Frederico Freitas (NHC Fellow, 2023–24)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2023–24

Frederico Freitas revised one chapter, wrote three other chapters, and drafted a last chapter (five chapters in total) of his work in progress, Concrete Tropics: An Environmental History of Brazil’s Modernist Capital. He revised and proofread the edited volume The Interior: Recentering Brazilian History, coedited with Jacob Blanc. The book will come out in the fall of 2024 from the University of Texas Press. He finalized “Before Biodiversity: Trajectories of National Parks in Latin America (1930s–1980s),” cowritten with Claudia Leal and Emily Wakild and published in the Latin American Research Review (online 2024:1-20. doi:10.1017/lar.2024.22, spring version in late 2024.) His short article “Placing Insects in Histories of Science,” cowritten with Diego de Carvalho Cabral, appeared in ISIS 115, no. 1 (2024). He also wrote and submitted “Beyond Fortress Conservation: The Complex History of People and National Parks in Latin America before the 1980s,” cowritten with Claudia Leal and Emily Wakild. The article was accepted for publication upon minor revisions in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.