Publications

• Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.


• Big Water: The making of the borderlands between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Co-edited with Jake Blanc. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2018.

• “Characterizing the Perception of Urban Spaces from Visual Analytics of Street-Level Imagery.” Co-authored with Berreth, Chen, and Jhala. AI & Society, forthcoming 2023.


• “Hunters, Rangers, Cougars, and Jaguars: human and nonhuman territories at the Argentine-Brazilian border, 1960s-1980s.” HCSM 28, Supl. (Dec 2021): 59-79.


• “Protected Areas in Brazil: History and Current Status,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Forthcoming, 2020.


• “Conservation frontier: The creation of protected areas in the Brazilian Amazonia.” In Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances. Edited by Antonio Ioris et al. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020, 51-79.


• “Terras públicas e política de conservação da natureza: o caos fundiário na formação do Parque Nacional do Iguaçu.” In História Ambiental: Natureza, Sociedade, Fronteiras, volume 3. Edited by José Augusto Drummond et al. Rio de Janeiro: Garamond, 2020, 227-252.


• “Argentinizing the Border: Conservation and Colonization in the Iguazú National Park, 1890s-1950s.” Individual contribution to the Big Water volume, 2018, 105-128. “Introduction.” Co-written with Jacob Blanc for the Big Water volume, 2018, 2-21.


• “Ordering the Borderland: Settlement and Removal in the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil, 1940s-1970s.” In The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation. Edited by Hardenberg et al. New York: Routledge, 2017, 158-175.


• “A Park for the Borderlands: The Creation of the Iguaçu National Park in Southern Brazil, 1880-1940.” HIb: Revista de Historia Iberoamericana 7, no. 2 (2014): 65-88.


• “As Viagens de Francisco Moreno: Visões da Natureza e Construção da Nação no Extremo Sul Argentino, 1873-1906.” Revista Angelus Novus 1 (2010): 115-143.

• Review of Sarah T. Hines’s Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia. For H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews (October 2022).


• “Um Parque Para a Fronteira: A Criação do Parque Nacional do Iguaçu no Sul do Brasil, 1880-1940.” In Fronteiras na História: Atores Sociais e Historicidade na Construção do Brasil Meridional (Séculos XVIII-XX). Edited by Ânderson M. Schmitt and Murillo Dias Winter. Chapecó: Editora UFFS, 2021, 233-264.


• “Beyond the ‘Yellowstone Model’: The Origins of National Parks  in Brazil and Argentina.” Co-authored with Olaf Kaltmeier. Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña 11, no. 3 (2021): 400-410.


• Review of Ben Nobbs-Thiessen’s Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present. In Environment & History 27, no. 2 (May 2021): 323-325.


• Review of Jake Blanc’s Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil. In Bulletin of Latin American Research 40, no. 1 (January 2021): 150-152.


• “Structure of an interdisciplinary group project.” In The Academic’s Handbook, 4th edition. Edited by Jocelyn Olcott and Lori Flores. Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming, 2020.


• Review of Javiera Barandiarán. Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy. H-Environment, Roundtable Review 9, No. 5 (May 2019).


• “How Brazil’s Neo-Fascism Threatens the Planet.” Current Affairs (November 2018).


• “The Brazilian Nostalgia for Dictatorship.” Current Affairs (October 2018).


• Review of Thomas Nail. Theory of the Border. H-Environment, H-Net Reviews (January 2017).


• “Espaço, História e Ambiente: Entendendo o Desmatamento Através do SIG Histórico, Minas Gerais 1750-1840.” In Ensaios em Ciências Ambientais: Crises Riscos e Racionalidades. Edited by Sandro Dutra e Silva et al. Rio de Janeiro: Garamond, 2016, 217-248.


• “The Guarani and the Iguaçu National Park: An Environmental History.” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America 14, no. 3 (Spring 2015): 18-22.


• “Spatial History and Digital Humanities, an Interview with Brazilianist Zephyr Frank.” História e Cultura 3, no. 1 (2014): 375-392.


• “Land Use and Deforestation in Southeastern Brazil, 1753-1840.” Fronteiras: Journal of Social, Technological, and Environmental Science 2, no. 2 (2013): 49-77.


• Review of Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici (Org.). Centering Animals in Latin American History in Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña 3, no. 1 (2013-2014): 229-232.


• Translation from Portuguese to English: Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. “Some Reflections on the Notion of Species.” E-Misférica/Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics 10, no. 1 (2013).


• Translation from English to Portuguese: Ed Cohen. “Tendências Humanas.” E-Misférica/Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics 10, no. 1 (2013).