Natália Gonçalves is a historian specializing in Industrial Heritage, with a keen interest in topics at the intersection of culture, community development and historical agency. She completed her undergraduate degree at ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversidade Federal de Ouro Preto and went on to complete her first master’s degree in Social Memory and Cultural Heritage at ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversidade Federal de Pelotas, both in Brazil.

She obtained her second BA in Educational Studies at Centro ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversitário Claretiano and was awarded an excellence scholarship by The Education, Audiovisual and Cultural Agency – EACEA to pursue her second master’s degree in Techniques, Heritage, Industrial Landscapes: History, Enhancement, Education, attending the ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversité Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France) in consortium with the ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversità degli Studi di Padova (Italy) and the ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversidade de Évora (Portugal).

She has experience working in corporate social responsibility initiatives, NGOs, museums, and cultural heritage institutions such as the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay, ICOM (China), Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Italy) and The State Hermitage Museum (Russia).

Currently, Natália is a doctoral researcher at the project “Citizen Participation in History and Heritage Production (CIPHH)”, AFR Bilateral and part of an international collaboration between the ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ and the ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversité du Quebéc à Montréal.