Freg Stokes

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology.
Freg Stokes

Freg Stokes has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, Spanish and Visual Art and a PhD in History from the University of Melbourne. His PhD thesis, “The Hummingbird’s Atlas: Mapping Guaraní Resistance in the Atlantic Rainforest during the Emergence of Capitalism (1500–1768)”, won the 2022 Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia’s Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation, along with the 2023 Australian Historical Association’s General History Thesis Prize. 

Over the last eight years Freg has worked with Guaraní researchers in South America, mapping deforestation and Indigenous resistance to colonisation since 1500. Freg is currently extending this research model, drawing on archival sources to map capitalist expansion, deforestation and political resistance over the last five centuries.