Freg J. Stokes

Freg J. Stokes serves as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History within Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, based at 1727 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA.

Stokes' research critically examines Environmental History and the History of Capitalism through the lens of Indigenous Resistance in South America's Atlantic Rainforest region, integrating Cartography to analyze spatial representations of colonial expansion and ecological transformation. This work situates commodity frontiers within global historical frameworks, emphasizing indigenous agency against capitalist and imperial forces.

As an affiliate of Harvard's Weatherhead Center, Stokes contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship on transnational historical dynamics, with research intersecting environmental change, economic systems, and decolonial spatial practices.