Biography
Susana Sardo is an ethnomusicologist, Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, and Visiting Professor at the University of Goa under the JH Cunha Rivara Chair. Since 1987, she has researched Goa within a broader framework associated with music and Lusophony. Her research interests include music in Goa and diasporic communities, music and post-colonialism, and music in the Lusophone space, including Portugal, where she has also researched music and post-dictatorship. Since 2010, she has been dedicated to research on archives and 2017 assumed co-coordination of the Study Group on Sources and Archives for Music and Sound Studies of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD). Since July 2023, she has been a member of the Executive Board of ICTMD and Coordination of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM). She founded the University of Aveiro branch of the Institute of Ethnomusicology – Center for Studies in Music and Dance in 2007, which she coordinated until January 2023.
