David Rockefeller Center Harvard University Davidfor Latin Rockefeller American Center Studies for Latin American Studies | AnnualAnnual Report Report 2017-18 2017-18

MISSION

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University works to increase the knowledge of the cultures, economies, histories, environment and contemporary affairs of Latin America; foster cooperation and understanding among the peoples of the Americas; and contribute to democracy, social progress and sustainable development throughout the hemisphere.

OBJECTIVES TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 18 Expand research and teaching FROM THE CHAIR STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES AND FROM THE DIRECTOR on Latin America at Harvard Student Programs in Latin America 2 Grants Awarded to Students Strengthen ties between HARVARD IN LATIN AMERICA AND Prizes and Fellowships LATIN AMERICA AT HARVARD Certificates in Latin American Studies Harvard University and institutions Andes & Southern Cone Andes & Southern Cone Program 24 throughout Latin America Regional Office in Chile ADVISORS AND SPONSORS ARTS@DRCLAS DRCLAS Governance Enhance public understanding Brazil Donors of Latin America in the United Brazil Studies Program Brazil Office 26 States and abroad Mexico, Central America, FINANCIAL INFORMATION and the Caribbean Mexico, Central America, 27 and the Caribbean Program STAFF AND INTERNS Mexico Office Cuba Cuba Studies Program

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DRCLAS David Rockefeller Center EVENTS AND CONFERENCES for Latin American Studies FAS Faculty of Arts and Sciences 16 GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Sciences FACULTY RESEARCH GSD Harvard Graduate School of Design AND TEACHING HBS Harvard Business School Faculty Grants HDS Harvard Divinity School Visiting Scholars, Fellows, HGSE Harvard Graduate School of Education HKS Harvard Kennedy School and Professors HLS Harvard Law School HMS Harvard Medical School HSPH Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health Cover image: Sampling of the David Rockefeller beetle collection. Courtesy of Museum of SEAS Harvard John A. Paulson School of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. This page: Beetle sketch done by David Rockefeller Engineering and Applied Sciences with his art tutor. Courtesy of Eileen Rockefeller Growald. Dear Friends,

We write to you in a moment of transformation. Harvard has just welcomed new President of Harvard, Lawrence Bacow, and we have new administrative leadership at DRCLAS. The demand from students and faculty is at an all-time high and you will see in this Annual Report that our programs are flourishing in spite of decreased resources. In our nearly 25 years, we’ve never been more productive, and yet there is so much more we could do with additional resources!

We offer a few highlights:

DRCLAS awarded 24 faculty grants, and welcomed 14 Visiting Scholars. The Cambridge office hosted over 100 events and conferences in 2017-18, including putting the spotlight on Latinx issues during the calendar year 2018. Harvard University signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education in Havana in December 2017, to facilitate research and collaboration.

Our 3 overseas offices are flourishing:

• In Mexico we inaugurated the Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series, the first Harvard Lecture Series named for a Latin American Scholar, funded by AC member José Antonio Alonso Espinosa. We also have the first three collaborative research projects projects sponsored by the Mexico Innovation Fund.

• In Chile we celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Regional Office in Chile and hosted 5 Harvard faculty participating in the Congreso del Futuro in Santiago. Four collaborative research projects began, sponsored by the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.

• In Brazil we held the 10th edition of the Harvard-Brazil Public Health Collaborative Field Course led by Professor Marcia Castro, and undertook 6 new collaborative research projects sponsored by the Lemann Fund across FAS, HGSE, SEAS, and HMS.

The Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard welcomed new Latin America-related faculty members including Ieva Jusionyte in Anthropology and Social Studies and Gabriela Soto Laveaga in History of Sciences. Roberto Gonzales joined the faculty at the Graduate School of Education.

Thanks to our faculty reach and institutional will, extraordinary staff, and our cumulative experience, we have reached a moment when your own impact on Latin America through Harvard can be leveraged and amplified far beyond what would have been possible a decade ago. Nearly 300 students applied for 175 slots on our overseas programs, and we received 65 faculty grant applications for 24 awards — it is clear is that we could double our impact on Latin America and on Harvard if the resources were more abundant.

As we prepare to enter our 25th year, our Advisory Committee took a new direction: an internal working meeting with top Harvard faculty to focus on strategic issues facing Latin America. Views helped inform us in our thoughts for the future. Now we call on all of you reading this Annual Report to take action to strengthen DRCLAS to achieve further transformation in the study of Latin America that began nearly a quarter century ago. We depend on the support of those who believe in us.

Enjoy the beauty, passion, and the excellence of Latin America that jump from these pages.

As always, we close with our deepest thanks for your continued belief in and support of our mission.

Brian D. Farrell, Tony Custer, faculty director chair, advisory committee

DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 1 HARVARD IN LATIN AMERICA

AND LATIN AMERICA AT HARVARD

Clockwise from top left: Students in the Harvard Jazz Bands perform at the DRCLAS Open House in September; several traveled to Cuba in June 2017 with the support of DRCLAS. María Luisa Parra discusses the life of Frida Kahlo with Harvard deans and professors at Kahlo’s house-museum in Mexico City. Students and staff from Harvard and Brazil in the Mentoring and Language Acquisition (MLAB) program visit Cachoeira dos Pretos park near Joanópolis, Brazil. Mentors and mentees in MLAB take a capoeira class in São Paulo, Brazil. Students studying abroad in Chile tour San Pedro de Atacama.

2 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Andes & Southern Cone Program

From left to right: DRCLAS Director Brian Farrell and Chilean senator Guido Girardi sign a letter of intent to collaborate on scientific research and dissemination. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos speaks at HLS after receiving the Great Negotiator Award. Isabel Allende answers audience questions following her book presentation and discussion with Dr. Diana Sorensen.

Through a diverse set of activities in the Carlos Mesa, the former president of Allende shared stories of her personal expe- 2017-2018 academic year, the Andes and Bolivia, visited the center in September to riences living in exile during the dictatorship Southern Cone Program worked to increase offer his perspective on the maritime dis- in Chile and her concerns about inhumane visibility of the cultures, histories, and politics pute between Bolivia and Chile. Mesa joined treatment towards refugees in the U.S. of the Spanish-speaking countries in South Bolivia’s current president Evo Morales for and globally. America. To this end, the program hosted and hearings at the International Court of Justice Two seminars in the spring explored cur- co-sponsored 25 events. For many of these, in The Hague, Netherlands, in a lawsuit over rent affairs in Chile, Peru, and Venezuela. DRCLAS facilitated visits from esteemed polit- sea access for the landlocked Bolivia. Moderated by Isabel Guerrero (HKS), Carlos ical figures, scholars, and community leaders In the wake of hurricanes and earthquakes Pareja, the Peruvian Ambassador in the from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, that struck various Latin American countries, U.S., and Juan Gabriel Valdés, the Chilean and Peru, opening up dialogues between Judith Palfrey (HMS) led a half-day conference Ambassador in the U.S., came together to these guests and Harvard faculty, students, on Natural Disaster Recovery: Recupera Chile discuss relations between their countries and visiting scholars. As in years past, the and Lessons Learned for the Region. Though and U.S. relations with the region more program strategically partnered with several centering on crisis response in the context broadly. As conditions in Venezuela desta- student groups, departments, and centers at of the 2010 earthquake in Chile, the speakers bilized, Professor of Government Steven the university in order for its programming also entered into dialogue with Pedro Reina Levitsky moderated a timely panel, Venezuela: to reach diverse audiences and adequately Perez, a professor at the University of Puerto The Survival Strategies of an Authoritarian cover the many countries under its purview. Rico, who has been working on recovery proj- Regime, with political scientists and human Deepening relationships between Harvard ects to serve Puerto Rico, and Emilio Rabasa rights researchers. and Chile, DRCLAS hosted Chilean Senator Gamboa, the Consul General of Mexico, who The fifth annual Harvard-MIT Colombia Guido Girardi who chairs the Commission considered ways to help Mexico after the Conference was organized by students in on Future Challenges, Science, Technology, September earthquakes. the Boston area, and DRCLAS was pleased and Innovation. Girardi and DRCLAS direc- Shaped by her participation in the 2013 to support the initiative. Titled Colombia 2040: tor Brian Farrell signed a letter of intent to DRCLAS thematic initiative Democracy and Tejiendo el País que Queremos, the focus was on enhance collaborations in scientific research Memory, the program welcomed Argentine the future, both potential consequences of and dissemination. sociologist Elizabeth Jelin back to campus the country’s 2018 presidential elections and The center co-hosted Colombian President this fall to discuss her latest book, The longer-term changes in education, entrepre- Juan Manuel Santos during his visit to campus Struggle for the Past: How We Construct Social neurship, journalism, and more. in the fall. Also a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Memory, with Kathryn Sikkink (HKS) and Santos received the Great Negotiator Award Kimberly Theidon (Anthropology Professor, FACULTY COMMITTEE from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Tufts University). Noel Michele Holbrook (FAS), Chair Law School in recognition of his work on To celebrate the publication of her latest Charles Alcock (FAS), Felipe Barrera-Osorio (HGSE), the Colombian peace accords. In a lengthy novel, renowned Chilean writer and human Mercedes Becerra (HMS), Thomas Cummins (FAS), panel discussion with HLS professors, Santos rights advocate Isabel Allende spoke in David Foster (FAS), Gonzalo Giribet (FAS), Steven shared insight about the agreements with Cambridge alongside Diana Sorensen, the Levitsky (FAS), Judith Palfrey (HMS), Donald Pfister students and faculty and thanked HLS Senior James F. Rothenberg Professor of Comparative (FAS), Forest L. Reinhardt (HBS), Mariano Siskind (FAS), Doris Sommer (FAS), Gary Urton (FAS) Fellow William Ury for his support during Literature and Erin Goodman, DRCLAS the negotiations. Associate Director of Academic Programs. http://drclas.harvard.edu/andes-southern-cone

DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 3 Regional Office in Chile

