David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Harvard University

ANNUAL REPORT 2004-05 2 TEACHERS AND SCHOLARS The Harvard faculty who define the Center’s direction and priorities, and the visiting scholars and professionals who enriched Harvard’s community of people learning about Latin America.

4 PUBLICATIONS AND PROGRAMS The books, magazines, occasional papers, lectures, seminars, workshops, conferences, film series, art exhibits and other activities that focus attention and disseminate knowledge about Latin America.

17 FACULTY RESEARCH AND TEACHING The Center’s support for faculty research, conferences and workshops and for faculty teaching initiatives.

18 STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND AWARDS The student research, internships and other achievements the Center has supported.

21 DRCLAS IN LATIN AMERICA The DRCLAS Regional Office in Santiago, Chile, renewed its activities for five more years; DRCLAS videoconferencing series and support for Latin American libraries and archives.

22 ADVISORS AND SPONSORS The Center’s Advisory Committee, chaired by David Rockefeller, met in Mexico City for the first time in March; thanks to the donors and the Center’s Corporate Partners.

24 FINANCIAL STATEMENT

25 DRCLAS STAFF

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.

Goals Expand research and teaching on Latin America at Harvard Strengthen ties between Harvard University and institutions throughout Latin America Enhance public understanding of Latin America in the United States and abroad

This Page: View of field from an estancia in El Calafate, Argentina. Cover Image: Harvard College students Juan Soto ’07 and Kyle Klopcic ’06, in San Pedro de Atacama, on the DRCLAS Summer Internship in Chile program. FROM THE DIRECTOR

The David Rockefeller Center celebrated its tenth anniver- scholar denied a U.S. visa to attend a DRCLAS-sponsored John H. Coatsworth sary on December 3–4, 2004, with a memorable weekend session at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Director, DRCLAS of colorful events that included high-level and entertain- Congress in Las Vegas; the momentous agreement ing discussions, a gala banquet and great music. between Harvard, the Mexican National Council of Science Speaking at the Center’s anniversary celebration, and Technology (CONACYT), and the Fundación México en former Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine recalled his Harvard, that guarantees full fellowship support to every first conversation with David Rockefeller at which the two Mexican citizen admitted to a Harvard Ph.D. program; agreed to collaborate on creating a new center. Both David Rockfeller’s 90th birthday — DRCLAS sent balloons expressed their pleasure at the Center’s accomplishments. and a book filled with testimonials from faculty, students, On the same occasion, William Kirby, Dean of the Faculty staff and alumni on the impact of the Center he created. of Arts and Sciences, observed, “ten years after its cre- Just as the year got impossibly busy and a winter ation, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American snowstorm covered Cambridge, a new executive director, Studies at Harvard University is a hub for Latin American Biorn Maybury-Lewis, arrived to take charge of the scholarship and thought in the United States. Its intellec- Center’s management, bringing with him both his suc- tual resources have grown extraordinarily with an energy cessful experience as a scholar and administrator with and a spirit of innovation that has been unmatched.” deep knowledge of Latin America, and a sunny disposition The Harvard Alumni Association Global Series that could not have been more welcome. meeting, Harvard Comes to Mexico, in Mexico City, fol- The Center’s Regional Office in Santiago, Chile, came lowed the anniversary celebration. This event was hosted under scrutiny from an evaluation team appointed by by DRCLAS Advisory Committee member Antonio Madero Provost Steven Hyman. The Committee issued its glowing in early March. Just as the HAA event concluded, David report toward the end of the academic year. The University Rockefeller presided at the first meeting of the Center’s then approved a renewal of the Santiago office mandate for Advisory Committee outside the United States. At both another five years just as Advisory Committee member events, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers cited the Andrónico Luksic, fresh from climbing Mount Everest, Center as a model for the University’s intensifying efforts announced a major gift to support it. Perhaps the best to transform itself “from a U.S. university with an interna- news of all was that Steve Reifenberg, the dynamic director tional reputation into a truly global institution.” of the Santiago office, agreed to continue at his post for In its first ten years, DRCLAS played a key role in the years to come. creation of seven new endowed professorships dedicated As our tenth anniversary approached, the Center pro- to the study of Latin America and eight endowed fellow- duced a “Case Study” of itself and followed that with a ships for visiting researchers whose presence has strategic plan that identified the Center’s major goals. enriched the Harvard community each year. The Center Both documents are available on the Center’s web site. has provided support that enabled dozens of Harvard The Case Study noted that the Center’s “leadership faculty to extend and accelerate pioneering research aspires to consolidate its programs within the Harvard within and across disciplines, much of it disseminated in community while expanding its reach and impact through- the Center’s book series. Since 1994, more than 1,000 out Latin America.” The strategic plan addresses opportu- Harvard students have received grants to conduct nities and challenges to accomplish these goals as we research or to take up internships and service opportuni- embark on a promising second decade. ties in Latin America. Of the 28 recipients of doctoral The year ended with yet another challenge: The Big degrees whose research related to Latin America in 2004- Move. By the time this Annual Report is published, 2005, for example, 18 had received at least one fellowship DRCLAS will be occupying beautiful new offices in the or research grant from the Center. The U.S. Department of just-constructed Center for Government and International Education designated DRCLAS a National Resource Center Studies at 1730 Cambridge Street, a block from Harvard for Latin American Studies in 1999 and renewed that des- Yard. Visitors are always welcome. ignation in the subsequent competition. The pages of this Annual Report summarize and illus- trate what the Center did during this past year, though some of the drama proved impossible to capture: Neil Rudenstine’s first public address at Harvard after stepping down as president with his insightful discussion of García John H. Coatsworth Márquez; the 65 empty chairs, each reserved for a Cuban Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs Right: A Conversation on U.S.-Brazil Relations with Lemann Visiting Scholar Elio Gaspari and Ambassador Lincoln Gordon AB’34. Far right: Antanas Mockus, RFK Visiting Professor during the Fall of 2004

Faculty Governance Jorge I. Domínguez Policy Committee Clarence Dillon Professor The Center’s Director, a The Policy Committee con- of International Affairs; member of the Harvard sists of faculty members Director, Weatherhead TEACHERS AND faculty, is appointed jointly actively engaged in Center for International by the Dean of the Faculty research and teaching on Affairs (FAS) of Arts and Sciences and Latin America from the President of the throughout the University, William L. Fash SCHOLARS University. The Director including the nine profes- Bowditch Professor of receives advice from two sional schools and the Central American and faculty governing bodies: a Faculty of Arts and Mexican Archaeology and small Executive Committee Sciences. The Policy Ethnology (FAS) of 11 members and a larger Committee meets each Policy Committee of 76, most Merilee S. Grindle term to guide the Center’s of whom serve on at least Edward S. Mason Professor development and to recom- one of the Center’s program of International mend candidates for the or grants committees. Development (KSG) Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professorship of Latin Executive N. Michele Holbrook American Studies to the Committee Thomas D. Cabot Associate President of the University. Of the 76 members of the Eleven faculty members Professor of Organismic Policy Committee, 26 are who serve three-year and Evolutionary Biology also members of the FAS renewable terms meet with (FAS) Standing Committee on the Director each month to Latin American and provide advice on Center Biorn Maybury-Lewis Iberian Studies (CLAIS), policies and operations. Executive Director, David Rockefeller Center for which coordinates the Center’s research and cur- John Coatsworth (Chair) Latin American Studies ricular programs that Monroe Gutman Professor (FAS) operate within the Faculty of Latin American Affairs; of Arts and Sciences, Director, David Rockefeller Doris Sommer including Harvard College Center for Latin American Ira Jewell Williams Jr. and the Graduate School of Studies (FAS) Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Arts and Sciences. For a complete listing of James E. Austin (FAS) 2004–2005 Policy Elliot I. Snider and Family Committee and CLAIS Professor of Business Michael Starnbach members, please visit the Administration (HBS) Associate Professor of Microbiology and Center’s web site. Davíd Carrasco Molecular Genetics (HMS) Neil L. Rudenstine Abbreviation Key Andrés Velasco FAS: Faculty of Arts and Sciences Professor of the Study of Sumitomo Professor of GSAS: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Latin America (HDS) GSD: Graduate School of Design International Finance and GSE: Graduate School of Education Tom Cummins Development (KSG) HBS: Harvard Business School Dumbarton Oaks Professor HDS: Harvard Divinity School of the History of Pre- John Womack, Jr. HLS: Harvard Law School Columbian and Colonial Robert Woods Bliss HMS: Harvard Medical School Art (FAS) Professor of Latin HSPH: Harvard School of Public Health American History and KSG: John F. Kennedy School of Government Economics (FAS)

2 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies The Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Visiting Scholars Ernesto Torres-López, Library Scholars Professorship and Fellows Mexico Program Antonio Madero/ The Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Visiting Professorship in Program The Center’s Library Fundación México en Latin American Studies was created at Harvard University Scholars Program, sup- The Visiting Scholars and Harvard Visiting Scholar in 1986 through a generous gift from the late Edmond ported under Title VI of Fellows Program strength- Universidad Autónoma de Safra and the Republic of New York Corporation. DRCLAS the U.S. Department of ens ties between Harvard Nuevo León, Monterrey, administers the RFK Professorship, which enables Education, provides com- and other institutions by Mexico Harvard to invite eminent Latin Americans from various petitively selected scholars hosting distinguished aca- Implementation of fields to teach at the University. In 2004-2005, the Faculty access to extensive Latin demics and professionals Advanced Viral Diagnosis of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Education American collections of the who wish to conduct Techniques in Mexico hosted two distinguished Robert F. Kennedy Visiting research on a particular Harvard University Library Professors. topic or region of Latin Oscar Peláez-Almengor, System. Scholars from non- America. In 2004-2005, Guatemala research institutions there were 11 scholars Central American whose projects can best be and fellows in residence Visiting Scholar served by Harvard at Harvard working on a Universidad de San Carlos, libraries benefit from the variety of topics ranging Guatemala special collections, as well from drug policy to con- The Central American as office space from tract law, Latin American Entrepreneurial Elite DRCLAS. In the summer of modern art to political 2005, the Center hosted transformations and mili- Mariano Plotkin, Argentina four Library Scholars: tary rule in Venezuela de Fortabat Visiting Lori Diel and Brazil. Scholar Assistant Professor of Art Instituto de Desarrollo History, Texas Christian Silvia Álvarez-Curbelo, Económico y Social (IDES), University Puerto Rico Argentina Manuscript of a Dogging: Wilbur Marvin Visiting Intellectuals, Social An Aztec Painting of Scholar Sciences and the State: A Violence and Conquest University of Puerto Rico Comparative Study of the War and Outpost Identity: A Development of Sociology in Carol McMichael Reese Puerto Rican Army Brazil and Argentina Associate Professor of Regiment during the Korean (1930-1985) War (1950-1954) Architecture, Tulane University Antanas Mockus, Colombia María Clemencia Ramírez Urban Panama and the Romance Languages and Literatures Department, Guy Brett, England de Jara, Colombia Canal Zone, 1904-1999 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Fall 2004) Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Santo Domingo Visiting Mockus was the innovative Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia Fellow Scholar Julia Rodríguez (1995-97, 2001-03), rector of the National University in Independent Art Critic and Colombian Institute of Assistant Professor of Bogotá, and is currently an Associate Professor in its Curator Anthropology and History History, University of New Department of Statistics. He is the author of numerous Three Interlinked Plan Colombia in the Hampshire books and articles in the field of education, politics and Investigations into Art in Colombian Amazon culture. Mockus holds advanced degrees in Mathematics Latin America between The Science of Citizenship in Latin America from the Université Dijon, France, and Philosophy from 1950 and 1980 María Sara Rodríguez- the National University of Colombia. As Mayor, Mockus Pinto, Chile José O. Sola used cultural imagery, street theater and citizen participa- Kathleen Coll, USA Luksic Visiting Scholar Assistant Professor of tion to reduce crime, improve the city’s appearance and DRCLAS Visiting Scholar Universidad de los Andes, History, Cleveland State tackle transportation problems. In addition to his teaching Harvard University Chile University responsibilities, he delivered a public lecture entitled Remaking Citizenship: The Law of Conflicts of Puerto Rico Under the Shortcut-Culture, Anomy, and Administration. Immigrants and New Interest, Self-Dealing, and Sugar Sun: Sugar Farmers, American Politics Undue Influences in Colonial Politics, and Ernesto Schiefelbein, Chile Contract Graduate School of Education (Spring 2005) Fernando Coronil, American Protectionism in Caguas, Puerto Rico, Schiefelbein is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Venezuela Horacio Serpa Uribe, 1898-1928 Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación Cisneros Visiting Scholar Colombia (UMCE) in Chile. He is former President of the University University of Michigan DRCLAS Visiting Fellow of Santo Tomás and served as Minister of Education of Political Transformation in Former Colombian Chile in 1994. He is the author of books in the areas of Venezuela Ambassador to the educational policy and planning, school achievement and Organization of American higher education. He holds a doctoral degree in Education Elio Gaspari, Brazil States (OAS) from Harvard University and degrees from the University Lemann Visiting Scholar Modern Political History of of Santiago and University of Chile, respectively. While at Syndicated Journalist, Colombia Harvard, Schiefelbein taught two courses: “Rethinking the Folha de São Paulo, O Purposes of Education in Developing Countries” and Globo and other Brazilian “Foundations of Systemic Educational Change in newspapers Developing Countries.” His public lecture was entitled Brazil, 1978: The Teaching More or Teaching Better? A Look at Higher Dictatorship Dismantled Education in Latin America.

http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu 3 ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America ReVista features articles by academics, students and community members, as well as art by well-known and emerging photogra- phers. This year, ReVista spotlighted the Center’s 10th anniversary with an issue on flora and fauna, including an essay by David Rockefeller on his beetle collection, and a Passing Lines: Immigration second issue on U.S. and Sexuality, edited by Foreign Policy towards Professor of Romance Latin America and the PUBLICATIONS Languages and Literatures Caribbean. Bradley Epps with Keja Valens and Bill Johnson Harvard Working Papers AND PROGRAMS González, seeks to stimu- on Latin America late dialogue on the role of Working Papers are avail- sexuality and sexual orien- able on line on the tation in immigration to Center’s web site. The the United States from series published four docu- Latin America and the ments in 2004-2005, Caribbean. The book looks ranging from a study of at the complexities, incon- deteriorating housing and sistencies and paradoxes of neighborhood conditions in immigration from the point Havana to a detailed of view of both academics description of the back- and practitioners in the ground to Kenneth Publications field. Maxwell’s resignation as Research DRCLAS Book Series book reviewer for the Conferences Forthcoming books will Western Hemisphere at DRCLAS published two The Center sponsored or include a second DRCLAS Foreign Affairs magazine books in 2004-2005 in its co-sponsored 12 interna- volume on social enter- and from the directorship David Rockefeller Center tional workshops, semi- prise edited by HBS of Latin American Studies Series on Latin American nars and conferences, Professor James Austin, a at the Council on Foreign Studies, distributed by bringing together a wide new translation and Relations. Harvard University Press. range of experts to address edition of the classic many of the most challeng- Peruvian chronicle Titu Kenneth Maxwell, “The The Cuban Economy at the ing issues facing Latin Cusi, a pioneering anthol- Case of the Missing Letter Start of the Twenty-First America. Century, edited by Jorge I. ogy of works on philan- in Foreign Affairs: Domínguez, Omar Everleny thropy and volunteerism Kissinger, Pinochet and Going Local: Pérez Villanueva and edited by Cynthia Sanborn, Operation Condor.” Decentralization, Lorena Barberia, a collabo- and a new work on the role Democratization and rative effort between schol- of China in Latin America Mario Coyula and Jill the Promise of Good ars in the United States (to be published jointly Hamberg, “The Case of Governance and Cuba, seeks to exa- with the Inter-American Havana, Cuba.” Mexico & Cambridge, MA mine the lessons learned Development Bank). July and September 2004 from recent reforms and Clémence Jouët-Pastré, Merilee Grindle, KSG their impact on the Cuban Megwen Loveless and With support from economy. A Spanish edition Leticia Braga, “Giving DRCLAS, two research will be published jointly Voice to a Nascent workshops were held with the Colegio de México Community: Exploring which examined the effects in late 2005. Brazilian Immigration to of political, administrative the United States through and fiscal decentralization Research and Practice.” for local governments in Mexico and how they Juan Carlos Moreno Brid grapple with taking on and Jaime Ros, “Mexico’s new responsibilities for Market Reforms in public service provision, Historical Perspective.” economic development, fiscal management and

4 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies democratic accountability. researchers to analyze the Republic, Ecuador and Health Disparities and race, ethnicity, transnation- The aim of these sessions educational consequences Guatemala. Topics dis- the Body Politic: Policy, alism, religion and gender was to develop comparative of the increasing flow of cussed included: Research, Data and were examined. This event case research to explore immigrant children in and Tuberculosis Prevention, Government received extensive press how, why and when better out of Mexican and U.S. Strategic Alliances for TB Responsibility coverage in major newspa- local governance emerges. schools. Acknowledging control, Case Detection, TB Boston, MA pers in Brazil and in the The research results will be the many ways the future Diagnosis, and HIV-AIDS/ March, April and local Brazilian press. published in a forthcoming of Mexico and the United TB co-infection manage- May, 2005 book. States are interconnected, ment. Participants from Nancy Krieger, Lisa New Work on the History the conference focused on the region were able to Berkman, HSPH of Living Standards in Symposium on the hundreds of thousands establish contact and begin These symposia explored Latin America American Art of Mexican children who discussion about possible the role that governments Cambridge, MA Cambridge, MA enroll in U.S. schools every future collaborations. and engaged communities April 8–9, 2005 October 29–30, 2004 year, many of whom make can play in reducing and John Coatsworth, FAS Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw, their way back to Mexico V Congress on rectifying social inequities This workshop brought FAS to continue studying. All Caribbean Biodiversity in health worldwide. The together scholars engaged This symposium explored panels included at least one Santo Domingo, panels encompassed the in research on the history of the role of images and Mexican and one American Dominican Republic ideas and contributions of living standards in Latin other cultural "surfaces" in scholar in order to incorpo- January 25–28, 2005 faculty members from America to share data, the production of social rate both countries’ per- Brian Farrell, FAS/OEB across disciplines at the methods and new perspec- and architectural space. spective on the issue. This international meeting Harvard School of Public tives on historiographical Focusing on American art drew participants and Health with the intent to debates. The contributions and architecture since Housing Innovation for speakers from all 14 prin- broaden the dialogue covered different method- 1800, presentations exam- Latin America: From cipalities in the Caribbean further across the ologies, periods and geo- ined intersections of public Elemental Design to region plus Central University and pinpoint graphic areas. Part of the and pictorial space and Effective Policies America, North and South ways that government can conference was also devoted images as mediators in the Cambridge, MA America, making this alleviate health disparities. to an analysis of recent con- built environment. Support November 4–5, 2004 meeting one of the most Drawing on participants tributors who have from DRCLAS allowed the Jorge Silvetti, GSD culturally diverse in from the Americas, attempted to connect the symposium to include pre- The purpose of this confer- biology, with attendance by Europe, Africa and Asia, history of living standards sentations on Latin ence was to evaluate the several hundred students, the three symposia to the general political, American/Latino art. effectiveness of ELEMEN- faculty of regional univer- explored policies to social and economic histori- TAL, an international sities and the staff of gov- address social inequalities ography of the states or Settling Accounts? housing initiative that ernment ministries and in health, research on regions they are studying. Truth, Justice and fuses architecture, technol- NGOs. Symposia topics causes of health dispari- Redress in Post-conflict ogy, urban policy and com- ranged from sustainable ties, and national data col- Towards a New Societies munity development for development to biogeogra- lected to monitor social Economic History of Cambridge, MA the purpose of designing phy and bioremediation. inequalities in health in Colombia November 1–3, 2004 and building low-cost relation to class, race/eth- June 24–25, 2005 Kimberly Theidon, FAS housing solutions for the Thinking of Law in/and nicity and gender. Cambridge, MA DRCLAS lent support to poorest segments of the Latin America James Robinson, FAS this conference in which Chilean population. Cambridge, MA National Conference on With the aim of producing participants engaged in Conference participants March 3–5, 2005 Brazilian Immigration to a volume in English con- debates central to the also explored the David Kennedy, HLS the United States sisting of the essays pre- understanding of transi- prospects, challenges and With the goal of creating a Cambridge, MA sented and provisionally tional truth, justice, recon- difficulties for replicating Latin American law March 18–19, 2005 entitled A New Economic ciliation and reparations. housing programs like this research network and Clemence Joüet-Pastré, FAS History of Colombia, this Conference participants in other Latin American establishing a “field” of This conference brought conference brought drew upon their compara- countries. legal studies in Latin together scholars, commu- together 14 Colombian tive research to explore the America, this first of a nity leaders, members of scholars to present their role of truth commissions Elements of Successful series of conferences on the Brazilian community, work on various themes of and tribunals in transi- National Tuberculosis legal scholarship in and journalists, politicians and 20th century Colombian tional processes and to Control Strategy: about Latin America pro- college students to discuss economic history. Topics examine how individuals, Lessons for the Region vided a forum for a young the phenomenon of covered included an communities and nation Lima, Peru generation of legal scholars Brazilian immigration to overview of economic states work. Supported by November 22– and academics from other the United States and to growth and development, the Director’s December 3, 2004 disciplines working in legal present the most innova- agriculture, industry, infra- Discretionary Fund. Jaime Bayona, HMS affairs and Latin America. tive and up-to-date research structure, the financial This conference high- Participants sought to iden- in the field, offering per- sector, the evolution of Mexico-U.S. lighted the successful tify and map current schol- spectives on the past, living standards, and fiscal Immigration: implementation of the arship, shared projects and present and future of policy and taxation. This Educational Challenges Peruvian TB Program and research agendas, dis- Brazilian immigration to highly interdisciplinary Monterrey, Mexico was an opportunity to cussed methodologies, and the United States. approach melds knowledge December 3–4, 2004 compare and share experi- explored original and inno- Immigration issues related from all of the social sci- Gary Orfield, GSE, and ences with other Latin vative work. to health, education, ences and presents eco- Fernando Reimers, GSE American countries such housing, working condi- nomic history in the This conference gathered as Brazil, the Dominican tions, culture, bilingualism, context of a whole society. American and Mexican

