David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Harvard University

cuban studies at harvard university 1998 to 2013 The Cuban Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) stands as the largest, most diverse and most solidly connected to academic and scientific institutions in Cuba among U.S. university programs that foster academic research and education on the island.

The program is guided by Harvard faculty research on a wide spectrum of academic fields, namely the social sciences, environment, education, public health/ medical sciences, humanities, library exchange and urban planning. section header

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Economic and Social Policy 5

Environment 11

Humanities 13

Public Health and Medicine 19

U.S.-Cuba Policy 24

Urban Planning 29

Libraries 32

Harvard College Program in Cuba 33

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Harvard University’s relationship with Cuba Currently, the number of faculty and students stretches back over a hundred years. At the end of the teaching and studying topics related to Cuba includes the nineteenth century, Harvard scholars began conducting humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Today studies at The Harvard Botanical Station for Tropical an interest in research related to Cuba can be found Research in Cienfuegos, Cuba. The Botanical Station in almost all divisions of the university, including the would eventually become part of Harvard’s Arnold Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the professional schools Arboretum. In 1900, more than a thousand Cuban of Business, Design, Divinity, Education, Government, teachers traveled to Harvard for training in the American Law, Medicine, and Public Health. education system in the midst of the U.S. intervention on the island. Then, in 1912, the eminent paleontologist The Cuban Studies Program at the David Carlos de la Torre received an honorary doctoral degree Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies from Harvard for his career accomplishments – the first Since its inception in 1999, the Cuban Studies Program at Cuban to receive such an honor. the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Following these beginnings, Harvard has supported has evolved into one of the most extensive and diverse research and teaching on Cuba that has grown over the ventures of its kind. Unlike any other program in the course of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. United States, the program caters to scholars from areas Harvard’s long-standing interest in Cuba is reflected in across the wide spectrum of academic fields, namely the number of faculty with research interests in Cuba, the social sciences, history, environment, education, in the comparatively large number of courses that treat chemistry, public health and medical sciences, public Cuban issues, and in the University’s extensive library policy, the arts and humanities, religion, library exchange and museum holdings of Cuban materials. For instance, and urban planning. Components of these collaborations the Escoto Collection at Houghton Library contains have included workshops and symposia in Cuba and valuable primary documents related to Cuban history other countries, the publication of co-edited volumes, and and culture. Likewise, the collections of the Museum of research stays conducted by Cuban scholars at Harvard. Comparative Zoology reflect a sustained interest in the Guided by the oversight and leadership of the Harvard study of Cuban flora and fauna. University-wide faculty Committee on Cuban Studies,

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the Program’s work has been sustained with generous including the Instituto Juan Marinello, Revista Temas, support from Atlantic Philanthropies, the John D. and the research institutes of the University of Havana, the Catherine MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Center for the Sociological and Psychological Studies the Christopher Reynolds Foundation, and private (CIPS), the Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí donors. (IPK), the Jardin Botánico de Cienfuegos, the Group The Center’s program of scholarly collaboration and for the Integrated Development of the Capital (GDIC), exchanges with Cuba has sought to accomplish three and the Academia de Ciencias de Cuba. Numerous important goals: international and U.S.-based institutions have also been (a) to facilitate research on Cuba and the development essential partners in the Center’s programs including the of academic relationships in Cuba by Harvard faculty University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston University, and students; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Latin (b) to assist Harvard's educational and cultural American Studies Association, the Pan American Health programs in Cuba; and, Organization (PAHO), El Colegio de México, and the (c) to strengthen institutional ties between Harvard U.S. House of Representatives Cuba Working Group. As and Cuban academic, scientific and research institutions part of these endeavors, each year during the last decade, through visiting faculty and researchers as well as jointly many Harvard faculty and students have traveled to organized workshops and conferences. Cuba for research or other educational activities. Since 1994, DRCLAS organized more than twelve At Harvard, DRCLAS has sponsored hundreds of academic conferences related to Cuba. Meetings public events on issues and research related to Cuba. The covered topics that included the history of U.S.-Cuban events have included seminars with Harvard faculty and cultural relations, current U.S.-Cuban relations broadly Cuban visiting scholars, film screenings, and major public understood, the impact of health reforms on control of events with visiting Cuban intellectuals and public figures. infectious diseases in Cuba and other Latin American DRCLAS has also hosted a works-in-progress workshop countries, the history of the former Harvard Botanical for Harvard undergraduate and graduate students Garden (now the Jardin Botánico de Cienfuegos), working on theses and dissertations related to Cuba. the lessons to be learned from Cuba’s dengue control In 2007, the Center launched the Harvard College program, the current and future prospects for U.S. Program in Cuba, a semester-length study abroad business in Cuba, and applied research on economic and program in Havana for Harvard undergraduates. social policy, among others. Through 2013, 43 Harvard undergraduates have Since 1999 and through 2013, the Center has hosted participated in the program and studied alongside their 87 Cuban visiting scholars for extended periods of Cuban counterparts at the University of Havana. research in fields as diverse as archival preservation, The Cuban Studies Program Report covers economics, history, intellectual property law, activities since the Program’s inception to 2013. The literature, tropical medicine, political science, public activities are divided into thematic areas that reflect administration, public health and urban planning. areas of collaboration: Public Health and Medicine, As a result, DRCLAS has published three edited Applied Economic and Social Policy, U.S.-Cuba Policy, volumes resulting from joint work with Cuban co-editors Humanities, Urban Planning, and Libraries. A section and showcasing scholarship by both U.S. and Cuban on the Harvard College Program in Cuba also includes scholars. These volumes are detailed in the following information on the program and students’ reflections on pages. their experiences. Aiming to strengthen and deepen initiatives in a broad range of disciplines, a cornerstone of the Center’s work has been to build links between research centers in Cuba and Harvard. The Center has worked with several Cuban academic and scientific institutions,

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Over the past thirteen years, the DRCLAS Cuban Studies Program has supported research on economic and social Faculty Projects and Grants policy in Cuba in areas related to policy and management at the Universidad de la Habana and applied economic and Ford Foundation, two-year $175,000 social policy research. Partner institutions in the latter areas grant (Jorge Domínguez) for a project on applied economic and social policy have included the Vice-Rectoria, Relaciones Internacionales research. (2013) Universidad de La Habana, Centro de Estudios de la Economía Cubana (CEEC), Centro de Investigaciones de la Ford Foundation, two-year $200,000 grant (Jorge Domínguez, Arachu Castro), Economía Internacional, the Facultad Latinoamericana de for a project on applied economic Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), the Centro de Investigaciones policy research; (2) social policy and Psicológicas y Sociológicas (CIPS), and the Swiss Agency for program evaluation research, (3) medical anthropology research on the impact of Cooperation and Development (COSUDE). AIDS treatment; and, (4) support for The Cuban economy has undergone a dramatic Temas, Cuba’s leading peer-reviewed transformation over the course of the last decade and these journal in the humanities and social sciences. (2010) changes may accelerate in the near term as a result of a economic policy changes announced by the government Ford Foundation, two-year $160,000 grant of President Raúl Castro. Research in economic and social (Jorge Domínguez, Arachu Castro), for a project on (a) applied economic policy policy has addressed questions of strategic economic planning research; (b) applied social policy research and the analysis of trends in inequality and social mobility focused on inequality and social mobility, dynamics in Cuba. Major collaborative projects have included (c) applied medical anthropology research on the impact of AIDS treatment; and, (d) “Is Cuba’s development goal feasible by 2030?” and “Research support for Temas, Cuba’s leading peer- Methods in Program Evaluation with Microdata,” among reviewed journal in the humanities and others. social sciences. (2007)

The joint research on public health and medicine has Christopher Reynolds Foundation, $40,000 resulted in seven courses and workshops that took place grant (Jorge Domínguez), for a project in Cuba. In addition, sixteen Cuban scientists and scholars on policy-related research in the area of U.S. policy towards Cuba. The have conducted research stays at Harvard. Further, the proposed project, U.S.-Cuban Relations research has resulted in the publication of two co-edited in a New Century, seeks to support the volumes, The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First undertaking of important scholarly research on U.S.-Cuban relations Century (edited by Jorge I. Domínguez, Omar Everleny Pérez culminating in the production of a Villanueva, and Lorena Barberia, Harvard University Press, volume edited by Jorge I. Domínguez 2004) and Cuban Economic and Social Development: Policy and Rafael M. Hernández. (2006)

Reforms and Challenges in the 21st Century (edited by Jorge Christopher Reynolds, $36,330 grant I. Domínguez, Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva, Mayra Espina (Jorge Domínguez), for a project that Prieto, and Lorena Barberia, Harvard University Press, 2012). The involves supporting scholarly research on U.S. policy towards Cuba, as well first book has been published in a Spanish language edition, La as seminars and publications that will economía cubana a principios del siglo XXI (El Colegio de México ensure that Harvard University’s ongoing and DRCLAS, 2007). collaborations in this important area are shared with a broader constituency in the academic, foundation, and public policy arenas. (2005)

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Faculty and Staff from the University of Havana and Harvard at the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy (CEEC), Havana with Harvard’s Vice-Provost, Professor Jorge Domínguez at the center (in white). To the right, at a talk with two Cuban visiting scholars at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard.

