Miguel Moniz PhD

Miguel Moniz, is from an Azorean and Cape Verdean migrant strawberry farming community on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and has also lived Providence, RI, Fall River, MA and in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. On the Cape, Moniz worked laying concrete foundations in his family's masonry business, and held a number of other jobs between New York City and Boston, including as a security guard, a retail worker in a couple of box stores, a financial management consultant, a staff writer on a magazine, a design and publications editor at a computer start-up company, and as a bartender, waiter, line cook and etc. in the restaurant and service industry. An anthropologist (AM, PhD, Brown) by profession, Moniz lived in the Azores for much of a five year span (the bulk of the time on his family's island of São Miguel) and moved to Lisbon in 2005 after winning a research fellowship from the Portuguese National Science Foundation (FCT). He is currently a Senior Researcher at CRIA (Center for Anthropological Study-ISCTE/IUL) and a Professor Auxiliar in the Department of Anthropology at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.