http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu 5 Brazilian Studies Program and the Brazil Semester The “Brazil Semester” (Spring 2005) was officially launched at Sanders Theater, on February 22, 2005, by Gilberto Gil, the internationally-renowned musician, Latin Grammy winner and current Minister of Culture of Brazil. Gil was one of three sitting Cabinet members of Brazilian President Lula to speak at Harvard this year, along with Ministers Luiz Dulci (Secretary General of the Presidency) and Jacques Wagner (Social and Economic Development), in addition to Henrique de Campos Meirelles (head of the Central Bank). The Center also hosted former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and his former Minister of Education, Paulo Renato Souza. The Brazil Semester was made possible by the enthusiasm of faculty and students, and by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo Lemann Endowment for Brazilian Studies. A new seminar series titled Brazilian Historical and Contemporary Challenges: Reflections from Harvard brought together experts for a number of frank “conversations” reinvigorating themes and debates with leading scholars for whom Harvard had played a critical role in their careers. Topics ranged from U.S.-Brazil relations to gender and sexuality, to the role of foreign scholars in the study of Brazil. Speakers included historian Thomas Skidmore This semester also included a pioneering conference, (Brown University), Ambassador Lincoln Gordon organized by Clémence Jouët-Pastré (Romance Languages (Brookings Institution), political scientist Mala Htun (New and Literatures), which brought together scholars, School for Social Research), as well as Harvard faculty such activists, students and community leaders to examine the as Joaquim-Francisco Coelho (Romance Languages and increasing Brazilian immigration to the United States. Literatures). This series will become an on-going forum, Speakers included Maxine Margolis (University of Florida) Above: Image from “A with exceptional “duos” being planned for next year. and Bernadete Beserra (Universidade Federal do Ceará), in Família Braz” (Meet the Braz Two of the speakers from this series have recently addition to more than 60 presentations. Jouët-Pastré also Family), directed by Dorrit joined the Harvard faculty: Kenneth Maxwell (History) chaired the third annual Brazil Week, which this year Harazim. Below, from left and Nicolau Sevcenko (Romance Languages and focused on Brazilian women’s movements. to right: Thomas B.F. Cummins, Mary Schneider- Literatures). Their multi-year appointments have filled Throughout the “Brazil Semester” there were numer- Enríquez, John Coatsworth, important lacunae in Harvard’s course offerings on Brazil, ous documentary film screenings, all of which were fol- Juan Enríquez, and Marnie with Maxwell teaching on Brazilian and comparative colo- lowed by discussions with the filmmakers. The highlight Pillsbury at the Harvard nial history and Sevcenko on popular and cultural history. was Brazilian Journeys: The Documentaries of Dorrit Alumni Association Global Series in Mexico City. Student developments of the semester included the Harazim which featured four captivating films on everyday establishment of the new Brazilian Graduate Studies life in Brazil. The final event of the semester was a stand- Workshop, a forum for doctoral or masters students ing-room-only screening of “Entreatos” (Intermissions), a engaged in substantive research to circulate and discuss documentary of the successful presidential campaign of works-in-progress. The workshop held several meetings at President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, with a lively discus- the Center with experts on Brazil. At the undergraduate sion with filmmaker João Moreira Salles. level, the “Brazil Semester” led to the lively revival of the Elio Gaspari, the syndicated journalist for Folha de São Harvard Brazilian Organization (HBO). Paulo, O Globo, and ten other Brazilian newspapers, was this Spring’s Lemann Visiting Scholar and an active par- ticipant at various Center events. Most memorable among his guest lectures at Harvard was his talk on “The Dictatorship Dismantled,” which was a sneak preview of the eagerly awaited fifth and final volume of his mono- graph series on Brazil’s military regime. The “Brazil Semester” concluded with the establish- ment of the Kenneth Maxwell Thesis Prize in Brazilian Studies, awarded for the first time this Spring to recognize the best Harvard College senior thesis on a subject related to Brazil. The winner was Adriana Lafaille for her thesis on “(Paving) Local Roads to Democratic Nations: Communities and Decision-Making in Two Areas of Greater São Paulo.”

Luiz Dulci, Secretary General of the Office of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

6 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Mexico Initiatives The year’s major event took place on October 14, 2004, A spring conference organized by Neil Rudenstine when Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Dr. Professor Davíd Carrasco discussed papers by a diverse Jaime Parada, Director General of the National Council for group of scholars who have been studying the sixteenth Science and Technology (CONACYT) of Mexico signed an century indigenous Mapa Cuauhtinchan recently made agreement to ensure full fellowship support, for up to six available to scholars by Advisory Committee member years, for any Mexican citizen admitted to a doctoral Ángeles Espinosa Yglesias, who is also supporting the program at Harvard. The Fundación México en Harvard effort to publish the scholars’ findings together with a played a key role in the development of this agreement facsimile of the map itself. and pledged to cover research funding for such students. The Mexican Studies Committee organized a policy Margot Gill, Administrative Dean of the Graduate School roundtable on education policy in late October that brought of Arts and Sciences, who negotiated the agreement on a high-level delegation of education policy makers from behalf of Harvard, credited DRCLAS Director John Mexico to Harvard. The roundtable provided an opportu- Coatsworth with providing the initial impetus that led to nity for Harvard faculty and students, and Mexican policy the negotiations. Coatsworth presided at the luncheon pre- makers to discuss the current education initiatives of the ceding the signing ceremony. Mexican government, with particular emphasis on poverty Meanwhile, DRCLAS organized, sponsored or co-spon- reduction. In December, the Committee and the Harvard sored a large number of events on a wide range of topics Graduate School of Education (GSE) supported a bi-national in the arts, humanities, government, education, health, research conference on education and migration in Mexico. economics and development. The Center’s Mexican The conference was organized jointly with the Universidad Studies Committee, chaired by Harvard Graduate School of de Monterrey and the Instituto Tecnólogico y de Estudios Education (GSE) Professor Fernando Reimers, provided Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) and brought together leadership for many activities. DRCLAS also supported the leading researchers from Mexico and the United States to Harvard University Mexican Association (HUMA), a discuss issues related to the education of Mexican immi- Signing of CONACYT grant children. agreement; University Hall University-wide student organization that organizes activi- in Harvard Yard. ties related to Mexico. In January 2005, several members of the Mexican Another highlight of Mexico-related activities was the Studies Committee participated in the research conference March 2005 Harvard Comes to Mexico Global Series confer- on poverty organized jointly by the John F. Kennedy ence convened by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). School of Government (KSG) and ITESM, as part of their Members of the Mexican Studies Committee worked with collaboration to strengthen ITESM’s Master in Public HAA to organize and participate on the panel presenta- Administration and Public Policy Program. In May, the tions at the conference, sharing Harvard faculty research Committee sponsored, jointly with the Office of Global on Mexico with the country’s alumni. This was the first Education of the GSE, a roundtable on the development of HAA gathering to take place in Latin America; attendance democratic citizenship skills at the college level. The exceeded all expectations: roughly twice that of the HAA roundtable brought together education leaders of ITESM, meeting in London the year before. Advisory Committee GSE faculty, as well as colleagues from the University of member Antonio Madero played the key role of host. Maryland and Facing History and Ourselves, a non-profit working on civic education.

Cuba Studies and Exchange The 2004-2005 academic year was marked by important accomplishments for the Center’s Cuba program, which is led by a faculty committee co-chaired by Jorge I. Domínguez and Arachu Castro. With support from the Christopher Reynolds Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the Center completed publication of The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century in the fall of 2004. Co-edited by Jorge I. Domínguez, Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva and Lorena Barberia, the volume illuminates the sources of strength and weakness in Cuba’s economy, economic policy making, and the related issues of external economic relations and domestic welfare. The product of discussion and debate among U.S. and Cuban scholars with diverse interests and perspectives and reflective of the Center’s Cuba program sustained commitment to furthering policy related research, the volume is part of the Center’s book series and is currently being distributed by Harvard University Press. Initially, the David Rockefeller Center had planned to launch the book during the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) meeting in October 2004. However, as a result of visa denials by the U.S. State Department to the entire Cuban delegation to LASA, the Center cancelled its launch in Las Vegas and instead held a panel discussion at LASA protesting the denial of visas.

