Frederico Freitas (NHC Fellow, 2023–24)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2023–24

Frederico Freitas is associate professor of Latin American and digital history at North Carolina State University, where he is a core member of the Visual Narrative Initiative. Freitas is working on his book-in-progress, Concrete Tropics: An Environmental History of Brazil’s Modernist Capital.

Selected Publications

• Freitas, Frederico, Todd Berreth, Yi-Chun Chen, and Arnav Jhala. “Characterizing the Perception of Urban Spaces from Visual Analytics of Street-Level Imagery.” AI & Society (December 2022).
• Freitas, Frederico. Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• Freitas, Frederico. “Hunters, Rangers, Cougars, and Jaguars: Human and Nonhuman Territories at the Argentine-Brazilian Border, 1960s-1980s.” História, Ciências, Saúde—Manguinhos 28, Suppl. 1 (December 2021): 59–79.
• Freitas, Frederico. “Protected Areas in Brazil: History and Current Status.” In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• Blanc, Jacob, and Frederico Freitas, eds. Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018.