Cristiana Bastos (PhD CUNY, 1996) is an anthropologist and a permanent researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. Her main interests combine world systems, north/south relations, transnationalism, health, medicine, science, politics and social differentiation.

She worked on population dynamics in southern Iberia (Os Montes do Nordeste Algarvio, Lisboa: Cosmos, 1993) and on the impact of the AIDS pandemic, with fieldwork in Brazil (Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999). She is currently working on aspects of Portuguese colonialism in Asia and Africa, 19th-20th centuries. On that topic she published a few articles and book chapters; a monograph and an edited volume are in progress. She taught on different graduate programs in the areas of anthropology, social sciences, public health, international relations and science studies, in Portugal (ICS, ISCTE, Coimbra), Brazil (UERJ, UFRJ, UNICAMP), and the United States (Brown University).