scientists from the world over. The Lusophone University of Lisbon awarded him its Gold Medal of Merit on the same occasion, in recognition of his research, teaching, and critical appreciation and promotion of Lusophony. A firm believer in the power of web since the early 70s, and a defender of digitalization of historical sources, he founded, in partnership with the Goan free-lance journalist Frederick Noronha, the Goa-Research-Net in 1997, initially hosted in the Goanet server, and since 2005 on Yahoo! Groups. It also has branches on Facebook and on Mendeley, since May 2017. Since November 2008, Teotónio R. de Souza has continually been a columnist to the Goan daily Herald, in a section which seeks to link Goa and Portugal, in the past and present. Since 2012, he has written Op-ed columns for The Goan Everyday. He also writes for the Goan Observer and, since April 2018, runs a column for a Portuguese digital newspaper, Pátria . Many of his writings may be consulted online at Academia.edu, Scribd, ResearchGate, and the ReCil Lusófona - the online scientific repository of the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisboa. His book Goa: Outgrowing Postcolonialism - Historical Explorations (1961-2014), is a cultural-historical analysis of the evolution of Goa since its Liberation. Academic and research activities Teotónio de Souza retired from October 2014 as Cathedratic professor of the Universidade Lusófona, after representing, since 1996, the interests of History teaching and research on the Scientific and Pedagogic Councils, of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Education and Administration of the Universidade Lusófona, as an ex-officio member. While acting as coordinator / Director of the MA and M.Phil. courses in History, he guided M.Phil. and Ph.D. researchers in Political Science and Diplomatic Relations, and directed a line of research related to "Colonial and Post-Colonial Societies", and Memories of CPES (Centro de Pesquisa e Estudos Sociais) of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa. He was Director-Editor of the Journal of ACSEL (Associação dos Cientistas Sociais do Espaço Lusófono) and continued to help as Chief-Editor of the Journal FLUXOS E RISCOS - Revista de Estudos Sociais, that published the research findings of CPES (Centre for Social Research and Studies). He was also a Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. References 1947 births 2019 deaths Scholars from Goa Indian Roman Catholics Portuguese Roman Catholics 20th-century Indian historians