Alda Maria Costa, researcher at the Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS), was distinguished by the Portuguese Association of Museology (APOM) as a “personality in the field of Museology”. The “APOM 2020 Awards” delivery ceremony took place on December 12, 2020.
The Mozambican museologist is a professor of Art History at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. Alda Costa is a member of the Cultures Past Present Project and the Virtual Museum of Lusophony, as well as a member of CECS of the University of Minho.
In 2018, he co-edited, with Moisés de Lemos Martins and Isabel Macedo, volume 34 (2) of the journal Comunicação e Sociedade, on “The Lusophone Studies and Communication Sciences”.
In 2020, he co-edited with Moisés de Lemos Martins and João Sarmento, volume 7 (2) of the Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais/Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies, “Museums, collections and exhibitions, colonial, anti-colonial and post-colonial“.