About
Research Context
Morocco | Portugal | Mauritania
Research Interests
Islam | Gender | Islamic Charity | Family
Institutional Subunit
NOVA FCSH
Biographical Note
Raquel Carvalheira holds a PhD in Anthropology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. Her research focused on transformations of family organization in Morocco, particularly the role of social and legal changes on young women’s expectations on conjugality. Since July 2017, Raquel Carvalheira is a Post-Doctoral research fellow at CRIA with a project about gender, family and charity among Muslims in Portugal. She is also an Invited Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH.