[%Zupanov's] international CV, which ... includes several years spent doing research and fieldwork in India, has given her not only a truly interdisciplinary range of reference but also a network of scholarly contacts that spans the globe. The result is that %Zupanov has been able to bring together a first-rate, international team of forty authors from all stages of their careers, many of whom are already familiar names to readers of this journal as leading figures in their respective fields; but significantly many more are not (yet).
Ines G. Zupanov is social /cultural historian of Catholic missions in South Asia and has also worked on other topics related to Portuguese empire. In addition to other two books, her latest monograph cowritten with Ângela Barreto Xavier is Catholic Orientalism; Portuguese Empire, Indian Knowledge, 16th-18th centuries (OUP, New Delhi, 2015). She coedited seven books and her articles are published in edited volumes and journals (Annales, Representations, Journal of Early Modern History, Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, RES: Anthropology and Esthetics, etc.)