Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues is an assistant professor at Universidade Lusíada Norte and a visiting assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto. She has a PhD in Sociology from the Universidade de Coimbra. Her thesis "Former African Combatants of the Portuguese Armed Forces: the Colonial War as a Territory of (Re)conciliation" was awarded the Fernão Mendes Pinto Prize. She carried out her post-doctoral studies as part of the MEMOIRS project - Children of Empires and European Post-Memories, funded by the European Research Council (No. 648624). In 2022, she won the pedagogical innovation award from the University of Porto with the project expo#HCriM - Visiting stories of crime and punishment (FDUP). She is the main investigator of the project inJUSTiceWar - Crime and the administration of justice in the Portuguese colonial war (1961-1974): exploratory analysis of criminal cases against Portuguese Armed Forces combatants in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau (ref. 2022.05692.PTDC; DOI 10.54499/2022.05692.PTDC) at the FDUP Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Justice (CIJ). She is vice-chair of the COST Global Atrocity Justice Constellations Action (CA18228). Her main research interests relate to colonial/liberation wars, memory and post-memory issues, colonisation, decolonisation and post-colonialism, and crimes committed in war contexts.

 
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