Since 10/2025 
Researcher at Sorbonne Université: SPHINX, program 3 Constitution et préservation des patrimoines savants - Constitution and preservation of scholarly heritage 

Since 10/2021 
Doctoral studies at BerGSAS, funded by a scholarship from the DAAD-GSSP

2019 – 2021
Masters in Heritage and Museums at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

2010 – 2011
MPhil in Classics (Classical Archaeology) at the University of Cambridge

2006 – 2010
MA (undergraduate) in Classics and Archaeology at the University of Glasgow

The Archaeology of Pre-Classical Attica: Space, Politics, and Society

The aim of my project is to re-evaluate our understanding of the territory of Attica in the period between the fall of the Mycenaean Palaces and the appearance of the Athenian democracy (1200-500 BC), through a reinterpretation of published archaeological data using a GIS and a novel approach to social space. The study of Attica in this period has long been influenced by a text-based perspective that imposes a top-down vision of this territory as peripheral in relation to the city of Athens. By focusing instead on three key areas of the peninsula (Laurion, Marathon and Salamis), this project aims to produce new insights into the history of these territories. In doing so, it has the potential to renew our understating of these societies and the relationships they entertained, not just with Athens but also the rest of the Greek world.

Forthcoming 

M. Silva Porto, "Data, Narrative, Interpretation: Metanarratives of Archaeology in Southern Attica" in Strategies and Good Practices for Rediscovering Archaeological Sites with Troubled Histories: Out of Neglect, Into the Spotlight, E. Pizzuti, F. Palazzini, I. Bossolino, D. Monti and A. Casarotto (eds.), Springer, forthcoming.  -M. Silva Porto, "Repenser l'Attique préclassique – Valerios Stais et le tumulus de Marathon" in Actes de la 20ème Journée doctorale de l’École doctorale 112 de l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, forthcoming

M. Silva Porto et G. Antinori  "La collection d’empreintes de sceaux proche-orientaux et les archives Deshayes à l’Institut d’art et d’archéologie",  in Le patrimoine de l’université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, A. Duploy et E. Marantz eds., forthcoming

A. Duplouy, M. Gravari-Barbas et M. Silva Porto "Appréhender de manière sensible le patrimoine de Paris 1", in Le patrimoine de l’université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, A. Duploy et E. Marantz eds., forthcoming

2025
Silva Porto, Parallel Heritage. Cross-gazes on the Cultural Heritage of Una Europa Universities, Una Europa Cultural Heritage Series, Bologna: University of Bologna, 2025. DOI 10.60923/books/uech2025-2 https://amsacta.unibo.it/id/eprint/8516/  

2023
M. Silva Porto and M. Catéran "Jean Deshayes and the Cylinder Seal Project: uncovering Deshayes’ role in French Mecanography through the archives at Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne", Europe Now 54, November 2023, as part of Campus Spotlight: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, with Columbia University, https://www.europenowjournal.org/issue-54-november-2023/  

2022
A. Duplouy et M. Silva Porto, "Lucanian heritage across the world: the Spanish collections", Journal of the History of Collections, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhac036  

Editing

A. Duplouy - N. Arvanitis (eds.) en collaboration avec M. Silva Porto, Athens and Attica from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Archaic Period. The Spatial Roots of Politics and Society, Supplementi dell'Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente 13, 2024.