Maria José de Abreu studied anthropology of media at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, and received her PhD in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in 2009. Her work engages with a range of anthropological, philosophical, and literary debates about religion, time, space, personhood, the human senses, and their technological extensions. She is currently working on two book projects. The first is on the flourishing of Byzantine iconography in urban São Paolo through the media practices of a religious movement. The second is on an anthropology of the impasse among Portuguese youth as part of the Errans project at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. She has published in various journals, edited volumes, and has recently been awarded a grant to support an international Wenner-Gren symposium titled “New Media, New Publics?” (2015). She worked as a visiting scholar at Concordia University (2010) and Columbia University (2011), and in 2013–14 as a fellow of the Forum for Transregional Studies under the program Art Histories/Aesthetic Practices. She is affiliated to the Department of Art History at the Humboldt University of Berlin.