http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu 7 With support from the Ford Foundation, the David Cuban Visiting Rockefeller Center and El Colegio de México celebrated Researchers the rescheduled presentation in Mexico City in March 2004-2005 2005. The rescheduled seminar included all Cuban co- Haroldo Dilla Alfonso authors and the Cuban co-editor, as well at the U.S. editors FLACSO and authors. Mexican scholars, most from the faculty at El Latin American Faculty of Colegio, served as discussants. The seminar was open to Social Sciences the public, with many faculty, students, government offi- Governability in the cials, and members of the diplomatic corps in attendance. Caribbean The volume has also been warmly and enthusiastically received in Cuba, where, in July 2005, the authors pre- Raúl Díaz Rodríguez sented the book in a session that the Rector of the Pedro Kourí Institute of University of Havanna chaired. Tropical Medicine Seven Cuban scholars and scientists participated in A comparison of two PCR- short-term research visits at Harvard. Scholars included based DNA fingerprinting Dr. Jorge Pérez, Deputy Director of the Instituto de methods for typing Medicina Tropical Pedro Kourí Hospital, and Rafael Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Hernández, Senior Research Fellow at the Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Cultura Cubana “Juan Jorge Luis Maestre Mesa Marinello” and Editor of TEMAS. The Center also hosted Pedro Kourí Institute of more than 14 Cuba-related events during the academic Tropical Medicine year, including a panel jointly sponsored by the Investigation of the function Above: Dancers in Oaxaca, Mexico. Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the of virulence regulators of Right: High School student participating Cuban-American Undergraduate Student Association Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in a DRCLAS Outreach activity. (CAUSA) on Cuba Today and Tomorrow: What Is and using Genome-Wide Should be the Role of the International Community, with Location Analysis Andean Studies — Focus on Colombia Ambassador Vicki Huddleston, Chief U.S. Diplomat in During 2004-2005, the Center hosted ten conferences and Cuba (1999-2002); Michael Small, Canadian Ambassador Rafael Hernández events on the Andes. Seeking to make Andean resources to Cuba (2000-2003); and Paul Webster Hare, United Centro de Investigación y at Harvard more accessible to Harvard faculty and stu- Kingdom Ambassador to Cuba (2001-2004). Desarrollo de la Cultura dents, and Harvard resources available to individuals and To spur much-needed research into how to most effec- Cubana “Juan Marinello” institutions in the region, the Andean Studies Committee, tively allocate resources for AIDS in the Caribbean, a and Editor of TEMAS chaired by Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Art History workshop on Resource Allocation Practices for the Two Cubas or More? Thomas Cummins, worked closely with the DRCLAS Prevention and Treatment of AIDS in the Caribbean was Perceptions and Realities Regional Office to support various Harvard initiatives in convened at the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. in Havana in March 2005. Co-sponsored by DRCLAS, the Jorge Pérez Ávila Contemporary politics, social issues, cultural expres- Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) of Pedro Kourí Institute of sions and economic history related to Colombia were a the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Harvard Tropical Medicine highlight of this year’s Andean activities. Throughout the Medical School and the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Resource Allocation year, the Colombian Colloquium and DRCLAS co-spon- Medicine, the workshop brought together specialists from Practices for the Prevention sored noteworthy activities, including Pilar Amaya’s dis- Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, and Treatment of AIDS in cussion on a health study of Colombian families as well as the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Pan the Caribbean DRCLAS Visiting Scholar María Clemencia Ramírez’s American Health Organization (PAHO), the Caribbean analysis of Plan Colombia and its evolution. In June, the Community (CARICOM) and Harvard to analyze in- Rayner Rodríguez Díaz Center hosted a seminar on the Economic History of country studies examining the effectiveness of current Pedro Kourí Institute of Colombia in the 20th Century, co-sponsored by the Banco resource allocation practices and their ability to provide Tropical Medicine de la República, in which a panel of 16 researchers from comprehensive AIDS care in the region. One of the impor- The role of cytotoxic T-lym- Colombia presented their findings on key sectors of the tant achievements of the project was the creation of a phocytes in the immune Colombian economy over the past century, with comments network among participants to continue to advance dis- response to bacterial infec- from Harvard faculty. Throughout the spring semester, the cussions on this critical research area essential for com- tions such as Chlamydia DRCLAS Art Forum featured Colombian artist Jaime Ávila bating the epidemic in the Caribbean. who simultaneously held exhibits at the Center and the The coming academic year promises notable advances Eduardo Luis Rodríguez Boston Arts Academy. as faculty and Cuban counterparts continue in their plans Fernández Other Andean-related events included a History to advance research in applied economic and social policy, Independent Architect Workshop paper by José de la Puente, Professor of History the impact of AIDS treatment, and U.S. policy towards Cuba-U.S. Architectural at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, on judicial Cuba. Support from the Christopher Reynolds Foundation Interchanges in the 20th corruption in seventeenth-century Peru and a presenta- and Ford Foundations will be critical to ensure that the Century tion by Cisneros Visiting Scholar, Fernando Coronil, from Center’s efforts to engage in meaningful dialogue and the University of Michigan, on the failed coup d'etat and exchange with Cuban scholars in these important areas is subsequent reinstatement of President Hugo Chávez in continued, deepened and shared with broader constituen- March of 2002. In May, Chilean students at Harvard cies at Harvard University and beyond. organized a day-long symposium that covered topics such as poverty, social security, urban development, public health, education and the arts in Chile. Activities organized through the Regional Office in Santiago included a three-week seminar in Santiago, Chile offered by Harvard School of Public Health Professor Thomas Bossert on Health Policy Reform in Chile in January 2005. 8 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Latino Studies DRCLAS established the Inter-Faculty Committee on Rights Project at Harvard, this event, held in April, brought Latino Studies (IFCLAS) in 1999 to bring together faculty together some of the metro-areas most prominent scholars, engaged in the study of Latin American immigration and policymakers and community members. Panelists, includ- communities of Latin American descent in the United ing Enrico Marcelli, Miren Uriarte, Josephine Louie, Alvaro States. For the past six years, IFCLAS has worked to Lima, Guy Stuart, Nancy McArdle, Gary Orfield, and promote the development of research and teaching on Councilor Felix Arroyo, spoke on the themes of Latinos in Latino Studies at Harvard with meager results. Context: Demographic Changes, Group Dynamics and Racial Nonetheless, the Committee has used DRCLAS as a base Attitudes and Opportunities and Challenges: Trends in from which to sponsor a wide range of activities. Employment, Housing and Education. The event was fol- This year’s Speaker Series provided an inter-disciplinary lowed by a working lunch in which panelists and other forum to explore the debates around the “Latino Health concerned community members discussed the important Paradox” — that the health of immigrants from Latin task of coordinating academics, policymakers and commu- America appears to be better than the health of the chil- nity groups to work towards creating social change for the dren and grandchildren born and raised in the United Greater Boston’s Latino community. States. Professor Dolores Acevedo-García from the School IFCLAS partnered with other units to sponsor other of Public Health led Latino/a Health Paradoxes: Latino-related events at Harvard, most notably, the Latino Interdisciplinary Perspective and Evolving Dynamics. Leadership Conference held on April 20, 2005 at the John The IFCLAS Thesis Award selection committee, once F. Kennedy School of Government. The Center for Public again, honored two undergraduate seniors whose work Leadership coordinated this event. With the leadership of exemplified the high level of scholarship produced at Davíd Carrasco, who continued to serve as chair of Harvard in Latino Studies. Awardees were Martha IFCLAS, the Committee continued its involvement in the Casillas, a Social Studies concentrator for La Virgen Greater Boston Latino Studies Consortium. This partner- Xicana: How a Traditional Image Reflects and Affects the ship with area institutions launched in 2003-2004 led to Re-Newed Mestiza Consciousness; and Jeslyn Miller, a con- two major efforts. The Collaborative Teaching Project centrator in Religion for How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song brought together six academics from five different univer- in a Foreign Land? The Practice of Regla Ocha among sities in the area and over 100 students for a virtual class- Cuban Immigrants in Greater New York. room discussion exploring the immigrant experience and IFCLAS also hosted a major one-day symposium on the US-Mexico border using the film “Alambrista.” The Latinos and the Changing Face of Boston. Led by Professor Consortium also organized a research roundtable. Gary Orfield, Professor of Education and Social Policy at Thirteen colleges were represented at this meeting, which the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Director of showcased scholarship by area academics and doctoral the Civil Rights Project at Harvard, in partnership with students relating to health, education, culture and identity. the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the Civil

Cultural Agency: including government, the Academy, on indige- Cultural Agents Initiative, Colombian artist Jaime Contributions of history, literature, art nous cultures in the they hope to identify and Avila and Martín the Humanities history, African-American Americas, organized promote the use of the arts Rosenthal, the internation- studies, and anthropology jointly with the Committee and culture for the benefit ally known Argentinean and Arts to and featured cutting-edge on Ethnic Studies. The of society. The newly photographer who started Society work on the productive event brought together founded undergraduate the PH15 Project in 2000 This year, the Cultural relationship between the indigenous people and organization of Cultural to teach photography to Agency initiative, chaired arts, culture, and social scholars from a variety Agents will be responsible teenagers living in Villa 15 by Professor of Romance processes. The conference of cultures, including for continuing this (slum 15) on the edge of Languages and Literatures received enthusiastic Mapuche artist Eduardo Undergraduate Forum in Buenos Aires. Doris Sommer, organized a reviews from attendees Rapimán from Chile, as the future and hope to turn Throughout the aca- graduate conference on and conference partici- well as Arturo Arias, it into a yearly conference demic year, and supported Cultural Agents, and co- pants; two aspects that Director of Latin American to feature the work of by a grant from the sponsored an international received special attention Studies and Professor of undergraduate students at Graduate School of Arts conference with the were the quality of the Modern Literatures and Harvard and beyond. and Sciences, Cultural Program on Ethnic Studies papers presented and the Languages at the University In partnership with the Agency also convened at Harvard. Cultural productive potential of of Redlands, CA. DRCLAS Art Forum, the monthly meetings with Agents was an interdisci- Cultural Agents as a field The graduate student Cultural Agents Initiative graduate, undergraduate, plinary graduate student of study that would bring conference on Cultural promoted the work of faculty and community conference that stimulated together scholars inter- Agents inspired under- several Latin American participants in academic thinking and conversation ested in interdisciplinary graduate students inter- artists in Boston. It organ- workshops. These meet- around this new rich field work and in the intersec- ested in the topic of ized outreach events and ings served to explore of study and identified tions between culture and Cultural Agents to estab- set up presentations at ways in which aesthetic, young scholars practicing society. lish an offshoot group in Harvard as well as work- intellectual and spiritual cultural agency. The con- Other activities their own right called shops with the public at practices can enhance (or ference gathered excep- included a conference on “Cultural Agents at large, including presenta- constrain) personal and tional young scholars from Our Common Ground: Harvard College” — in an tions by Pedro Reyes, collective goals. a variety of disciplines, Mapping Indigeneity within effort that parallels the

http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu 9 2004-05 HIGHLIGHTS

December On December 3 and 4, 2004, the Center celebrated date, December 3, of 1994. This memorable its10th Anniversary. The setting for the gala dinner, celebration, which convened more than 150 guests, which featured inspiring remarks by David included lively panel discussions led by Harvard Rockefeller and former Harvard President Neil faculty on topics such as health policy and Rudenstine, was Harvard’s Fogg Museum, the site democracy. President Lawrence Summers chaired of the very first DRCLAS dinner, held on the same an extraordinary roundtable discussion on the

September DRCLAS Art Forum Opening and Open House Celebration Record attendance of more than 200 visitors to the Center. The Art Forum Opening of Auto Portraits — Blue Bananas on Fire with a gallery talk by the artist, Adál Maldonado and music by Gian Carlo Buscaglia.

Advisory Committee member Pedro Baridon and wife DRCLAS Director John H. Coatsworth Paulina, with Maria Inés and Gustavo Herrero

October LASA in Las Vegas The denial of 65 visas by the U.S. State Department to the entire Cuban delegation propelled the David Rockefeller Center to Advisory Committee member Lorenzo Weisman Overview of gala at the Fogg Museum of Art cancel its book launch and hold a panel discussion protesting the denial of visas.

The Great Depression of the 1930s as Reflected in the Tango Economics columnist for the Argentine daily Página 12 and writer, Julio Nudler, presented an analysis of the tango of the 1930s.

John H. Coatsworth with Advisory Committee members Former President of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso (from left to right) Roberto Hernández-Ramírez, Tony and doctoral student Paula Louzano (GSE) Custer, Francisco Soler, and Lorenzo Weisman

January First Puerto Rico Winter Institute November January 9 to 28 Book Launch Is Lula’s Brazil Different? Culture at the Crossroads June Carolyn Erlick, Publications Tuesday Seminar with Kenneth Director, presented her book, Maxwell, Visiting Professor, Disappeared: A Journalist History Department and Senior Silenced, the Irma Flaquer Story. Fellow, DRCLAS. Best attended Tuesday Seminar of the year. future of Latin America with Fernando Henrique Studies: Reflecting on the First Decade and Cardoso, Oscar Arias, Enrique Iglesias and Pedro Planning for the Next. Other events included Aspe. HBS Professor James Austin led a discussion testimonials from students on how the Center had on the challenges and opportunities the Center will made an impact on their lives and magnificent March face in the next ten years based on the case study performances by a group of 30 musicians of the Harvard Comes to Mexico The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Youth Orchestra of the Americas. Advisory Committee Meeting in Mexico City on the ocassion of the Harvard Alumni Association Global Series.

Luiz Dulci, Secretary General of the Office of President Lula gives a public presentation at Harvard Hall.

April Latinos and The Changing Face of Greater Boston Academic symposium exploring Benjamin Zander, guest conductor of Andrés Velasco, Executive Commitee member; Sumitomo the most recent scholarship on the Youth Orchestra of the Americas Professor of International Finance and Development (KSG) the region’s Latino communities and the policies that may shape their future.

May Two Cubas or More? Perceptions And Realities A presentation with Rafael Hernández, Senior Research Fellow, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Cultura Cubana “Juan Marinello” and Editor of David Rockefeller with Visiting Scholars Oscar Peláez and James Austin, Executive Committee member, Eliot I. Snider TEMAS, a Cuban quarterly in the Fernando Coronil and Family Professor of Business Administration (HBS) field of social sciences and the humanities.

Former Harvard President, and DRCLAS co-founder, Lawrence H. Summers with Pedro Aspe, Fernando Henrique Neil Rudenstine. Cardoso, and Oscar Arias June Certificate in Latin American Studies Ceremony February March 23rd presentation of the Gilberto Gil: Brazilian Cuba Book Launch Certificate in Latin American Cultural Policies and Ricardo Andrés Pascoe Pierce, Studies featured keynote speaker Social Inclusion former Mexican ambassador to Kenneth Maxwell and the The official launch of the “Brazil Cuba, presented his book En el introduction of the Kenneth Semester at Harvard” featured a Filo: Historia de una crisis Maxwell Thesis Prize in Brazilian presentation at Sanders Theater diplomática, Cuba 2001–2002. Studies. by Gilberto Gil, Brazilian minister of culture. http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu 15 The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies launches its home page on the world wide web, including information on Center events and activities, grants, visiting scholar programs and publications.

December 3, 1994 The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard’s newest international studies institute, is inaugurated.

======94 95 96 TEN The Center launches a new Corporate Partners Program to provide companies YEARS interested in Latin America with access to Harvard University’s vast resources on the region and to promote AT collaboration on issues and DRCLAS projects of mutual interest. The Center adopts four broad topical priorities that will help guide its development: economic and institutional reform, the environment, immigration and the humanities. In addition, faculty Working Groups are created with a national or sub-regional focus on Brazil, Mexico and Central America.

11 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies August 1997 January 29-30, 1999 DRCLAS moves from Coolidge The Center organizes its first Hall to 61 Kirkland Street, a conference in Havana, Cuba, wonderful three-story brick entitled “La Cultura en la Historia mansion replete with grand de las Relaciones entre Cuba y seminar room, space for the Estados Unidos: Expresión Center’s new Resource Room Artistica, Imaginación Popular, and offices for faculty, staff, Actividad Social y Desarrollo visiting scholars and graduate Institucional.” The event was students. hosted locally by Rafael Hernández and the Center Juan Marinello (CJM). Seven Harvard faculty and graduate students participate in the panels, as well The Center launches its new as four faculty from other U.S. book series with a splendid institutions. volume of research papers entitled Crossings: Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary November 12-13, 1999 Perspectives, edited by Encuentro Bilateral Professor Marcelo Suárez- Harvard-Jardín Botánico de Orozco of the Graduate School Cienfuegos of Education. Cuban botanists and historians exchange information with their U.S. counterparts in a two-day conference organized by the The Latin American and Latino Art David Rockefeller Center and Forum is inaugurated to invite artists the Cienfuegos Botanical to exhibit their work at the Center. Garden in Cuba.

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DRCLAS inaugurates a new program of academic and DRCLAS News, the scientific exchanges with Cuba, a newsletter of the David new Inter-Faculty Committee on Rockefeller Center for Latin Latino Studies chaired by American Studies, is Education Professor Marcelo launched. Published three Suárez-Orozco and a new Center times a year, DRCLAS News initiative in cooperation with the focuses on a variety of Hauser Center for Non-Profit issues facing contemporary Organizations on “Philanthropy, Latin America. Social Change, and Civil Society in Latin America.” March 9, 2001 Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection The first ever exhibition of Latin American modern art at the Fogg Museum opens with a reception and banquet followed by a two- The U.S. Department of Education day symposium on the exhibit designates the David Rockefeller and the artistic traditions Center a “National Resource represented in it. Center” of Latin American Studies in recognition of the high level of achievement and scholarship of May 11, 2001 our faculty, the excellent library Advisory Committee Meeting August 2002 facilities of the University, the honors and bids farewell to The Regional Office of the David multifaceted program of activities Harvard President Neil Rockefeller Center for Latin carried out by the Center and the Rudenstine, and welcomes American Studies opens in dedication of our superb staff. President-elect Lawrence Santiago, Chile. The Santiago The title comes with a significant Summers. Neil Rudenstine was office is the first Harvard office grant that will further build our instrumental in the founding of meant to serve the entire academic and language programs. the Center and has given University ever established continuous and indispensable outside the United States. support since the Center’s inauguration in 1994.

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April 6-8, 2000 Latinos in the 21st Century: Mapping the Research Agenda More than 50 leading scholars from around the country and from 6 Harvard faculties convene for a historic conference that examines the basic research on the Latino population of the United States.

September 2001 The Center launches Harvard’s DRCLAS News becomes ReVista: first formal student exchange Harvard Review of Latin America. program with Brazilian universities The magazine-style publication in 2002-2003. The consortium features articles by Harvard partners Harvard with the faculty, students, visiting scholars University of Notre Dame and two and experts in their fields, and distinguished Brazilian showcases local, Latin American Universities, Universidade de São and Latino photography. Paulo (USP) and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC). March 30-April 1, 2004 Harvard President Larry Summers visits Brazil and the DRCLAS Regional Office in Santiago, Chile. According to Summers, the Regional Office in Santiago represents an

exemplary initiative which he would = like to replicate “in a dozen cities = = 2004-05

around the world, including Mexico =

City and São Paulo.” = = BY THE NUMBERS = = =

= DRCLAS Activities =

= Events Sponsored by the Center = Lectures and Seminars 127 =

= Research Conferences and Workshops 12 =

= Art Exhibitions 2

The Inter-Faculty Committee on = Film Series 5 Latino Studies (IFCLAS) Thesis =

= Outreach Programs for Local Schools 33

Award is established to honor the = Total Attendance at DRCLAS events 8,180 best undergraduate thesis on a = = Center Publications subject concerning either recent =

immigration or established = DRCLAS Book Series (new titles) 2 communities of Latin American = = Working Papers 4

descent in the United States. = Issues of ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America 2 =

= Service publications and brochures 11

= Web Page (number of hits monthly) 45,000 =

= Number of Countries Accessing Site 121 = =

= Engaging Harvard Students =

= Student Involvement ======03 04 = Certificates in Latin American Studies 32 =

= Graduate/Professional Student Specialists 300 =

= Students in Study Abroad Programs in

Kenneth Maxwell is named as the = Chile and in Brazil 58 =

Center’s first Senior Fellow at the = Grants, Internships and Support Advisory Committee Weekend = Opening Banquet. A distinguished = Undergraduate Research Travel Grants 49 = Graduate/Professional Student Travel Grants 51 historian and essayist, Maxwell = will also hold an appointment in = Graduate/Professional Student Conference Grants 35 =

the History Department and teach = DRCLAS Summer Internship Grants 61

courses on Brazilian history. = Students in Field Trips/Courses in Region 39 =

= Graduate Research Fellowships 18 = Graduate Summer Language Training (FLAS) 4 =

= Total DRCLAS-Aided Students 297 ======

= KEY =

= Total Conferences and Events

= ࡗ = ࡗ Certificates in Latin American Studies = Research Grants: Students = ࡗ = ࡗ Research Grants: Faculty =

