Associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), is the author of Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands (Stanford Univ. Press, 2023) and The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750–1830 (Stanford Univ. Press, 2006). He edited Native Brazil: Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500–1900 (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2014) and has published more than two dozen articles and chapters in the United States, Brazil, and Portugal.