ICS Working Papers Nº1/2014

ICS

W O R K I N G P A P E R S

2014

Author: Nina Clara Tiesler

Research Fellow, PhD

Institutional affiliation: Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon

Address: Av. Prof. Aníbal Bettencourt no. 9, 1600-189 Lisbon, Portugal

E-mail: ninaclara.tiesler@ics.ul.pt

T: +351-96 332 7994

The following manuscript is original and not under consideration for publication

anywhere else.

Author Bio

Nina Clara Tiesler is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Correspondence to: N.C. Tiesler, ICS-UL, Av. Prof. Aníbal Bettencourt, no. 9, 1600-189 Lisbon, Portugal. E-mail: ninaclara.tiesler@ics.ul.pt

Biographical note:

Nina Clara Tiesler, Dr. phil. in Comparative Studies of Religion, is a Research Fellow at

the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, where she is working in the

areas of Sociology and Anthropology with special focus on Migration Studies. She

belongs to the coordinating group of the Football Migration Network and was Principal

Investigator of the international team project on the role of football among

Portuguese Diaspora communities in six different countries, funded by the Portuguese

Foundation of Science and Technology (2007-2011). Currently she holds a João

Havelange Research Grant to study the globalisation of women’s football.

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