The UC Davis History department would like to congratulate Manoel Rendeiro Neto on his new position as a Yale Postdoctoral Associate for 2025-2026 and an Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Yale University starting Fall 2026! His doctoral dissertation "Imperial Tides, Runaway Rivers: Cultivating Knowledge, Labor and Sovereignty in the Atlantic Amazon" investigates daily accounts of fluvial navigation, forest domestication, and agricultural practices that revealed fragile imperial dependencies on Afro-Indigenous knowledge in define slavery, freedom, and sovereignty in the transimperial disputes over the Amazonian Rainforest and the Guianas in the 1700s and 1800s. Congratulations Manoel!