Ford Foundation, two-year $200,000 Cuba’s leading peer-reviewed journal in and expand the number of Harvard grant (Jorge Domínguez, Arachu Castro), the humanities and social sciences. (2003) research centers, policy institutes, and for a project on (a) applied economic professional schools actively engaged with policy research; (b) social policy research MacArthur Foundation, three-year counterpart institutions in Cuba. (2001) focused on social mobility and equity, $250,000, for a project to strengthen (c) medical anthropology research on and extend its ties to individuals and MacArthur Foundation, three-year the impact of AIDS treatment; (d) and institutions engaged in scientific, $404,900 grant, for a major program of support for Temas, Cuba’s leading peer- scholarly, and policy research through collaboration and exchange with Cuban reviewed journal in the humanities and additional short-term exchanges, joint educational and research institutions in social sciences. (2005) workshops and conferences, and joint the humanities, social sciences, natural publications. Secondly, DRCLAS hopes sciences, and medicine/public health. Christopher Reynolds Foundation, $25,000 to deepen existing exchange relationships (1998) grant (Jorge Domínguez), for two initiatives. The two initiatives focus on two related areas of research: the Cuban Visiting Scholars economy and Cuban social policy. The economy project involves research that Updating the Cuban Economy Pavel Vidal Alejandro, CEEC illuminates sources of strength and Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva, (Spring 2010) weakness in Cuba’s economy, economic CEEC (Spring 2012) policy making, and the related issues Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of external economic relations and The Impact of Structural Change on of Latin American Studies domestic welfare. The initiative on Economic Growth in Cuba Rafael Hernández, Temas (Fall 2006) applied social policy research focused on Ricardo Torres Pérez, CEEC poverty alleviation, education, housing, (Fall 2011) Two Cubas or More: social services, and inequality. (2004) Perceptions and Realities The Cuban Family, Regional Differences, Rafael M. Hernández, Centro Juan Ford Foundation, two-year $140,000 and Social Heterogenization Marinello, (CMJ) (Spring 2005) grant (Jorge Domínguez, Arachu Castro), Mareelén de la Caridad Diaz for a project on (a) public management Tenorio, CIPS (Fall 2011) Governability in the Caribbean education; (b) applied social policy Haroldo Dilla, FLACSO-Dominican research in education, housing, social Social Structures and Inequality and Agricul- Republic (Fall 2004) services, poverty alleviation, and the tural Workers and Agrarian Transformation like, (c) applied health policy research Lucy Martín Posada, CIPS (Fall 2011) Intellectual Property Law and including such topics as HIV/AIDS, its Relation to Industrial Property health-care services and access to Cuban Monetary Policy and Danice Vázquez de Alvaré, University medicines; and, (d) support for Temas, the Global Financial Crisis of Havana (Fall 2003)

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Poverty and Social Policy in Cuba: Mauricio de Miranda, Department Havana, Cuba, in coordination with Addressing the Challenges of Social of Economics, Pontificia Universidad CEEC (March) and Economic Change Javeriana de Cali (Fall 1998) Mayra Espina Prieto, CIPS Equity and Social Mobility in Latin America: (Spring 2003) Total: 19 (19.8% visiting scholars) Theory, Policies and Methodology Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in coordination Poverty and Social Policy in Cuba: with United Nations International Policy Addressing the Challenges of Social Workshops and Centre for Inclusive Growth (June) and Economic Change Conferences Angela Ferriol, Instituto Nacional 2007 de Investigaciones Económicas 2013 Equity and Social Mobility: Theory (Spring 2003) Cuba: la actualización del modelo and Methodology with Applications to Washington, DC (May-June) Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba and South Africa Poverty and Social Policy in Cuba: Brasilia, Brazil, in coordination with Addresing the Challenges of Social Local Budgeting and Public Finances in the United Nations International and Economic Change Mexico, Cuba and the Caribbean Poverty Center and the Centro Viviana Togores González, CEEC, Havana, Cuba (September) de Investigaciones Psicológicas y March-April (Spring 2003) Sociológicas (January) 2010 The State’s Regulation of Cuba’s Is Cuba’s development goal 2004 Sugar Policy feasible by 2030? Poverty and Social Policy in Cuba Oscar Zanetti, Instituto Cubano Cambridge, MA (April) Addressing the Challenges of Social de Historia (Spring 2001) and Economic Change, Havana, 2009 Cuba, in coordination with CIPS Improving Public Administration Mech- Is Cuba’s development goal (January) anisms at the Local Government Levels feasible by 2030? Orlando Gutiérrez, CEEC & Catedra de Administración Pública, University of Havana (Fall 2001) Publications Comparative Public Administration Teaching Methodologies Antonio Iglesias Morrell, Catedra de Administración Pública, University of Havana (Fall 2001)

Cuba: New Transitions and Civil Society Rafael M. Hernández, CMJ (Spring 2000)

Comparative Study of Science and Technology Policy in Latin America Rosendo Díaz, CEEC (Spring 2000)

Cuba’s Insertion into the World Economy: Cuban Economic and La economía cubana The Cuban Economy at the Limits of ‘Upgrading Social Development: Policy a inicios del siglo the Start of the Twenty- Pedro Monreal González, Center Reforms and Challenges in XXI, edited by Jorge first Century, edited by for the Studies of the International the 21st Century, edited by I. Domínguez, Omar Jorge I. Domínguez, Omar Economy, University of Havana Lorena Barberia, Jorge I. Everleny Pérez Villanueva, Everleny Pérez Villanueva, (Fall 1998) Domínguez, Mayra Espina and Lorena Barberia, and Lorena Barberia, Prieto, Omar Everleny DRCLAS and Colegio de Harvard University Press, Reform and Reinsertion of the Pérez Villanueva, Harvard México, 2007 2004 Cuban Economy in the 90s University Press, 2012

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2001 Anicia García, Center for the Study of Las Relaciones Haitiano/Dominicanas: Exploratory trip for public policy the Cuban Economy (November 23) El Intercambio Desigual y la Cuestión Exchange program by faculty from the de Fronteriza Kennedy School of Government to the 2007 Haroldo Dilla Alfonso, Coordinador University of Havana (March) Cuba’s Academic Advantage: Why do de Investigaciones, Facultad students in Cuba do better in school? Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales 1998 Martin Carnoy, Stanford Professor (FLACSO) (September 28) Cuba Today of Economics and Education; Hector Co-sponsored by DRCLAS, Harvard’s Valdés, Director of the Instituto La Economía Cubana al Comienzo del Siglo 21 Weatherhead Center for International Central de Ciencias Pedagógicas, Cuba; Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva, Affairs, and the Inter-American Tom Gjelten, National Public Radio Professor, Department of Economics Dialogue (March) Correspondent; Susan Eckstein, Boston and Center for the Study of the Cuban University Professor of Sociology; co- Economy, University of Havana sponsored by Harvard Graduate School (October 12) events of Education (HGSE) International Education Policy Program, HGSE Latin 2003 2013 America and Carribean Education Poverty and Social Policy in Cuba: “Family dynamics, cuentapropismo and Network, HGSE Student Government Addressing the Challenges of Social remittances. Study of cases in families of the Association, Dean's Diversity Initiative and Economic Change neighborhood of the capital El Vedado” Fund (May 3) Faculty roundtable organized by Xavier Denisse Delgado Vázquez, CIPS de Souza Briggs, KSG, in collaboration (September 16) 2006 with the University of Massachusetts- Relationships between the State and Boston and CIPS (April) Challenges of Social Equity in the current Society: State’s Role and People’s process of economic changes in Cuba Participation in Cuba and Vietnam Trademarks, Patents, and Intellectual María del Carmen Zabala, University Kanako Yamaoka, Visiting Scholar, Property Disputes: Case Study Evidence of Havana (October 18) David Rockefeller Center for Latin from Cuba? American Studies (October 24) Dánice Vázquez De Alvaré, Adjunct Hacia una nueva fiscalidad Professor of the School of Law, Saira Pons Pérez, Center for the Study 2005 Universidad de la Habana (November 13) of the Cuban Economy (December) Book presentation of En el Filo: Historia de una crisis diplomática, Cuba 2001–2002 2002 2012 Ricardo Andrés Pascoe Pierce, former Cuba: Neither Heaven Nor Hell Cuba’s Post-Revolutionary Regime Mexican ambassador to Cuba (March) María López Vigil, Cuban journalist and Market-Socialism and author, co-sponsored by OXFAM Jorge Domínguez, Department of La economia cubana a inicios del siglo XXI Government, Harvard University Colegio de México, Mexico City (March 3) 2001 (February 28) Cuban Education: Our Role Model? Two Cubas or More? Perceptions Pedro Noguera, Professor, HGSE; La actualización del modelo and Realities Judith K. Dimon, Professor, HGSE; económico cubano Rafael Hernández, Senior Research Barbara Hunt, journalist; Pablo Omar Everleny Pérez, Center for the Fellow, Centro de Investigación y Gaston, high school student; Berta Study of the Cuban Economy (March 26) Desarrollo de la Cultura Cubana “Juan Berriz, Ed.D., HGSE, co-sponsored Marinello” and editor of Temas (May) by the Harvard Graduate School of 2010 Education (February 23) A Critique of an Unrequested and 2004 Unwanted Transition Cuba’s Economic Transition: Successes, Cuban Images: Society, Marta Núñez-Sarmiento, Center Deficiencies, and Challenges Transition, and Public Policy for Studies of International Migrations, Jorge I. Domínguez, Clarence Dillon Xavier de Souza Briggs, Assistant University of Havana (February 26) Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Public Policy, John F. Director, Weatherhead Center for Kennedy School of Government, El sector agropecuario y su vínculo con International Affairs (February 23) co-sponsored by MPA-ID and KSG’s el sector externo: el caso cubano Latino Caucus (March 20)

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Senior Theses Course-related Travel The Catholic Church in Modern-Day Cuba: A Study of the Development of Civil Society Comparative Urban Policy Christina Giordano, Government Xavier de Souza Briggs (KSG), Adviser: George Soroka (2010) Havana, Cuba, in collaboration with the CESEU (Spring 1997–2000) Cuba’s Commercial and Diplomatic Relations with Spain and Great Britain 1959-1964 María Carla Chicuén, History Adviser: Jorge Domínguez (2010)

Venezuela-Cuba Relations since 1999: A Multidisciplinary Analysis Gladisley Sánchez, Government Adviser: Brandon Van Dyck (2009)

Between Rasta and Revolution in Cuba’s ‘No Women, No Cry’: Articulating Liberation, Without ‘Gender,’ through Transnationalism Marcel Anderson, Social Studies Adviser: Randy Matory (2003)

Cuba: Upcoming Challenges Research Roundtable: Doing Challenging and Opportunities Research in Cuba Grants Ana Julia Jatar Hausmann, Harvard College seniors Priscilla Senior Fellow Inter-American Aquino, Suzanne Besu, Jackie Hamm, Term-time research travel grant Dialogue, Author of The Cuban and Patrick Nobel (March 8, 2001) Roberto Novoa, Government Way: Capitalism, Communism and (2003) Confrontation, and Host of CNN Governance and Community Problem- Crossfire in Spanish “Choque de Solving: Lessons Across Borders The effects of the economic Opiniones” (March 21) Faculty roundtable discussion directed reforms of Cuba in 1993 by Xavier Briggs, in collaboration with Andrew Klein, Government, Student Re-encountering “lo local”: the University of Massachusetts–Boston research grant (2001) Approaches to urban community and Oxfam America development in 1990’s Havana Comparative Abolition: Havana and Miren Uriarte, Gaston Institute Rio de Janeiro and the Problem of the for Public Policy, University of Working Papers Rearticulation of Gender Roles During Massachusetts, Boston (April 12) Gradual Abolition Equidad y movilidad social en el contexto Alison Alonso, History, Summer Proceso de regulación de la industria de las transformaciones agrarias de los student research grant (2000) azucarera cubana por el Estado, 1926-1941 años noventa en Cuba Oscar Zanetti, Instituto de Historia Lucy Martín Posada de Cuba (April 25) #2007–2008–2 Certificates

Política social en Cuba: Equidad y movilidad Cuban Education Reviewed: A Study on the Cuban Images: Society, Transitions, Mayra Paula Espina Prieto Effectiveness and Purpose of a Socialist- and Public Policy #2007–2008–3 Based System of Education Through the Xavier de Souza Briggs, Assistant Voices of Educators and University Students Professor of Public Policy, co-sponsored and University-Aged Cuban Youth by MPA-IS and the KSG’s Latino Priscilla Samady Aquino, Sociology Student Caucus (March 20, 2001) (2001)

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The DRCLAS Cuban Studies program has supported research between U.S. and Cuban scholars on environmental issues Workshops and Conferences in Cuba. A large amount of this research was based at the Cienfuegos Botanical Garden in Cuba, which once served as a 1999 Harvard research station belonging to the Arnold Arboretum. Encuentro Bilateral Harvard-Jardín Botánico de Cienfuegos Another major initiative between Cuban and Harvard scholars Cienfuegos, Cuba (November 12–13) concentrated on the diversity of Anoles lizards on the island. Between 2002 and 2009, a total of nine visiting scholars from Events Cuba conducted research at Harvard related to the flora and fauna of Cuba. 2002 Ecological Development: Biodiversity and Biogeography of Spiders The Cuban Experience Faculty Projects Giraldo Ayalón García, Museum Richard Levins, Harvard School and Grants of Natural History (Spring 2002) of Public Health (February 1)

MacArthur Foundation, three-year Research in Orchidology Biodiversity in Cuba $404,900 grant, for a major program Heidi Torres García, Cienfuegos Giraldo Alayon, Curator of the of collaboration and exchange with Botanical Garden (Summer 2002) Museum of Natural History Cuban educational and research (May 29) institutions in the humanities, social Research in Orchidology sciences, natural sciences, and medicine/ Arabel Cuesta Molina, Cienfuegos public health. (1998) Botanical Garden (Summer 2002) Grants

Research in Orchidology An Ecosystem Approach to Visiting Scholars Marta Aleida Díaz, Cienfuegos Organic Agriculture: Cuba Botanical Garden (Summer 2002) Richard Levins and Tamara Presence of Lizards of the Genus Total: 9 (9% visiting scholars) Awerbuch, School of Public Health, Anolis in the Protected Areas of Cuba Faculty Research Grant (2001) as a Way for their Conservation Lourdes Josefina Rodríguez Schettino, Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática (Fall 2009, Anolis Symposium)

Cuba: An Anole Lizard’s Paradise Luis Manuel Díaz Beltrán, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba Fall (Fall 2009, Anolis Symposium)

Personal Observations on the Morphological Variation of Anolis allisoni and A. porcatus in Cuba Orlando Garrido, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba (Fall 2009, Anolis Symposium)

Taxonomy of Glomeromycota Fungi Ricardo A. Herrera Peraza, Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática (Spring 2002)

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The DRCLAS Cuban Studies Program’s focus on humanities The Living Memory Project: research related to Cuba has covered the fields of history, Oral History and Archival Research Orlando García, Archivo Principal music, religion, film, literature, and the visual arts. Partner Cienfuegos, (Fall 2001) institutions in Cuba in this field have included the Instituto de Lingüística y Literatura, Casa de las Americas, Instituto de Comparative Study of Race in Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico Investigación sobre la Cultura Cubana “Juan Marinello,” and the Gisela Arandia Covarrubias, Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficas. Three UNEAC, (Fall 2000) major conferences related to film, literature, and visual arts The Way Writers in the U.S. Imagine Havana have been organized in Cuba by the Cuban Studies Program in Victor Fowler Calzada, University collaboration with these institutions. In total, the Cuban Studies of Havana Department of Literature Program has hosted fifteen visiting scholars from Cuba who and Biblioteca Nacional José Martí (Fall 2000) have conducted humanities-related research at Harvard. Total: 15 (15% visiting scholars) Sobre el icaicentrismo en la Faculty Projects historia del cine cubano and Grants Juan Antonio García Borrero, workshops and UNEAC (“El cine como historia, conferences MacArthur Foundation, three-year la historia como cine” Conference $404,900 grant, for a major program (Spring 2010) 2006 of collaboration and exchange with The Image of Cuba in Cinema: Cuban educational and research Páginas de una historia olvidada: The Making of a Canon institutions in the humanities, social La Cuba Sono Film (October 11) sciences, natural sciences, and medicine/ Luciano Castillo, Escuela public health. (1998) Internacional de Cine y Televisión 2000 (EICTV), (“El cine como historia, la Havana in Literature historia como cine” Conference Havana, Cuba, in collaboration with Visiting Scholars (Spring 2010) Casa de las Américas and the Centro de Investigaciones Literarias A Creole Family and Its Slaves in Santería in Cuba (January 24-February 1) Saint-Domingue and Cuba: Natalia Bolívar Aróstegui, A Transatlantic Experience UNEAC (Fall 2010) 1999 Marial Iglesias Utset La Cultura en la Historia de las (Spring 2012) Memories of the Cuban Revolution Relaciones entre Cuba y Estados Elizabeth Dore, Wilbur Marvin Unidos: Expresión Artística, Imaginación Historical Sciences Visiting Scholar University of Popular, Actividad Social y Desarollo Carlos Alzugaray Treto, Southampton, United Kingdom Institucional CEHSEU (Spring 2011) (Spring 2009) Havana, Cuba, in collaboration with the Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Black in Latin America Conference Literary and Political Figure Jorge de la Cultura Cubana “Juan Marinello” Miguel Barnet, UNEAC, Tomas Manach’s Formative Years in Cambridge (January 29-30) Fernandez Robaina, UNEAC and Marta Lesmes, Institute for Marial Iglesia Utset, Department Literature and Linguistics of History, University of Havana (Spring 2002) Events (Spring 2011) Recent production of young 2012 Popular Music and Social Change Cuban novelists A Creole Family and Its Slaves in Saint- in Contemporary Cuba Ana Margarita Mateo Palmer, Domingue and Cuba: A Narrative of a Nora Gámez Torres, University Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana Trans-Atlantic Experience College, London (Fall 2011) (Spring 2002) Marial Iglesias Utset, Visiting

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“During my stay at DRCLAS I gained access to biblio-graphic sources and many libraries that were useful for the development of my research. My time as a scholar at DRCLAS gave me the opportunity to enforce my work. The bibliography I was able to consult helped me widen the spectrum of ideas for the analysis of the critical work of Jorge Manach.” —Dr. Marta Lesmes Albis

Scholar, John Carter Brown Library, The Symbolism of Race in Cuba Today El cuerpo de la nación. Género, Brown University (February 27) Pedro Pérez-Sarduy, poet and sexualidad y nacionalismo en Cuba novelist (March 30) Abel Sierra Madero, Essayist, Hearing Voices in Contemporary Researcher and Professor, Cuban Popular Song The Role of the Artist in Society: A co-sponsored by the Department of Susan Thomas, Visiting Scholar, Conversation with Carlos Varela Romance Languages and Literatures DRCLAS (April 2) Carlos Varela, Cuban Musician at Harvard University (October 12) (May 12) Boleto al paraíso Film Screening Africa and Cuba: Intertwining Souls Arachu Castro and Brad Epps, Transnational Santeria: Ritual Media, Natalia María Bolívar Aróstegui, Harvard University (April 11) Tourism and Religious Subjectivities Cuban Visiting Scholar, David between the U.S. and Cuba Rockefeller Center for Latin American Church and Community: A Dialogue Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Assistant Studies (October 15) on the Role of the Catholic Church Professor of African American Religions, Cardinal Jaime Ortega with Cardinal Harvard Divinity School (September 20) 2008 Sean O’Malley, Jorge Domínguez, New Short Fiction from Cuba and Mary Jo Bane (April 24) Unidad Mítica del Caribe al Brasil: Book presentation by editors Jacqueline Las influencias religiosas y puntos de Loss and Esther Whitfield (April 22) 2010 comparación con Cuba, en Haití, Jamaica, Pedro Pérez-Sarduy Reads from República Dominicana, Venezuela, y Brasil 2006 his novel: The Maids of Havana Natalia María Bolívar Aróstegui, Film screening: ¡Salud! (November 5) Pedro Pérez-Sarduy, poet and Cuban Visiting Scholar, David novelist (March 31) Rockefeller Center for Latin American Film screening: Habana Blues Studies (October 6) Benito Zambano (November 7)

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Film screening: One Way or the Other 2001 Sara Gómez (November 14) Nightgowns from the Past: Dilemmas of Fidel, Che, and the 21st Century Telling a Cuban Story Where African Spirits Enrique Oltuski, author of The People Film Screening: María Antonia and Jewish Memory Converge of the Plains and former Minister of Segio Giral (November 21) Ruth Behar, Professor of Anthropology, Communications (September 21) University of Michigan, co-sponsored Film Screening: Cosas que dejé en La Habana by Askwith Education Forum at the Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón HGSE (April 23) Republic: Identity and Race in the (November 28) Hispanic Caribbean The Provincial Archive as a Place of Memory: Gisela Arandia Covarrubias, member Film Screening: Frutas en el café Confronting Oral and Written Sources on the of the Union of Writers and Artists of Humberto Padrón (December 5) Role of Former Slaves in the Cuban War of Cuba (UNEAC) (October 10) Independence, 1895-98 Film screening: Páginas del Diario de Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan, Film Screening: Memorias de Subdesarrollo Mauricio with the collaboration of Orlando Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (October 24) Manuel Pérez (December 12) García Martinez (Archivo Provincial de Cienfuegos) and Michael Zeuske Cuban Literature During the 1990s, Cuban 2005 (Universität zu Köln) (November 9) Literature During the 1990s Cuba’s Cutting Edge Contemporary Victor Fowler Calzada, Adjunct Cinema: Film and Discussion La Lucha por la Independencia de Professor of Letters and the University Rafael Hernández, editor of Temas Cuba 1895-1898: Las Memorias Vivas of Havana, member of the UNEAC and and Senior Research Fellow at the Centro de los Participantes associate of the Biblioteca Nacional Jose de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Orlando Garcia, Director, Provincial Martí. (November 7) Cultura Cubana “Juan Marinello” Archives of Cienfuegos in Cuba. Dev- (May 27) elopment and DRCLAS (November 14) Film screening: Retrato de Teresa Pastor Vega (November 28) 2003 2000 Heroine or Hoaxer: A Latina Soldier Le generación del chícharo: viaje a través 1999 in the American Civil War del paladar literario de los felices Viajeros cubanos a Estados Marie Aquí Carter, Charles Warren Zoe Valdés, contemporary Cuban writer Unidos (1898-1900) Center/Iguana Films (April 21) and author of Querido primer novio Luisa Campuzano, University of (April 10) Havana, Director of the Women’s 2002 Studies Program at Casa de las Américas Long Ago and Far Away in Cuba Temas homosexuales en la literatura cubana and director of Revolución y Cultura Richard Eder, New York Times de los 80 y 90: ¿renovación o retroceso? magazine (September 30) (February 11) Alfredo Alonso, editor Casa de las Américas magazine (April) Framing Cuba Ernesto Fernandez, Photographer; Ernest Javier Fernandez, Photographer (September 26)

An Evening with Archivist Jose Llufrio Jose Llufrio, Instituto Cubano de Arte y Industria Cinematográfica (September 21)

Copyrighting Che: Cultural Production and Citizenship in Cuban Late Socialism Ariana Hernández-Reguant, Tulane University (December 3)

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Student Theses

Danced Belief: Embodying the Orishas in Matanzas, Cuba Anna Walters, Folklore and Mythology Adviser: Smita Mahiri (2006)

Sexual Revolutions: Faith and the Passion of Change in El Siglo de las Luces and El Mundo Alucinante Rebecca Hammer, Romance Languages and Literature; Adviser: Doris Sommer (2006)

How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song in a Foreign Land?: The Practice of Regla Ocha among Cuban Immigrants in Greater New York Jeslyn Miller, Social Studies Adviser: Nicole Newendorp (2005)

The Virgin in the Rocks: Private and Public Interpretations of Symbols in Santeria Petra Rivera, African and African American Studies; Adviser: J. Lorand Matory (2003)

Timba Patrick Noble, Folklore and Mythology Adviser: Kay Kaufman Shelemay (2003)

Course-related Travel Jineteras en la Habana: Official, Social, and Personal Constructions of Sex-Worker Latin American Film, José Antonio thesis considers Mexican cinema, was Identity in Havana, Cuba Mazzotti, December, Havana, Cuba, able to gather an enormous amount of Kristen Bolt, History and Literature to attend the 24th Latin American Film material for the study. After attending a Adviser: Jose Mazzotti (2003) Festival, perform research, and conduct meeting of Latin American documentary interviews with directors, actors, and filmmakers, Andy Conrad ’05 created a Palimpsestos de lo femenino: producers. (They experienced what one support network for them. He also shot Recupercaciones del espacio lírico en student called, “a lesson I could never around 8 hours of footage during our tres poetas Habaneras del siglo veinte have learned in the classroom” (Julia trip. And as a result of our visit to the Yari Pérez Marin, Romance Hiatt AB ’03). The course’s Teaching Film School [the Escuela Internacional Languages and Literature; Adviser: Luis Fellow, Alexandra Vega-Merino (GSAS, de Cine y Television] in San Antonio de Fernández-Cifuentes (1997) Romance Languages and Literatures), los Baños, Nicole Legnani ’03 decided highlighted the following field-trip to apply to the school’s prestigious outcomes: “I am proud of our students’ program to study screenwriting and Grants work in Havana—I mention only the cinematography.” (2002) experiences of some, but each has a Summer Research Travel Grant unique story to tell.” Charlene Music ’04 Michelle Tisdel Flikke, Social produced a stunning photo exhibit about Anthropology, GSAS, Social Cuba. Marla Kaplan ’03, whose senior Anthropology (2003)

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Summer Research Travel Grant Awerbuch, School of Public Health, Feminist Discourse and the Resurgence Keja Valens, Comparative Faculty research grant (2001) of Prostitution in Post-Revolutionary Cuba Literature, GSAS (2003) Ashley Forde, History and Literature, Contemporary Jewish Identity Formation Summer research grant (2000) Study of archival materials related to in the Revival of Judaism under Castro Cuban poet Jose Lezama Lima Greg Goering, Divinity School, Juan Pablo Lupi, Comparative Summer research grant (2001) Certificates Literature, GSAS, Travel research grant (2002) An Ethnography of Religious Revolutionary Desires: Sexuality Syncretism and Representations of and Late-Socialism in Cuba Defining the 20th Century Cuban National Identity in Contemporary Noelle Monet Stout, Anthropology, Revolution: An Analysis of the Sociopolitical Cuban Popular Piety PhD dissertation (2008) Effects of 1959 through Cuban & Cuban Jalane Schmidt, Divinity School, Exile Literature of the 1990s Summer research grant (2001) Cuba’s Rival Rituals: 20th Century Festivals Jennifer Altarriba, History and for the Virgin of Charity and the Contested Literature, Travel research grant (2002) State Mediation of Visual Forms Streets of the Nation of Expression in Cuba and the Jalane Dawn Schmidt, Study of The Roots, Development, and Implications Internationalization of Cuban art Religion, PhD dissertation (2006) of Jinetero-Rastafarianism in Cuba Juan Carlos Gabarro, Anthropology, Marcel Anderson, Social Studies, Student research grant (2001) Cuban Museums and Afro-Cuban Travel research grant (2002) Heritage: Fragments and Transition Contemporary Cuba through the Lens in Daily Life Feminine Images in the Afro-Cuban religion of Popular Music beginning in 1990 Michelle Antoinette Tisdel Flikke, Santería, particularly around the cult of the Patrick Noble, Folklore and Mythology, Anthropology, PhD dissertation (2006) Yemaya and Ochun gods Student research grant (2001) Petra Rivera, Afro-American Studies, ¿YANKEE SI?!: The Effect of American Travel research grant (2002) Catholic Religious Revival in Cuba Financial Colonialism on the Development in the 1900s: The Sources, Extent, of Cuban Capital Markets 1898–1934 An Ecosystem Approach to Organic and Implication Pablo Ros, History, Senior thesis (2006) Agriculture: Cuba Jacqueline Hamm, Social Studies, Richard Levins and Tamara Summer research grant (2000) Danced Belief: Embodying the Orishas in Matanzas, Cuba Anna Walters, Folklore and Mythology, Senior thesis (2006)

Revolutionary Tourism?: Cuba, Cubans, and Foreigners in the Literature of the Special Period Ashley McRainey Forde, History and Literature, Senior thesis (2001)

Fiction(s) of Cuba in Literary Economies of the 1990s: Buying In or Selling Out? Esther Katheryn Whitfield, Romance Languages and Literatures, PhD dissertation (2001)

A Black Woman in a Raceless Nation: Fidel Castro, Nancy Moregón and the Negotiation of an Integrated Identity, 1959-1979 Alison M. Kraus, History and Literature, Senior thesis (2001)

18 cuban studies program at harvard university PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICINE public health and medicine

From its beginning, the DRCLAS Cuban Studies Program Kourí (IPK) researchers; and, b) a short- initiated a series of projects to promote scientific research term visiting scientist from another leading institution in Cuba to advance between Cuban and Harvard scientists in the areas of research on a second infectious disease. public health and medicine. The Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK) and the Department of Biology at Ford Foundation, two-year $200,000 grant (Jorge Domínguez, Arachu Castro), the Universidad de la Habana have been the main partner for a project on applied economic policy institutions in these projects. The IPK is Cuba’s leading research; (2) social policy and program research institute and treatment center in the control and evaluation research, (3) medical anthro- pology research on the impact of AIDS eradication of infectious diseases in Cuba and elsewhere. The treatment; and, (4) support for Temas, public health initiative has three main objectives: 1) to increase Cuba’s leading peer-reviewed journal in scientific exchange between the IPK, the Universidad de la the humanities and social sciences. (2010)

Habana, and Harvard; 2) to study the functioning of Cuban Ford Foundation, two-year $160,000 grant health care system, its control and eradication of infectious (Jorge Domínguez, Arachu Castro), for diseases and the role of institutions such as IPK in the a project on (a) applied economic policy research; (b) applied social policy research public health system; and 3) to make available public health focused on inequality and social mobility, work currently underway in Cuba ‘s scientific and research (c) applied medical anthropology research laboratories and institutions. on the impact of AIDS treatment; and, (d) support for Temas, Cuba’s leading peer- Major projects have included work on “Resource Allocation reviewed journal in the humanities and Practices in the Prevention and Care of AIDS in the Caribbean,” social sciences. (2007) “The Pathogenesis of Histoplasmosis,” and “Applied Medical Ford Foundation, two-year $140,000 Anthropology Research on the Impact of AIDS Treatment” grant (Jorge Domínguez, Arachu Castro), in addition to projects related to dengue, hepatitis, and the for a project on (a) public management molecular epidemiology and biology of infectious disease. education; (b) applied social policy research in education, housing, social This joint research on public health and medicine has services, poverty alleviation, and the resulted in eight courses and workshops that took place in like, (c) applied health policy research Cuba. In addition, eighteen Cuban scientists and scholars have including such topics as HIV/AIDS, health-care services and access to conducted research stays at Harvard. medicines; and, (d) support for Temas, Cuba’s leading peer-reviewed journal in the humanities and social sciences. (2003)

Faculty Projects and Grants MacArthur Foundation, three-year $404,900 grant, for a major program of Atlantic Philanthropies, one-year $100,00 on the impact of AIDS treatment led collaboration and exchange with Cuban grant (Michael Starnbach, Eric Rubin), by researchers from the Harvard and educational and research institutions in to support a) an intensive course on Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro the humanities, social sciences, natural infectious diseases and bio-molecular Kourí (IPK) (2011) sciences, and medicine/public health. medicine research in Havana; b) a (1998) subsequent visit by a short-term visiting Atlantic Philanthropies, one-year $132,000 scientist from a leading institution (Michael Starnbach, Eric Rubin) in Social and Environmental Determinants of in Cuba to advance research on an collaboration with Harvard Medical Health in Cuba: Collaboration with Center infectious disease taught during the School and the Harvard School of Public for the Study of Health and Welfare at the course in collaboration with a Harvard Health, for a) a joint research project on University of Havana faculty counterpart; and, (c) the histoplasmosis between Harvard and Richard Levins and Tamara Awerbuch, expansion of a joint research project Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro School of Public Health Focus (Study of

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“During the course of my research in the area of history of epidemics, my time at Harvard was an exceptional opportunity to go through the collections of information that they have. The access to collections in the University’s library network that are not available in my country was exceptional. This experience helped in my development both as a professional and a researcher.” —Dr. Enrique Beldarrain Chaple

Anselmo Otero González, Investigation of the Function of Virulence Department of Biochemistry, University Regulators of Mycobacterium tuberculosis of Havana (Spring 2011) using Genome-Wide Location Analysis Jorge Maestre Mesa, IPK health rather than of disease “sanologia” Potential Application in Cancer (Fall 2004) —“examining environmental and Immunotherapy economic differences affecting health Ana María Hernández Vázquez, Genotypes of Kshv in Cuba within municipal regions.” Also statistical Center for Molecular Immunology Vivian Kourí Cardella, IPK and mathematical methodologies for (Fall 2011) (Fall 2003) analyzing—Levins was awarded an honorary doctorate for his contributions The Pathogenesis of Histoplasmosis HLA Class I genes and Dengue in Cuba to the advancement of biomathematics, Gerardo Martínez Machin, IPK Beatriz Sierra, IPK (Spring 2002) ecology, environmental sciences, and (Spring 2010) Marxist philosophy.) (2003) Historical Evolution of Epidemic Diseases HAART and Quality of Life of AIDS in the Americas: 1492-2000 Patients in Cuba Enrique Beldarraín Chaple, Calixto Visiting Scholars Jorge Pérez Ávila, IPK García Faculty of Medicine (Fall 2002) (Fall 2010 and Spring 2009) Infectious Disease Research HIV Load Viral Testing Belkis Romeu Alvarez HAART and Quality of Life of AIDS Lisette Pérez, IPK (Fall 2001) Instituto Finlay, Havana Patients in Cuba (Fall 2013) Carlos Aragonés, IPK and Optimization of Protein and Nucleotide Ida González Nuñez, IPK Adjuvants with Immunoestimulatory Marine Antimicrobial Peptides (Fall 2009) Propoerties Anselmo Otero González, Anselmo Otero González, Department of Biochemistry, HIV/AIDS in Cuba Department of Biochemistry, University University of Havana (Spring 2012) Jorge Pérez Ávila, IPK (Spring 2005) of Havana (Fall 2000)

Diagnosis and Control of Tuberculosis The of Cytotoxic T-lymphocytes in Cuba’s Healthcare System AIDS Raúl Díaz Rodríguez, IPK the Immune Response to Bacterial Research and Treatment (Spring 2012) Infections such as Chlamydia Jorge Pérez Ávila, IPK, Guadelupe Rayner Rodríguez, IPK (Fall 2005) Guzmán, IPK, and Gustavo Kourí, IPK Histoplasmosis (Summer 2000) Gerardo Martínez Machín, HIV/AIDS Resource Allocation Department of Microbiology, Alicia Reyes Jiménez, IPK Dengue Virus Vaccine with DNA Higher Institute of Medical Sciences, (Spring 2004) Immunization Havana (Spring 2012) Mayra Mune Jiménez, IPK Comparison of two PCR-based DNA (Summer 2000) Biology of Histoplasma capsulatum Fingerprinting Methods for Typing Gerardo Martinez Machín, IPK Mycobacterium tuberculosis Certification Procedures for BL-3 Facility (Spring 2011) Raúl Díaz, IPK (Fall 2004) Roberto F. Fernández, IPK Marine Antimicrobial Peptides (Spring 1999)

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2005 Cuban Physics Society; Maria Caridad Workshops and Cuban Medical International Cooperation Cruz, Urban Architecture Program; Conferences Jorge Pérez, Director of the Instituto Dra. Lupe Guzmán, Instituto de de Medicina Tropical “Pedro Kourí” and Medicine Tropical “Pedro Kourí”; 2005 former Director of the Sanatorium of Roberto Castellanos, Ministry of Science, Resource Allocation Practices for Santiago de Las Vegas (April 15) Technology, and Environment the Prevention and Treatment of (February 19) AIDS in the Caribbean 2004 Havana, Cuba, IPK, co-sponsored by HIV/AIDS Treatment in Cuba Production of Medicines and DRCLAS, the Pan Caribbean Partnership and Resource Allocation Cuba’s Biotech Sector against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) of the Jorge Pérez and Alicia Reyes, Dra. Lupe Guzmán, Instituto de Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Instituto e Medicina Tropical “Pedro Medicina Tropical “Pedro Kourí”; the Harvard Medical School and IPK Kourí” (April 26) Roberto Castellanos, Ministry of (March) Science, Technology, and Environment Pioneering Medical Research in Cuba (February 20) 2002 Panel discussion with Jorge Luis The Impact of Health Systems Reform Maestra Mesa, Rayner Rodríguez Community Participation in Health in the Control and Prevention of Infectious Díaz, and Raúl Díaz Rodríguez, Jorge I. Domínguez, Professor of Disease in Latin America Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Government (March 5) Havana, Cuba, in collaboration with Kourí; Professors Arachu Castro, IPK (April 29-May 3) Paul Farmer, and Michael Starnbach, Economic Reforms and Health Care: Harvard Medical School; Professor Eric Cuba in the 1990s 2003 Rubin, Harvard School of Public Health Lorena Barberia, Cuba Coordinator, Forum on Dengue (December 14) DRCLAS, and Olivier Appaix, Havana, Cuba, in coolaboration with Consultant, Partners in World Health IPK (April) 2002 Organization (April 16) Science in Cuba: Exploring 2001 Opportunities for Collaboration Infectious Disease: Crisis in IPK 7th Annual International Conference Sergio Pastrana, Cuban Academy of Healthcare Reform on Dengue, Arachu Castro, Michael Sciences; Victor Bruno Enrique Pérez, Arachu Castro, Harvard School of Starnbach, and Paul Farmer, Havana, Cuba (August)

Events

2010 HIV Infection in Cuba from 1986-2009: Outcomes of antiretroviral therapy based on subtypes, recombinants, and resistance to ARVs Jorge Pérez, IPK, co-sponsored by the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School (October 26)

2006 Film screening: Life is Whistling Fernando Pérez (October 31)

Bottom right: Proof of scientific cooperation in the medical and public health sector. On the Film screening: The Return of San Gregorio left: at a Lab at Harvard Medical School, top right: business lunch at the Plaza Vieja, Havana, (November 5) and below: a workshop at the IPK Institute, Havana.

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Public Health; Lorena Barberia, instituto. El Nivel Científico fue muy DRCLAS (May 14) bueno y con gran nivel de actualización; Working Papers fue una gran oportunidad contar con Course Introduction: Community especialistas del más alto rango en Seminar on Cuban Health System: Its Participation in Health in Cuba temas muy importantes, de interés para Evolution, Accomplishments and Challenges David Díaz Carbo, University of nuestro Centro y en los que no siempre US-Cuba Relations at the Turn of the Havana (September 11) se tiene toda la información necesaria. 21st Century, Three Perspectives on Más que los resultados del Curso fue Improving Bilateral Ties Edited by Primary and Infectious Disease muy importante poder avanzar algunos Lorena Barberia, Dan Nemser and Health Care in Cuba proyectos de colaboración conjunta en Arachu Castro #2002–2003–4 Jorge Pérez, IPK (September 25) diferentes aspectos, en particular TB en nuestro departamento.”—Dr. Gerardo G. Student Theses Health Achievements in Perspective: Martinez Machin, Jefe del Departamento Infectious Disease in Cuba and Haiti Bacteriología Micrología, IPK) (2002) The Power of Perseverance: The Story Paul Farmer, Harvard Medical School, of the Family Doctor in Cuba During the co-sponsored by DRCLAS and Seminar on the Cuban Public Health System: Special Period the Pan-American Development In collaboration with the Program in Suzanne Besu, Special Concentration Foundation (October 9) Infectious Disease and Social Change Adviser: Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good at the Harvard Medical School (The (2001) 2000 seminar focused on examining the Science in Cuba’s Development Strategy health system in the last four decades, Richard Levins, Harvard School of and also its current strengths and Grants Public Health (Cuba Study Tour 2000 weaknesses. Seeking to understand Seminar), co-sponsored by KSG (March how Cuban public health officials Origins, Evolutions and Current Reform of 15, 2000) have maintained their effectiveness in the Cuban Health Care System setting up successful control strategies Arachu Castro, Harvard Medical 1999 for infectious disease threats, such School, Summer research grant (2001) Cuban Healthcare and the World as malaria, HIV/AIDS, dengue, and Dr. Alfredo Portero Urquizo, immuno-preventable diseases, even An Examination of the Health Care Reform Director of the Medical Cooperation Unit in the context of dramatic economic Climate during the Castro Take-over of at the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, adjustment, the seminar’s proceedings 1959: Planning Process, Implementation Weatherhead Center for International and research bibliography on Cuban and Effect Affairs (November 4) public health were also published as part Jodie Abbatangelo, School of Public of DRCLAS’s Working Paper series and Health, Summer research grant (2001) Tuberculosis Control in Cuba have been utilized as course materials at Arachu Castro and Jim Yong Kim, Harvard and by universities throughout AIDS Education and Prevention: A Harvard Medical School (November 20) the U.S.) (2001) Comparison Study of Adolescent Males, Relating HIV and Condom use Public Health in Cuba: As part of the Brian Somoano, School of Medicine, Courses course, 15 public health students spent Student research grant (2001) a week in Cuba. Much of their visit was Immunology Infectious Disease Course: In coordinated by the IPK. Major themes An Ecosystem Approach to collaboration with the Harvard Medical included utilization of natural and Organic Agriculture: Cuba School (“El Curso de Inmunología que alternative medicines; development Richard Levins and Tamara ofrecieron los profesores de Harvard and provision of vaccines; impact of the Awerbuch, Harvard School of Public fue todo un éxito. En primer lugar se embargo on access to medical technology Health, Faculty research grant (2000) reunieron un número muy grande de and pharmaceuticals; and the training personas interesadas (más de 200) of other Latin American health care The Sociological Impact That Food en representación de numerosas workers to address humanitarian crises. and Medicine Shortages Have Had on instituciones del país, sobre todo del (2000) the Practice of Medicine in Cuba Polo Científico y además también se Suzanne Besu, Health Policy, beneficiaron algunos extranjeros que Summer research grant (2000) cursan maestrías y doctorados en nuestro

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The DRCLAS Cuban Studies Program has sought to foster Cuba’s International Insertion and interdisciplinary academic research on U.S.-Cuban relations Prospects for Cuba-U.S. Trade Jorge Mario Sánchez-Egozcue, with particular focus on exploring potential change in CEHSEU (Fall 2010) these relations. Partner institutions in Cuba on U.S.-Cuban relations have included the Centro de Investigación sobre la Proposals for a transition towards democracy in Cuba elaborated by U.S. Cultura Cubana “Juan Marinello,” Universidad de la Habana, scholarly institutions (2004-2009) Revista Temas, and the Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Marta Nuñez Sarmiento, Centro de Cinematográficas (ICAIC). Estudios de Migraciones Internacionales (Spring 2010) Since 1998, the Cuban Studies Program has hosted 24 visiting scholars from Cuba who have studied historical and Cuba-USA Trade: The Agrarian contemporary aspects of U.S.-Cuban relations. In addition, Sector and Beyond Armando Nova González, CEEC research in this area involving Cuban and U.S. scholars (Spring 2010) has resulted in two co-edited volumes. The first Culturas encontradas: Cuba y los Estados Unidos, co-edited by Rafael A Triangular Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Canadian Cuba Policy 1959-1963 Hernández and John Coatsworth, was published in 2001 by Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez, CEHSEU Harvard University Press. The second, Debating U.S.-Cuban (Fall 2009) Relations: Shall We Play Ball?, co-edited by Jorge I. Domínguez, Cuba: Culture and Society and United Rafael Hernández, and Lorena Barberia, was published by States-Cuba Relations Routledge Press in 2011. (Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies) Rafael M. Hernández Rodríguez, editor of Faculty Projects Visiting Scholars Temas and Senior Research Fellow at and Grants the Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Role of Media in U.S.-Cuba Relations de la Cultura Cubana “Juan Marinello Christopher Reynolds Foundation, $40,000 Olga Rosa Gonzalez Martin, (Spring 2007 and Fall 2006) grant (Jorge Domínguez), for a project CEHSEU (Spring 2011) on policy-related research in the area Foreign Direct Investment in Cuba of U.S. policy towards Cuba. The History of Academic Exchanges between and the Caribbean proposed project, U.S.-Cuban Relations Cuba and the United States” Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva, in a New Century, seeks to support the Milagros Martínez Reinosa, Oficina University of Havana (Spring 2003) undertaking of important scholarly de la Vice-Rectora de Relaciones research on U.S.-Cuban relations Internacionales, University of Havana U.S.-Cuba Relations: Opportunities culminating in the production of a (Fall 2011) for Strengthening Relations volume edited by Jorge I. Domínguez Carlos Alzugaray Treto, Instituto and Rafael M. Hernández. (2006) Foreign Direct Investment in Cuba Superior de Relaciones Internacionales and the Caribbean: Risks or Benefits (ISRI), Ministry of Foreign Affairs Christopher Reynolds, $36,330 grant Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva, (Spring 2002) (Jorge Domínguez), for a project that CEEC (Spring 2010) involves supporting scholarly research U.S. Media Coverage of Cuba on U.S. policy towards Cuba, as well Where is Cuba in U.S. Foreign Policy Today? Alfredo Prieto, Editor-in-Chief of as seminars and publications that Soraya Castro Marion, CEHSEU Temas Magazine (Spring 2002) will ensure that Harvard University’s (Spring 2010) ongoing collaborations in this The Impact of Cuban Business Networks in important area are shared with a Cuba-USA Trade: The Agrarian Miami and San Juan on Bilateral Trade broader constituency in the academic, Sector and Beyond Luís Rene Fernández Tabio, foundation, and public policy arenas. Lázaro Peña Castellanos, CEHSEU (Fall 2001) (2005) CEEC (Fall 2010)

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U.S.-Cuba Relations after Sept. 11th Rafael M. Hernández, CJM (Fall 2001)

The US Policy-Making Process Towards Cuba after the Cold War Soraya Castro Marino, CEHSEU (Fall 2000)

U.S. Foreign Policy towards Latin America Isabel Jaramillo Edwards, Center for the Study of the Americas (CEA) (Spring 2000)

The Sugar Trade Between Cienfuegos and Boston Orlando García, Archivo Provincial Cienfuegos & UNEAC (Fall 2000) The Miami Enclave and a Potential Economic Relation with Cuba Luís René Fernández Tabio, CEHSEU (Fall 1999) U.S. Cuba Commercial Relations— Effects over the Exchange Rate Jorge Mario Sánchez, CEHSEU (1999)

Cuba Today: Civil Society, Political Economy, and International Relations; The United States, Latin America, and Europe: Analysis of the New Agenda Haroldo Dilla, Institute of Philosophy, University of Havana (Fall 1998)

Total: 24 (24% visiting scholars) Soraya Castro Mariño, Professor in Events the Department of Foreign Policy and Researcher at the Center for the Study of 2012 International Migrations (CEMI) at the Workshops and Guantanamo: An American History University of Havana (June 8) Conferences Jonathan Hansen, Harvard University (March 5) Cuba’s Insertion in the World Economy from 2003 a Global Value Chain Perspective and the Doing Business with Cuba: Today and 2010 Impact of Improved U.S.-Cuba Relations Tomorrow Corporate Partners Program The Cuban Revolution (1959-2009): Lázaro Peña Castellanos, Center for Relations with Spain, the European the Study of the International Economy, 1999 Union, and the United States University of Havana (September 27) La Cultura en la Historia de las Relaciones Joaquín Roy, Jean Monnet Professor entre Cuba y Estados Unidos: Expresión and Director of the University of Miami’s U.S.-Cuba Economic Relations: Artistica, Imaginación Popular, Actividad European Union Center of Excellence Rediscovering Normalization Social y Desarrollo Institucional (April 28) Jorge Mario Sánchez Egozcue, Center Havana, Cuba, co-sponsored by CJM for the Study of the Cuban Economy, (January 29-30) Competing Metaphors in the University of Havana (November 18) Cuban-United States Relationship

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to Cuba and Professor of Political Venezuela and Cuba Relations Science and International Relations Ana Julia Jatar, Visiting Scholar, David at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Rockefeller Center for Latin American Mexico City (March 23) Studies (Tuesday Seminar, November 6)

Cuba, Today and Tomorrow: 2001 What Is and Should Be the Role of the Reflections on the March 2001 Bay of Pigs International Community Conference: Declassifying Cuban Documents Paul Webster Hare, United Kingdom and Choreographing Political Theater Ambassador to Cuba, 2001-2004; Vicki Jorge I. Domínguez, Clarence Dillon Huddleston, Chief U.S. Diplomat in Professor of International Affairs and Cuba, 1999-2002; Michael Small, Director of the Weatherhead Center of Canadian Ambassador to Cuba, 2000- International Affairs (April 24) 2003; Jorge I. Domínguez, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs Book Launch and Panel Discussion, Culturas (April 21) Encontradas: Cuba y los Estados Unidos (September 6) 2003 Cuba 2000-2003: A Diplomatic Perspective Opportunities for Strengthening Ambassador Michael Small, U.S.-Cuba Relations Former Canadian Ambassador to Cuba Ambassador Dagoberto Rodríguez, and Visiting Fellow, Weatherhead Center Chief of the Cuban Interest Section, for International Affairs (October 16) Institute of Politics Student Advisory Committee (October 11) 2002 Julia Sweig: Inside the Cuban Revolution Should the U.S. Change its Cuba Policy? Julia Sweig, Council on Foreign Ambassador Sally Grooms Cowal, Relations (October 7) the President of the Cuba Policy Foundation, and Ambassador Dennis U.S.-Cuban Relations and the New Hays, the Executive Vice President of the Crusade Against Terrorism Cuban American National Foundation Rafael Hernández, Senior Research (December 12) Fellow at the Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Cultura Cubana “Juan 2007 Marinello” in Havana (November 19) Publications Guantánamo Bay: An American Story Jonathan M. Hansen, Lecturer in Social On the Brink: What Letters to Studies, Harvard University (April 26) President Kennedy and Presidential Recordings Tell Us about America Metadiplomacy between Cuba and the United during the Cuban Missile Crisis States: Lessons from the Kennedy Years Deborah Leff, Executive Director, Rafael M. Hernández, Robert F. John F. Kennedy Library, and Kennedy Visiting Professor (December 4) Maura Porter, Senior Archivist for Declassification Review, John F. 2006 Kennedy Library and Archives Civil Society and U.S.-Cuban (March 20) Relations Discussion (November 15) U.S.-Cuba Cooperation: Past, Existing and Potential 2005 Dr. Carlos Alzugaray, Professor and Culturas Encontradas: Cuba y los Estados Cuba and Mexico: In the Deputy Rector of Research, Instituto Unidos Edited by Rafael Hernandez and Crossworks of the Modern World Superior de Relaciones Internacionales. John Coatsworth, DRCLAS and Centro Ricardo Pascoe, Mexican Ambassador (April 17) Juan Marinello (2001)

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Student Theses

Outreach In Sickness and in Health: The U.S. Influence on the Development of Sanitation Cambridge Rindge and Latin High and Public Health in Cuba Between the School Media Project with Robert Spanish-American War and the Cuban F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, Revolution 1898-1959 Rafael M. Hernández (Fall) (The Adviser: John Womack (2008) Cambridge Educational Access’s Media Arts Studio filmed the Cuba Exile Activism: Multiple Avenues conversations and produced a for Affecting Change 54-minute program, Imágenes de Candice Balmori, Government Cuba; the program aired on the Adviser: Jorge Dominguez (2007) city’s cable access channel available in 28,000 homes.) (2006) ¿Yankee Si?: The Effect of American Colonialism on the Development of Cuban Capital Markets 1898-1934 Pablo Manuel Ros, History Adviser: John Coatsworth (2006)

Language Policy: Developing a Model for the Miami-Cuban Official Language Paradox Ioannis Dimitrios, Government/ Linguistics; Adviser: Nicolas Retsinas (2003)

Kastro: John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, and Political Masculinities in the Early 1960s Arthur (Benjamin?) Cowan, History and Literature; Adviser: Esther Whitfield (2002) 2000 1999 Cuban Immigration and Transnational Ties The Miami Enclave and a Potential Susan Eckstein, Professor of Sociology, Economic Relation with Cuba Grants Boston University, and Lorena Barberia, Luis René Fernández Tabio, DRCLAS Cuba Program Associate Universidad de la Habana, Cuba. The Economic and Political Effects on (December 5) (December 2) Globalization on Cuba from Miami, New York, and Washington, D.C. U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Latin America Eduardo Domínguez, Government, and the Caribbean: The Challenges of Working Papers Student summer research grant (2000) Instability, U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Latin America and the Caribbean: Canada, the United States and Cuba The Challenges of Instability between 1959 and 1962: The Triangular Certificates Isabel Jaramillo Edwards, Senior Relation As Seen in Cuban Diplomatic Research Fellow at the Center for the History Cuban Exile Activism: Multiple Study of Americas in Havana, Cuba Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez Avenues for Affecting Change. (October 17) #2010–11–1 (2010) Candice Balmori, Government, Senior thesis (2007) U.S. Policy-Making Process Toward Cuba La política española ante la Cuba after the Cold War del futuro Post-War Perspectives and Unrealized Soraya Castro Mariño, Researcher, Jorge Domínguez and Susanne Goals: U.S.-Cuban Relations, 1944-1952 Centro de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos, Gratius #2006–2007–2 Micah S. Myers, History, Senior thesis Universidad de la Habana (March 6) (2006) (2000)

28 cuban studies program at harvard university Urban Planningwww.drclas.harvard.edu/cuba 29 urban planning

The DRCLAS Cuban Studies Program’s support of research on Urban Planning in Cuba has supported research related to trends in architectural design, urban development, and architectural history in Cuba. A major aspect of this research included a series of studios led by Cuban architects and Harvard professor Leland Cott that took place in Havana. Five visiting scholars from Cuba have conducted research stays at Harvard in order to advance research on urban planning.

GSD, Faculty of Architecture, University Faculty Projects of Havana (Fall 2001) and Grants Total: 5 (5% visiting scholars) The Impact of Tourism Policies on Spatial Development and Local Governments in Cuba Events Lee Cott (GSD) and Liz Meléndez of the Center for Urban Development 2010 (2003) Havana Revisited: An Architectural Heritage DRCLAS Art Exhibit Opening and Lecture by Cathryn Griffith Visiting Scholars (February 3) 2001 Joseph Sert’s Plans for Havana 2006 Havana and its Architecture: Mario Coyula Cowley, School of Havana and Its Housing: Fulfilling Living in the Past and the Future Architecture, CUJAE (Fall 2011) the Promise of the Revolution Lee Cott, Design Critic in Urban Leland Cott, Adjunct Professor, Planning and Design, Graduate School Cuba-U.S. Architectural Exchanges Department of Urban Planning an of Design, Harvard University in the 20th Century Design, Graduate School of Design (March 14) Eduardo Luis Rodríguez (March 20) Fernández, Independent Architect 2000 (Fall 2004) Book Launch: History of Havana Havana Always: A Cuban Returns Rafael M. Hernández and Dick Reinerio Faife, architect and alumnus Community Development: Municipal Cluster (December 13) of Harvard Graduate School of Design, Strategic Planning hosted by the Pan American Society of Rosa Oliveras, Grupo Para el 2004 New England. (February 29,2000) Desarrollo Integral de la Capital Modernist Architecture and Urbanism in Cuba (Fall 2003) Eduardo Luis Rodríguez Fernández, Cuban Architect and Historian Course-related Mario Coyula Cowley, Robert F. (October 7) Travel Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies, Director of the 2002 Leland Cott, “Havana Design Studio Integrated Development Group for Havana and its Architecture: Modernism in IV,” Graduate School of Design, Havana, Havana (Spring 2002) Pre-Castro Cuba Cuba, in collaboration with the Grupo Leland D. Cott, Harvard Graduate para el Desarrollo Integral de la Capital Julio César Pérez, Loeb Fellow at the School of Design (January 23) (Spring). The group examined the GSD, Faculty of Architecture, University feasibility of designating a 20th Century of Havana (Spring 2002) Havana: Challenges and Opportunities Modern Preservation District in the La Mario Coyula, Robert F. Kennedy Rampa neighborhood. (2003) Julio César Pérez, Loeb Fellow at the Visiting Professor (April 23) Leland Cott, Mario Coyula-Cowley,

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Images from on of the Havana Design Studio workshops held in Havana between 2000 and 2003.

“Havana Design Studio III,” Graduate Graduate School of Design, Havana, Urban Land Use: Opportunities for Local School of Design, Havna, Cuba, in Cuba (Spring). The group studied Development in Cuba collaboration with the Grupo para housing, historic preservation, and Leland Cott, Adjunct Professor el Desarrollo Integral de la Capital. community development in the La in Urban Design, GSD, and John The group concentrated on the seven- Fragua district of Havana. (2000) Driscoll, Lecturer in Urban Planning, kilometer long oceanfront roadway, El GSD, Faculty Research Grant (2003) Malecón and explored issues relating to the preservation, adaptive reuse, and Working Papers 2002 new construction within the Havana city The Impact of Tourism Policies on Spatial fabric. (Spring 2002) La vivienda en Cuba desde la perspectiva Development and Local Governments in Cuba de la movilidad social Leland Cott, Adjunct Professor of Leland Cott, “Havana Design Studio Lilia Núñez Moreno #2007–2008–4 Urban Planning and Design, and Liz II,” Graduate School of Design, Havana, Meléndez San Miguel, GSD, Faculty Cuba, in collaboration with the Grupo Research Grant (2002) para el Desarrollo Integral de la Capital Grants (Spring). The group studied planning Waterfront development and preservation and urban design strategies in the Summer Research Travel Grant of the Malecón of Havana Almendares River district. (2001) Christina Chu, Graduate School of Daniel Fabrega, School of Design, Leland, Cott, “Havana Design Studio,” Design (2003) Student Research Grant (2001)