http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu 14 Art Forum which ran from March 19- Enrique Vivoni (University The seminar series is open sible to the surrounding June 12, 2005. of Puerto Rico); Variations to the public and regularly communities. A major part The Center’s Art Forum These successes have on Latino Religious Life, attracts a diverse audience of the Center’s local out- was consolidated as one of made the Art Forum’s taught by Rudenstine of academics, students and reach program is addressed the premier exhibiting annual contest increas- Professor of Divinity David members of the commu- to K-12 schools and educa- venues in the country for ingly competitive, drawing Carrasco (Harvard nity. Co-chairs for the tors. K-12 teachers are up and coming Latino and more entries from major University) and Professor 2004-2005 year were invited to all DRCLAS Latin American artists this cutting-edge artists across Juan Flores (City Professor Domínguez and events and receive past year. Two major the continent. By the end University of New York); DRCLAS Director John announcements about exhibits hosted during of the academic year, and and Countercurrents: Coatsworth. For a complete DRCLAS visitors — such as 2004-2005: Blue Prints for after a long deliberation Latinos and Yorubas, list of the 23 seminars Latin American artists, a Nation — Blue Bananas process, this year’s jury taught by Foster Professor held during this year, see politicians and scholars — on Fire by Nuyorican artist selected three major artists of Anthropology J. Lorand the events section of the who are available for class- Adál Maldonado (Fall for future exhibits: Matory (Harvard Center’s web site. room lectures in their 2004) and Life is a Catwalk Brazilian painter Chiara University) and Professor schools. This past year, the — Fourth World by Banfi, Colombian photogra- Ángel Quintero Rivera Outreach Program made it Colombian Jaime Ávila History Workshop pher Fernell Franco, and (University of Puerto Rico). possible for the work of marked this achievement. Venezuelan conceptual Other events organized The Boston Area Latin photographers Adál In addition to their high artist Alexander Apostol, as part of the Institute American History Maldonado and Jaime Ávila, attendance, Boston area who will continue the tra- included course-relevant Workshop provides faculty, as well as that of Mapuche critics published lengthy dition of innovation that excursions and public graduate students and painter Eduardo Rapimán and positive reviews. has become the trademark talks. Each afternoon, the invited guests an opportu- to reach Boston-area The two exhibits also of the DRCLAS Art Forum. general public was invited nity to share their unpub- schools in collaboration involved partnerships That tradition was nur- to join participants while lished work in Latin with the Cultural Agency between DRCLAS and tured in the past year by professors and other dis- American history with a initiative. Over 30 school other cultural institutions Art Forum coordinator José tinguished speakers deliv- lively and interested audi- presentations took place. in the Boston area. Falconi, consultants Mary ered lectures on topics ence. During 2004–2005, Teachers either brought stu- Partnering allowed Schneider Enriquez and ranging from cultural the Center sponsored 10 dents to DRCLAS and DRCLAS to widen the Kyle Huffman, Professors icons in colonial Mexico workshops on a wide range Harvard museums or bene- scope of the exhibits and Tom Cummins, Luis and Peru to Creole nation- of topics; for a complete fited from DRCLAS peda- present full-scale retro- Fernandez Cifuentes and alism; and from list, see the events section gogical expertise in the spectives of each of these Doris Sommer, and Mesoamerican religion to of the Center’s web page. classrooms. DRCLAS devel- artists. Exhibits were held Visiting Professor Nicolau Puerto Rican populism. The History Workshop is oped a 4th grade teaching simultaneously at DRCLAS Sevcenko. Excursions included trips made possible by the module on Mexico in col- and the partner-gallery in to Aguirre and Ponce, support of the Andrew W. laboration with Cliff downtown Boston (Center Puerto Rico Winter Vieques and Loiza Aldea. Mellon Foundation. Gallant, a teacher at for Latino Arts, Boston Institute Building on the success Belmont High School. It Arts Academy) and created The inaugural year of the of this first experience, the also collaborated on a a flow of spectators Outreach to Puerto Rico Winter Center is currently organ- statewide training work- between the two locations. Schools and Institute (PRWI) was a izing the second Puerto shop for Social Science For the first time in its Communities decided success. The PRWI Rico Winter Institute, teachers on the issue of history, the Art Forum began as an idea proposed which will take place in DRCLAS and its affiliated commodities in World published a catalogue of to the Center by Professor January 2006 and will faculty provide expert History. one of its exhibiting of Romance Languages and focus on Public Health. information on Latin The Title VI program artists. Adál Maldonado’s Literatures Doris Sommer. America to the local and also supported the teach- Out of Focus Nuyoricans It was launched thanks to national communities. ing of courses, such as was released at the Tuesday Seminar the generosity of the Center staff answer ques- Spanish in the Community opening of his exhibition, Wilbur Marvin Foundation, on Latin American tions, prepare documents, and Portuguese in the at DRCLAS, in early the collaboration of the Affairs provide speakers and Community, in which stu- October 2004. Due to its University of Puerto Rico, First created by Clarence connect people. Center dents in advanced lan- limited edition, this Escuela de Artes Plásticas, Dillon Professor of faculty respond continu- guage courses worked in “object-book” has already the Centro de Estudios International Affairs Jorge ously to requests from the non-profit community become a sought after item Avanzados and the I. Domínguez, long before media (both print and elec- service organizations among collectors and fol- Instituto de Neurobiología the creation of the David tronic) as well as public honing their language lowers of Maldonado’s in San Juan. Rockefeller Center, the officials, schools, skills under the supervi- works. In another first, the PRWI consisted of ses- Tuesday Seminar on Latin museums, professional and sion of language instruc- Art Forum was invited to sions, during each of the American Affairs was labor organizations, and tors. This year, a new class collaborate in an exhibition three weeks, directed by a already a tradition among other colleges and univer- entitled Haitian Creole was to be mounted at a major Harvard professor and a Latin Americanists at sities. The Center’s developed at Harvard fine arts museum. Due to Puerto Rican counterpart. Harvard ten years ago. The Corporate Partners Medical School in collabo- the critical acclaim Topics studied included seminar invites faculty, Program reaches out to the ration with the Medical accorded Jaime Ávila’s Art The Architectural Grammar visiting scholars, graduate national and international School and Partners in Forum show, the Museum of Conquest, taught by students and guests from business communities. Health. This course is of Fine Arts in Saint Dumbarton Oaks Professor other institutions to As a Title VI National designed for health profes- Petersburg (Florida), held a of Art History Thomas present their research on Resource Center, DRCLAS sionals seeking to commu- mirror exhibition of his Cummins (Harvard contemporary issues works to make its knowl- nicate better with Haitian work, La Vida es una University) and Professor related to Latin America. edge resources more acces- patients both in the Boston Pasarela (Life is a Catwalk) area and in Haiti. 16 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies William Fash, Bowditch Aldo Mussachio, Assistant Professor of Central Professor, HBS American and Mexican Debt Collection and the Exhibits Archaeology and Development of Credit Adál Maldonado, Blue Ethnology, FAS Markets in Mexico Prints for a Nation — Blue (Anthropology) Karen Peterson, Associate Bananas on Fire held at The Copan Hieroglyphic Professor of Nutrition and DRCLAS and the Center Stairway Research Society, Human for Latino Arts (Boston). Conference September 30, 2004 - Development and Health, January 5, 2005. Fernando Reimers, Ford HSPH Foundation Professor of Household Food Insecurity Jaime Ávila, Life is a International Education, and Nutritional Problems of Catwalk — Fourth World GSE Low-Income Families in held at DRCLAS and at Educational and the Civic Buenos Aires, Argentina: A the Boston Arts Academy Purposes of Schools in the Qualitative Case Study (Boston). February 16 – Americas June 30, 2005 Jay Silverman, Assistant James Robinson, Professor Professor of Society, of Government, FAS Human Development and (Government) Health, HSPH New Economic History of Violence Victimization and Colombia Health Concerns Among Incarcerated Woman in Individual Faculty Recife, Brazil Detail of Frida by Jaime Ávila. Research Grants Noreen Tuross, Landon T. Awarded Clay Professor of Scientific Dolores Acevedo García, Archaeology, FAS Assistant Professor of (Anthropology) Society, Human Collaborative Research in Development and Health, the Mitla Yagul Area of HSPH Mexico Patterns in Self-Rated FACULTY RESEARCH Health Among Latinos Course-Based Field Trip Grant Brian Farrell, Professor of John Beardsley, Senior Biology, FAS (Organismic Lecturer in Landscape and Evolutionary Biology) AND TEACHING Architecture, GSD DNA Barcoding of Redesigning Villa Tranquila; Dominican Insects An Informal Settlement in José Gómez Ibañez, Buenos Aires, Argentina Derek Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Language Study Policy, GSD Grant Assessing the Middle Patrick Provost-Smith, Support for faculty research Faculty Research Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, Landscape: A Close Look at Assistant Professor of the gatherings and for individ- Assistant Professor, FAS “La Sabana de Bogotá” and History of Christianity, Conferences and the Capital Region of HDS ual research and other Workshops Grants (Romance Languages and grants came from the Jorge Literatures) Caracas Spanish Language Study in Awarded Peru and Bolivia Paulo Lemann Fund, the Culture and the Market in Alfred Guzzetti, Osgood Lisa Berkman, Florence Antonio Madero Fund, the Latin America Hooker Professor of Visual Sprague Norman and Curriculum Julio Mario Santo Domingo Arts, FAS (Visual and Laura Smart Norman John Coatsworth, Monroe Development Fund, the Wilbur Marvin Environmental Studies) Professor of Health, Social Gutman Professor of Latin Grant Fund, the Peggy Rockefeller Reframing History Fund, the Gilinsky Fund, Behavior and Epidemiology, American Affairs, FAS Clémence Jouët-Pastré, the Amalia Lacroze de HSPH; and Nancy Krieger, (History) Carole Mitnick, Instructor Senior Preceptor, FAS Fortabat Fund and the Associate Professor of The New Comparative in Social Medicine, HMS (Romance Languages and Gustavo and Patricia Society, Human Economic History A Randomized Clinical trial Literatures) Cisneros Fund. Grants are Development and Health, Ponto de Encontro: Brian Farrell, Professor of of Gatifloxacin in Multidrug awarded in open competi- HSPH Portuguese as a World Biology, FAS (Organismic & Therapy for Multidrug- tions judged by DRCLAS Health Disparities and the Language Evolutionary Biology) Resistant Tuberculosis faculty committees. Body Politic: Policy, (Peru) Research, Data and V Congress on Caribbean Government Responsibility Biodiversity (Dominican Republic)

http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu 17 Tomás Roberto Jiménez María Colbert Sociology. Thesis: Romance Languages and “Replenished Identity: Literatures. Thesis: STUDENT AWARDS AND Mexican Americans, “Reading the Ideology of Mexican Immigrants and Domesticity: Woman, Ethnic Identity.” Identity and the Market in ACCOMPLISHMENTS Restoration Madrid.” Debra Joy Pérez Health Policy. Thesis: Mariana Colacelli “Understanding Latino Economics. Thesis: “Essays Health Policy and Barriers on the Economics of to Care.” Crises.”

Esther Liberman Paul Armstrong-Taylor Comparative Literature. Economics. Thesis: Thesis: “Tongues United: “Strategic Credibility.” Metaphors of Above left: Students from Biology Doctorates Oliver Jurgen Dinius Multilingualism in the Sarah Elizabeth Jackson 95hfc “On the Origin of Species: History. Thesis: “Work in Writings of Vladimir Anthropology. Thesis: A Genomics Approach” on a Awarded to Brazil’s Steel City: A course trip to Panama. Above Students Nabokov, José Donoso and “Deciphering Classic Maya right: Harvard College student Specializing in History of Industrial Augusto Roa Bastos.” Political Hierarchy: Stephanie Hodges ’06 in San Relations in Volta Redonda, Epigraphic, Archeological Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Latin American 1941-1968.” Gustavo Andrés Suárez and Ethnohistoric Studies Economics. Thesis: “Essays Perspectives on the Doctors of Philosophy Viviane A. Mahieux in Corporate Finance.” Courtly Elite.” Aaron William Navarro Romance Languages and History. Thesis: “Political Literatures. Thesis: Juan Pablo Lupi Doctors of Business Intelligence: Opposition, “Accessible Intellectuals: Comparative Literature. Administration Parties and the Military in Three cronistas of the Thesis: “Encounter of Santiago Kraiselburd Mexico, 1938-1954.” 1920’s and 1930’s.” Modernities: Poetics, Thesis: “Three Essays on Baroque, and Supply Chain Contracts: Carlos Alejandro Ponzio Francisco Ramírez Intertextuality in José Impact of Contract De León, Economics. Santacruz, Romance Lezama Lima and Stephane Limitations on Inventory Thesis: “Essays on the Languages and Literatures. Mallarmé.” and Sales.” Thesis: “El diagnóstico de History of Economic Doctors of Design Growth in Mexico.” la humanidad por Mateo Magda Belén Hinojosa Luis Valenzuela Alemán: el discurso Political Science. Thesis: Thesis: “Mass Housing and Cintia M. Santana médico de Guzmán de “Sex and the Cities: Urbanization on the Road Romance Languages and Alfarache.” Candidate Selection and to Modernization in Literatures. Thesis: “Influ- Women’s Representation in Santiago de Chile, ence in Translation: Dirty Municipal Politics in Chile 1930-1960.” Realism and the Spanish and Mexico.” Novel and Short Story.”