The Regional Office (RO) located in Santiago, Chile, has welcome over 1700 students and faculty members to the region over its fifteen years of existence, for research, internships, conferences, and study abroad. Several multi- year initiatives, such as Recupera Chile, the Harvard Women’s Conference, and Social Integration through the Arts in the Americas (SITA), made significant advancements, and the RO also established new projects, including a partnership with Chilean Senator Guido Girardi, President of the Senate’s Future Challenges, Science, Technology and Innovation Commission. The office contin- ues to strengthen its relationship with local constituencies, including the Harvard clubs in the region. In its second year, the Harvard-Universidad Afolfo Ibáñez Collaborative Research Fund supported four projects of Harvard faculty members Michele Holbrook (FAS, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology), Lisa Randall (FAS, Physics), Mariano Siskind (FAS, Romance Languages and Literatures), and Charles Waldheim (GSD). Undergraduates visit Parque de la Reserva in Lima, Peru, during orientation for the Summer A key activity of the RO is supporting stu- Internship Program. dent experiences in Latin America through a January rural health and language immersion by Judith Palfrey. as an institutional organizer of the second program in Chile; summer internships in Early in the fall semester, Chilean Senator Puelche Frutillar International Forum for Chile, Argentina, and Peru; term-time study Giudo Girardi visited Harvard, where he Creativity and Learning. Professor Doris abroad programs in Chile and Argentina; signed a letter of intent with Brian Farrell Sommer (FAS) and Adriana Gutierrez of and a January course for HSPH students, to expand collaboration on dissemination of the Romance Languages and Literatures Health Reform and Community Medicine, led research and technological innovation. Department presented on the approach of by Professor Thomas Bossert. In his role as the President of the Senate their Cultural Agents Initiative as well as Since its creation six years ago in response Commission on Future Challenges, Science, the Youth Orchestra of the Americas, Chile to the 2010 earthquake that devastated south- Technology, and Innovation, Girardi organizes Chapter. Two HGSE professors, Daniel Wilson ern Chile, Recupera Chile has addressed an international symposium called Congreso and Linda Nathan, also led programs in the community needs through several projects del Futuro. As the first collaboration in this heavily attended event of talks and workshops and has begun to reflect on the successes new partnership with DRCLAS, he invited at Teatro del Lago. and continuing challenges. The initiative, several Harvard faculty members to partici- In a third conference in January, the RO led by Doug Ahlers (HKS) and Judith Palfrey pate in the seventh iteration of Congreso del demonstrated its commitment to women’s (HMS), organized a public discussion to Futuro in January of 2018. DRCLAS Director issues in the region by organizing the IV share lessons from implementing projects in Brian Farrell led the Harvard delegation com- Harvard Women’s Conference at the Pontificia Cobquecura, Dichato, and Perales that can be prised of four additional professors—Judith Universidad Católica. Titled Acciones de Género: applied elsewhere and invited experts from Palfrey (HMS, Pediatrics), Eric Mazur (SEAS, Mujeres en la Academia, the program opened CIDIGEN, the National Research Center Physics), Daniel Nocera (FAS, Chemistry), and with a keynote address by Professor Judith for Integrated Disaster Risk Management Alyssa Goodman (FAS, Astronomy)—who Singer who is also the Senior Vice Provost in Chile, to Harvard. In its annual summer presented in the Congreso del Futuro and met for Faculty Development and Diversity. program in Dichato, Recupera Chile served with the Senate Commission to brainstorm This conference built on the discussion gen- over 70 children and their parents through future areas of collaboration. erated by Mujeres en el Mundo Laboral: Más outdoor activities for children and educational Furthering discourse on the intersection Oportunidades, Crecimiento y Bienestar, a con- workshops on pediatrics for parents, delivered of the arts and education, the RO served ference in November that the RO organized in

4 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Harvard College students at Isla Negra with Pilo Mella.

DRCLAS leaders and guests at the Regional Office’s 15th Anniversary Celebration in January. collaboration with the Harvard Club de Chile support offered by the RO. Former Nieman and the Comisión Nacional de Productividad. Fellow and respected Chilean journalist Paula The RO alongside the Harvard Forest orga- Molina led the project and wove the personal nized the fifth annual International Congress accounts of oceanographer James McCarthy, on Conservation Finance, drawing over 150 business historian Geoffrey Jones, fungi spe- participants to consider environmental issues cialist Donald Pfister and six other Harvard and long-term conservation efforts in Chile. professors into the e-book collection of stories. A group including graduate students led by The book was launched in Santiago in January HKS professor Rand Wentworth explored and in Cambridge in April, with a panel of similar subjects several weeks earlier Harvard professors presenting. when the RO hosted the half-day seminar Energy and Conservation: Possible, Eventual FACULTY COMMITTEE Points of Convergence? The six Louis Bacon Shared with Andes & Southern Cone - see page 3 Environmental Leadership Fellows at HKS The Regional Office Advisory Group is shared their experiences as government comprised of senior leaders from across disciplines officials, climate change strategists, and and sectors with a demonstrated commitment to sustainability consultants and heard from education. They are stewards of increasingly strong representatives of the Ministry of Energy in ties between Harvard and the region and provide vi- Chile and leaders of energy companies and sion, advice and support to the Regional Office and conservation non-profits. its initiatives. Rounding out the month of January, the U.S. Judith Palfrey (HMS), Faculty Chair Ambassador to Chile Carol Perez graciously Felipe Antonio Custer hosted the RO’s 15th Anniversary Celebration Fernando Campero Hugo Carranza in Santiago. Leaders in academia, business, Ellen Guidera and government gathered with students, Gustavo Herrero alumni, staff, and supporters of the office to León Larraín mark the occasion. Mauricio López In commemoration of the 15th anniversary, Paola Luksic the RO released an e-book titled Lights on Victor Marroquín the South: 15 Years of Harvard in Chile and an Peter Morse Francisco Ravecca Jones accompanying archive of video interviews Cynthia Sanborn Brian Farrell (above) presents at the Congreso with Harvard faculty members whose del Futuro at the invitation of Chilean Senator research has been shaped by on-the-ground http://ro.drclas.harvard.edu Guido Girardi.

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Through seminars, concerts, film screenings, Patricio del Real, incorporated the themes and Rigoberto Perezcano and his feature Carmin exhibitions, and lectures by artists, curators, a visit to the exhibit into the class syllabus. Tropical, discussed by the Director and two and scholars, ARTS@DRCLAS brings the In the middle of the exhibition run, Terrones graduate students from Professor Delgado’s visual, verbal, and performing arts of Latin offered a curator-led walkthrough, which class. Also at the HFA, the film series closed America to Harvard. Working closely with drew a large crowd of students and commu- with legendary Director Arturo Ripstein’s The faculty members and departments, including nity members. Place Without Limits. History of Art and Architecture, Visual and The exhibition was also the point of depar- The collaborative Marca X exhibition, a Environmental Studies, Romance Languages ture for a half-day symposium that featured joint initiative of the Boston LGBTQIA Artist’s and Literatures, Music, and the Graduate a keynote address by esteemed Argentine Alliance, the Harvard Ed Portal, Inquilinos School of Design, ARTS@DRCLAS serves as writer and critic Sylvia Molloy. Following Boricuas en Acción (IBA), and DRCLAS, a resource for students and faculty working her address Translating as Queer Practice: A enabled ARTS@DRCLAS to strengthen in the arts and strives to ensure academic Personal Story, undergraduate student Ming community partnerships and increase its presence, expand research and contribute to Li Wu performed spoken word poetry that visibility in Boston, reaching new audiences. the University’s teaching mission. responded to the video by Naufus Ramírez- The exhibition showcased work by Boston- In the 2017-18 academic year, many of Figueroa in the exhibition. Curators and based LGBTQ-identifying artists, including the ARTS@DRCLAS events formed a series, scholars Gabriela Rangel, Carl Fischer, and one Harvard student. Marca X was held in Looking Out for the Queer in Latin American José Gatti participated in a panel to further gallery spaces at both the Harvard Ed Portal Video Art and Film, co-curated by Romance discuss non-normative sexualities and their in Allston and Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción Languages and Literatures Professor Sergio expressions throughout the region, histori- in Boston’s South End. Joaquín S. Terrones, Delgado Moya and Joaquín S. Terrones (PhD cally and in the present. who curated Guiñadas Gráciles, participated ’09). The backbone of the series was the exhibi- The complementary film series comprised in the artist talk entitled Decolonizing the Body, tion, Guiñadas Gráciles: Looking Out for the Queer five screenings over two semesters, includ- further cementing the presence of DRCLAS in Latin American Video Art, on view at the cen- ing partnerships with the Boston Latino in local arts dialogues. ter from October to April. The works featured International Film Festival and the Harvard In conjunction with the Harvard Art were by artists Karen Harley (Brazil), Roberto Film Archive. Two of the five filmmakers Museum and the departments of History of Jacoby and Syd Krochmalny (Argentina), traveled to Harvard to present their films Art and Architecture and Romance Languages Carlos Leppe (Chile), Hélio Oiticica (Brazil), and answer audience questions. The short and Literatures, ARTS@DRCLAS organized and Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (Guatemala). documentary Mami, mi Gallito, y Yo was elab- a public lecture with Argentine art historian In addition to the six video works, Terrones orated upon in depth by director Arisleyda and curator Andrea Giunta. The presentation interspersed excerpts of poetry and prose by Dilone for students in Romance Languages focused on the exhibition she co-curated, seminal figures who wrote on experiences and Literatures Professor Lorgia García Peña’s Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960- of queerness in a Latin American context. course, Introduction to Latino/a Literature in the 1985, which gained critical acclaim when it Courses, including a freshman seminar led United States. As part of the series, the Harvard first opened at the Hammer Museum in Los by History of Art and Architecture Professor Film Archive hosted Mexican filmmaker Angeles as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/

Visitors observe the works of art in the Marca X exhibit during the Gallery Opening at La Galería at the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts of Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (left). "Pink Mountain" (right) by Ethel Calderin was on view at the Harvard Ed Portal Crossings Gallery.

6 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Left: Filmmaker Arisleyda Dilone shares the personal experience of making an autobiographical documentary on her family and gender identity to students following her screening. Right: Curator Andrea Giunta guides graduate students through her thinking behind the exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Artists, 1960-1985 in its installation at the Brooklyn Museum.

LA. Graduate students in Professor Delgado’s seminar participated in a workshop with Giunta at DRCLAS and then traveled to New York to take part in the Brooklyn Museum’s Opening Celebration, which included talks by many of the living artists whose work is in the exhibit. The students also toured the exhibition with Giunta providing insight into her curatorial practice. The program strengthened its ties with graduate student organizations, supporting fall and spring activities as the Women in Design symposia organized by the Latin GSD. Additionally, a new collaboration was initiated in the Fall between ARTS@DRCLAS and the Music Department through its graduate stu- dent group GLAM (Group for Latin American Musics). The GLAM Concert Series, designed During the Brooklyn Museum’s Radical Women Opening Celebration, Analivia Cordeiro demonstrates around the promotion of Latin American body postures that she translated into written language to represent dance. music on the Harvard campus through an annual concert and associated master class in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Convened with featured Fonema Consort and a master class six additional universities in the region at the with Mexican Composer, Julio Estrada. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos The third year of the Arts and Sciences Aires (MALBA), this conference, attended Workshop series included four seminars by more than 250 people, included presenta- moderated by its co-chair, Professor Mariano tions by scholars and practitioners working in Siskind, featuring speakers from UMass Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay as well as Boston, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Graduate School of Design scholars Belinda MIT, and the Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Tato and Pedro Aparicio. Moreno, Argentina. In Latin America, ARTS@DRCLAS con- tinued to expand its relationships with arts FACULTY COMMITTEE institutions in the region through its Overseas Thomas Cummins (FAS), Co-chair Harvard Faculty Series. The latest sympo- Diana Sorensen (FAS), Co-chair Sergio Delgado Moya (FAS) sium of the Landscape as Urbanism in the Sylvia Molloy answers an audience question Mary Schneider Enriquez (Harvard Art Museums) Americas Series led by Graduate School of during the panel discussion Looking Out for the Design Professor Charles Waldheim, was held http://drclas.harvard.edu/arts Queer in Latin American Art.

DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 7 brazil

The DRCLAS Brazil Office was established in São Paulo in 2006 to facilitate ties between Harvard and Brazilian academic and research institutions. The Office supports Harvard faculty and students in their research, teaching and learning throughout the country. The joint work of the Brazil Office in São Paulo and the Brazil Studies Program at Harvard has created new opportunities and resulted in a rich set of research, programmatic and student activities at the University Students from HSPH and various Brazilian institutions convened for the 10th Public Health Collaborative and in Brazil. Field Course in Fortaleza.

