Digital Humanities, Brazilian History, Latin American History, Environmental History
Dr. Freitas is an Associate Professor of Digital and Latin American History at North Carolina State University. Dr. Freitas works on twentieth-century Latin American History, with a focus on Brazil and Argentina and on the relationship between society and the environment.
2024 article
Before Biodiversity: Trajectories of National Parks in Latin America (1930s-1980s)
Freitas, F., Leal, C., & Wakild, E. (2024, May 3). LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH REVIEW, Vol. 5.
2024 journal article
Placing Insects in Histories of Science
ISIS, 115(1), 136–140.
2023 article
The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil's Green Revolution
Freitas, F., & Rogers, T. D. (2023, November 1). HAHR-HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, Vol. 103, pp. 761–763.
2023 article
Yerba Mate: The Drink That Shaped a Nation
Freitas, F., & Sarreal, J. J. S. (2023, October). AMERICAS, Vol. 80, pp. 643–644.
2022 book
CLAH. Brazilian Studies Section: The Politics of Environmental History in Brazil
Presented at the Conference on Latin American History.
Event: Conference on Latin American History on February 26, 2022
2022 journal article
Characterizing the perception of urban spaces from visual analytics of street-level imagery
AI & SOCIETY, 38(4), 1361–1371.
2022 conference paper
Historical Remote Sensing: Case Studies in the Latin American Context
American Historical Association. Presented at the American Historical Association.
Event: American Historical Association on February 22, 2022
2022 book review
Sarah T. Hines. Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. xviii + 321 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-38164-3.
[Review of]. H-Net. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57955
2021 journal article
Beyond the “Yellowstone Model:” The Origins of National Parks in Brazil and Argentina
Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña (HALAC) Revista De La Solcha, 11(3), 400–410.
2021 journal article
Blanc, Jacob (2019) Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil, Duke University Press (Durham, NC and London), xvi + 296 pp. $104.95 hbk. $27.95 pbk.
Bulletin of Latin American Research, 40(1), 150–152.
2021 journal article
Hunters, rangers, cougars, and jaguars: human and nonhuman territories at the Argentine-Brazilian border, 1960s-1990s
HISTORIA CIENCIAS SAUDE-MANGUINHOS, 28, 59–79.
2021 article
Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present
Freitas, F. (2021, May). ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY, Vol. 27, pp. 323–325.
2021 monograph
Nationalizing Nature
2021 book
Nationalizing Nature
In Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/9781108844833
2021 encyclopedia entry
Protected Areas in Brazil: History and Current Status
In Oxford University Press.
2021 entry reference
Protected Environmental Areas across Brazil
2021 chapter
Um Parque Para a Fronteira
In Â. M. Schmitt & M. D. Winter (Eds.), Fronteiras na História: Atores Sociais e Historicidade na Construção do Brasil Meridional (Séculos XVIII-XX) (pp. 233–264). Chapecó: Editora UFFS.
Ed(s): Â. Schmitt & M. Winter
Event: at Chapecó
2020 chapter
Conservation Frontier: The Creation of Protected Areas in Brazilian Amazonia
In A. A. R. Ioris, R. R. Ioris, & S. Shubin (Eds.), Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Ed(s): A. Ioris, R. Ioris & S. Shubin
Event: at Lanham
2020 book
Frontiers of development in the Amazon: riches, risks, and resistances
Lanham Maryland: Lexington Books.
2020 dataset
Land Use and Poaching Data for Iguazú and Iguaçu National Parks (Brazil and Argentina), 1953-2014
Zenodo.
2020 report
Landscape Change in Brasília: Development and land use change in the Brazilian capital, from the 1970s to the present
[Website]. https://go.ncsu.edu/brasilia.landchange
2020 chapter
Structure of an interdisciplinary group project
In J. Olcott & L. Flores (Eds.), The Academic’s Handbook (4th ed., pp. 172–173). Durham: Duke University Press.
Ed(s): J. Olcott & L. Flores
Event: at Durham
2020 chapter
Terras públicas e política de conservação da natureza: o caos fundiário na formação do Parque Nacional do Iguaçu
In J. L. de A. Franco, S. D. e Silva, J. A. Drummond, & G. G. Tavares (Eds.), História Ambiental: Natureza, Sociedade, Fronteiras (Vol. 3, pp. 227–252). Rio de Janeiro: Garamond.
