Susana Sardo

Biography

Susana Sardo is an ethnomusicologist, a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Goa (India) under the JH Cunha Rivara Chair. Since 1987, she has conducted research on Goa within a broader framework of music and Lusophony. Her research interests include music in Goa and in diasporic communities, music and post-colonialism, and music in the Lusophone world, including Portugal, where she has also conducted research on music and post-dictatorship. Since 2010, she has been dedicated to archival research, and in 2017, she was elected as a member of the Steering Committee of the Study Group on Sources and Archives for Music and Sound Studies of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD), a position to which she was re-elected in October 2024. Since July 2023, she has been a member of the Executive Board of ICTMD and part of the Coordination of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM). In 2007, she founded the University of Aveiro branch of the Institute of Ethnomusicology – Center for Studies in Music and Dance, which she coordinated until January 2023.