Lorenzo Macagno is a professor at the Department of Anthropology at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil, and a collaborating researcher at CEsA (ISEG-UL) since 2019. He has received a scholarship from several institutions, including: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; SEPHIS (The South-South Exchange Program for Research on the History of Development); Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (Programme HERMES). Between 2017 and 2018, he was regional director (South region) of the Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA).

He holds a PhD in Human Sciences (2000) from the Postgraduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IFCS-UFRJ). He held a postdoctoral degree at the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, New York, and was a visiting researcher at several institutions, including: Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique); LAM – Les Afriques dans Le Monde/Université de Bordeaux, and CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa. He is the author of: Other Muslims. Islam and colonial narratives (Lisbon, Editora ICS, 2006); The multicultural dilemma (Rio de Janeiro-Curitiba/GRAPHIA-Editora UFPR, 2014); The invention of the assimilated. Paradoxes of colonialism in Mozambique (Lisbon, Editora Colibri, 2019). His book The multicultural dilemma was, in 2017, translated and published in Arabic by the Institute of Hispanic-Lusophone Studies at Mohamed V University, Rabat (Morocco).