Amazonia | Brazil | ethnohistory | Indigenous history | borderlands | migration | comparative colonialism | rivers
global environmental history | agricultural history | environmental health | toxicity | pesticides
Nonfiction
“A Shared Toxic History,” in History Unclassified, American Historical Review 125, no. 5 (December 2020).
This essay is about the search for answers in family histories of illness, a search that may never end. It also explores how toxic exposure connects people—mothers and daughters, teachers and students—in unexpected ways. In the history classroom, the author finds new insights about environmental health in the shared experiences of course text authors, students, and families.
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Selected Academic Articles and Chapters
“Indigenous Spies and Surveillance in Late Colonial Brazil,” forthcoming in The Interior: Rethinking Brazilian History from the Inside, ed. Jacob Blanc and Frederico Freitas (University of Texas Press, expected 2024).
“Autonomous Indian Nations and Peacemaking in Colonial Brazil,” in The Oxford Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World, ed. Danna A. Levin Rojo and Cynthia Radding (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
“On the Verge of Total Extinction? From Guaikurú to Kadiwéu in Nineteenth-Century Brazil,” Ethnohistory 65, no. 4 (October 2018): 647-670.
“River Guides, Geographical Informants, and Colonial Field Agents in the Portuguese Amazon,”Colonial Latin American Review 21, no. 1 (April 2012): 101-126.
“Colonial Collecting Expeditions and the Pursuit of Opportunities in the Amazonian Sertão, c. 1750-1800,” The Americas 66, no. 4 (April 2010): 435-467.
[Em português: “Expedições coloniais de coleta e a busca por oportunidades no sertão amazônico, c. 1750-1800,” Revista de História 168 (July 2013): 201-243.]
“Migrações indígenas na Amazônia do século XVIII,” in Migrantes na Amazônia, ed. Cristina Donza Cancela and Rafael Chambouleyron (Belém: Editora Açaí/Centro de Memória da Amazônia/ UFPA, 2010), 27-39.
Recent Book Reviews
Review of Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr., Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), Hispanic American Historical Review 101, no. 2 (2021): 319-321.
Review of Oscar de la Torre, The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835-1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Hispanic American Historical Review 100, no. 1 (2020): 154-156.
Review of John M. Monteiro, Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America, edited and translated by James P. Woodard and Barbara Weinstein (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), American Historical Review 124, no. 5 (2019): 1932-1933.
Review of Yuko Miki, Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), H-LatAm (August 2018).
