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Dejanirah Couto is Professor of early modern portuguese overseas history, global and connected history at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Paris (ret.). She was associated researcher of the Institut Français d’études Anatoliennes, Istanbul (IFEA) (2010-2015). Her research focuses on entangled Portuguese-Ottoman-Arab-Indian political, economic and cultural relations from the Mediterranean to Southeast Asia with a focus on the Indian Ocean. She has published widely (more than 100 articles and books) on global and connected history, diplomacy, cartography, maritime warfare, military architecture, port-cities and merchant networks in the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, South and Southeast Asia. She is currently an associated researcher of the Mondo500 project (EHESS/ École Française de Rome). She was appointed “officier des palmes académiques” by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of France (2015).