Frederico Freitas

Frederico Freitas is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. He is the editor of Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay, co-edited with Jacob Blanc (University of Arizona Press, 2018), and the author of Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Nationalizing Nature was the winner of the Warren Dean Memorial Prize (Conference on Latin American History) as the most significant work on the history of Brazil, received an honorable mention in the Bryce Wood Book Award (Latin American Studies Association) as an outstanding book on Latin America in the social sciences and humanities published in English, and an honorable mention in the Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize (Latin American Studies Association’s Brazil Section) for the best book in the social sciences on Brazil.