Joana Gaspar de Freitas Author

Joana Gaspar de Freitas is an environmental historian at the Center for History, in the School of Arts and Humanities, at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She has held fellowships at the Rachel Carson Center (Munich, 2015), the Linda Hall Library (Kansas City, 2014), and the Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição (Lisbon, 2011-2018). Between 2018 and 2024, she was the principal investigator of the project Sea, Sand and People: An Environmental History of Coastal Dunes (2018-2024), funded by an ERC Starting Grant. She is currently one of the editors of the journal Coastal Studies and Society.