Brazil Studies Program Brazil Office

The Brazil Studies Program (BSP) hosted 15 Wash, Judge Marcelo Bretas, Former Brazilian In the 2017-18 academic year, the Brazil Office seminars and co-sponsored five additional Supreme Court Chief-Justice Ellen Gracie, worked to expand Harvard’s geographic reach events in collaboration with other Centers and Professors Roberto Mangabeira Unger, as well as the range of disciplines Harvard and departments at Harvard over the course Michael Klarman, Ronaldo Lemos, Michael scholars engage with in Brazil. Collaborative of the year. Gerrard, Todd Henderson, David Wilkins and courses and research that took place in all With BSP Co-Chair Frances Hagopian Holger Spammann. corners of Brazil’s vast territory covered moderating, the seminar series addressed As part of the university’s first Worldwide areas such as archaeology, biology, education, subjects including the anthropophagy artistic Week, the Brazil Studies Program co-spon- engineering, neuroscience, public health and and literary movement, economic reform, air sored The New Era of Epidemics: Surveillance, urban planning. Recognizing the challenge of quality in the Amazon, labor laws, the history Response, Impact, and Challenges. As one of five successfully collaborating with distant regions of urban planning in São Paulo, and language esteemed speakers in the discussion, Professor of Brazil from Harvard’s base in São Paulo, and cognitive development of children. The Marcia Castro shared how the Zika outbreak the Brazil Office has built alliances with insti- speakers included Harvard professors and in Brazil holds implications for how society tutions and individuals across the country. advanced graduate students who have con- can prepare for future epidemics. Beginning to map out and more systematically ducted research in Brazil, U.S.-based scholars Finally, the BSP co-sponsored the 14th work with Harvard’s Alumni network was from other universities who study Brazil, and Brazil Week at Harvard, titled Tropicália: one important step in that direction. several scholars from Brazil. Movements in Society, as well as the conference, This January marked the 10th edition of the Continuing its support of on-campus Afrodescendants in Brazil: Achievements, Present Harvard-Brazil Public Health Collaborative Brazilian student organizations, the BSP Challenges, and Perspectives for the Future, an Field Course, which brings together Harvard co-sponsored two significant student orga- initiative of the Afro-Latin American Research faculty and students alongside counterparts nized events. The Annual Brazil Conference, Institute at the Hutchins Center. from leading institutions across Brazil for an event organized by Brazilian students of In November, the DRCLAS Brazil Studies a three-week immersion. Under the leader- Harvard University and the Massachusetts Program participated in the 2017 Lemann ship of Professor Marcia Castro, the January Institute of Technology. The event brought Dialogue at the University of Illinois. The 2018 program was hosted by the Federal together students, scholars, and leaders from dialogue explored Turning Points in Brazilian University of Ceará in Fortaleza and focused the Brazilian government, non-governmental public policy, politics, the economy, and on HIV/AIDS; tuberculosis; dengue, Zika, organizations, and the private sector to dis- entrepreneurship. The Lemann Dialogue is Chikungunya; early childhood development; cuss the key contemporary social, economic, an annual conference on Brazil, held annually and violence. Local authorities such as the and political challenges in Brazil. in the United States on the campuses of the Vice-Governor of Ceará and the Secretary of Additionally, the BSP supported the consortium partners (Stanford University, Health of Fortaleza participated in the clos- Harvard Law Brazilian Association. The Columbia University, the University of Illinois, ing symposium that examined “Intersectoral students organized a four-day event enti- and Harvard University), and brings together Collaboration to Address Health Needs.” tled The Legal Symposium: The Law in the 21st scholars, public intellectuals and policy-mak- Other student programs that took place Century. Featured speakers included Justice ers to share their research, experience and in Brazil in 2017-18 included the Mentoring Luis Roberto Barroso, Judge Sérgio Moro, perspectives on the major policy challenges and Language Acquisition in Brazil (MLAB) responsible for ruling on Operation Car confronting Brazil in the 21st century. program in São Paulo, the Plant Systematics

8 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES FACULTY COMMITTEE Frances Hagopian (FAS), Co-Chair Scott Mainwaring (HKS), Co-Chair Alejandro de la Fuente (FAS) Brian D. Farrell (FAS) Helena Monteiro (ex officio) Alexander Keyssar (HKS) Bernardo Lemos (HSPH) Candelaria Garay (HKS) Chad Vecitis (SEAS) Charles Davis (FAS) Charles Nelson (HMS) Dana Charles McCoy (GSE) Edward Glaeser (HKS) Elizabeth Spelke (FAS) Everton Vargas da Costa (FAS) Felipe Fregni (HMS) Felipe Barrera-Osorio (GSE) Felipe Correa (GSD) From left to right: Brazilian students at Harvard gathered at the Welcome Back event in fall of 2017. Filipe Robin Campante (HKS) Harvard and Brazilian high school students enjoy the Mentoring and Language Acquisition in Brazil Gareth Doherty (GSD) (MLAB) retreat in the interior of São Paulo state. Fabio Kanczuk, Secretary of Economic Policy in the Gigi Luk (GSE) Brazilian Ministry of Finance, presents on the impact of economic reforms. Harvey Cox (HDS) Jack Shonkoff (GSE) Josiah Blackmore (FAS) Juliana Deleo (ex officio) and Evolution Field Trip to Bahia, and Summer education programs at a moment in which Marcia Castro (HSPH) Margot Gill (ex officio) Programs in São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Recife teacher education has become a top priority Mariano Siskind (FAS) and Acre. The latter, called “The Black Earth of the country’s education agenda. Melissa Dell (FAS) and Radial Villages of Acre, Brazil,” was led The Brazil Office’s initiative on early child- Michael Chu (HBS) by Professor Gary Urton and former CAPES hood development continues to flourish. Naomi Pierce (FAS) Noel Michele Holbrook (FAS) Distinguished Visiting Professor Eduardo Professors Jack Shonkoff, Charles Nelson, Paola Uccelli (GSE) Goes Neves. It provided an unprecedented Ronald Ferguson and Dana McCoy taught Paul Moorcroft (FAS) opportunity for Harvard students to work at the 7th annual NCPI Executive Leadership Paul Wesley Nakazawa (GSD) in the field alongside Brazilian specialists, Program in Early Childhood Development at Peter Libby (HMS) Roberto Unger (HLS) students and community members, learning Harvard, while Professor Isabel Pulgar and Rohit Deshpande (HBS) a variety of analytical techniques commonly HKS alumna Carolina Larriera spoke at the S V Subramanian (HSPH) employed in archaeological investigations. 2nd Brazil-based version of the program. Post- Scot T. Martin (SEAS) The Lemann Brazil Research Fund and Graduation Fellow Christina Kirby provided Scott V. Edwards (FAS) Sergio Delgado (FAS) Cities Research Grants have been important expert support to NCPI’s innovation lab work. Sidney Chalhoub (FAS) enablers for Harvard researchers to pursue Finally, the Brazil Office has worked Steven Wofsy (SEAS) research endeavors in Brazil. In March, the closely with the newly elected Board of the Sven Beckert (FAS) Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Harvard Alumni Club of Brazil (HACB) to Thales Teixeira (HBS) Theodore MacDonald (FAS) the Office of the Vice Provost for International help rejuvenate the local alumni community. Viviane Gontijo (FAS) Affairs announced support for 6 new collabo- The 2017-18 Harvard-Brazil Dialogues series, rative research projects, led by primary inves- which provides opportunities for alumni to The Brazil Office Advisory Group is comprised of senior leaders from across disciplines and sectors tigators from HGSE, FAS, SEAS and HMS. In participate in intellectually stimulating dis- with a demonstrated commitment to education. April, 13 Harvard graduate students were cussions, included sessions led by Professors They are stewards of increasingly strong ties be- selected to receive support for their research Richard Freeman (FAS), Fernando Reimers tween Harvard and Brazil and provide vision, advice on cities in Brazil, which covers a range of (HGSE) and Isabel Guerrero Pulgar (HKS) and support of the Brazil Office and its initiatives. topics spanning informal occupation, the as well as Advanced Leadership Initiative Claudio Haddad, Chair Ana Paula Martinez effects of tourism on coastal cities and the Fellow Mario Porto Fonseca and alumnus Elisa Pereira Reis intersection of cinema, literature and the Jefferson Alvares (LLM ’11). The Harvard- Flavia Buarque de Almeida urban experience. Brazil Alumni Impact Survey, a joint effort Guilherme Leal In May, Professor Katherine Merseth of the Brazil Office and HACB, has already João Fernando Gomes de Oliveira João José Reis launched a case study book that was devel- collected 276 responses, which are helping Jorge Paulo Lemann oped in collaboration with educators from the Brazil Office and HACB to better under- José Olympio da Veiga Pereira Roraima to Santa Catarina, representing both stand the influence of Harvard-Brazil alumni Martín E. Escobari urban and rural settings. The 22 dilemmas and develop an effective alumni engagement Paula Louzano Philip Yang outlined in the book, which garnered a great strategy for the coming years. Wolff Klabin deal of attention from the media, can serve as rich didactic materials for Brazilian teacher https://brazil.drclas.harvard.edu/

DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 9 mexico, central america, and the caribbean

The Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Program in Cambridge is a hub for student and faculty interest in the region. In 2017-18, DRCLAS began the work of splitting into two distinct Programs, each with its own faculty committee: the Mexico Studies Program; and the Central American & Caribbean Program, which will take effect in 2018-19. The team in Cambridge works closely with the Mexico Office, under the guidance of GSD Professor Diane Davis, Chair of the Faculty Committee on Mexico (previously, on Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean). The Program and Office have worked together to consolidate themselves as the main “facilitators” of Mexico- and Central America-related affairs for faculty members, researchers, and students.

Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Program

In the 2017-18 academic year, the Mexico, Cen- book in discussion with MCCP Faculty Chair HKS Mexican Caucus. Drawing a crowd of tral America, and the Caribbean Program Diane Davis at the GSD. Titled Borderwall over two hundred, the speakers at the event (MCCP) organized or co-sponsored 18 events as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mex- included José Antonio González Anaya, the and provided major support for a two-day ico Boundary, Real’s book puts forth a wide Secretary of Finance of Mexico, and Ale- student-organized conference. Responding range of forms and functions, from playful jandro Werner, the Director of the Western to current events, such as natural disasters to practical, for a future structure at the bor- Hemisphere Department of the International affecting Mexico and Puerto Rico, the MCCP der, envisioning the space as bringing people Monetary Fund. Panels throughout the days added seminars to its lineup to address timely together rather than dividing communities. covered the criminal justice system, citizen matters, demonstrating its commitment to Offering a new take on how illicit drug security, entrepreneurship, health policy, and serving as a venue for dialogue on key issues industries have affected Latin America, the the status of democracy in Mexico. affecting the many countries in its scope. MCCP collaborated with the Andes and In culminating the year’s programming, At this critical juncture in public discourse Southern Cone Program to organize a panel the MCCP screened Rush Hour, a feature on immigration reform and U.S.-Mexico re- of historians and political scientists for The documentary about the odyssey involved in lations, several events in the program cen- Origins of Narcotrafficking: Mexico and Colom- commuting to and from work in three large tered on these subjects. In the fall, the MCCP bia in Comparative Perspective, followed by a contemporary cities: Los Angeles, Istanbul co-sponsored a lecture by Professor Ieva Jusio- lively discussion. Raising awareness on top- and Mexico City. Rush Hour took an intimate nyte (FAS, Anthropology, Social Studies) titled ics and histories outside of the limelight in approach in detailing the hardships of city life, The Border Wall: Life and Injury on the Frontlines. mainstream U.S. news coverage, the MCCP a reality shared by billions of people across Jusionyte shared ethnographic research from co-sponsored two Tuesday Seminars focusing the globe in response to the way we have following emergency responders in the border on Nicaragua and El Salvador. developed and conceived our largest cities. region and analyzed the effects on both sides In the first weeks of the spring semester, A discussion about the film was held with of the border of the proposed higher security the MCCP co-sponsored The Mexico Conference MCCP Faculty Committee Chair, Diane Davis, infrastructure. Approaching the same topic 2018: The Path(s) Forward organized by the as well as the film's director, Luciana Kaplan. from a designer’s perspective, UC Berkeley student groups Harvard University Mexican Professor Ronald Real discussed his latest Association of Students (HUMAS) and the MCCP FACULTY COMMITTEE Presentation on The Origins of Narcotrafficking: Mexico and Colombia in Comparative Perspective, Diane Davis, Chair (GSD) with (left to right) Lina Britto (Northwestern University), Froylán Enciso (CIDE), Ana Villarreal (Boston Laura Alfaro (HBS) University), and Harvard professors Ieva Jusionyte and Kirsten Weld. Davíd Carrasco (FAS, Anthropology; HDS) Enrique Cifuentes (HSPH) Doug Dockery (HSPH) William Fash (FAS, Anthropology) Lorgia García Peña (FAS, RLL and History & Literature) Ieva Jusionyte (FAS, Anthropology) Horacio Larreguy (FAS, Government) John Macomber (HBS) María Luisa Parra (FAS, RLL) Michael Reich (HSPH) Gabriela Soto Laveaga (FAS, History of Science) Jocelyn Viterna (FAS, Sociology) Kirsten Weld (FAS, History)

https://mx.drclas.harvard.edu

10 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Harvard students participating in the Mexico City Winternship Program and HSPH Winter Courses network with friends and affiliates of DRCLAS during the Mexico Office January Reception. The Mexico Office

The 2017-18 academic year was one of revital- Mexican Health Care System,” co-taught by Doris Sommer, Williams Professor of RLL. ization for the newly renamed Mexico Office Professor Michael Reich and Martín Lajous, The MXO has also offered logistical support of DRCLAS (MXO). With a refocused mission Adjunct Professor at HSPH; and “Public and advice for future Mexico-related research, intended to optimize resources, the Office Health in Megacities,” led by HSPH Senior teaching, or dissemination initiatives to over has thrived in its objectives of advancing the Researcher Enrique Cifuentes. In June 2018 a dozen faculty members from five schools research and educational goals of Harvard the MXO helped organize a conference on at Harvard. faculty and students working in and on Mex- reconstruction after the September 19th The second central aspect of the MXO’s ico. The MXO started off the 2017-18 academic earthquake in Mexico, led by Diane Davis; work involves supporting student work. year with the launch of the Eduardo Matos the conference was intended to inform the Thanks to increased recruitment and support Moctezuma Lecture Series. This initiative, work of a GSD student group working on in Cambridge, the MXO has welcomed ever led by Davíd Carrasco (FAS, Anthropology; reconstruction projects in the Oaxaca Isthmus. increasing numbers of students. In January HDS), Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Finally, in the field of faculty affairs, the 2018 the Office received 30 students to Latin America at the Harvard Divinity School, MXO was honored to receive and host a variety participate in the Winternship Program. is a five-year effort to honor the excellence of of highly visible events with Deans David Additionally, the Office provided advice Mexican archaeology and history, represent- Hempton of Harvard Divinity School and and support to at least ten other students ed by the towering figure of archaeologist Doug Elmendorf of Harvard Kennedy School; from different schools working in Mexico Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, who gave the as well as faculty members Davíd Carrasco; independently. In summer 2018, the MXO inaugural lecture in Mexico City in October Glenn Cohen, Atwood and Williams Professor welcomed 17 students for internships and/or and Cambridge in April. This event was pre- of Law; Diane Davis; Sergio Delgado Moya, summer study at El Colegio de México, up sided by Mark Elliott, Vice-Provost for Interna- Associate Professor of Romance Languages from 10 students in 2017. Again, more than 20 tional Affairs. and Literatures (RLL); Doug Dockery, additional students from other programs and In 2017, DRCLAS launched the Mexico Loeb Research Professor of Environmental schools also came to Mexico to work, conduct Innovation Fund (MIF) to support collaborative Epidemiology; Alejandro de la Fuente, Bliss research, or study. The MXO is happy to help research between Harvard and Mexico. In Professor of Latin American History; Tamar students in any way needed: from providing order to secure solid proposals for the MIF, the Herzog, Gutman Professor of Latin American work space to organizing small seminars, MXO sought to create new, and reinvigorate Affairs; John Macomber, Senior Lecturer of from establishing research connections to existing relationships between Harvard Business Administration; John Meara, Kletjian supporting job searches. faculty members and Mexican scholars. The Professor of Global Surgery; María Luisa MXO has also provided active support for Parra, Senior Preceptor in RLL; Fernando faculty teaching initiatives. In January 2018 Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of the the Office hosted two HSPH courses: “The Practice of International Education Policy; and

DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 11 cuba

Cuba Studies Program

During a year of major U.S. policy changes regarding relations with Cuba, the Cuba Studies Program has remained steadfastly committed to its promotion of the study of Cuba and to the strengthening of institutional ties between Harvard and Cuban institutions. The program maintained a robust seminar series, hosted three visiting scholars from Cuban universities, published a new schol- arly text with Harvard University Press on the Cuban economy, and launched an initia- tive with the Harvard Libraries to digitize important Cuba-related resources. At the Hotel Nacional in Havana, Mark C. Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs at Harvard A major advancement towards increased University, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Aurora Fernandez, Vice Minister of Cuba’s academic partnerships between Harvard Ministry of Higher Education, on December 17, 2017. and Cuban institutions came in December when the Cuba Studies Program facilitated liographic resources. The Harvard Library Cuban bandleaders who helped music from the signing of a Memorandum of Understand- recently acquired the personal papers of the island spread in soundwaves across ing between Mark C. Elliott, Vice Provost for Rafael Queneditt Morales (1942-2016), the the globe. International Affairs at Harvard University, founder of the Afro-centric art collective Finally, the program and Harvard Univer- and Aurora Fernández, the Vice Minister at Grupo Antillano, and a second set of materi- sity Press published The Cuban Economy in a Cuba’s Ministry of Higher Education. This als, the José Augusto Escoto Cuban History New Era: An Agenda for Change Toward Durable agreement lays the groundwork for expanded and Literature collection, ca. 1574-1920, is Development, edited by Jorge I. Domínguez, forms of mutual cooperation between Har- undergoing digitization. Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva and Lorena vard and Cuban universities and opens up Of the 12 seminars organized by the pro- Barberia. The Cuba Studies Program Chair, new opportunities for collaborative research gram, two stand out as especially timely and Alejandro de la Fuente, presented the volume projects and training and exchange programs. engaging discussions. At a critical juncture in to scholars from around the world gathered at Demonstrating the rich historical lineage U.S.-Cuba relations, the program was proud the 2018 Latin American Studies Association of academic exchange between Harvard and to host the former U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, Conference in Barcelona. Cuba, this semester saw the culmination of Jeffrey DeLaurentis, for a presentation on Los Cubanos de Harvard, a documentary film his experiences serving as the diplomat who by Danny González Lucena produced by the opened the U.S. embassy in Cuba. In the Cuba Studies Program. The film narrates the spring, a seminar on the history of the illegal FACULTY COMMITTEE experience of nearly 1,300 Cuban schoolteach- slave trade to Cuba led by historians Marial Alejandro de la Fuente, Chair (FAS, History) Michael Chu (HBS) ers who traveled to Harvard in 1900 for a Iglesias Utset and Manuel Barcia stimulated Jonathan Hansen (FAS, Social Studies) summer school session on pedagogy, bringing discussion among esteemed Harvard faculty Eric Rubin (HMS) back new skills and impressions of modern and the broader Harvard community. Doris Sommer (FAS, Romance American society when they returned to the The program also expanded its support of Languages and Literatures) island. The educational project remains the the arts with an emphasis on music, co-spon- Michael Starnbach (HMS) largest cultural exchange between the two soring a concert with Harvard Jazz Bands Yosvany Terry (FAS, Music) Jocelyn Viterna (FAS, Sociology) countries to date. The October 2017 premiere director Yosvany Terry, called Ancestral Mem- of the film followed by a discussion with the ories at the Oberon Theater in Cambridge and CUBA ADVISORY GROUP filmmaker underscored the longstanding organizing two seminars led by authorities on Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland, Co-Chair links between Cuba and Harvard. The pre- Cuban music. Yosvany Terry has emerged as David Pérez, Co-Chair miere screening event was part of the uni- a key figure fostering appreciation of music of José Avalos Raz Guzmán Mario Baeza versity-wide World Wide Week initiative and African and Caribbean diasporas on campus Jay Brickman subsequent screenings were presented by the and beyond and a valuable contributor to Cristina Rubio Suárez filmmaker in Miami and Havana. music-related programming. In his seminar, Carlos Saladrigas The documentary project benefitted guitarist and composer Leo Brouwer surveyed Carlos Manuel Valdés from close collaboration with the Harvard his classical and commercial music production Rachel Weingeist Library, and partnerships with the library between 1960 and 2000, providing insight into Carlos Zumpano continue to expand with the shared goal of his process as a musician. Musician-scholar increasing accessibility to Cuba-related bib- Ned Sublette focused his seminar on two https://drclas.harvard.edu/cuba-studies-program

12 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES publications

Over the last year, the ReVista: The Harvard Review of Latin America issues spanned subjects from female empowerment through sensationally popular televnove- las to colonial-era histories of Afro-Indian rebel leaders and the impact of hurricanes on dwindling populations of 4 Caribbean parrot species. Featuring contributions from

Harvard professors and visiting scholars at DRCLAs as well as leading thinkers from around the world, the three ReVista issues of 2017-18 were "Telenovelas," "Afro-Latin Americans," and "Climate Change." In addition, DRCLAS published The Cuban Economy in a New Era: An Agenda for Change toward Durable Development.

CUBA ADVISORY GROUP Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland, Co-Chair David Pérez, Co-Chair José Avalos Raz Guzmán Mario Baeza Jay Brickman Cristina Rubio Suárez Carlos Saladrigas Carlos Manuel Valdés Rachel Weingeist Carlos Zumpano

DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 13 EVENTS & CONFERENCES

DRCLAS organized, sponsored, or co-sponsored 124 events in Cambridge this year. Ongoing series included the Tuesday Seminar, a weekly series on current Latin American politics and economics, and the Arts and Sciences Workshop, centered on the work of leading academics in the fields of the Arts, Humanities and Sciences. Other events ran through our programs for the Andes and Southern Cone, Brazil, Cuba, Central America and the Caribbean, Mexico, and ARTS@DRCLAS. Throughout the year, DRCLAS collaborated with other departments at Harvard, with diverse activities under the Latinx Initiative and the series Looking Out for the Queer in Latin American Film and Video Art.

