![Zandonai Professional picture Headshot](https://fah.um.edu.mo/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/zandonai-professional-picture-headshot.jpg)
sheylazandonai@um.edu.mo
Tel
+853 8822 8939
Office
E21-2026
Consultation Hours
Wednesday 15:00-17:00
Sheyla S. ZANDONAI
莎雪娜
Introduction
Sheyla S. Zandonai is an anthropologist of global systems, city governance, urban history and modernity, and Portuguese colonialism in the Far East, with focus on Macau. Trained in France, she holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Social Anthropology and Ethnology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Zandonai’s research interests are wide-ranging with most of her academic publications centered on the field of Macau studies, covering topics of global and material history, European urbanism, colonial nostalgia, postcoloniality and belonging, contested heritages, and gambling urbanization. Her work has been funded by grants and fellowships awarded by the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA), Academia Sinica, University of Macau, Macau Foundation, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), and the Università Degli Studi di Torino.
Education
Ph.D., Social Anthropology and Ethnology (with highest honors), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France
M.A., Social Anthropology and Ethnology (with highest honors), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France
B.A., International Relations, Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-MG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Research Interests
- Macau history and society
- Cities and urban history
- Colonialism/postcolonialism
- Heritage studies
- Portuguese empire
Book
- The City in Review. Episodes of hope and not so in Macau. Macau: International Institute of Macao, 2021.
Edited volume
- Makovicky, Nicolette, Anne-Christine Trémon, and Sheyla S. Zandonai (eds.). Subjection, Subversion and the Politics of Neoliberalism. London and New York: Routledge, 2018.
Book chapters
- “Macao, Janvier 2020”. Regards sous contraintes. Pantin: Éd. Boa, 2021.
- “Portraits of a multicultural history (Introduction).” In Luso-Asian Portraits of Macau, Martins, João Palla. Macau: Instituto Internacional de Macau, 2020.
- “Global dynamics and tropes of place: ‘Touristed’ spaces and city-making in Macau.” InIdeas of the City in Asian Settings, Bekkering, Henco, Adèle Esposito, and Charles Goldblum (eds.): 141-172. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019.
- “’Macau people ruling Macau.’ Gambling governance and ethnicity in postcolonial China.” In Subjection, Subversion and the Politics of Neoliberalism, Makovicky, Nicolette, Anne-Christine Trémon, and Sheyla S. Zandonai (eds.): 77-100. London and New York: Routledge, 2018.
- “Encounter and counter-narratives of heritage in Macau.” In Citizens, Civil Society and Heritage-Making in Asia, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Hui Yew-Fong, Philippe Peycam (eds.): 164-184. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2017.
Journal articles
- “The Portuguese calçadain Macau: Paving residual colonialism with a new cultural history of place,” Current Anthropology, Vol. 59, No. 4 (August 2018): 378-396 (with Amaro).
- Winner of the 2022 Merit Award for Macau Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, Macau Foundation and Social Sciences in China Press.
- “The ‘Gambling city:’ Geometries and geographies of urban instability in Macau,” Lo Squaderno. Explorations in Space and Society38 (2015): 19-22.
- “La présence portugaise à Macao: une culture d’accommodements,” Portuguese Studies Review22 (1) (2014): 205-225.
- “Borders Within the City: Retracing Macau’s Identity,” Review of Culture30 (2009): 24-36.
- “Global diversity, local identity: Multicultural practice in Macau,” Intercultural Communication Studies,18 (1) (2009): 37-51.
- Merit Award for Macau Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, Macau Foundation and Social Sciences in China Press for “The Portuguese Calçada in Macau: Paving Residential Colonialism with a New Cultural History of Place” (Current Anthropology), 2022.
- Participation Award International Workshop Perspectives on Asian Studies in Latin America, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and Sephis-UFRJ,
- Università Degli Studi di Torino travel and accommodation grant, 2016.
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and IIAS travel grant, 2015.
- Academia Sinica (Institute of Sociology) travel grant, 2014.
- Participation Award Macau Winter School Urban Hybridity in the Post-colonial Age, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and University of Macau, December 2013.
- EHESS (École Doctorale and Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux) travel grant, 2011.
- Society for East Asian Anthropology travel grant, 2009.
- Macau Foundation Research Fellowship, 2008.
- Macau Foundation Research Fellowship, 2007.
- Lecturer, Department of History, University of Macau, 2020-2023
- Visiting Professor, University of Saint-Joseph (Macau), 2019-2022
- Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Trent University, 2015
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Macau, 2014-2016
- Lecturer, Université du Havre, 2010-2011
- Advisory Board on Public Space, City Space Architecture, Italy (2022 – )
- Member of the Executive Committee, CURB – Center for Architecture and Urbanism, Macau (2021 – ).
- Editorial Committee Lusotopie (2020 – ).
- Research Associate, Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie (LAA), France (2014 – ).
- Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
- Réseau Asie Pacifique, France
- Hong Kong Anthropological Society (HKAS)
- “Gambling urbanism, Tourism and Early Urbanization in Macau (1900-1930)”, University of Saint-Joseph, Rui Cunha Foundation, 4 May 2023.
- “The Portuguese Calçadain Macau: Paving a new cultural history of place”, Department of Communication, University of Macau, Macau, 18 October 2018.
- “The Portuguese calçada: An urban artifact in the creation of heritage landscapes”, Research Seminar Series, Faculty of Architecture, Division of Landscape Architecture, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, 13 October 2017.
- “Mong Ha | 望廈. A closer look”, Relink_Revive Symposium Institute of European Studies of Macau, University of Saint Joseph, Politecnico di Milano, and Albergue SCM (org.), Macau, 18 March
- “Heritage in the making: culture, local agency, and the city”, Macau Ricci Institute, Macau, 29 March 2016.
- “The political economy of excess: Gambling urbanism, overdevelopment, and dispossession in Macau”, Convegno internazionale About gambling. Che cosa non sappiamo del gioco d’azzardo, Università Degli Studi di Torino, Italy, 26 January 2016.