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Rui Gomes Coelho works on archaeology from the recent past. His interests focus on the sensory constitution of alternative modernities, and on communities that mobilize material culture against nationalist approaches to cultural heritage. He has collaborated in archaeological projects in the USA, Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Spain, Croatia and Guinea-Bissau. His most recent publications include the essay “The Garden of Refugees” in the volume The New Nomadic Age: Archeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration: Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration], edited by Yannis Hamilakis, 2018 and the article “An Archaeology of Decolonization: Imperial Intimacies in Contemporary Lisbon”, published in Journal of Social Archaeology, 2019. He is a professor at the Department of Archaeology of Durham University. He has worked at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, and in the Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies program at the Department of Art History at Rutgers University. He is also a researcher at UNIARQ-Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa.