David Rockefeller Center Harvard University for Latin American Studies Annual Report 2014–15

drclas.harvard.edu 1 OBJECTIVES Expand research and teaching on Latin America at Harvard From the Director Strengthen ties between Harvard University and institutions throughout Latin America

Enhance public understanding of Latin THIS FIRST YEAR OF OUR THIRD DECADE has been transforming for DRCLAS. Staff in Cambridge, and in the overseas offices, America in the United States and abroad have been busy implementing our many programs and engaging individuals across regions, constituencies and disciplines. In 2014–15, over 200 grants and fellowships were awarded to MISSION students, including 12 grants to Harvard student organizations for events and conferences, 28 term-time grants to facilitate the completion of individual dissertations or thesis research The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard during the winter break, 27 summer research grants and four independent internship grants for summer travel to Latin University works to increase the knowledge of the cultures, economies, America, among others. The Center also sponsored more than 200 students traveling to Latin America to participate in 10 measure our impact and progress over time, while our DRCLAS histories, environment and contemporary affairs of Latin America; foster internship programs and eleven January courses. For the first staff focused on the efficiency of the offices to support these time in Harvard history, this upcoming fall semester the most goals. We identified three pillars: undergraduate and graduate cooperation and understanding among the peoples of the Americas; and popular destination for study abroad, overshadowing even student engagement; faculty research and teaching; and Paris and Beijing, is in Latin America—at the Universidad de la bringing Latin America to Harvard. contribute to democracy, social progress and sustainable development Habana in Cuba! We have growth in our student engagement We presented these pillars at the Executive Session during that is unparalleled at Harvard. the annual Advisory Committee in May, where our AC members throughout the hemisphere. This year, the Center also funded a wide range of faculty engaged in a lively discussion, calling for implementation of the projects through the Faculty Grants program. Awards included pillars across broader themes such as energy, the environment, nine research grants, one research conference grant, two public health, inequality and childhood education, which would workshop grants, two course-based field trip grants, one bridge our offices and engage collaborators in Latin America. curriculum development grant, two language study and Our work ahead will be to finalize this plan as the Executive translation grants, and two grants for ongoing programs. Grant Committee reconvenes in the fall. recipients included faculty from FAS, SEAS, HKS, GSD, HMS, and For their support and participation, we are deeply grateful HSPH, and their topics ranged across the humanities, sciences to our Advisory Committee members and friends, with whom and social disciplines. In this last year, DRCLAS also hosted we share a vision for Latin America at Harvard and for Harvard 14 visiting scholars who brought insights and excellence from in Latin America. Our success in implementing this vision Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru and depends, of course, on a remarkably adept and dedicated staff beyond. at DRCLAS. We are a model for international centers because The Center was very busy with travel to visit our colleagues, Table of Contents of your support and their hard work, our esprit de corps fueled alumni and friends in the region. In October, Ned Strong and I by enthusiasm for our mission and the vibrant, intellectual and were in Mexico City for the visit of President Drew Faust and Vice passionate drive of the Harvard students and faculty so fully 01 11 21 Provost Jorge I. Domínguez to celebrate the 25th anniversary of engaged with the land we love. FROM THE DIRECTOR FACULTY RESEARCH & ADVISORS & SPONSORS the Fundación Mexico en Harvard and the Your Harvard alumni TEACHING Faculty Governance event. We later traveled to Brazil, where we visited our Office in São Paulo and colleagues at Universidade de São Paulo, and to 02 Faculty Grants DRCLAS IN LATIN AMERICA Advisory Committee Peru, for the inauguration of the new agreement between that country’s Universidad de Tecnología e Ingeniería and Harvard's Brazil Office Advisory Group Brazil Office 12 John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. As BRIAN D. FARRELL ABBREVIATION KEY EVENTS AND CONFERENCES Cuban Studies Program I write, I am again in the Dominican Republic with a group of 10 Mexico, Central America and Professor of Biology DRCLAS: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Harvard undergraduate students for my Harvard Summer School the Caribbean Office Advisory Group Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology FAS: Faculty of Arts and Sciences 14 Course, Biodiversity of Hispaniola, and I am also pleased to say Regional Office Advisory Curator in Entomology, Museum of Comparative Zoology GSAS: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Regional Office VISITING PROFESSORS & that we have expanded the DRCLAS Mexico and Central America Group Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies GSD: Harvard Graduate School of Design SCHOLARS Program into the Caribbean (MCCP) and are establishing a HBS: Harvard Business School 06 corresponding Faculty Committee to advise us. HDS: Harvard Divinity School Visiting Scholars and Fellows The DRCLAS Faculty Executive Committee and staff have PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES 24 HGSE: Harvard Graduate School of Education Program been working on a strategic plan for the coming years that will Andes and Southern Cone FINANCIAL STATEMENT HKS: Harvard Kennedy School Cuban Visiting Scholars and coalesce the programs and emphases we have established over HLS: Harvard Law School Program the past 20 years. Last fall we began the multi-step process. A Scientists HMS: Harvard Medical School 25 meeting of the Executive Committee was convened to review Brazil Studies Program HSPH: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health DRCLAS STAFF AND our mission and identify the key pillars of DRCLAS by which to 15 SEAS: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Cuban Studies Program INTERNS Applied Sciences PUBLICATIONS Mexico, Central America, Front Cover: Capitol building in Havana, Cuba. Photo and the Caribbean Program 16 courtesy of Director Brian D. Farrell. STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES Back Cover: Prize-winning sculpture by Cuban architects Program for Latin American Mario Coyula, Emilio Escobar and José Villa at the Libraries and Archives Necrópolis de Colón in Havana, Cuba. Photo courtesy of Director Brian D. Farrell. ARTS@DRCLAS

2 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Harvard College students take a cultural visit to Harvard College MLAB Estancia Santa Susana participants and Brazilian during the Summer High School students at Internship Program in Pedra Grande Park in São Argentina. Paulo, Brazil. DRCLAS in Latin America Brazil Office

During the 2014–15 academic year, the Brazil Office Program and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. OUR THANKS focused on four goals: strengthen the pipeline To engage and serve more Harvard faculty and Core funding from the Lemann of Harvard students engaging with Brazil and of students, we intend to build on our ECD work in Family and Lemann Foundation has Brazilian students enrolling at Harvard; help improve other aspects of human development, well-being and been vital to all that we do. We the well-being and life outcomes for vulnerable productivity throughout the lifespan. deeply appreciate the generosity and partnership of the Fundação children in Brazil; advance the establishment of a In the area of cities, we organized and co-hosted Maria Cecília Souto Vidigal and multi-year cities collaboration; and better use existing the International Symposium on Ecological Urbanism the individual supporters who Visiting Scholar opportunities at Harvard. and the book launch and exhibition of Urbanismo make our work possible. Harvard’s Record numbers of students traveled to Brazil in Ecológico. Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Harvard Center for Public Interest Careers, 2014–15. Collaborative field courses in public health Graduate School of Design (GSD), and GSD Professors Government Department, Global and engineering, mentorship, summer internships, Charles Waldheim, Diane Davis and Gareth Doherty Health Institute, John A. Paulson and other academic and professional opportunities welcomed an audience of over 250 people for the School of Engineering and Applied attracted over 240 Harvard students to Brazil. event. We organized and staffed a four-day visit of Sciences and T.H. Chan School of Meanwhile, stronger outreach efforts have increased Ali Malkawi, Founding Director of Harvard's Center Public Health are among our valued internal partners. We would like to the number of Brazilians in degree programs at for Green Buildings and Cities. We also spearheaded acknowledge the members of our Harvard to 104, up from the low 60s in 2006. the sixth edition of an environmental engineering Brazil Office Advisory Group for their We are focused on building the stream of Brazilian collaborative field course focused onSustainable uncommon contribution of time, PhD candidates at Harvard, which is critical to Cities. knowledge, and guidance: Ana Paula enabling future academic collaborations. With only Over 25 Brazilian scholars and professionals Martinez, Claudio de Moura Castro, 13 Brazilian PhD students at Harvard and just 12.5% joined the Harvard community as Visiting Scholars, Claudio Haddad (Chair), David pursuing the degree, much remains to be done. To Fellows, and Researchers in 2014–15. Our efforts Fleischer, Elisa Reis, Flavia Almeida, make progress, we have partnered with the Graduate resulted in a threefold increase in the number Gilberto Dimenstein, João José Reis, School of Arts & Sciences in organizing in-depth of applicants from Brazil to the DRCLAS Visiting Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter, Jorge Paulo Lemann, Mauro de Salles information sessions and producing a video, Brazil Scholars Program. In parallel, we stepped-up Aguiar, Miguel Srougi, Philip Yang and at Harvard: The PhD Experience. We worked with outreach efforts to better map the range of visiting Wolff Klabin. admissions offices across the University in engaging opportunities at Harvard and broadened the network more than 600 Brazilians in information sessions in of prospective host Centers, labs, and programs we São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília. work with across the University. More information at The model of collaboration we have developed drclas.harvard.edu/brazil. in a thriving Early Childhood Development (ECD) initiative has succeeded