Ed(s): J. Franco, S. Silva, J. Drummond & G. Tavares
Event: at Rio de Janeiro
2019 journal article
Barandiaran, 'Science and Environment in Chile'
H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, 9(5), 8–11. https://networks.h-net.org/barandiaran-science-and-environment-chile-roundtable-review-vol-9-no-5-2019
2019 journal article
The South Atlantic Columbian exchange
Europe, 10, 1–12.
2018 chapter
Argentinizing the Border: Conservation and Colonization in the Iguazú National Park, 1890s-1950s
In F. Freitas & J. Blanc (Eds.), Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (pp. 105–128). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Event: at Tucson, AZ
2018 book
Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay
In J. Blanc & F. Freitas (Eds.), University of Arizona Press.
2018 book
Big water: The making of the borderlands between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
2018 report
The Making of a Forest: landscape change at the Argentine-Brazilian border, 1953-2017
[Website]. https://arcg.is/uquTq
2017 book review
Freitas on Nail, 'Theory of the Border'
[Review of Theory of the Border, by T. Nail]. H-Net Reviews.
2017 chapter
Ordering the Borderland: Settlement and Removal in the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil, 1940s-1970s
In C. Leal, E. Wakild, M. Kelly, & W. G. von Hardenberg (Eds.), The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation (pp. 158–175). Oxford: Routledge.
Ed(s): C. Leal, E. Wakild, M. Kelly & W. Hardenberg
Event: at Oxford
2017 article
Review of Nail, Thomas, Theory of the Border
Freitas, F. (2017, January). https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=47697
2016 thesis
Boundaries of Nature: national parks and environmental change at the Argentine-Brazilian border, 1890-1990
(PhD Dissertation). Stanford University.
2016 chapter
Espaço, História e Ambiente: Entendendo o Desmatamento Através do SIG Histórico, Minas Gerais 1750-1840
In S. D. e Silva, D. Sayago, F. Toni, & F. I. Campos (Eds.), Ensaios em Ciências Ambientais: Crises Riscos e Racionalidades (pp. 217–248). Rio de Janeiro: Garamond.
Ed(s): S. Silva, D. Sayago, F. Toni & F. Campos
Event: at Rio de Janeiro
2015 journal article
The Guarani and the Iguaçu National Park: An Environmental History
ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, 3(1), 18–22. https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/guarani-and-igua%C3%A7u-national-park
2014 journal article
A Park for the Borderlands: The Creation of the Iguaçu National Park in Southern Brazil, 1880-1940
HIb: Revista De Historia Iberoamericana, 7(2), 65–88. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7038844
2014 journal article
Spatial History e humanidades digitais, uma entrevista com o brasilianista Zephyr Frank
História e Cultura, 3(1), 375–392.
2014 conference paper
The Organic Territory: The Vargas Regime and the Environmental Legislation Boom in Brazil, 1930-1945
Second World Congress of Environmental History, 12(7).
2013 journal article
Few, Martha, y Tortorici, Zeb (Orgs.). Centering Animals in Latin American History (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013), 391 p.
Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana Y Caribeña (HALAC) Revista De La Solcha, 3(1), 229–232. https://www.halacsolcha.org/index.php/halac/article/view/177
2013 journal article
Land Use and Deforestation in Southeastern Brazil 1753-1840
Fronteiras: Journal of Social, Technological, and Environmental Science, 2(2), 49–77.
2013 journal article
Some Reflections on the Notion of Species in History and Anthropology
E-Misférica, 10(1). http://hemi.es.its.nyu.edu/hemi/en/e-misferica-101/viveiros-de-castro
Ed(s): Á. Fernández Bravo
2013 journal article
Tendências Humanas
E-Misférica, 10(1). http://hemi.es.its.nyu.edu/hemi/pt/e-misferica-101/cohen
2011 journal article
Desafios e possibilidades ao uso de sistemas de informações geográficas na história
ENCONTRO ESCRAVIDÃO E LIBERDADE NO BRASIL MERIDIONAL, 5, 1–21.
2010 journal article
As Viagens de Francisco Moreno: Visões da Natureza e Construção da Nação no Extremo Sul Argentino, 1873-1906
Revista Angelus Novus, 1(1), 115–143.
2009 conference paper
As viagens de Francisco Perito Moreno no extremo sul argentino (1873-1912)
Resumos. Simpósio Internacional de Iniciação Científica da Universidade de São Paulo - SIICUSP.
Updated: February 18th, 2019 14:32
2016 - present
Updated: February 18th, 2019 14:37
2011 - 2016
2010 - 2011
2005 - 2008
Funding history based on the linked ORCID record. Updated: February 21st, 2024 08:26
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