18 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Doctors of Education Megan Anne Horst Undergraduate Latino Studies Student Research Adriana Katzew Human Development and Certificate in Latin Thesis Prize Travel Grants Learning and Teaching. Psychology. The Inter-Faculty American Studies The Center awarded 38 Thesis: “‘No Chicanos on Thesis: “Organized Sports Committee on Latino Summer Research Travel TV’: Learning from Participation in the Lives The DRCLAS-administered Studies (IFCLAS) Annual Grants to graduate stu- Chicana/o Artists-Activists of Adolescent Hispanic Certificate in Latin Thesis Award was estab- dents and 34 to undergrad- Countering Invisibility and Girls: A Mixed Methods American Studies is lished in spring 2003 by uate students pursuing Stereotypes in the Media Study.” awarded each year by the David Rockefeller senior thesis topics for through Art.” Harvard’s Committee on Center to recognize the travel during Summer Rubén P. Álvarez Latin American and Harvard College senior 2005. These grants were Berta Rosa Berriz Human Development and Iberian Studies to students who writes the best thesis made possible through the Learning and Teaching. Psychology. Thesis: graduating from Harvard on a subject concerning generous support of 20 Thesis: “The Emergent “Bringing Meaning to Mind College who have fulfilled Latinos (either recent individual endowment Cultural Identity of Puerto in Two Languages: A Brain course requirements, immigrants or established funds at the Center. The Rican and Dominican Imaging Study of demonstrated proficiency communities of Latin Center also awarded 29 Third-Grade Students and Translation Priming and in Spanish or Portuguese, American descent in the Term-Time Research Travel Its Relation to Academic Episodic Encoding in Fluent and presented an honors United States). The 2005 Grants for shorter trips to Performance.” Spanish-English Bilinguals.” thesis on a topic related to co-recipients were Martha conduct research during Latin America. This year a Casillas for her Social the academic year. For a Blanca G. Quiroz Doctors of Science in record 32 graduating Studies thesis, La Virgen complete listing of the Human Development and Population and Harvard College seniors Xicana: How a traditional International Health 2004-2005 Summer and Psychology. Thesis: “The were awarded certificates. image reflects and affects Heather Michelle Kun Internship Grant recipi- Home Language and For a complete list of the Re-Newed Mestiza con- Thesis: “Health Profile and ents, please visit the Literacy Environment of Certificate recipients with sciousness; and Jeslyn Interface of Farm Workers Center’s web site. Young Spanish/English their concentrations and Miller, for her Social with Healthcare in Imperial thesis titles, see the Bilingual Children.” Studies and Religion Latin American County, California: A Center’s web page. thesis, How Shall We Sing Qualitative Analysis.” Internship C. Patrick Proctor the Lord's Song in a Foreign Language and Literacy. Land? The Practice of Regla Program Thesis: “Commutable DRCLAS Graduate Ocha among Cuban Immi- Since 1999, the DRCLAS Literacy: A Study of Student grants in Greater New York. Internship Program has Bilingualism and Biliteracy Associates grown to become the among Native Spanish- Kenneth Maxwell Thesis largest on campus. Harvard’s graduate stu- Speaking Latina/o Children.” Prize in Brazilian Studies Students can take advan- dents are an integral part The Kenneth Maxwell tage of the Center’s institu- of the Center’s scholarly Claire Elizabeth White Thesis Prize in Brazilian tional and organizational community. The DRCLAS Language and Literacy. Studies—which was contacts to find a summer Graduate Student Thesis: “How Immigrant awarded for the first time internship that best meets Associate Program formal- Parents and Schools Read this spring—was estab- their interests. DRCLAS izes this connection and Each Other: Parental lished to recognize the best has ties with both inde- facilitates doctoral stu- Involvement and Literacy Harvard College senior pendent organizations dents’ research on Latin James Hammond ’57 and Shalini Initiatives.” Ananthanarayanan ’05. thesis on a subject related such as the Buenos Aires America by providing affil- to Brazil. This annual prize think-tank CIPPEC and the iation and research Erin E. Murphy-Graham DRCLAS is funded by a gift to Mexican Secretariat of support to approximately Administration, Planning DRCLAS from Professor Public Education, along 8-10 graduate students Undergraduate and Social Policy. Thesis: Kenneth Maxwell. The first with affiliated organiza- each year, with several Honors Thesis “‘Para Seguir Adelante’: Kenneth Maxwell Thesis tions such as WorldTeach, working in shared office Prizes Women’s Empowerment Prize recipient was which operates DRCLAS- space at the Center. James R. and Isabel D. and the Sistema de Adriana Lafaille, for her supported English-teaching Graduate Student Hammond Thesis Prize Aprendizaje Tutorial (SAT) Romance Languages and programs in Costa Rica Associates are selected Established in 1992, with a Program in Honduras.” Literatures thesis, (Paving) and Ecuador, and the through a competitive gift from James R. Local Roads to Democratic alumni organization process that includes all Hammond ’57, the Margaret J. Freedson Nations: Communities and Fundación México. Upon professional schools and Hammond Prize is Language and Literacy. Decision-Making in Two securing an internship academic departments. awarded for the best Thesis: “Language of Areas of Greater São Paulo. through DRCLAS or on Alison Adams, GSAS, Harvard undergraduate Instruction and Literacy their own, Harvard stu- History senior honors thesis Talk in Bilingual and dents are encouraged to Arnulf Becker, HLS related to Spanish-speak- English Immersion Pre- apply for a DRCLAS Amilcar Challú, GSAS, ing Latin America. The Kindergarten Classrooms: summer Internship Grant History 2005 Hammond Thesis Contributions to the Early to aid in funding students’ Daniel Gutiérrez, GSAS, price recipient was Shalini Literacy Development of travel to Latin America. History Ananthanarayanan for her Spanish-Speaking Children.” This year, over 300 stu- Magda Hinojosa, GSAS, Social Studies Thesis, dents met with the DRCLAS Government Effective Abortion Rights for staff regarding internship Paula Louzano, GSE Victims of Rape in Mexico placement. DRCLAS Megwen Loveless, GSAS, City: A Case Study of Policy awarded 53 internship Social Anthropology Implementation. Kenneth Maxwell and Adriana grants to undergraduate Germán Treviño, GSE Lafaille ’05.

http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu 19 and graduate students. In De Fortabat dissertation research and, addition, 10 of the 36 Fellowship in some cases, they supple- recipients of the presti- Program ment a DRCLAS Summer gious Weissman Research Travel Grant. International Internship The Amalia Lacroze de The Center awarded seven Program grant were stu- Fortabat Fellowship Mellon Summer Field dents pursuing projects in Program was established Research Grants in Latin America. In 2005, by Argentine business- 2004-2005. DRCLAS created a new woman and philanthropist Santiago Summer Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Mellon Academic Internship Program (SSIP), in order to give promising Year Fellowships an eight-week summer Argentine students finan- in Latin American program run through the cial support to pursue History Santiago Regional Office. graduate studies at This Fellowship was estab- The SSIP places Harvard Harvard Univeristy. lished through a grant College students in local Recipients of the de from the Andrew W. related to Latin America the DRCLAS student- public, private and non- Fortabat fellowship are Mellon Foundation and during the summer or the related services, was profit organizations, pro- expected to return to provides a stipend of academic year. restructured to reflect its vides host family Argentina upon completion $17,000 for Harvard gradu- mission. Leaders of the placement for each of studies at Harvard. For ate students in the field of Academic Year FLAS over thirty Latin American student, and organizes academic year 2004-2005, Fellowship Recipients Latin American History at and Latino student organi- complementary activities. nine students received de Arnulf Becker, HLS the Graduate School of zations on campus were The program is funded by Fortabat fellowships: Carol DeShano da Silva, Arts and Sciences. During invited to participate as DRCLAS with additional Federico Matías Bustelo, GSE the Academic Year 2004- members in the Student support from the Office of KSG Daniel Gingerich, GSAS, 2005, there were five Advisory Board’s biannual Career Services and the Mariana Colacelli, GSAS, Political Science Mellon Fellows: meetings in order to learn Center for Public Interest Economics Amy Nunn, HSPH Ingrid Bleynat about each other’s planned Careers. Thirty students Erica Elizabeth Gorbak, Allison Post, GSAS, Isaac Campos-Costero activities and Center participated in the summer HLS Political Science Halbert Jones administrative and finan- 2005 pilot year of the Christian Gruenberg, KSG Valeria Rocha, GSE Mónica Ricketts cial resources. Santiago Summer Silvia Beatriz Montoya, Allison Tirres, GSAS, Sergio Silva-Castaneda In 2004-2005, DRCLAS Internship Program. KSG History awarded 37 grants to 28 Nicolás Rafael Rodríguez- Foreign Language DRCLAS Brizuela, KSG Summer 2005 FLAS different student organiza- Iván Reídle, HLS and Area Studies Intensive Language tions ranging from the Conference Travel Harvard Argentine Society Grants Ana Laura Valazza, KSG (FLAS) Fellowship Training Grant Jimena Zú–niga, KSG Program Recipients to the Cuban-American The Center’s Conference Undergraduate Student The Foreign Language and Andrea Allen, GSAS, Travel Grants are intended Mellon Summer Association (CAUSA) to Area Studies Fellowship Portuguese to alleviate travel expenses assist in the execution of Field Research Program, initiated at Victoria de Menil, HSPH, for Harvard graduate stu- their events, conferences Grants Harvard in 1994 with a Haitian Creole dents presenting papers and publications. Student U.S. Department of Juan Rivera-Herrera, related to Latin America at Established through a organization initiatives Education grant, enables GSAS, Portuguese a conference outside of the grant from the Andrew W. ranged from a Habitat for Harvard to support gradu- Grete Viddal, GSAS, Boston area. This year, Mellon Foundation, Mellon Humanity Spring Break ate and professional school Haitian Creole DRCLAS awarded 35 Summer Field Research trip to Honduras, to round- students seeking advanced Conference Travel Grants Grants allow graduate stu- Student Organization tables on the 2006 training in modern foreign to students from every dents in Latin American Grant Recipients and Mexican presidential elec- languages and area studies graduate and professional History to pursue field- Student Advisory Board tions, to a gala benefit school at Harvard. work related to preliminary In 2004-2005, the David organized to create a schol- Rockefeller Center Student arship program for local Advisory Board, a group Latino youth. For a com- organized in 2001 to plete listing of Latin strengthen relationships America-related Student between students and Organizations at Harvard, student organizations com- please visit the Center’s mitted to Latin America, web site. and to provide insight to

Above: HSPH students and DRCLAS Regional Office Director Steve Reifenberg, in Santiago, Chile. Bottom Left: Harvard College Students in Mendoza, Argentina, on the DRCLAS Regional Office Summer Internship Program.

20 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Program for Latin American Libraries DRCLAS IN LATIN AMERICA and Archives (PLALA) The Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives (PLALA) is in its ninth year of assisting libraries and archives throughout Latin America to preserve scarce and endangered materials and to make these resources Regional Office in Santiago, Chile In June 2005, the Regional Office initiated a new more accessible for In June 2005, the DRCLAS’s three-year Regional Office Santiago Summer Internship Program that matches research. A broad array of pilot project in Santiago, Chile achieved a more permanent Harvard College student volunteers with non-governmen- manuscripts, printed institutional standing at Harvard and is now widely cited tal, cultural, public and private sector organizations in works and non-print mate- as a model for other initiatives that the University hopes Santiago for a two-month internship. The program offers rials like photographs and to carry out around the world. students a one-week orientation, placement in internship sound recordings are thus In 2004-2005, Provost Steven Hyman appointed a sites, local home stay, continued Spanish language train- being described and pre- Review Committee, that Professor of Economics Dwight ing as well as weekly seminars and local excursions. served in conformance Perkins chaired, to evaluate the DRCLAS Regional Office. DRCLAS placed 30 students in organizations including a with international stan- The Committee’s report described the Santiago Office as nonprofit for people with disabilities, municipal and dards and best practices. “both well-run and successful in fulfilling its mission as national government agencies, local schools, news organi- This process ensures that well as important needs of the University.” Furthermore, zations and international organizations such as the U.N. PLALA’s small grants the report stated the expectation “that, over the next five Economic Commission for Latin America and the carry enduring results as years, the Regional Office will continue to do what it has Caribbean, the U.N. Development Program and UNESCO. well as setting the bar for done so exceptionally well over the last two and half years: Beginning in 2004–2005, the DRCLAS Regional Office other projects and institu- first, serve the students and faculty of all of the Schools of has been supported entirely by a combination of local tions. Dan Hazen, from the University according to their needs and interests; support from individuals in the region, including a gener- Harvard’s Widener Library, second, reach out proactively to faculty, students and ous gift of $1 million from Chilean entrepreneur Andrónico directs the Program, which administrators who may wish to undertake projects in Luksic, contributions from companies that opt to partici- is administered through Latin America but may not know where to begin; third, pate in the DRCLAS Corporate Partners program and DRCLAS. Three successive innovate thoughtfully and in coordination with relevant modest fees associated with some programmatic activities. grants from the Mellon University leaders—as it has done, for example, with the The DRCLAS Regional Office was established as an Foundation have provided undergraduate study abroad program.” experiment to address a key question: what impact could a PLALA with about Since its founding in August 2002, the DRCLAS physical presence make, representing Harvard’s $2,400,000. Additional Regional Office has assisted Harvard faculty members University-wide interests, in promoting the work of the support from other agen- carry out 16 collaborative initiatives in Argentina, Bolivia, University in one geographic region in the world? The cies, plus counterpart pay- Chile, Peru and Uruguay. Over the past three years it has Provost Office’s evaluation report concludes that “If the ments by grant recipients, worked with 58 Harvard faculty members conducting University is going to continue to ‘globalize,’ then it will have significantly boosted research in the region and with 29 Harvard senior admin- require an infrastructure to support its expansion. The this amount. istrative staff members on a wide variety of University Santiago office represents an extraordinary resource for As of July, 2005, activities. The Santiago Office has organized 42 faculty-led the University as it begins to build this infrastructure.” PLALA has approved about international conferences and public events, as well as 22 150 specific projects events for Harvard Alumni. In the past year, the Regional Teleconference Series throughout Latin America Office worked with Harvard faculty projects ranging from DRCLAS created a series of teleconference opportunities and the Caribbean and Andean iconography to reforestation in the Torres de for Argentine corporate, agricultural, education and politi- authorized direct pay- Paine National Park in Chile. cal leaders with the participation of Harvard faculty in ments of more than Over the course of the three-year pilot program, the topics such as politics, sustainable development, education $1,500,000. A new and DRCLAS Regional Office also developed a series of new and economy. The initiative was the brainchild of Harvard separate category of international opportunities for students at every level Emeritus Biology Professor Otto Solbrig and Gustavo “development grants” is throughout the University. It currently administers five Grobocopatel, the head of Argentine company Grupo Los now in place to underwrite credit-granting education abroad opportunities, including Grobo. The series took place on the first Tuesday of each more ambitious projects to the Harvard College Study Abroad Program in Santiago, month. Each seminar began with the presentation by a strengthen institutions of the Harvard Law School Study Abroad Program, the Harvard professor, followed by an exchange of ideas with special strategic impor- Harvard School of Public Health course on Health Policy an audience at multiple sites throughout Argentina and tance, foster cooperative Reform in Chile, and two programs with the Harvard Uruguay. Faculty presenters included: DRCLAS Director programs and build spe- Medical School (HMS): an International Service Learning John Coatsworth; HBS Associate Professor Rafael Di Tella; cialized regional infra- and Intensive Spanish Program, and HMS clinical rotations GSE Professor Fernando Reimers; Weatherhead Center structure and capacity in in Chile. In addition, the Regional Office has organized 78 Director Jorge I. Domínguez; and KSG Professor Andrés areas like microfilm or events especially for Harvard students, bringing the total Velasco. Topics ranged from education to economic growth digital reformatting. The number of Harvard students who have directly benefited in the region. Program’s impact has been from interacting with the Regional Office to over 260. profound.

