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Jorge Flores grew up in Lisbon, Portugal. He earned his 'Licenciatura' in History from the University of Lisbon, and received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in History of the Portuguese Discoveries and Expansion from the New University of Lisbon. He started his career as lecturer at the University of Macau (1989-1994) and later taught at a number of Portuguese universities before spending two years as Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown (2004-2006). He joins the Brown faculty in 2007 as Associate Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and History, where he will teach courses on the history of the Portuguese empire (c. 1400-1800).

Professor Flores's research focuses on the political, social and cultural 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 Portuguese expansion in Asia 1500-1800, and he works with Portuguese and other Western materials of the period to approach the history of South Asia. He is the author of Os Portugueses e o Mar de Ceilão: trato, diplomacia e guerra (1498-1543) (Cosmos, 1998) and A Taprobana e a Ponte de Rama. Estudos sobre os Portugueses em Ceilão e a na Índia do Sul (IPOR, 2004). He is currently working on a project on the social and political communication between the Portuguese 'Estado da Índia', the Mughal Empire and the Deccan sultanates in the 16th-17th centuries.

Françoise N. Hamlin (Ph.D. Yale University, 2004) joins the faculty this fall as Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and History. She will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in twentieth century African American history, southern history, U.S. history and cultural studies. Prior to coming to Brown, Professor Hamlin was a DuBois-Mandela-Rodney fellow at the University of Michigan (2004-2005), Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2005-2007). During 2007-08 she will take up residence as a Charles Warren Center Fellow at Harvard University.

Professor Hamlin's current research includes work on the civil rights movement in Mississippi with critical analysis on the trajectory of the movement, the role of gender within the movement, and concepts of success and progress. She is currently working on the book, The Story Isn't Finished: Continuing Histories of the Civil Rights Movement, and on an edited anthology (as co-editor), War, Freedom and Patriotism: An Anthology of African American Writing.