10 conferences EVENTS IN CAMBRIDGE 24 Tuesday seminars COLOMBIA 2040: 6 Arts & Sciences Workshops V COLOMBIAN CONFERENCE AT HARVARD + MIT 21 co-sponsored student organization events Organized by the Harvard Colombian Student Society, the Total of 124 events and Colombian Association of MIT and co-sponsored by DRCLAS. This two-day event, featured 30+ speakers who discussed conferences in Cambridge throughout seven panels, two workshops and four key- 124 note speeches how to bring about positive change in the EVENTS major national priorities: climate change, competitiveness, education, innovation, journalism, leadership, peace building, and public health.

VENEZUELA: THE SURVIVAL STRATEGIES OF AN AUTHORITARIAN REGIME Co-sponsored by the Latin American Caucus at HKS, this talk CUBAN “SERIOUS” MUSIC AND featured Javier Corrales (Amherst College), Risa Grais-Tar- AESTHETICS IN 20TH CENTURY LATIN AMERICA gow (Eurasia Group) and David Smilde (Tulane University). Maestro Leo Brouwer surveyed the “Latin Tinge,” Cuban Moderated by Steven Levitsky (Harvard). classical and commercial music from 1900 – 2000. Moderated by Yosvany Terry, Visiting Senior Lecturer on Music and THE ORIGINS OF NARCOTRAFFICKING: MEXICO Director of the Harvard Jazz Band (Harvard). AND COLOMBIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Historians Froylán Enciso and Lina Britto analyzed how efforts THE EDUARDO MATOS MOCTEZUMA at agrarian reform and modernization, inter-state relations LECTURE SERIES with the United States, and social values of the popular cul- This 5-year lecture series recognizes and celebrates Mexico’s ture contributed to prepare the terrain for the flourishing of cultural legacy and Professor Eduardo Matos Moctezuma’s the drug industry in Sinaloa and the Guajira, the two regions leadership in the field of archaeology. The inaugural lectures where the drug trade originated in Mexico and Colombia, were given by Dr. Matos himself, at the Museo de Antropología respectively. Discussed by Ieva Jusionyte (Harvard), Kirsten e Historia in Mexico City in October 2017 and at the Peabody Weld (Harvard) and Ana Villarreal (BU). Museum in Cambridge in April 2018. THEMATIC PERÚ: ENTRE LA ILUSIÓN DEL CRECIMIENTO THE MEXICO CONFERENCE 2018: PROGRAMMING Y LA DESILUSIÓN DE LA POLÍTICA THE PATH(S) FORWARD THROUGH THE YEAR Co-organized with the Peruvian Student Association, this The annual Mexico conference is a student-led effort coor- event brought Verónika Mendoza, leader of New Peru Move- dinated by the Harvard University Mexican Association Thematic programming is an important way ment, and a former candidate to the presidency of Peru in of Students (HUMAS) and the Mexican Caucus (MC) at to link our activities with other departments the 2016 elections. Moderated by Steven Levitsky (Harvard). HKS. The 2018 two-day Conference promoted debate at the University and the region, participating around the path forward for Mexico over the coming 20 in current and relevant matters through faculty THE STRUGGLE FOR THE PAST: years. Panels included: Mexican Soft Power, Is Democra- and student engagement. HOW WE CONSTRUCT SOCIAL MEMORY cy Working?, Reformulating the Model, Rule of Law in Mexico: A Pending Agenda?, Launching Mexico Into the This year, the LatinX Initiative served as a Noted sociologist and pioneer of studies about historical XXI Century: A New Economic Model, Security in Mexi- resource to spread information about grow - memory, human rights and politics, Elizabeth Jelin, present- co: Challenges & Solution, Improving People’s Health in ing activities in the Harvard community to ed an overview of her book The Struggle for the Past: How We Mexico, Starting Up Mexico study and celebrate Latinx communities and Construct Social Memory. Drawing on her research and expe- themes. On campus, this involved the Harvard rience with memories of repression and violence in the 1970s DACA Seminar, The Committee on Ethnicity, and 1980s in Argentina and elsewhere in the Southern Cone, THE BRAZIL CONFERENCE AT Migration, Rights (EMR), the Department of Jelin explored how social memory is never singular, finished, HARVARD AND MIT Romance Languages and Literatures , and El and definitive. Discussed by Kimberly Theidon (Tufts) and An annual event organized by the Brazilian student Observatorio Instituto Cervantes. “Here, for a Kathryn Sikkink (Harvard). community in the Boston Area that takes place at both moment” with painter Ramiro Gomez, focused Harvard and MIT, with the goal of promoting a forum on work that makes visible the “invisible,” the RACE, ETHNICITY AND EMPATHY IN with leaders and representatives of Brazil for unfolding predominantly Latinx workforce serving the LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS innovative solutions for the country’s future. The fourth affluent areas of American cities. edition of this conference had the goal of promoting the Andrea Giunta, Curator and Professor of Latin American and “Looking Out for the Queer in Latin Ameri- hashtag #AcaoQueTransforma (Action That Transforms). International Art, presented on the exhibition Radical Women: can Film and Video Art,” featured the exhibition Latin American Art, 1960-1985, and led the workshop Latin Guiñadas Gráciles , a film series, and a panel DIMENSIONS OF CRIME CONTROL American Women Artists: a Curatorial Perspective. The exhibi- discussion. Using both the exhibition and the tion, co-curated with Dr. Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, was on view AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN BRAZIL film series as starting points, the closing event this year at the Hammer Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. Claudio Beato (University of Minas Gerais), discussed focused on the representation of queer bod - the institutional dimensions for violence control. Usually, ies and subjectivities in contemporary Latin LOS CUBANOS DE HARVARD DOCUMENTARY crime in urban communities can be explained by a num- American visual art and film. Argentine writer ber of factors such as social and economic structures, the and critic, Sylvia Molloy, delivered the keynote In the year 1900, more than half of all Cuban public school influence of social institutions like families and schools, lecture Translation as Queer Practice. teachers from across the island boarded five American military ships to travel to Cambridge to participate in a Summer School previous violence that marked the history of these com- organized by Harvard. The educational project was not only munities and organizational and institutional issues. The a resounding success, but it also became the largest cultural least-explored issue in Brazil has been that of judicial exchange that has ever existed between the two countries. In institutions. spring 2016, Cuban journalist and documentarian Danny González Lucena conducted archival research, interviews LIMA BARRETO - A SAD VISIONARY IN BRAZIL and filming at Harvard, culminating in the production of AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY the documentary. Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (University of São Paulo; Princ - eton), analyzed the life and work of Lima Barreto, a AMBASSADOR JEFFREY DELAURENTIS black writer in Rio de Janeiro who fought against dis - The Cuba Studies Program Seminar Series presented Am - crimination and racism in Brazil. Moderated by Sidney bassador Jeffrey Delaurentis, Former Chief of Mission, U.S. Chalhoub (Harvard). Embassy in Cuba.

Images: (top right) María Luisa Parra, senior preceptor at Harvard RLL, during the Latinx Initiative seminar; (center) Fonema Consort performing at the GLAM Concert Series; (bottom left) Ming Li Wu, a Harvard College student, reading poetry for Looking Out for the Queer in Latin American Film and Video Art. FACULTY RESEARCH & TEACHING

Gareth Doherty (left) conducts fieldwork in Salvador, Brazil, supported by a Faculty Grant. Faculty Grants

During the 2017-18 academic year 17 grants were awarded to faculty from the following schools: FAS, GSD, GSE, HKS, HMS, and SEAS. These grants supported a wide array of disciplines and a range of countries in the region and included 11 research projects, 3 research conferences and workshops, and 3 course-based field trips.

FACULTY Ethan Garner WORKSHOP/WORKING Pavlos Protopapas Lisa Randall RESEARCH GRANTS John L. Loeb Associate GROUP/FILM OR LEC- Lecturer and Director of Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor Professor of the Natural TURE SERIES GRANTS the Institute for Applied of Science, Physics (FAS) Gareth Doherty Sciences (FAS) Computational Science (SEAS) Assistant Professor of Land- Investigation on the spatial René Carrasco Gianni Tallarita Chile-Harvard Data scape Architecture (GSD) organization of bacterial Lecturer, History and Department of Science, Fac- Science Program Afro-Brazilian Terreiros and membrane synthesis Literature (FAS) ulty of Liberal Arts (UAI) the Urban Ecologies of Can- Conference on Biopolitics, Non-Abelian Strings domblé: a thick description Katherine E. Miller Colonialism and Bartolomé HARVARD- from Dark Matter of the Casa de Oxumaré, Assistant Professor of de las Casas UNIVERSIDAD Salvador, Brazil Medicine (HMS) AFOLFO IBÁÑEZ (UAI) Gabriela Soto Laveaga A Cuban Case Study: COLLABORATIVE Mariano Siskind Molly Forrest Franke Examining Education as a Professor of the History GRANTS Professor of Romance Assistant Professor of Global Driver of High-Performing of Science (FAS) Languages and Literatures Health and Social Primary Care Remapping and (Dis)Locat- Noel M Holbrook and of Comparative Medicine (HMS) ing Histories of Science Charles Bullard Professor Literature (FAS) Priscilla Yang Adolescent-friendly rap and Medicine of Forestry, Professor of videos to improve health Associate Professor of Micro- Organismic and Evolutionary Antonia Viu literacy among HIV-positive biology and Immunobiology COURSE-BASED Biology (FAS) Director of the Literature youth in Peru: a pilot study Collaboration to discover FIELD TRIP GRANTS Department, Faculty of and develop inhibitors of the Jacques Dumais and Liberal Arts (UAI) Candelaria Garay dengue virus entry Felipe Correa Thomas Ledger Cultures of Reading and Associate Professor of Engineering and Sciences Global Intellectual Com- Associate Professor of School (UAI) Public Policy (HKS) RESEARCH Urban Design (GSD) munities in Latin American Measurement of Water Periodicals, 1930-1950 Solidarity and Self-Interest: CONFERENCE GRANTS The Urban Legacy of Transport Properties of Labor Unions and Social the Spanish American Membranes Made of Movements in Unequal Sidney Chalhoub Grid: A Comparative Democracies Professor of History and of Perspective: Ecuador Bacterial Cellulose Charles Waldheim African and African American John E. Irving Professor of Lorgia García Peña Studies (FAS) Scott V. Edwards Landscape Architecture Roy G. Clouse Associate Afrodescendants in Brazil: Alexander Agassiz Professor and Director of the Office for Professor of Romance Lan- Achievements, Present of Zoology in the Museum Urbanization (GSD) guages and Literatures and Challenges, and Perspec- of Comparative Zoology; of History and Literature tives for the Future Professor of Organismic and Felipe Vera A Genocide of Our Own: A Evolutionary Biology (FAS) Center for Ecology, Land- Re-vision of the 1937 The Biology and scape and Urbanism (UAI) Massacre Eighty Years Later Diversity of Birds Airport Landscape: Landscape as Urbanism: 17 Research Trip, Workshop and Dissemination 16 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Visiting Scholars, Fellows, and Professors

