My main research interest is Latin American Environmental History, with special attention to the interface of cities, nature and the State. Because my dissertation topic was Guanabara Bay, I am also very interested on water-related topics.
I am currently working on three projects. The first - and most important - is to rewrite the dissertation into a book. And I got continuous headache over it.
The second is an article on the 1966/1967 floods in Rio de Janeiro. I argue that these floods represented a watershed (no pun intended) for the way natural disasters were incorporated in the political agenda in Rio de Janeiro.
A third project is a study on the personal archive of Ernani do Amaral Peixoto, focusing on his clientelist networks. My co-worker in this project is Tatiana de Paiva, and we have already presented a preliminary version of our conclusions at the 2008 RMCLAS.
I also edit the Online Bibliography on Environmental History of Latin America, although it is not updated as often I would like.
