Francisco Bethencourt#
| Membership Number: | 3246 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/people/staff/academic/bethencourt/index.aspx |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005.09 - present Charles Boxer Professor, King's College London
- 1999.09-2004.08 Director of the Caloust Gulbenkian Cultural Centre, Paris
- 1996.04-1998-06 Director of the National Library of Portugal
- 1993.09-2005.08 Assistant, Auxiliary and Associate Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- 1995-96 and 1998-99 first semesters) Visiting Professor, Brown University
- 1993 second semester Visiting Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fields of Scholarship
- Religious History
- History of the Inquisition
- History of the Portuguese and European Expansion
- History of the Portuguese-speaking World
- History of Racism
- History of Cosmopolitanism
- History of Inequality
Honours and Awards
- 1993 Salvador de Madariaga Prize for the best PhD dissertation (European University Institute)
- 1993 Networks of Power in the Portuguese Empire (project grant awarded by the Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia)
