INES G. ŽUPANOV Chargée de Recherche (CR 1) au CNRS Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud / EHESS 54 Bd. Raspail 75006 Paris tél.: (33) 0153729745 email: zupanov AT ehess.fr

Born in Zagreb, Jugoslavija, now Croatia. After graduating in Comparative Literature and Indology at the University of Zagreb and after a three year stint as an editor in a publishing house “Globus”, spent a year in Bombay, now Mumbai, at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Then enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley and completed my PhD in History (Modern Asia and Early Modern Europe) in 1991. A post-doctoral fellowship at the SOAS in London for two years. From 1999, employed as Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Visiting Professor of early modern history at the University of California at Berkeley, at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Authored two books: Disputed Mission; Jesuit Experiments and Brahmanical Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century India (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1999) and Missionary Tropics;  The Catholic Frontier in India (16 th-17^th centuries) (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2005). Divins remèdes; Médecine et religion en Asie du Sud, co-edited with Caterina Guenzi published in 2008 in the Purusartha series, 27, Edition EHESS, Paris.

My articles in English, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Croatian are published in edited books and journals (Annales, Representations, Etnosistemi, Studies in History, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Archives de sciences sociales des religions, Journal of Early Modern History, Revista de Cultura, Itinerario, etc.). C urrently working on Catholic Orientalism, 16-18th centuries, with Angela Barreto Xavier (ICS, Lisbon). Also interested in French Orientalism in India, 17-19th centuries and in natural history and history of science in colonial India.

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