Pedro Pombo is an Assistant Professor at Goa University and Associated Researcher at the Centre for Research on Slavery and Indentured, University of Mauritius. He received his PhD in Anthropology from ISCTE- IUL, Lisbon (2015) with an ethnographic exploration on space, belonging, local history and personal archives in Southern Mozambique. Earlier, Pedro graduated in Decorative Arts and Design and developing research on Indo-Portuguese architecture.

Pedro researches traces of Afro-Asian circulations through aesthetic and anthropological approaches, focusing on archival and material traces, heritages, visual landscapes and memories in the Indian Ocean. While researching the materialities and sensorial worlds of maritime histories, Pedro also explores coastal landscapes as repositories of oceanic histories and material and intangible heritages. He is the co-author of a documentary on Goans in Tanzania, “The Club”, with the filmmaker Nalini Elvino de Sousa, funded by the RTP-Portuguese Television. Pedro Pombo was an international fellow at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence from June to July 2021and later that year presented his documentary “The Club” during the workshop “Intermedial Indian Ocean”.