The Visiting Scholars and Fellows Program strengthens ties between Harvard and other institutions by hosting distinguished academics and professionals who conduct research on a particular topic or region of Latin America. In 2017-18, the Center hosted ten scholars and fellows; their fields of study included history, political science, economics, anthropology among others.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY Dayma Echevarría León Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel Sylvia Sellers-Garcia VISITING PROFESSOR University of Havana Rutgers University Boston College CUBAN VISITING SCHOLAR MARVIN VISITING SCHOLAR CENTRAL AMERICAN VISITING SCHOLAR Marcos Cueto Política social en Cuba: Overseas Archipelagoes: The Woman in the Window: Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Oportunidades y retos Reframing Comparative Colonial in Rio de Janeiro Caribbean Studies A Criminal Case from Guatemala in 1800 Hosted at the Department of the Eduardo Espinosa Luciano Naka History of Science (FAS) Universidad Autónoma Verónica Vargas Metropolitana, Mexico City Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Chile VISTING SCHOLARS PEGGY ROCKEFELLER VISITING SCHOLAR LEMANN VISITING SCHOLAR LUKSIC VISITING SCHOLAR AND FELLOWS Afro-indigenous transculturation of Unveiling the Origins and Determinants of Access to Diversification of the Endemic Pharmaceuticals in Chile and Latin Alexandre Antonelli the baile de artesa: From invisibility to interactions Avifauna of the Brazilian Dry Forests American Countries University of Gothenburg, Sweden CISNEROS VISITING SCHOLAR Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva Dayrelis Ojeda Suris The Origins of Latin American Centro Cristiano de Reflexión University of Havana Biodiversity y Diálogo-Cuba CUBAN VISITING SCHOLAR CUBAN VISITING SCHOLAR Las cooperativas no agropecuarias Taylor Boas dentro de la actualización del La economía cubana: Dónde está? Y Boston University modelo económico cubano qué se podría hacer? CUSTER VISITING SCHOLAR Serving God and Man: Verónica Herrera Francisco Ortega Evangelicals and Electoral Universidad Nacional de Colombia University of Connecticut Politics in Latin America SANTO DOMINGO VISITING SCHOLAR DRCLAS VISITING SCHOLAR Social Difference in Nineteenth- From Territorial Grievances to Lila Caimari Century Colombia: An Intellectual “Principled Ideas:” Constructing San Andrés University, Buenos Aires History” Gente Decente: Equality, Environmental Citizenship in Latin DE FORTABAT VISITING SCHOLAR Diversity & Citizenship in the Gran American Cities News From Around the World: Colombian Republics 1770-1870 The Newspapers of South America in the Age of the Submarine Cables 10

Marcos Cueto (left) delivers the annual Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Scholar Lecture, "A History of AIDS in Brazil." Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel discusses the ARTS@DRCLAS exhibition with curator Joaquín S. Terrones at the Exhibition Walkthrough.

DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 17 STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES

DRCLAS student opportunities play a critical role in supplementing the teaching and knowledge of Latin America at Harvard. They fund students who want to learn more about Latin America through research, work, study, and/or experiential learning. They develop and afford opportunities for students to grow, explore, and master skills necessary for future interaction with and study on Latin America. Finally, they connect current and former students across all disciplines, fostering relations abroad in the region, as well as on campus. DRCLAS student opportunities are continually evolving and are responsive to interest. They are committed to empowering students to find and execute their passions in and about the region.

Student Programs in Latin America

DRCLAS SUMMER INTERNSHIP, ACADEMIC & EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROGRAMS JANUARY PROGRAMS

DRCLAS offers structured internship, academic, and experiential We are thrilled to lead at Harvard in offering numerous cross-disci- learning programs in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Panama and plinary overseas programs, matching the increasing student demand. Peru. These five to eight-week programs allow students to be placed This year, DRCLAS organized multiple programmatic activities for as interns, students, or volunteers with either local organizations Harvard students in Latin America during January Term with oppor- or universities aligned with their personal and career goals, or to tunities in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. participate in structured research, language, or pre-health immersion DRCLAS also assisted in the organization and execution of four programs with partner universities. The Center’s offices and staff graduate student modules: the Collaborative Public Health Field Courses in the region host family accommodations and weekly seminars in Brazil and Mexico, and the Health Reform Courses in Chile and and cultural excursions. Over fifty students were able to partici- Mexico, in collaboration with HSPH. Overall, more than 90 students pate in DRCLAS programs, many thanks to the generous support of participated in DRCLAS-sponsored programs during January 2018. Santander Universities. JANUARY 2018 PROGRAMS SUMMER 2017 PROGRAMS Healthcare and Education in Rural Settings in Partnership Summer Internship Program in Argentina with Universidad Mayor in Chile Summer Internship Program in Brazil Winternship Opportunities in Mexico City Summer Internship Program in Chile HSPH Winter Course in Mexico: Mexican Health Reform: Urban and Rural Environments Health and Spanish Immersion Program in Chile HSPH Winter Course in Mexico: Public Health in Megacities: Summer Internship Program in Mexico The Environmental Dimension El Colegio de México Study Abroad Program in Mexico Mentoring and Language Acquisition in Brazil Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama School of Engineering and Applied Sciences/Universidad Summer Internship Program in Peru de Tecnología e Ingeniería Field Course in Peru

MLAB students in Brazil. Public health course in Chiapas. Archaeology study abroad program in Acre, Brazil.

18 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Grants Awarded to Students

TERM-TIME TRAVEL GRANT RECIPIENTS

Term-time Travel grants are intended for undergraduate students completing thesis research, for graduate students conducting dissertation research and for students from the professional schools executing specific projects, such as the Policy Analysis Exercise at the Harvard Kennedy School. A total of 18 grants were awarded to two undergraduates and 16 graduate students for research conducted in the winter of 2017-2018.

ARGENTINA David Schoen PANAMA GSD/Landscape Architecture Sarah Blatt-Herold Parque Ecologico Distrital Khytie Brown College/Comparative Entre Nubes (PEDEN) and GSAS/African and African Literature the resettlement of Nueva American Studies From Tango to Text: Male- Esperanza: grounding prac- Sweetness, Spirits and Male Intimacy in Argentine tices of ecological planning the Senses: Sensory Literature by Jorge Luis and the negotiation of Epistemologies and Spiritual Borges and Manuel Puig environmental risk and Citizenship in Jamaican and urban settlement Panamanian Revival BRAZIL Zion Religion Joaquin Klot HKS/Government Jared Abbott PERU GSAS/Government Post-Conflict Redevelop- ment in Rural Colombia Understanding the Emer- Solsire gence of and Quality of Cusicanqui Marsano Maria Jimena Participation in Brazilian GSAS/Anthropology CONFERENCE TRAVEL Romero Pinto Binding Participatory Institu- Constructing Identity HKS/Government tions (BPIs) Through Mobility: Archaeo- GRANT RECIPIENTS Post-Conflict Redevelop- logical, Archaeometric, and Ana Paula Kojima Hirano ment in Rural Colombia Ethnographic Perspectives The Center’s Conference Travel Grant program is GSAS/Romance on the Early and Middle intended to alleviate travel expenses for Harvard gradu- Languages and Literature Valentina Cajamarca Culture Montoya Robledo ate students presenting or attending conferences outside The third bank of the film: Weaving fiction and reality HLS Gustavo Diaz Paz of the Boston area. In 2017-2018, DRCLAS awarded 24 in Eduardo Coutinho’s docu- Local Government GSD/Urban Planning Conference Travel Grants to students from the Graduate mentaries (1964-2014) Law Related to Public and Design School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and professional Transportation Affecting Urban Strategies For Water schools throughout Harvard. Ana Luiza Padiha Addor Domestic Workers in Resiliency in The Coast JANUARY 2018 PROGRAMS GSD/Urban Planning Latin American Cities of Peru Healthcare and Education in Rural Settings in Partnership and Design with Universidad Mayor in Chile How Design Can Address HAITI Prathima Muniyappa STUDENT GROUP Social And Racial Matters GSD/Urban Planning Winternship Opportunities in Mexico City Within A Public Space Con- Henry Stoll and Design GRANT RECIPIENTS HSPH Winter Course in Mexico: Mexican Health Reform: text In Contemporary Brazil GSAS/Music Community Self Determina- Urban and Rural Environments The Strains of Haitian tion: Chocolate as a cultural In 2017-2018, the Center awarded 19 grants to Latino Independence, 1804-1820: COLOMBIA driver for conservation and Latin American student organizations through- HSPH Winter Course in Mexico: Public Health in Megacities: Music and the Forging of in Peru The Environmental Dimension Maria Atuesta Black Empire out Harvard. Organizations supported were Act on a Mentoring and Language Acquisition in Brazil GSD/Architecture, Land- PUERTO RICO Dream; Harvard Colombian Student Society; Harvard scape, and Urban Planning ECUADOR Argentine Tango Society; Candela Dance Troupe; Latinas School of Engineering and Applied Sciences/Universidad Integration Pathways and Fabiola Guzman Rivera Unidas de Harvard College; Harvard Ecuadorian de Tecnología e Ingeniería Field Course in Peru Built Form: Housing Politics Julián Durán GSD/Architecture Student Association; Harvard Association of Peruvian in Bogota and How it College/Economics The Use and Misuse of a Students; Harvard Mexican Student Association; Affects Internally The Socioeconomic Impact "Rich Port": A Study on Flows Harvard University Brazilian Association; the Graduate Displaced Populations of Ecuadorian Higher and Logistics in Puerto Rico Education Reform School of Education’s Latin America Education Forum; SPAIN The Graduate School of Education’s Alumni of Color Conference; the Harvard Design School’s Latin GSD; Katherine Anne Mills the Harvard Design School’s Women in Design; the GSAS/History of Art Harvard Kennedy School’s Latin American Caucus; the and Architecture Harvard Kennedy School’s Mexican Caucus; Harvard Scouring the Spanish Archives for Information Kennedy School’s Global Development Conference; on 16th-17th Century and the Harvard Graduate Student Conference on Photo top right: Harvard students in Mexico with pro- Cuzquean Nuns International History. 18gram director Mauricio Benitez. DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 19 SUMMER RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANT RECIPIENTS

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies awards Summer Research Travel Grants for senior thesis or dissertation research to undergraduate and graduate students. During summer 2017, a total of 47 grants were awarded: 39 to graduate students and eight to undergraduate students. These grants were made possible through the generous support of individual endowment funds at the Center.

