— 2013 - Doctorat en Anthropologie Sociale et Ethnologie, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS-Paris), « Macanais, Portugais et Chinois : Identifications et rapports sociaux et historiques dans la construction socioculturelle de Macau. L’approche globale des spécificités de la ville dans la production de la localité », sous la direction de Jonathan Friedman (Mention Très Honorable avec Félicitations).
— 2003 - DEA en Anthropologie Sociale et Ethnologie, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS-Paris), « La métropole et la reconstruction des identités diasporiques dans le cadre de l’Anthropologie mondiale », sous la direction de Jonathan Friedman.
— 2002 - Maîtrise en Relations Internationales, Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC-MG), Belo Horizonte, Brésil.
— Depuis 2023 – Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau
— 2020-2023 – Lecturer, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau
— 2019-2022 – Visiting Professor, Department of Communication and Media, Faculty of Creative Industries, University of Saint-Joseph, Macau
— 2015 – Lecturer Ethnographic Exploration, Department of Anthropology, Trent University, Canada
— 2010-2011 - Attachée Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche (ATER), Portugais, Langue et Civilisation Faculté des Affaires Internationales, Université du Havre, Le Havre, France.
Ouvrages
— 2021 The City in Review. Episodes of Hope and not so in Macau. Macau : International Institute of Macao.
— 2018 Makovicky, Nicolette, Anne-Christine Trémon, and Sheyla S. Zandonai (eds.). Slogans. Subjection, Subversion and the Politics of Neoliberalism. London and New York : Routledge
Contributions à des ouvrages collectifs
— 2021 “Macao, Janvier 2020”. In Regards sous contraintes. Carnet de terrain d’un monde pandémique, dir. Alessia de Biase. Pantin : Éd. Boa.
— 2020 “Portraits of a multicultural history.” In Retratos de Luso-Asiáticos de Macau, João Palla Martins (ed). Instituto Internacional de Macau.
— 2019 “The economy of gambling and heritage : ‘Touristed’ spaces and urban-making in Macau.” In Ideas of the City in Asian Settings, Bekkering, Henco, Adèle Esposito, and Charles Goldblum (eds.) : 141-172. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press.
— 2018 “’Macau people ruling Macau.’ Gambling governance and ethnicity in postcolonial China.” In Slogans. Subjection, Subversion and the Politics of Neoliberalism, Makovicky, Nicolette, Anne-Christine Trémon, and Sheyla S. Zandonai (eds.) : 77-100. London and New York : Routledge.
— 2017 “Encounter and counter-narratives of heritage in Macau.” In Citizens, Civil Society and Heritage-Making in Asia, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Hui Yew-Fong, Philippe Peycam (eds.) : 164-184. Singapore : ISEAS Publishing.
Articles
— 2025 “Of broken promises cities are made. Gambling, urbanisation, and belonging in Macau,” Urban Studies 62 (7), 1464-1479.
— 2024 “Modern urbanscapes of Macau’s vice economy,” Urban History. Online first : 1–19.
— 2023 “The present absent” [Commentary], Marta Wieczorek, “Portuguese saudade, the trajectories of longing and desire. Phenomenological interpretations from Macau”, Current Anthropology 64 (3) : 281-282.
— 2018 Zandonai, Sheyla S. and Vanessa Amaro, “The Portuguese calçada in Macau : Paving residual colonialism with a new cultural history of place,” Current Anthropology, 59 (4) : 378-396.
— 2014 “La présence portugaise à Macao : une culture d’accommodements,” Portuguese Studies Review 22 (1) : 205-225
— 2009 “Borders Within the City : Retracing Macau’s Identity,” Review of Culture 30 : 24-36
— 2009 “Global diversity, local identity : Multicultural practice in Macau,” Intercultural Communication Studies, 18 (1) : 37-51
— 2015 “Casino development and urban transformation in Macau,” IIAS Newsletter, N. 72 (Autumn) : 10-11
— 2015 “A new consciousness has emerged,” In Responses to the manifesto ‘Heritage beyond boundaries,’ Esposito, Adèle (org.) : 45. IIAS Newsletter, N°70, S.
Compte-rendu d’ouvrage
— 2022 Ng, Janet. Dreamworld of casino capitalism : Macao’s society, literature, and culture. Cambria Press : 2019. 257 pp. ISBN : 9781621964278. Critical Gambling Studies vol. 3, no. 2, p. 194-196. https://doi.org/10.29173/
— 2010 Clayton, Cathyrn H., Sovereignty at the Edge : Macau and the Question of Chineseness. Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London : Harvard University Asia Center, 2009, 420p. Études Chinoises, vol. XXIX, 2010, p. 410-412.
— 2009 Lopes, Fernando Sales, Terra de Lebab. Macau : Instituto Português do Oriente, Tipografia Welfare, 2008, 119p. Chinese Cross Currents, 6.1, Janvier, p. 188-190.
— 2025-2028 President of the General Assembly, CURB, Centre for Architecture and Urbanism, Macau
— 2021-2024 Advisory Board on Public Space, City Space Architecture, Italy
— 2022-2024 Executive Committee, CURB, Centre for Architecture and Urbanism, Macau
— Depuis 2020- Comité éditorial, Journal Lusotopie
— 2017-2019 Editor-in-Chief, Macau News Agency (MNA), Macau, China
— 2008-2020 Columnist, Hong Kong Free Press ; Macau Daily Times ; Macau News Agency (MNA) ; Business Daily (Macau) ; Hoje Macau newspaper ; Macau Closer magazine ; Ponto Final newspaper (Macau)