http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu 21 President Summers’ remarks during the closing lunch- eon underscored the University’s commitment to creating opportunities for meaningful international undergraduate study. He cited the Center as a model for the University as a whole. President Summers reiterated his praise of the Center’s work during the Executive Session of the Advisory Committee, when he also announced his support for the continued development of DRCLAS regional offices in the region. At this meeting, Committee members discussed a strategic plan —a document that describes the Center’s main goals for the next five to ten years —devised by the Center’s leadership based on an internal review of Center programs and operations. DRCLAS will use this guide to develop a set of operational objectives with specific time- lines beginning in the coming academic year. John Coatsworth announced the appointment of Biorn Maybury-Lewis AB’80, as the David Rockefeller Center’s Executive Director. Maybury-Lewis obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science at Columbia University, and has a com- bined career in teaching, research, and leading expeditions into the Brazilian interior, with more recent experience as a senior-level college administrator in Florida. The Mexico events concluded with a dinner at the Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL) hosted by Advisory Committee member Antonio Madero, and his wife Teresa. At the dinner, Coatsworth thanked the Maderos on behalf of the University and announced that Jorge I. Domínguez, ADVISORS AND Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, would become the first Antonio Madero Professor of Latin American and Mexican Politics and Economics when he steps down as director of Harvard’s Weatherhead Center SPONSORS for International Affairs next year. The Advisory Committee meeting concluded with a dis- cussion of the Center’s future, its plans to open offices in Latin America, and its resource base.

Above: David Rockefeller and Advisory Committee Advisory Committee Agustín E. Edwards, Chile Jaime Sepúlveda, Director of Members Juan C. and Mary S. Mexico’s National Institute of The spring meeting of the Center’s Advisory Committee Manuel Arango, Mexico Enríquez, United States Health. Right: Harvard President was held in early March in Mexico City, on the occasion of Gastón Azcárraga, Mexico Lawrence H. Summers and the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Global Series, Angeles Espinosa Yglesias, Advisory Committee member Mexico Harvard Comes to Mexico — an event that convened 430 Pedro Nicolás Baridón, Antonio Madero. Uruguay alumni and guests from Mexico and other Latin American Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, Argentina countries. Eneko de Belausteguigoitia, Mexico The HAA events were a great opportunity to reflect on Dionisio Garza Medina, Mexico the extensive collaborations between Harvard scholars Arturo Brillembourg and Hilda Ochoa- Brillembourg, and their counterparts throughout the region. Presentations Jaime and Raquel Gilinski, United States Colombia and panel discussions included topics such as the U.S.- Roberto P. Cezar de Mexican partnership, economic history, education and Roberto Hernández Andrade, Brazil Ramirez, Mexico democracy, global health, Mesoamerican civilizations, Gustavo A. and Patricia social enterprise and venture capital. DRCLAS Advisory Roland A. Hernández, Phelps de Cisneros, United States Committee members also attended a private tour of the Venezuela splendid Templo Mayor in the historic district, where they Enrique V. Iglesias, Eduardo F. Costantini, Uruguay had an opportunity to learn about the collaborative work Argentina that has been done to excavate, research and learn about Israel Klabin, Brazil Tony A. Custer, Peru the incredible treasures of Mexican heritage. George W. Landau, Francisco de Sola, United States El Salvador Philip Lehner, United States Peggy Dulany, United States Jorge Paulo Lemann, Brazil

22 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Andrónico Luksic, Chile Regional Office in Center’s activities and resources. The Program Latin America and in the Antonio Madero, Mexico Santiago, Chile. This gift programs: also convenes scholars, hemisphere. Speakers Martha T. Muse, will enable the Santiago Gastón Azcárraga government officials and included the Hon. John United States Office to continue to Pedro Nicolas Baridon business leaders from Latin Danilovich, U.S. Ricardo Poma, El Salvador develop a wide range of Arturo AB´68 and Hilda America for two executive- Ambassador to Brazil; activities, including faculty level seminars at Harvard Robert Devlin, Deputy Pablo A. and Luisa E. Ochoa Brillembourg Pulido, Venezuela research and collaboration MPA´72 University each year. Manager of the Integration with scholars and institu- The eighth year of the and Regional Programs David Rockefeller, Estrellita Bograd Brodsky tions in Chile and neigh- Center’s Corporate Department at the Inter- United States Gustavo and Patricia boring countries as well as Partners Program featured American Development Fernando Romero Moreno, Cisneros student research, study seminars on topics gaining Bank; and Thomas Trebat, Bolivia Tony Custer abroad and internships. increasing currency in Executive Director of the Orlando Sacasa, John Davies United States A number of Advisory Latin America. The Fall Institute of Latin American Committee members and Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat 2004 seminar, The Rise of Studies at Columbia Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Colombia other friends of the Center Peggy Dulany the Left in Latin America, University, among others. made significant new com- featured internationally This year, the Program Carlos Slim Helú, Mexico Francisco de Sola AB´67 mitments this year in renowned experts, includ- welcomed the addition of Francisco Soler, El Salvador Angeles Espinosa Yglesias honor of the Center’s 10th ing faculty, government two new members to its Ernesto Fernández- Lorenzo D. Weisman, Anniversary. We are officials and corporate roster: Corporacion United States Holmann MPA´66, PhD´68, deeply grateful to Pedro AMP´76 executives who shared Nacional del Cobre their views on a broad (CODELCO), Chile; and Mark B. Fuller AB´75, range of political, eco- D&S, one of Chile’s biggest MBA´78, JD´78 and Jo Froman MBA´79 nomic and civil society retail companies. issues related to the emer- The Center is grateful Jaime Gilinski gence of labor and populist to the members of the Alejandro AB´68, Joaquin political trends in the Corporate Partners Program and Miguel Gómez region. They also examined for their support, which James AB´57 and Isabel the impact of these trends enables the Center to fund Hammond on fiscal discipline, market the research of Harvard Robert Hildreth AB´72 behavior and stabilization, faculty in every discipline Carlos Lacayo investor confidence in and professional field. Philip Lehner AB´46 Latin America and Jorge Paulo Lemann AB´61 prospects for sustainable Corporate Partners economic growth. Program Member Roster Andronico and Patricia Alfa Corporativo, Mexico Luksic Participants included Henrique de Campos Banco De Chile, Chile Antonio Madero MBA´61 Meirelles, President of the Cinemex, Mexico Wilbur Marvin AB´41 (*) Central Bank of Brazil, and Codelco, Chile Ricardo Poma MBA´70 Jennifer McCoy, Director of Compass, Chile Lauren Reiss AB´98, the Americas Program at Corporación Custer, Peru Baridon, Arturo and Hilda MBA´03 the Carter Center. These Major Gifts D&S, Chile Ochoa-Brillembourg, Tony David Rockefeller SB´36, distinguished speakers At the Center’s Advisory Custer, Philip Lehner, LLD´69 were joined by Harvard El Mercurio, Chile Committee meeting in Ricardo Poma, Álvaro Serra Butler Simbeck & faculty members John Fidelity Management & Mexico, John Coatsworth Rodríguez-Arregui, Orlando Mauricio Simbeck Coatsworth, Director of the Research CO. announced that Roberto Sacasa and Francisco Soler Cody Smith MBA’84 David Rockefeller Center, Grupo Altex, Mexico Hernández-Ramírez, in col- for their renewed support Orlando Sacasa AB´71 and Jorge I. Domínguez, Grupo Los Grobo, Argentina laboration with BANAMEX, Director of Harvard’s of the Center. We are also MBA´78 Hill Street Capital had decided to pledge $3.5 Weatherhead Center for immensely grateful to Julio Mario Santo Domingo Intergrated Finance million to endow a Advisory Committee International Affairs. Francisco Soler AB´67 Limited, LLP Professorship for the Study member Lorenzo Weisman The Spring 2005 MBA´70 International Bank of of Latin America to permit for his leadership and gen- seminar, Doing Business Lorenzo Weisman AB´66 Miami the University to add to its erous gifts of time and with Latin America during JP Morgan Chase faculty a leading scholar of resources for the Center’s the Second Bush Mexico and Mexican-U.S. growth. Corporate Administration, featured JP Morgan Private Bank relations. The Center has been Partners internationally renowned Orígenes y Destinos, Shortly after the the beneficiary of endow- The Center’s Corporate panelists who shared their Argentina Advisory Committee ment and gift funds from a Partners Program is views on the shifting Petrobras, Brazil meeting, Advisory host of Advisory designed to provide compa- patterns of U.S. — Latin Saxxon, Bolivia Committee member, Committee members and nies interested in Latin America relations during Andrónico Luksic, pledged Venevision International, friends whose gifts provide America with access to the past few years, and the Venezuela a new gift of $1 million in implications that these continuous support of the Harvard’s extensive Vitro, Mexico support of the Center’s have had for business in

http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu 23 FINANCIAL STATEMENT

FISCAL YEAR 2005 July 1, 2004 – June 30, 2005

Beginning Balance Gifts and Endowments $ 717,812 Foundations 1,410,996 Income Income from Endowments 1,858,943 Harvard University President’s Fund 250,000 Chile Program Fees 120,960 Miscellaneous 21,700 Grants Foundations 140,655 U.S. Department of Education 436,646 Current Use Gifts 677,947 Corporate Partners Program 140,207 Publications 47,570 Total Income $5,823,436

Expenses Administration $ 635,732 Publications 304,479 Events, Programs and Committees 1,905,926 Student Fellowships and Research Travel Grants 541,260 Faculty Research and Curriculum Grants 150,748 Visiting Fellows, Scholars, Professors 533,780 Total Expenses $4,071,926

Balance $ 1,751,510 Restricted Grant Income Carried Forward 1,646,334 Unrestricted Balance $ 105,177

Windmills in Southern Argentina. DRCLAS STAFF

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