Glória de Santana Paula holds a PhD in History (2022) from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, specializing in African History, and a MA in Early Modern History (2000) from the same institution. She is a researcher at the Centre of History of the University of Lisbon. Since 1991, she has taught History at the Júlio Dantas School Cluster in Lagos, and since 2023, she has served as a guest lecturer at the School of Education and Communication of the University of Algarve. Her teaching portfolio includes the following units: “Didactics of History and Geography of Portugal” and “From the Ancient World to the Construction of the Portuguese Kingdom: Power and Space”. In the field of education, she is an accredited trainer by the Pedagogical Scientific Council for Continuing Teacher Training (Reg. No. CCPFC/RFO-21676/07), with expertise in the History of Portugal, African History, History of Civilizations, Pedagogical Assessment and Citizenship Education. Her primary research interests focus on the representations of African peoples and territories in Southeast Africa during the 16th and 17th centuries through Portuguese documentation. This includes perceptions of otherness, the production of discourses and the transmission of categories, concepts, and stereotypes, as well as shipwreck accounts and the integration of shipwrecked individuals into Southeast African communities.