in providing meaningful research and learning opportunities for Harvard faculty and students, as well as their Brazilian collaborators, while strengthening mutually beneficial relationships with local academic and not-for-profit partner organizations. Our São Paulo- based staff has played an important role in building research teams and in helping to provide the financial support that have ensured progress and brought about larger grant proposals in the ECD arena. The total amount of funding awarded between 2012 and Clockwise Above: Local woman from San Jan Chamula, Chiapas, 2015 to 12 Harvard faculty members from across Mexico; Harvard College students during the Semester Abroad Kathryn Andrews, Doctoral candidate the University and their local collaborators for child Program in Havana, Cuba; Harvard undergraduate Kenard Dillon Students participating in in the Department of Global Health and as one of the MLAB mentors in January 2015 in São Paulo, Brazil; development-related research in Brazil exceeds 181 DRCLAS study abroad and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan Harvard undergraduates doing community service during the $725,000 USD. Enabled by early-stage funding from School, visiting the Western Region Project January Program in Temuco, Chile. the Brazil Office, the majority of this support has experiential learning in São Paulo with a community health come from external sources such as the Saving Brains agent.

2 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES drclas.harvard.edu 3 Mexico, Central Regional Office America & the Caribbean Office

The Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean The Regional Office changed leadership in August Office began the 2014–15 academic year with 2014, when Marcela Rentería assumed the executive President Drew Faust’s visit to Mexico City, which directorship to build upon and strengthen the great attracted a record attendance of nearly 500 guests. legacy that previous directors Steve Reifenberg The office had the privilege of hosting a private and Ned Strong developed in the region over the tea with President Faust and local members of the past 13 years. The Regional Office also renewed the Advisory Board. membership of its Advisory Group this past year, We continued to host public health colloquiums with HMS professor Judith Palfrey as the new Faculty throughout the year to engage a select group of Chair and members representing the countries of practitioners, academics, and politicians in open Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Uruguay Harvard SEAS students from the Institute of Applied Computational Science collaborate with discussions about the challenges facing the Mexican Pepe Avalos and Harvard University President Drew G. Faust during the and the United States. University of Chile students at the Gemini Observatory in La Serena, Chile. presidential visit to the DRCLAS Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean health care system in order to create better policies Office. Throughout the academic year and during the and initiatives. summer and winter breaks, the Regional Office Through our efforts to work with local offered a total of 11 programs in Argentina, Chile, OUR THANKS organizations, we collaborated with Ambulante, a to conduct a workshop in Cancún that analyzed Colombia, and Peru and supported a diverse array of Embassy in Chile, the Regional Office also organized OUR THANKS DRCLAS is deeply grateful to documentary film production company that also We are very grateful to the generous opportunities for Harvard students to pursue their academic roundtable discussions and public events, a multidimensional study of a semi-abandoned the Luksic family for their great hosts student internships, carrying out a workshop support of our Central American academic interests, gain professional experience, featuring the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political housing community built by the Instituto del Fondo generosity, supporting the office’s on Sensory Ethnography. Experts J.P. Sniadecki, and Mexican Advisory Committee improve their language proficiency, and immerse Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores Affairs and HKS professors Sheila Jasanoff and core activities and contributing to members, whose contributions have Jeff Silva, and Nicolás Pereda led the workshop for (INFONAVIT). As part of the research, students themselves in a new culture. Thomas Kane. more than a decade of success. We been crucial in the creation of this 12 participants who were chosen from over 100 conducted site visits and spoke with community The number of Harvard faculty engaged in the A myriad of new opportunities emerged this also would like to thank Eduardo office and the ability to continue applicants. We co-sponsored a film screening with region increased significantly as a result of the past year in Peru. As part of the DRCLAS Visiting Hochschild for his commitment to members and leaders, as well as researchers from expanding our programming in the Laboratorio para la Ciudad, held in Mexico City’s Harvard Chile Innovation Initiative (HCII), which Scholars Program and created by the Tony Custer the Harvard-UTEC initiatives, Drs. the observatory of violence at the University of the region. We are also grateful to the experimental office for civic innovation and urban provided start-up funds for collaborations between Hugo Sigman and Silvia Gold for Caribbean. many institutions with whom we have Family Endowment, the Custer Fellowship was advancing the