Catarina Tente

Catarina Tente is an Associated Professor of Archaeology at Nova Lisbon University (UNL), and currently, the coordinator of the master’s programme in archaeology and the director of Institute for Medieval Studies (IEM). She graduated with a history degree, specializing in archaeology, from the University of Lisbon (1997). Between 1998-2006 she worked at the Portuguese Institute of Archaeology (IPA), namely at IPA’s Covilhã offices and at IPA’s central services (Lisbon) on environmental impact assessments. She was also IPA’s vice-director (2003-2006).  In 2005 obtained the master’s degree in Medieval History and Archaeology from UNL and got a FCT PhD Grant (2006-2010) to pursue her History PhD, specializing in Archaeology. She began her UNL’s career as assistant professor in archaeology (2007), and has progressed to associate professor  in 2021. At the faculty she has taken the coordination archaeology degree (2012-2021), being vice-coordinator of the History Department (2023), and also deputy director for research (2016-2021). 

She has directed and co-directed 15 projects funded by different public and private organisations (municipalities, FCT, FCG, La Caixa Foundation) and collaborated on eight research projects, six of which were international. She has conducted 46 archaeological campaigns, mainly on medieval sites in north-central Portugal. Her work has resulted in a total of 134 publications (published or in press), including 15 books (co-author and co-editor) and 46 peer-reviewed articles published in international and national books and journals. She is currently vice-president and national representative of the RURALIA International association for the archaeology of medieval settlement and rural life.

E-mail
catarina.tente@fcsh.unl.pt