Ricardo Roque , historian and social scientist, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He received his PhD in History from the University of Cambridge (2007) after studying sociology and historical sociology in Lisbon (BA, MA, Nova University of Lisbon). He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2012-13) and is now an Honorary Associate in the Department of History of the University of Sydney. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Azores (1999-2008). Roque works on the history and anthropology of human sciences, colonialism, and cross-cultural contact in the Portuguese-speaking world, from 1800 to the twentieth-century. He has published widely in both Portuguese and English on the history of imperialism, racial sciences, and collections of human remains; the theory and ethnography of colonial archives; and the ethnohistory of colonial Timor-Leste. His first book (Antropologia e Império, 2001) analyzed the colonial origins of physical anthropology in late imperial Goa. His second book (Headhunting and Colonialism, 2010) explored headhunting, colonial violence, and the circulation of human skulls to anthropological museums in Europe, in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century. Over the past five years he has been engaged in the historical ethnography of colonial mimesis and in comparative studies of racial thought and colonial collections. Drawing on this research, Roque is currently working on a monograph that explores the connected histories of anthropometry and racial theory in Portugal and its colonial empire between 1880 and 1945. At ICS-ULisboa he is the head of the Research Group "Empires, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Societies" (http://gi-imperios.org/blog/) and teaches in the Doctoral Programs in History and Anthropology. Current research includes also a Portuguese Research Council (FCT) funded project entitled, "Indigenous Colonial Archives: Micro-histories and Comparisons". HIs research has been funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, the University of Cambridge (Smuts Memorial Fund and Darwin College), the Orient Foundation, and the Australian Research Council. His work was awarded the 2002 A Sedas Nunes Social Sciences Prize - Honourable Mention; the 2015 AH Oliveira Marques Essay Prize (ASPHS); and the 2016 University of Lisbon/CGD Scientific Prize for History and Philosophy. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (2012), Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of History of the Johns Hopkins University (2018), and Visiting Professor at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (2019).