Dr Junia Mortimer
Faculty of Social Sciences
Associate Researcher
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Faculty of Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
219 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Junia Mortimer is currently Associate Researcher at the Urban Institute, as International Fellow from the Urban Studies Foundation (2025-2026), working on the project “Urban-Nature Archives: Spatial Practices of Futurity in Brazilian Amazonian Frontier”. Her project focuses on hybrid social-spatial practices that emerge from the photographic collection by Professor Roberto Monte-Mór as “futurities” to contemporary environmental crises. Professor Monte-Mór worked as an urban planner in the region in the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
- Qualifications
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Junia is graduated in Architecture (2007) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), holds a Master's degree in Arts and Humanities (Erasmus Mundus program, 2010) from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) and Université de Perpignan (France) and a PhD in Architecture and Urban Planning from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), with a doctoral internship at Cooper Union (New York, 2013-2014). She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at the School of Architecture and Design at UFMG, and permanent lecturer in the Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urban Planning and Visual Arts, both at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) She was a visiting fellow in the Department of Art History and Architecture at Harvard University in 2023 (CAPES PRINT Scholarship).
She is the leader of the “Laboratory of Image and Architecture Studies” (LEIA/CNPq), deputy leader of the research group “Archives, Sources, Narratives” (FAUUSP), and a member of the Cosmópolis research group (EAD/UFMG).
- Research interests
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Junia seeks to investigate social-spatial practices as constitutive of urban epistemics, working with photographic archives and following a historical perspective in order to face contemporary challenges derived from extractivist modern urbanization processes. She is interested in developing sensorial methodologies in urban studies, especially visual methods, which may unravel “urban-nature futurities” through more collective ways of seeing. She has worked with Zumvi Afro-Photographic Archive and Arlete Soare’ Collection, both based in Salvador/Ba, Brazil, and is currently working with a photographic collection from the Amazonian frontier in the 1980s.