Cristiana Bastos is an anthropologist and a research professor at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. Her work intersects the disciplines of anthropology, history and the social studies of science, technology and medicine, having addressed population dynamics, transnational mobilities, colonial biopolitics, medicine and empire, the social history of health and well-being, and, in recent years, processes of racialization in plantation societies.She has worked in multiple ethnographic and historical contexts – Serra Algarvia, urban Brazil, North America, colonial Goa, Mozambique and Angola, Hawaii and Guyana.
