Prof Jorge Flores will join the Department
in September 2010
Extended CV
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Research Fields
Prof. Flores's research focuses on the history of the Portuguese empire during the early modern period. He is particularly interested in the interaction between the Portuguese society and extra-European cultures, as well as in the formation of cross-cultural images and representations. His main field of expertise is the European expansion in Asia 1500-1800 (especially South Asia), and Prof. Flores's research focuses on the history of the Portuguese empire during the early modern period. He is particularly interested in the interaction between the Portuguese society and extra-European cultures, as well as in the formation of cross-cultural images and representations. His main field of expertise is the European expansion in Asia 1500-1800 (especially South Asia), and he often works with Portuguese and other Western materials of the period to approach the history of the region.
Current Research Projects
Prof. Flores is presently completing a book titled “Between Intelligence and Ethnography: Portuguese Perceptions of the Mughal Empire, ca. 1570-1670”, which explores relevant articulations between political and cultural history where the construction of European images of the Indo-Persian World is concerned.
While in Florence, he will work on a project tentatively titled “Portuguese Empire and Eurasian Cosmopolitanism, 1500-1700”. He is also currently involved in a number of collective projects, namely as coordinator of Red Columnaria’s research node “Lettered Empires. Cartographies of Writing in the Iberian Overseas World, c. 1400-1800”.