Márcia Gonçalves

Márcia Gonçalves is a historian of modern Europe and its colonial entanglements. She holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at Leiden University Institute for History. Her current research interests explores the links between ideas of Europeanness, racial thought, and belonging during the Scramble for Africa. She aims to bring nuance into discussions of colonial European identities, complicate existing knowledge about what being an European meant, and challenge essentialist and static notions of Europe.