Tânia Manuel Casimiro graduated in History and Archaeology from NOVA University of Lisbon, obtained a MA in Artefact Studies at University College of London and returned to NOVA for her PhD in 2011. Her research focuses on the Early Modern period and contemporary global contact between people and objects. On a more theoretical level, she deals with frameworks concerning how individuals and things relate and interact in the formation of identities, and how can they reflect globalised ontologies.