Harvard-Mundo Sano creativity between citizens and government, of the For the past two years, the office has supported worked these past years. Harvard and Chilean colleagues for joint research launched this fall to support scholars and/or leading documentary H2OMX, an environmental case study and programs. This initiative, sponsored by Chile’s practitioners from Peru or dedicated to the study of partnership, and Doug Ahlers for his the Clubes de Ciencia (Science Clubs) in Mexico, an constant support to the Recupera on the issue of water shortage, pollution, and waste in National Council for Scientific and Technological Peru. Since signing a historic agreement in October organization consisting of current PhD students Chile project. the Mexican Valley. Research (CONICYT) and the Ministry of the from Harvard and other prestigious universities with 2014, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC) Our deepest gratitude also goes We closed the academic year with an event at the mission to increase access to quality science Economy, resulted in 15 collaborative faculty projects. and Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering to our outstanding Regional Office Museo Experimental El ECO, with a presentation education for young Mexicans. These students The Regional Office continued strengthening and Applied Sciences (SEAS) led student exchange Advisory Group, which includes of the book “Mexico City: Between Geometry and organized free one-week intensive courses geared existing relationships and building new ones this programs on air and water quality and launched the distinguished members of the Geography,” which recounts the urban evolution of toward high school and college students in topics of past year. In its fourth year, Recupera Chile launched Harvard-UTEC Faculty Grants Program, with the first DRCLAS Advisory Committee who Mexico City through photography, archival material, science, technology, engineering and math. the Granjeros del Mar (Sea Farmers) initiative grants awarded this spring to three Harvard-UTEC have supported the Regional Office for many years. We would like to and analytical drawings created by Prof. Correa and As the office continues to grow, we are delighted to help artisanal fishermen and women develop faculty-developed research projects. In December, Prof. García-Vélez from the GSD. small-scale projects in aquaculture production and DRCLAS, with support from Universidad del Pacífico, acknowledge the new members of to announce that we will be expanding our the Advisory Group representing A new partnership with the T.H. Chan School commercialization in zones affected by the tsunami launched in Lima the fall 2014 issue of ReVista: The programmatic activities, student and faculty work, as the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, of Public Health was created for a research project and earthquake in Southern Chile. In collaboration well as institutional collaborations, to the Caribbean Harvard Review of Latin America dedicated exclusively Colombia, Chile, Peru, Uruguay to measure the health impact on Mexico City’s region. In conjunction with the work of the DRCLAS with the Harvard Club of Chile, the United Nations’ to Peru. In addition, with the signing of the Harvard- and the United States: Fernando inhabitants since policies to improve the quality Mexico and Central America Program, our Mexico Economic Commission for Latin America and the Mundo Sano agreement, initiatives will commence Campero, Hugo Carranza, Tony of air were implemented 20 years ago. This project City office looks forward to further exploring potential Caribbean (ECLAC) and other local partners, the in Argentina in August 2015, with an international Custer, Ellen Guidera, Gustavo is a three-year collaboration between the School of collaborations between Harvard and this additional Regional Office organized the first annual women's public health forum on forgotten and neglected Herrero, León Larraín, Mauricio Public Health, local government organizations, and region. More information at mcao.drclas.harvard.edu. conference La Mujer en Chile: Debates Actuales in disease. More information at ro.drclas.harvard.edu. López, Paola Luksic, Victor academic institutions. November 2014. Working closely with the U.S. Marroquín, Peter Morse, Judith The office has also been working with the GSD Palfrey (Chair), Francisco Ravecca on the Mexican Cities Initiative, through which Overseas Jones, and Cynthia Sanborn. students receive a small grant to conduct innovative research during the summer to communicate risk and 3Offices resilience through the lens of everyday urbanism in Mexico. We have also begun to support studio classes that cover different topics in the region. We hope that creative collaborations and on-the-ground projects will emerge from these classes, to create a positive HMS Professor Judith Palfrey participates impact in the local community. in the Summer School This year, the office received 23 students who Program for children participated in our student programs. In addition, aged 5 to 14 in the we also hosted eight students from different Harvard Chilean communities graduate schools and four Mexican students from of Dichato and various local institutions who participated in the Cobquecura as part of the Recupera Chile Winter Course: The Mexican Health System: Reform, initiative. Implementation and Monitoring/Evaluation led by Professors David Reich and Martin Lajous. Moreover, Professor Diane Davis led 10 students from the GSD Children playing on logs, Chiapas, Mexico.