ARGENTINA Ayodeji Ogunnaike MEXICO Betzabe Valdes Lopez SPAIN GSAS/African & African GSD/Urban Planning Alyssa Huberts American Studies Julia Coyoli and Design Louis Desmond Gerdelan GSAS/Government Dynamic Evolution in the GSAS/Government Disaster as an Opportuni- GSAS/History Understanding The Worship of Ogum in Bahia Falling Behind? Understand- ty: Alternatives for Debris Calamitous knowledge: the Incentives Behind Program- ing How Parental Political Management at Los Perros languages of disaster in matic Slum Interventions In Anthony Otey Mobilization in Latin America Riverbank in Oaxaca, Mexico the Spanish Atlantic world, Latin American Megacities Hernandez Contributes to Lagging 1687-1746 Adele Woodmansee GSAS/Romance Student Learning BOLIVIA Languages & Literature College/Anthropology & UNITED STATES Rodrigo Del Rio Integrative Biology Denaturalizing Brazil Ann Lynch GSAS/Romance Native Corn, International Grace Evans Languages & Literature GSD/Landscape David Solomon Immigration and College/Social Studies Ideal Cities: The Writing Agricultural Change in a Architecture GSD/Architecture Political Opportunity and of Urban Life in 20th- Zapotec Community Narratives of Place: The Construction Camp in Movement Success in Texas Century Mexico A New Atlas for Potosí Brazil’s Ideal Cities and California NICARAGUA Sanctuary Networks Jose Enriquez BRAZIL Aaron Watanabe GSAS/Political Alberto Castillo Ventura Stephanie Wu GSAS/Government Economy & Government Fernando Bizzarro Neto GSAS/Romance College/Sociology How Populists Campaign: Disentangling Political GSAS/Government Languages & Literature Thesis Research on Effects Jair Bolsonaro’s Candidacy Clientelism in the 2018 Dialectics of the Plumed of Immigration Detention Courts of Modern in the 2018 Brazilian Mexican general elections Princes: The origins of Presidential Elections Serpent: Marxism and Lib- Centers on Hispanic eration Theology in Ernesto Immigration Health party-based regimes Christine Garnier Margaret Weeks Cardenal’s “Los ovnis de oro” GSAS/History of Art Jessie Bullock GSAS/History MULTIPLE COUNTRIES & Architecture Mateo Cayetano Jarquín GSAS/Government Political Organizing among Land as Image and Material: GSAS/History Jared Abbott Why and How do Rio’s Maids and Sex Workers Mexico City and Northern A Latin American Revolution: GSAS/Government Collusive Relationships During Redemocratization Mining Centers Form Between Politicians The Sandinistas, the Cold The Paradox of Participatory War, and Political Change in and Organized Criminals?: CHILE Erin Kinsella James Institutions: Explaining the the Region, 1977-1990 Causes and Effects of Bind- A Systematic Analysis of HSPH/Global Health ing Participatory Institutions Rio de Janeiros Criminal Kevin Servellon & Population Political World PERU (Bolivia and Venezuela) College/Social Studies Political Economy Analysis Democracy and Society of the Passage of the Soda Kacey Carter Katherine Anne Mills Manuel Andres Melendez in Santiago Tax in Mexico GSAS/Romance GSAS/History of Art GSAS/Government Languages and Literature & Architecture COLOMBIA Regina Larrea Maccise Criminal Electioneering in Latin America: Pre- Embodied Practices and HLS Archival Work in the Manifestations of Power: Monasterio of Santa Clara, Dissertation Fieldwork Valentina Developing Feminist Law understanding the saraus Cuzco, Peru (Mexico and El Salvador) Montoya Robledo in Mexico: Maternidad de poesia in the Literatura HLS Voluntaria and Family Periférica movement Solsire Kimberly Geronimo Planning (1971-1979) of Brazil Local Government Law Cusicanqui Marsano GSD/Urban Planning Related to Public Transpor- GSAS/Anthropology & Design tation Affecting Domestic Lizbeth Lopez Lopez Natalia Labor conditions of domes- Workers in Latin GSD/Urban Planning It’s all about scale: Domestic Escobar Castrillon tic workers in Chile: American Cities and Design political units and pan- GSD/Architecture, Andean relations in Prehis- Voices from the field Disaster as an Opportuni- Landscape & Urban Planning panic Caxamarca (Chile and Peru) ty: Alternatives for Debris The Link between Archi- CUBA Management at Los Perros tectural Conservation and Julie Weaver Carolina Silva-Portero Norma Hylton Riverbank in Oaxaca, Mexico Modernization in Brazil: GSAS/Government HLS Rethinking the Opposition College/Neurobiology Nadyeli Quiroz Calling Electoral Indigenous and Afro- Between Lina Bo Bardi and Neural Fingerprints Accountability Into Question: Descent Narratives of the Paulista School GSD/Landscape Architecture of Early Childhood Explaining Universal Disdain Equality: An Analysis of the Disaster as an Opportunity: Malnutrition for Incumbents Constitutional Conventions Elizabeth Morin Alternatives for Debris of Ecuador and Bolivia College/Social Studies Scott Roberts Management at Los Perros (2005-2009) Riverbank in Oaxaca, Mexico Impact of Olympic College/Music & (Bolivia and Ecuador) Projects on Communities Anthropology in Rio de Janeiro Lingua Oricha: Divine 47Rhythms in Cuban Santeria. A study of Yoruba rhythms SUMMERas cultural symbols TRAVEL GRANTS

20 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Prizes and Fellowships

UNDERGRADUATE established communities of Latin American The post-graduation fellowship opportunity descent in the United States). This annual in Latin America will contribute not only to PRIZES prize is funded by a gift from Joan Morthland the student’s education, but also to career, Hutchins (AB ’61). The 2018 Hutchins Prize personal and leadership development, con- was awarded to Eduardo Andrés González, sistent with and inspired by the example of JAMES R. AND ISABEL D. for his Social Studies thesis entitled, Immoral Steve Reifenberg. HAMMOND THESIS PRIZE Constructions: Central American Refugee Flows The recipient of the 2018-2019 Steve Established in 1992 with a gift from James from the 1980s-2010s. Reifenberg Fellowship is Julia Ernst, who R. Hammond (AB ’57), the Hammond Prize graduated with a degree in Bioengineering is awarded to the best undergraduate senior KENNETH MAXWELL THESIS (SB) and a secondary in Social Anthropology. honors thesis related to Spanish-speaking PRIZE IN BRAZILIAN STUDIES She will be a volunteer at the prosthetic clinics Latin America. Candidates are nominated by The Kenneth Maxwell Thesis Prize in Laboratorio Gilete and Madhayan Khiva in their departments and a faculty committee Brazilian Studies was established to recognize Bogotá and Antioquia, Colombia. She intends selects the prize recipient. The 2018 Hammond the best College senior thesis on a subject for her experience abroad to help her learn Prize was awarded to Minyoung Jang, for her related to Brazil. This annual prize is funded to guide the design of public health cam- History & Literature thesis entitled, Tracing by a gift from Dr. Kenneth Maxwell. The paigns and technologies that not only satisfy Trauma: Discourses and Narratives of Experience 2018 Maxwell Thesis Prize was awarded to resource needs, but also empower amputees in Post-conflict Peru. Alexandra Cunningham, for her Government to pursue their ambitions uninhibited by thesis entitled, Success in Unlikely Places: A physical difference. JOAN MORTHLAND Socio-Political Perspective on the Adoption of HUTCHINS THESIS PRIZE Quotas in São Paulo’s State Universities. Originally established in 2003 as the Inter- Faculty Committee on Latino Studies Thesis STEVE REIFENBERG FELLOWSHIP Prize, the Joan Morthland Hutchins Thesis The Steve Reifenberg Fellowship is intended Prize recognizes the College senior who to encourage graduating seniors to engage in a writes the best thesis on a subject concern- transformative international experience in the ing Latinos (either recent immigrants or area of social or environmental development.

2018 recipients of the Certificate in Latin American Studies, with James R. Hammond ’57 and Joan Morthland Hutchins ’61 and keynote speaker Assistant Professor Ieva Jusionyte.

DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 21 GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

COATSWORTH FELLOWSHIP IN LATIN AMALIA LACROZE DE JORGE PAULO LEMANN FELLOWS AMERICAN HISTORY FORTABAT FELLOWS The Jorge Paulo Lemann Fellowships give The John H. Coatsworth Latin American The Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Fellowship Brazilians who work or aspire to work as History Fellowship was established through a Program was established by Argentine professionals in public health, public policy gift from Mr. David Rockefeller and a challenge businesswoman and philanthropist Amalia or education the opportunity for advanced grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Lacroze de Fortabat in order to give promising study and training through a degree pro- in honor of Professor John H. Coatsworth. Argentine students financial support to pur- gram at Harvard University to help build It provides a stipend for Harvard graduate sue or continue graduate studies at Harvard. a stronger, more effective public sector in students in the field of Latin American History The Committee on General Scholarships Brazil. The fellowships are administered by at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (CGS) administers the selection process. the Committee on General Scholarships and (GSAS). In academic year 2017-2018, six stu- Awards are need-based and take academic are awarded for one academic year with the dents received the Coatsworth fellowships: merit into account. Priority is given to degree possibility of renewal for one additional year Laura Correa-Ochoa, GSAS candidates in fields that will enable them to to students who are citizens of Brazil and who contribute to: Argentina’s social, economic will enroll at Harvard University’s School of Cristina García Navas, GSAS and scientific progress; the formation of Public Health, Graduate School of Education, Marcella Hayes, GSAS public policies that strengthen Argentine or Harvard Kennedy School. The Fellowships Matthew Lesliw Santana, GSAS democracy; and Argentina’s academic and also support dissertation research for doctoral professional development. Recipients of the students of any nationality at the Graduate Carolina Silva-Portero, HLS de Fortabat Fellowship are expected to return School of Arts and Sciences whose work Rachel Steely, GSAS to Argentina upon completion of studies at primarily focuses on Brazil and who need to Harvard. For academic year 2017-2018, eight conduct dissertation research in Brazil. For students received de Fortabat fellowships: academic year 2017-2018, 17 students received Malena Acuna, HKS Lemann fellowships: Vanessa Brizuela, HSPH João Gabriel Costa Pinheiro, HKS Fernando Cafferata, HKS Cecilia de Lima Pessanha, HKS Ana Liz Chiban, HLS João Paulo Faria de Araujo, HKS Isidro Guardarucci, HKS Diana Goldemberg, HGSE Gonzalo Huertas, HKS Estevão Gomes Correa dos Santos, HLS Alejandro Szmulewicz, HSPH Thiago Lamelo, HKS Christian Zambagolione, HKS Guilherme Moreira Magnavita, HSPH Lilian Miranda Machado, HLS Laura Oller, HBS Isabel Bichucher Opice, HKS Mariana Pereira Guimarães, GSD, HSPH Rafael Proença, HKS Aline Rezende Peres Osório, HLS Joana Sá, HBS

Eduardo Salgado, HKS Diogo Santana, HKS Marco Antonio Siqueira Camargo, HKS

Photos this page: Winners of the 2018 DRCLAS thesis prizes.

22 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Certificates in Latin American Studies

The DRCLAS-administered Certificate in Latin American Studies is awarded each year by Harvard’s Committee on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) to students graduating from Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who have fulfilled specific course requirements, demonstrated proficiency in Spanish or Portuguese, and presented an honors thesis or dissertation on a topic related to Latin America. In 2018, five graduate and 33 undergraduate students received Certificates in Latin American Studies upon graduation.

UNDERGRADUATES GRADUATE STUDENTS

Carter Allinson Maria Amanda Flores Daniel Montoya John Stubbs Ari Anne Caramanica Economics Social Anthropology Government Social Studies PhD, Anthropology The Land and the Law in Mind the Gap: The Politics Chipping at the Wall: Land, Labor, and Water of Catherine Brennan the Llajta: Challenges in of Social Urbanism in Independent Journalism, the Ancient Agricultural Social Anthropology Housing Rights Advocacy Medellín, Colombia Visibility, and Self-Making Pampa de Mocán, North Serving a Plate of in Bolivia in Cuba Coast, Perú Liberation Theology: The Andrew Joseph Historical Legacy of the Samara Kasai Ford O’Donohue Jessica Ann Tueller Juana Dávila Sáenz Latin American Catholic History and Science Social Studies History & Literature PhD, Anthropology Church on the Relationship The Guardian State: A Reluctant Representative: A Land of Lawyers, Between Latino Immigrants Eduardo Understanding Divergent Feminism and Dictatorship Experts and ¨Men without and the Catholic Church in Andrés González Regime Outcomes in Chile, in the Films of María Land¨: the Politics of the United States Social Studies Thailand, and Turkey Luisa Bemberg Land Restitution and the Immoral Constructions: Techno-legal Production of Christian Central American Refugee Ike Obi Okonkwo Anastacia Dispossessed People Cordova-Pedroza Flows from the 1980s-2010s Neurobiology Maria Valdespino in Colombia Government & Sociology Evaluating Brazil’s History & Literature Depoliticized and Catalina Ibarguen Affirmative Action Policy Cuerpo-realities: Latina Danny Haelewaters Disengaged: The Political History and Literature Embodiment in 21st PhD, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Predicament of Mushroom Pulling Back the Curtain: David Olvera-Sanchez Century U.S. Television Farmworkers in Kennett Gender Performativity Government Kai Massey Thaler Square, PA and Social Mobility in the Samuel Vasquez Writings of Ursula de Jesús Cristina Parajon History PhD, Government Jeffrey Louis Cott, Jr. and Catalina de Erauso Sociology From Insurgent to Economics Incumbent: State Building Forbidden Sex, Dangerous Hannah Wellington and Service Provision after Minyoung Jang Gossip, and Empoderismo: Molecular & Alexandra Cunningham Rebel Victory in Civil Wars History & Literature An alternative explanation Cellular Biology Government Tracing Trauma: and potential solutions to Sadie Weber Success in Unlikely Discourses and Narratives the puzzling epidemic of Andrew John Wilcox Places: A Socio-Political of Experience in unwanted teen pregnancy English PhD, Anthropology Perspective on the Post-conflict Peru in Nicaragua Adoption of Quotas in São Paulo’s State Universities Stephanie Johnson Carlos Rivera History and Literature of Government Isabel Francesca Latin America DeLaura The Aftermath of the Ignacio Sabaté Neurobiology Tlatelolco Massacre in History Mexico City, 1968 and the Press Freedoms Under Jullian Alfonso Duran Preservation of Fire: How NGOs Protected Economics Cultural Memory Journalists in Colombia, Putting the House in 1985-2005 Taylor Ladd Order or Rearranging Old Furniture? Assessing Psychology Danielle Strasburger the Socioeconomic Social Studies Giannina Marciano Consequences of Ecuador’s Respect the Player, Change Higher Education Reforms Romance Languages & the Game: Gender Equality, Literatures & Government Women’s Autonomy and Isabel Espinosa Moguel Comics and Coups: The the Role of Unjust Social Social Anthropology Role of Mafalda during the Construction in Oaxaca Argentine Dictatorships and Beyond Mikaela Esquivel Varela Human Developmental and Aaron Miller Regenerative Biology Government 38 Vivian M. Fernandez Government CERTIFICATES

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DRCLAS Governance

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE POLICY COMMITTEE

Sixteen senior faculty members who serve Faculty from eight graduate and professional schools, the Faculty of Arts and three-year renewable terms meet with the Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences meet once each Director each month to advise on Center year to guide the Center’s development and to recommend candidates for the policies and operations. During 2017-18 the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professorship of Latin American Studies to the following faculty served on the DRCLAS President of the University. Typically, a number of special guests are also invited Executive Committee: to join the meeting. Over one hundred faculty members serve on the Center’s Policy Committee. Brian D. Farrell, Chair, FAS David Carrasco, HDS & FAS Michael Chu, HBS ADVISORY COMMITTEE Thomas B. F. Cummins, FAS Diane Davis, GSD Tony Custer, Chair Peter Lehner Alejandro de la Fuente, FAS (on leave) José Antonio Alonso Espinosa Jorge Paulo Lemann William L. Fash, FAS (on leave) Arturo Álvarez Demalde Mauricio López Obregón Frances Hagopian, FAS Ernest Bachrach Oivind Lorentzen Tamar Herzog, FAS (on leave) Arturo Brillembourg Andrónico Luksic Craig Noel Michele Holbrook, FAS Fernando Campero Prudencio Paola Luksic Fontbona Steven Levitsky, FAS John H. Coatsworth Antonio Madero Scott Mainwaring HKS (on leave) John Davies Eugenio Madero Fernando Reimers, HGSE Diego de la Torre Manuel Montori Doris Sommer, FAS (on leave) Juan Pablo del Valle Perochena Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg Diana Sorensen, FAS Peggy Dulany Pablo Pappalardo

Michael Starnbach, HMS Felipe Edwards Gabriela Poma Samuel Elia Alejandro Ramírez Magaña Juan Enríquez Lauren Reiss Ernesto Fernández-Holmann Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui Dionisio Garza Sada Carlos Rodríguez Pastor Jaime Gilinski Neil Rudenstine Raquel Gilinski Alejandro Santo Domingo Gustavo Herrero Mary Schneider Enríquez Marlene Hess Cristián Shea Peter Johnson Antonio Soler Wolff Klabin Members of the David Rockefellar Center Advisory Committee with Dr. Brian Farrell..

24 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Donors

DRCLAS is grateful to those individuals and families who have created endowments, which provide support to the Center in perpetuity. We also greatly appreciate annual gifts and grants from the individuals and organizations noted below for fiscal year 2018. We are inspired by your generosity and commitment.

ENDOWED FUNDS Lorenzo Weisman Fund for Latin American Studies, 1998 John H. Parry Lecture Fund, 1983 Jaime and Raquel Gilinski Endowment, 1999 Robert F. Kennedy Professorship in Latin American Studies, 1986 Miguel Alemán Endowment, 1999 Mexican Foundation Fund, 1989 Federico Bloch Fund, 1999 James R. Hammond Prize, 1992 Jorge Paulo Lemann Professorship, 1999 Gustavo E. Brillembourg Memorial Fund, 1993 Carlos, María and María de Jesús Lacayo Fund, 1999 Philip Lehner Latin American Studies Fund, 1994 Estrellita Bograd Brodsky Fund for Latin American Art and Culture, 1999 Julio Mario Santo Domingo Endowment, 1995 Luksburg Foundation Endowment Fund for the DRCLAS The Antonio Madero Professorship for the Study of Mexico, 1995 Visiting Scholars and Fellows Program, 2000 Center for Latin American Studies Endowed Fund, 1995 Reiss Family Fund for Undergraduate Studies on Latin America, 2000 Jorge Paulo Lemann Fund, 1997 Reiss Endowment for the David Rockefeller Center Fund, 2000 Lorenzo Weisman Fund, 1997 Gómez Family Fund, 2001 David Rockefeller Professorship in Latin American Studies, 1997 Ernesto Fernández-Holmann Fund, 2002 Robert Hildreth Fund, 1997 Wilbur Marvin Fund at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2002 Gustavo Cisneros Endowment, 1997 Jaime y Margarita Montealegre Fund, 2003 Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Endowment, 1997 Pedro D. Baridon Endowment, 2004 Peggy Rockefeller Fund for Research, Programs and Publications, 1997 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Endowment, 2006 Mark B. Fuller Endowment, 1997 Joan Morthland Hutchins Latino Studies Thesis Prize Endowment, 2006 Ochoa-Brillembourg Fund, 1998 Jorge Paulo Lemann Brazil Endowment Fund at Harvard University, 2007 Francisco R. de Sola Fund, 1998 Steve Reifenberg Traveling Fellowship Fund, 2010 Dionisio Garza Medina Fund for Latin American Studies, 1998 G. Peabody Gardner Jr. Memorial Fund for the Rockefeller Center for Matching Fund for Latin American Studies, 1998 Latin American Studies, 2012 Ricardo Poma Fund, 1998 Tony Custer Family Endowment Fund, 2014 Francisco A. Soler Fund, 1998 Dissertation Award in Latin American Politics Fund, 2015

FY 2018 INDIVIDUALS Cristián Shea ALI ’13 Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland AB ’76, MBA ’79 Antonio AB ’98 and Andrea Soler Pirigua Bonetti Carlos Manuel Valdés Jay Brickman FY 2018 ORGANIZATIONS John Davies Associação Primeira Chance Diego de la Torre Banco Santander S.A. Juan Pablo del Valle Perochena MBA ’01 Baton Rouge Area Foundation Samuel Elia AB ’04 Colégio Bandeirantes June C. Erlick Ford Foundation Andrew & Joy Fairbanks Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Morad Fareed Fundación Kaluz A.C. Garza Sada Family Fundación Propagas Ellen M. Guidera MBA ’86 Genesee & Wyoming RSI Claudio Haddad OPM ’87, EXED ’02 Haddad Foundation Consuelo & John M. Isaacson, Esq. JD ’73 Recycling Innovation and Technologies SpA. Oivind Lorentzen AB ’72, MBA ’75 Serviços Educacionais Anchieta Andrew McQuilling AB ’88, MBA ’94 & Mirtha Cabral MBA ’94 Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez David Pérez MBA ’96 Wilbur Marvin Foundation Alejandro Ramírez Magaña AB ’94, MBA ’01 Orlando AB ’71, MBA ’80 & Jane MBA ’80 Sacasa DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 25 STAFF & INTERNS

Brian D. Farrell Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

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Andrew W. Elrick Executive Director

Ned Strong Executive Director (retired April 2018) Edwin Ortiz MEXICO OFFICE Manager of Academic Services INTERNS Kalan Chang Mauricio Benítez Iturbe Manager for Overseas Gabrielle Patterson Program Director, Financial Operations Events and Staff Assistant Mexico Office Julia Cohn Marcela V. Ramos J. Ariana Campos Domínguez Communications & ARTS@DRCLAS Program Coordinator Special Projects Coordinator Manager for Cambridge and Overseas Offices Juliana Deleo Program Manager, Aisha Zaidi REGIONAL OFFICE Brazil Studies Program Associate Director of IN CHILE Finance and Administration June Carolyn Erlick (January 2018 to present) Marcela Rentería Publications Director Executive Director for the Regional Office INTERNS Yailett Fernandez BRAZIL OFFICE Development Associate Patricia Cespedes Eduardo González AB ’18 Helena Monteiro Program Representative, Mary Ellen Flather Executive Director Peru Alejandro Lampell AB ’20 Associate Director of Strategy and Development Níkolas Bánkuti María José Ferreyra Isabel Espinosa AB ’18 Intern, Communications Program Representative, Cary Aileen García Yero Argentina Mingyoung Jang AB ’18 Cuba Studies Program Fellow Breno Carvalho dos Santos CASA Resident Director, Administrative Coordinator Argentina Giannina Marciano AB ’18 Lorena González Financial Assistant Ashley Collins Francisco Maldonado Isaac Ochoa AB ’21 Post-Graduation Fellow Post-Graduate Fellow Erin Goodman Patrick Sanguineti ’17 Associate Director of Tiago Genoveze Pilo Mella Academic Programs Program Coordinator Student Programs Keiana Singleton Manager, Regional Office (Cambridge Rindge Paola Ibarra Deschamps Christina Kirby CASA Resident Director, Chile and Latin School) Assistant Director of Programs Post-Graduation Fellow Magdalena Richards Donnelly Sylvie Stoloff AB ’19 Rachel Murray-Crawford Larissa Leal Student Programs Coordinator, Program Manager, Mexico Intern, Programs Argentina Mariam Topeshashvili AB ’19 Program / Student Programs Timothy Linden María Angélica Wiedmaier Andy Urbina Program Manager Financial Officer (Harvard Bridge Program)

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