Antonieta Reis Leite
Biography
Antonieta Reis Leite (Angra, Azores, 1975) is an assistant researcher and vice director at the Centre for Social Sciences. She is also an invited assistant professor of the History of Portuguese Architecture at the Architecture School at the University of Coimbra. Trained as an architect at the University of Coimbra, she also holds a DEA in History of Art and Architecture in Iberoamerica from the University Pablo de Olavide (Seville) and a PhD from the University of Coimbra (2012), focused on the Azores' settlement process and built environment history. Her research centers on the building process of the Portuguese colonial world and coloniality, exploring the interconnections between peripheral and central territories across oceans, islands and coastal territories. Her interdisciplinary work brings together architectural and urban history, memory, and heritage studies, drawing on local and colonial sources to inform heritage practice in the postcolonial present. She is the author of two books, scientific papers, and book chapters.
ORCID
Projetos
IN SITU
Place-based innovation of cultural and creative industries in non-urban areas
MAKING PORTUGAL
PORTofCALL
Latest Publications
Book
Losa Mendiratta, Sidh; Resta, Giuseppe; Leite, Antonieta Reis (2025), Rediscovered Visual Documents of the Portuguese Estado da Índia | The Filippe Neri Xavier Collection. Coimbra: CES
Book Chapter
Leite, Antonieta Reis (2025), The idea of a "new world" in the General Captaincy of the Azores: the territory and its protagonists, in Alice Santiago Faria, Renata Malcher de Araujo and Margarida Tavares da Conceição (org.), Technical and scientific training in the construction of empires: on the quest of learning places. Londres: Routledge, 375-396
Read moreBook Chapter
Leite, Antonieta Reis (2023), Do Claustro e da Ilha: os limites entre o cheio, o vazio e a identidade, in Luis Miguel Correia (org.), Ensaios: 35 anos de arquitetura na UC. Coimbra: edarq, 25-30