4 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES drclas.harvard.edu 5 Program on Negotiation talk A Perspective on the Colombian Peace Process, with the Inspector General of Colombia Alejandro Ordóñez. Other events Harvard College students in the fall included El Boom Gastronómico Peruano, featuring chef Javier during MLAB in Brazil Ampuero, and Introduction to Quechua: Language and Culture of the Andes. attend a lecture at Insper, one of Brazil's leading During the spring, the Program supported a number of student colleges of Business organization events and conferences, such as Políticas Públicas en Chile, Administration. organized by the Chilean Students at Harvard, MIT, and University of Chicago, featuring James Robinson, Ricardo Hausmann, José Miguel Benavente, and the Secretary General of the Organization of American States José Miguel Insulza. Pensando Argentina 2030 was a two-day event organized by the Harvard Argentine Student Society and the Argentine Club at MIT. The Program closely collaborated on the third Colombian Conference at Harvard-MIT-BU, Colombia: Building Peace, over three days with distinguished speakers such as Luis Carlos Villegas, Noam Chomsky, and Jesús Abad Colorado. Panel discussions included Memorials, Symbolic Reparations, and the Law of Victims; Transitional Justice; Women and Work for Peace Building; Urban Planning and Brazil Studies Program Reconciliation; State Building from the Regions; and The Voice of the Victims. Other supported student-led initiatives were Argentina’s 2015 The Brazil Studies Program encourages and supports Throughout the academic year, the Brazil Studies The Brazil Studies Program offers Presidential Election Speaker Series, with Jorge Altamira, presidential pre- student and faculty engagement with Brazil. Chaired Program continued to collaborate with the Portuguese its deepest sympathies for the candidate for the Frente de Izquierda, Partido Obrero; and a Conversation Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke during the by Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Visiting section within Harvard’s Department of Romance passing of Nicolau Sevcenko, a with Alfredo Graffe. arts@drclas Harvard Film Archive Film Retrospective. Associate Professor for Brazil Studies in Harvard’s Languages and Literatures. The 13th annual Brazil dear friend, an intellectual giant, Liberal Institutions and Social Incorporation: Is there a Trade-off (Or Department of Government, the Program featured in Week took place in April, focusing on the theme of a recognized and brilliant man. Can We All Be Uruguay)? brought together Santiago Anria, Catherine 2014–2015 a variety of Brazil-focused seminars and Lusophone Sounds. Other joint initiatives between Nicolau's stature as a public Conaghan, Lindsay Mayka, Juan Pablo Luna, and Alberto Vergara. events and in collaboration with the DRCLAS Brazil the RLL Department and the Program included intellectual was recognized by Discussants for this seminar included Harvard professors Jorge Office in São Paulo provided guidance, support and on-campus percussion and dance. The Program Brazil's Minister of Culture for his Domínguez, Frances Hagopian, Steven Levitsky, and Candelaria Garay. resources to scholars across the University traveling continued to carry out collaborative projects with outsized contributions to Brazilian Andes & Southern Additional events included Temporalidades Heterocrónicas en los to Brazil for study, research and internships. ARTS@DRCLAS. As part of these endeavors, ARTS@ culture. DRCLAS, students and Imaginarios Latinoamericanos Contemporáneos, with Álvaro Fernández The Brazil Studies Program Seminar Series DRCLAS, the RLL Department, and the Brazil Studies colleagues alike will remember Bravo; and a symposium on the book Latin America: New Challenges to Cone Program featured 16 seminars that addressed a variety of Program co-sponsored the ARTS@DRCLAS Spring him fondly for the inspiring, kind Growth and Stability, with co-authors Dora Iakova, Luis Cubbedu, and topics, including public health, economics, social Music Concert: Dance Music from Northeastern Brazil, and generous soul he was. Sebastian Sosa, followed by a conversation between Ricardo Hausmann Beginning in the fall of 2014, the Andes Initiative incorporated events policy, political