Dr. M. De Campos Francozo
Associate Professor
Archaeology
Leiden University
Netherlands
Biography
Dr. Françozo studied Social Anthropology at Unicamp (Brazil). Prior to her appointment at Leiden University, she was a post-doctoral teaching fellow at the Department of Anthropology at Unicamp (Brazil). She has also been a research fellow at Cedla (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Moesgaard Museum (Aarhus University, Denmark); Gotha Forschungszentrum (Erfurt University, Germany); and the National Museum of Ethnology (Leiden, The Netherlands). At present, Dr. Françozo is also a post-doctoral researcher within the ERC-Synergy Project NEXUS1492. Together with André Delpuech (Musée du quai Branly, Paris), she is developing a comprehensive inventory of Caribbean archaeological collections in public European museums.
Research Interest
Currently, Dr. Françozo is working on a research project about the book Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (Piso and Marcgraf, 1648). Her research has been supported by grants awarded by the Leiden Global Interactions Research Profile, the CEDLA- Slicher van Bath-de Jong Funds, IBERMUSEUS, the Coimbra Group, FAPESP, CNPq, and Capes funding agencies.
Publications
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Francozo M. C. (2015), "Why history (still) matters:Museum collections and the politics of heritage".. In: Dries M. van den, Linde S. van der, Strecker A (Eds.) Fernweh. Crossing Borders and Connecting People in Archaeological Heritage Management.. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 114-117.
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Francozo M.C. (2016), Beyond the Kunstkammer: Brazilian Featherwork in Early Modern Europe.. In: Gerritsen A., Riello G. (Eds.) The Global Lives of Things. The Material Culture of Connections in the Early Modern World.. New York: Routledge. 105-127.
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Françozo & Mariana (2017), “Inhabitants of rustic parts of the worldâ€: John Locke’s collection of drawings and the Dutch Empire in ethnographic types, 28(3): 349-374.
