Maria Luísa Lucas – Member-at-Large 2026-2028
Maria Luísa Lucas
Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da Universidade de São Paulo
At-Large Member of the Board 2026-2028
Maria Luisa Lucas is Assistant professor at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (MAE/USP), where she teaches and supervises in the graduate programs in Social Anthropology and Archaeology (PPGAS and PPGArq/USP). She is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Anthropology area at the Centro de Documentação de Línguas e Culturas Indígenas Antônio Kanajó (MAE/USP and Museu da Língua Portuguesa). She holds a PhD and MA in Social Anthropology from the National Museum/UFRJ. She received postdoctoral fellowships from the Musée du quai Branly, Princeton University, and the Newton International Fellowship/The British Academy (not executed). She has served as a temporary professor in the Anthropology Departments of Paris Nanterre University and Princeton. She is an associate researcher at the Laboratory of Art, Ritual, and Memory (UFRJ) and a member of the Société des Américanistes and ICOM. Since 2010, she has conducted ethnographic research in Amazonia, particularly among the Bora people of the Caquetá-Putumayo area. She coordinated documentation and digital repatriation projects (CNRS, UNESCO, EMKP/The British Museum) and currently leads the USP-Cofecub international cooperation project “Shared Collections: The Franco-Brazilian Archives of Claude and Dina Lévi-Strauss.” Her interests include Amerindian historical agency and regimes of historicity, as well as the anthropology of art, objects, museums, and collaborative processes.