Francisco Bethencourt (born 1955 in Lisbon)[1] is a Portuguese historian and academic.
He completed his PhD in the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
[3] He taught at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Brown University.
[citation needed] Bethencourt’s research centres on the history of racism, Portuguese and European expansion from the 15th to the 19th centuries, missions and religious history in the Catholic world, and identities and cultural exchange in Iberia.
[5] In 2003, Bethencourt was honoured for his achievements as historian with the Portuguese Order of Prince Henry.