Professor Fabiana Lopes da Cunha is a Postdoctoral Fellow at King's College London (217), where she also worked as a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London under the supervision of Camoes Professor David Treece. She holds a PhD and a master's degree in Social History from the University of São Paulo (USP), where she also completed her bachelor's and licentiate's degrees in History. She has worked as a lecturer and researcher at the Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" since 2003, where she also coordinates a Documentation and Memory Centre (CEDOM) with the aim of preserving local and regional memory. She has experience in the field of History with an emphasis on Brazilian History, mainly in the area of Cultural History during the Imperial and Republican periods up to the end of the Estado Novo. Her areas of interest are linked to the Social History of Culture and Atlantic History, such as: Brazilian popular music, popular culture (festivals), museums, diaspora and intangible heritage. In 2004 he published his first book "Da Marginalidade ao Estrelato: O Samba na Construção da Nacionalidade(1917-1945)", by Annablume Publishing. She is accredited in the postgraduate programme of the History course at UNESP in Assis in the research line "Culture, Historiography and Heritage". She was a CONDEPHAAT counsellor between 2011 and 2014. She is leader of the Heritage research group, deputy leader of the History & Music research group and participates in the Identity Dialogues research group at King's College London. She was invited, as the organiser of the Angra Doce Project in the state of São Paulo and a representative of UNESP, to take part in the Global Leaders Summit 2018 and the Brazil SDG Business Forum during the 73rd United Nations General Assembly.