Francisco Bethencourt is the Charles Boxer Professor of History at King's College London. He is the author of "The Inquisition" and the coeditor of "Correspondence and Cultural Exchange in Europe", "Portuguese Oceanic Expansion", and "Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World." He has served as director of the Gulbenkian Cultural Center in Paris (1999-2004) and the National Library of Portugal (1996-1998).