The Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) announced and felicitated the laureates of the Infosys Prize 2021 on December 02, 2021. A distinguished international jury, composed of leaders in each of these fields, evaluates the work and achievements of the nominees against stringent standards of international research, placing the winners on par with the finest researchers in the world. https://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/
Video of the virtual award ceremony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp8XJsdfDzU Ângela Barreto Xavier is a Researcher with the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL). She holds a PhD in History & Civilisation from the European University Institute a Master in Political and Cultural History from the New University of Lisbon and a History and Art History Degree from the New University of Lisbon. She has taught at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, and she has been Maître de Conférences Invitée na École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Visiting Scholar at the History Department of Harvard University, having collaborated with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is now an Invited Professor of the Cunha Rivara Chair at the University of Goa. She has published many books and articles, in Portuguese, English and other languages. Main books: Monarquias Ibéricas em Perspectiva Comparada (secs. XVI-XVIII) Dinâmicas Imperiais e Circulação de Modelos Administrativos (org. c/ Federico Palomo e Roberta Stumpf, Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2018); O Governo dos Outros. Poder e Diferença no Império Português (org. c/ Cristina Nogueira da Silva, Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2016); Catholic Orientalism. Portuguese Empire, Indian Knowledge, 16th-18th centuries (c/ Ines G. Zupanov, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2015); A Invenção de Goa. Poder Imperial e Conversões Culturais nos séculos XVI e XVII (Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2008); Cultura Intelectual das Elites Coloniais (org. c/ Catarina Madeira Santos, número especial da revista Cultura – História e Teoria das Ideias 2ª série, vol. XXV, 2007); Afonso VI (c/ Pedro Cardim, Lisboa, Círculos de Leitores, 2006); El Rey aonde póde e não aonde quer. Razões da política no Portugal seiscentista (Lisboa, Colibri, 1998). Her research interests include the history of political ideas (El-rei aonde pòde e não onde quer, 1998), and the cultural history of early-modern empires, namely the problems related to religion, science, power and the cultural geopolitics. https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/pessoa/angela-barreto-xavier ᐧ
