Ines ŽUPANOV

Županov, Ines G. is Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS in Paris and a former director of the Centre d’études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CNRS-EHESS). She is a social and cultural historian of Catholic missions in South Asia and has also worked on other topics related to the Portuguese empire. In addition to two other books, she recently published a monograph co-written with Ângela Barreto Xavier: Catholic Orientalism; Portuguese Empire, Indian Knowledge, 16^th-18^th centuries (OUP, New Delhi, 2015). She has edited ten books and published chapters and articles in English and French in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals (such as Annales, Representations,Indian Economic and Social History Review, Archives de sciences sociales des religions, Journal of Early Modern History, Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Comparative Studies in Society and History).