & Funding

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Publications (40)

  • Mapping memory policies between Brazil and Portugal: the heritage of madness
    Memory Studies Association Conference 2025
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  • Almas delirantes
    2025
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  • Entre patrimónios difíceis e ateliers de arte: mapear discursos e práticas sobre arte e loucura
    (Re)Pensar o Desenvolvimento: Práticas, Diálogos e Memórias [Conference - (Re)Thinking Development: Practices, Dialogues, and Memories] 2025
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  • Em tempos de crise: ensaio sobre o vandalismo como ato político
    Peripheries in times of crises 2025
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  • The Challenge of the psychiatric archive in Contemporary Times
    Integral Human Development: Pathways to the Common Good 2025
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  • Almas Delirantes - do Telhal a Rilhafoles (2ª Edição)
    TAIGA 2025
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  • Why do we archive? Ethical, political, and technical reflections on art collections in psychiatric institutions
    Disability Studies Quarterly 2025 DOI: 10.18061/dsq.6876
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  • Jorge. desenhos do meu filho
    2024
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  • O arquivo como constelação [The Archive as Constellation]
    Lugares de memória: arte e espólios documentais 2024
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  • Jorge. Os desenhos do meu filho
    2024
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