Based in Brazil, Fernanda Ferreira is a science writer who covers a range of STEM (and occasionally non-STEM) topics, from textile conservation to vaccine stockpiles.
When it comes to the study of slavery in the Americas, Nicholas Rinehart often imagines the disciplines of literary studies and history as ships passing in the night. “They share similar concerns,” he says. “But literary scholars and historians examine slave testimony in distinctive ways that are rarely compatible.”