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Visiting Scholars

Organization of ‘Escoto Collection’ in Houghton Library Araceli García Carranza, José Martí National Library (Spring 1999)

Total: (1.1% of visiting scholars) Harvard College Program in Cuba

The program allows students to spend a semester Resident Director of the program from Harvard studying at the University of Havana where they enroll University and a faculty member from the Centro de directly in courses of their choosing across campus Estudios Hemisféricos y sobre los Estados Unidos and attend classes with Cuban university students. It (CEHSEU). Cuban scholars who have completed research introduces Harvard College students to critical issues in stays at DRCLAS as Cuban Visiting Scholars also provide Cuban history, culture, and contemporary Cuban society. students with ongoing mentoring and guidance in varying Class offerings at the Universidad de la Habana range fields for research projects and other academic interests. from Afro-Cuban studies, history, literature, or film to The Resident Director, usually a Harvard graduate economics, psychology, geography, math or biodiversity student who works on Cuba is on call 24 hours and courses. coordinates also extra-curricular activities in Havana. Since the first edition of the program during the spring Overall, the program provides students with a strong 2007 semester, 43 Harvard undergraduates have studied network of support while encouraging a full immersion abroad in Havana. Nine students participated in the experience. Students spend time attending arts and program in spring of 2007, three in fall of 2007, four in fall cultural events, traveling through the island, exploring the of 2008, six in fall of 2009, three in fall of 2010, nine in fall city, and developing friendships with university students. of 2011, three in the fall of 2012 and six in the fall of 2013. They live in the neighborhood of Vedado, within walking Students also take a course on Cuban-U.S. relations distance of the university and many theaters, restaurants, and contemporary Cuban society, co-taught by the parks, and other places of interest.

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directions one takes. Studying abroad (like previously taking time Participant Responses off ) provides a different perspective, a different environment and often surrounds one with people more in touch with the Diane de Gramont ‘real world’ than many students at Harvard are. The values of Cuba is a unique place to study abroad, and an incredible humanitarianism and the flexibility to collaborate with a wide academic and personal experience. A good study abroad program range of different actors in challenging environments were takes students out of their comfort zones and exposes them to certainly strengthened by the time I spent in Cuba. new ideas and new ways of thinking. My classes at the University of Havana were more intellectually challenging than any I had Matt King taken at Harvard. They were not more difficult in the traditional The Harvard study abroad program in Cuba gave me an sense of high course loads and hard exams but they forced me to opportunity to see a part of the world that not many are think differently and question some of my basic assumptions. I able to see, through a lens that not many are able to access. examined critiques of capitalism in my economics tutorial and Since returning from my time in Havana where I studied debated the value of democracy with skeptical peers. Beyond Afro-Caribbean religious traditions, Political Philosophy, classes, living in Havana is an education in itself. I have always and US-Cuban relations, I decided to change my course of been very interested in democracy, but my time in Cuba renewed study and career path from Religious Studies with a focus on my commitment to examining how democracy can meet the Buddhism to Environmental Science and Public Policy. In needs of people and how to overcome the false choice between 2009 I co-founded a social enterprise called Quetsol which is social security and freedom. It has deeply influenced my current Guatemala’s largest and fastest growing solar distribution and work in the Democracy program at the Carnegie Endowment for finance company. International Peace, where I examine the connection between political and economic development. Anna Pasternak Cuba made me realize that the way I looked at the world was a Christina Giordano result of the society in which I was raised. I looked at material Studying abroad will inevitably change your perception about items, education, or medical care and their attachment to how the world around you functions. It will teach you how to monetary value. Certain things were more important to me think critically about the relationship that the United States because they COST more. Cuban friends studied what they has to the rest of the world, and to appreciate the important loved, my American friends studied what would provide them role that this relationship plays in global politics. But, perhaps with a lucrative career. I started Movement Exchange in many more importantly, it will give you a sense of your own role as ways because of my experience in Cuba studying at el Instituto a student, and the responsibility to bridge the gap between Superior de Arte. I began to realize how dance could be used what you understand as an American, and what you need to promote culture, identity, self-esteem among women etc. to understand as a global citizen. It opens up worlds of The lack of publicity (on television, billboards or otherwise) new understanding that are not possible to enter inside the objectifying women in Cuba and holding us to a standard classroom; the kind of understanding that is only possible of being skinny, blond, with perfect skin and shiny hair was through experiencing the daily lives of others. Living in Cuba enlightening. Never have a I ever felt so confident and accepted reveals a place not known to tourists. It is not just the country as a woman in my natural state. itself that reveals itself to you, however—Cuba is a face and a people who are warm, jovial, and long-suffering. Cuba is an Morgan experience that can only be lived by immersing oneself totally. In Cuba, I was the best version of myself that I had ever seen. I would very much encourage anyone considering the Cuba Cuba--quite like my experience at Harvard--changed my study abroad program to take advantage of Harvard’s resources life in no small way. My confidence blossomed, my sense of and do this program. It is a life-changing experience full of adventure grew, my capacity to empathize with and desire unexpected insight, respect for a new culture, and memories to capture the human experience became insatiable. When that will last the rest of your lifetime. I think about my time at Harvard, my mind inevitably floats back to Cuba, making it perhaps the capstone experience Daniel Littlejohn-Carillo of my college education. And perhaps, one of the capstone I think perhaps the biggest impact studying abroad had on experiences of my life. me was on allowing me the breathing space and a different In part, I suppose Cuba served as the catalyst for my career perspective to think critically about my study path at Harvard. path. I’m a journalist now, and my interest in media issues began The environment on campus is stimulating but very intense in Cuba, where the access to information was limited. Because and fast-paced and it leaves very little space for pausing to access to information was so limited, it often misrepresented life evaluate the ‘bigger picture’ of the decisions that one makes and on the island.

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Clockwise from top: Harvard College Students in Cuba Ekene Agu and Miriam Psychas (left and right in front) with students from their Biodiver- sity class on a field trip (Fall 2011); Harvard College Students Ricardo Rojas-Ramirez and Nicole Carter during a program trip to Viñales, (Fall 2011); Harvard College student Roisin Duffy-Gideon (2nd from right) with Cuban peers at University of Havana (Fall 2010)

It also whet my appetite for adventure, filling me with the Harry Rimalower confidence and self-assurance to know that I could go anywhere I decided to go to law school because of my experience studying in the world and make it an enriching experience. Not long after abroad in Cuba. I had never thought of “rights” as anything I left Cuba I applied for the Fulbright Fellowship to South Africa. more than an abstraction until I was in Cuba. My Cuban I taught students from rural townships how to use video cameras friends were incredibly intelligent people who were sometimes to tell their personal narratives, capturing the postapartheid afraid to fully express themselves. Experiencing this firsthand transition. And now I’m at Columbia Journalism School! shook me out of my apathy and made me appreciate the liberties I enjoy as an American. I decided to go to law school to better understand and fully explore these basic rights.

www.drclas.harvard.edu/cuba 35 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Executive Committee

Merilee Grindle Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard Kennedy School

Davíd Carrasco Harvard Divinity School

Michael Chu Harvard Business School

Thomas B. F. Cummins Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Brian D. Farrell Faculty of Arts and Sciences

William L Fash, Jr. Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Frances Hagopian Faculty of Arts and Sciences

N. Michele Holbrook Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Steven Levitsky Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Fernando Reimers Harvard Graduate School of Education

Doris Sommer Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Diana Sorensen Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Michael Starnbach Harvard Medical School

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Cuban Studies Program Committee

Jorge Dominguez Co-Chair, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Alejandro de la Fuente Co-Chair, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus Harvard Divinity School

Lee Cott Prof. em., Graduate School of Design,

Paul Farmer Harvard Medical School Cuban Studies Program Staff and Interns

Merilee Grindle Yesenia Aguilar Jean-Louis Rochet Harvard Kennedy School Resident Director, Fall 2013 Undergraduate Intern, 2009-2010

Jonathan Hansen Lorena Barberia Linda Rodríguez Faculty of Arts and Sciences Program Associate, 2000-2011 Senior Fellow, 2012-2013 Fellow, 2011-2012 Dan Hazen Diane De Gramont Resident Director, Harvard College Program in University Libraries Undergraduate Intern, 2008-2010 Cuba, Spring 2007, Fall Timothy Hyde Roisin Duffy-Gideon 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2012 Graduate School of Design Undergraduate Intern, 2011-2012 Raul Rodríguez Rodríguez Jonathan Losos Lauren Randolph Foote Cuban Resident Director, Harvard College Faculty of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Intern, 2006-2007 Program in Cuba, 2007-2008

Eric Rubin Gabriela González Rainer Schultz Harvard Medical School Undergraduate Intern, 2000-2001 Fellow 2013-present Resident Director, Harvard College Program in Michael Starnbach Olga Rosa González Martín Cuba, Fall 2010, Fall 2011 Harvard Medical School Cuban Resident Director, Harvard College Program in Cuba, 2009-2012 Noelle Stout Lorena Barberia Resident Director, Harvard College Program in Ex-Officio, University of São Paulo Jenny Jacobs Cuba, Spring 2007 Graduate Intern, 2000-2001 Rainer Schultz Timothy Stump David Rockefeller Center for Maximiliano Mauriz Information Technology & Grant Coordinator, Latin American Studies Program Specialist, 2010-2011 1999-2000 Program Coordinator & Regional Office Liaison, Arachu Castro 2009-2010 Esther Whitfield former Co-Chair, now Tulane University Graduate Intern, 1999-2000 Cristina Ortiz Undergraduate Intern, Fall 2006

Nelia Peña Undergraduate Intern, 2011-2012

Miriam Psychas Undergraduate Intern, Fall 2012

Yadira Rivera Program Coordinator, 2004-2008 Program Assistant Specialist, 2002-2004

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