Sushila Sawant Mendes

Sushila Sawant Mendes completed her post-graduation in history from Bombay University in History. She completed her doctorate from Goa University in 2012 and is currently working as Professor in History at Govt. College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Quepem, since August 1989 and was Head of Dept. in History for 31 years. She has more than 20 research papers published in acclaimed journals and conference proceedings. She presents papers regularly to State, National and International Seminars, many of which have found a place as chapters in books on the history of Goa. She is the author of the book Luis de Menezes Bragança Nationalism, Secularism and Free thought in Portuguese Goa. 

Works in the field of the colonial press 
Organization of the seminar "The Bicentenary of the Gazette de Goa (1821-2021)" in collaboration with IGSCP-Goa chapter & CRIA. 16th - 17th  of December 2021.
 
Member of the scientific committee of the 2º IGSCP-PE International Conference "Liberalism and the colonial press" 21st - 22nd of September 2022, Lisbon. Paper presentation "Literary debates in the Goan tribune: fanning the flame of revolutionary Liberalism".

(2023) Mendes, Sushila. "Assolna, Velim, Cuncolim Tri-conglomerate: Rebellious Voices in Goamantak". In Lobo, Sandra Ataíde; Falconi, Jessica; Dias, Remy; Smith, D.A. (eds). The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions. New York & London: Routledge, 342-363.

(2012). PhD thesis. Luís de Menezes Bragança (1878-1938) and the emergence of political consiousness in Goa.  

(2023). "Goa Tribune: mirroring and grokking an anticolonial fight (1955-1962)". Seminar Proceedings, Dept. of Goa Archives & Museums, Govt. of Goa.

Fields of interest
History of Goa; gender studies; history of India.

Key words
Goa; women; India.