science, environmental science, which took place in April 2015, and the RLL Film and the International Monetary Fund’s Western Hemisphere Director related to the Southern Cone countries of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay technology, sociology, history, art, literature, Series Beyond Samba: The Musical Others of Brazilian Alejandro Werner. More information at drclas.harvard.edu/andes. and Uruguay and, in the spring of 2015, was renamed the Andes and and anthropology. Fall speakers included Filipe Counterculture, from October 2014 to April 2015. Southern Cone Program. Campante’s talk entitled What is the Matter with In November, the Program participated in the During 2014–15, the Program sponsored or co-sponsored a varied Brasília: Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance; 2014 Lemann Dialogue at Stanford University. Co- and dynamic set of activities, including a visit from Colombian writer Andrei Roman, who spoke about the 2013 protests Sponsored by Stanford, Columbia University, the Juan Gabriel Vásquez, recipient of the Prix Roger Caillois and the in Brazil; Timothy J. Power and Frances Hagopian’s University of Illinois, and Harvard, the Lemann Alfaguara Novel Prize. What Does the Future Hold for Venezuela? featured discussion Dilma’s Year of Living Dangerously: Dialogues are held annually in the United States Ricardo Hausmann (HKS) and Francisco Rodríguez, chief Andean The 2014 Elections in Brazil; and Gabriel Duarte’s on the campuses of the consortium partners and economist at Bank of America. Together, with the Latin American presentation Reverting Atlantis: Urbanization and bring together scholars, public intellectuals and Caucus at HKS, the program convened Verónica Zubillaga, Dorothy New Oil Territories in Brazil. In the spring semester, policy-makers to share their research, experience Kronick, and Francisco Monaldi to discuss Revolution and Violence: among other seminars, Eurípedes Constantino and perspectives on the major policy challenges Understanding Venezuela’s Crime Wave. Miguel and Guilherme Polancyzk led a talk co- confronting Brazil in the twenty-first century. The In the fall, the Program organized Postconflicto y Re-Generación sponsored by Harvard’s Center on the Developing theme of this past Lemann Dialogue was public Política: Lo que una Nueva Generación Puede Aportar, with José Antequera Child, where they discussed Prevalence, Risk Factor education in Brazil, its future and the technological from the National Center for Historic Memory in Colombia, and and Early Investments to Prevent Psychiatric Disorders innovations, entrepreneurship and policy research supported Launching of ReVista: Peru, with distinguished collaborators in Brazil; and Priscila Cruz gave a presentation Members of Forró Zabumbeca efforts to improve it. More information at drclas. perform at the annual DRCLAS such as Steven Levitsky, Kimberly Theidon, and David Scott Palmer. on education in Brazil, which joined on-campus harvard.edu/brazil-studies. Spring Music Concert at Harvard The Program co-sponsored the Social Anthropology Seminar Series seminar attendees and a São Paulo audience by video University. presentation Men in Black: Sovereignty and Private Security in a Bolivian conference. James N. Green presented Revolutionary Market, with Daniel Goldstein from Rutgers University. Masculinity and the Underground Opposition to the Found Theatre: Biodrama and Biography on the Argentine Stage hosted Brazilian Dictatorship in the 1960s and 70s; and the Argentine theater director, curator and Belknap Fellow at Princeton Mauricio E. Arias closed the series with Sustainability University, Vivi Tellas. In support of the Harvard Argentine Student of the Amazon: Tradeoffs Between Environmental Society, Science and Technology in Latin America: The Case of Argentina Change, Hydropower and River Alterations. featured Lino Barañao, National Minister of Science, Technology and Harvard undergraduates engage in community The Brazil Studies Program remains committed Productive Innovation of Argentina. service during their time in Argentina. to providing support to a range of student The Stirring of Culture: A Conversation about the Arts, Citizenship, and organizations dedicated to promoting and the State, with Sugata Bose, Antanas Mockus, Doris Sommer, and Homi strengthening ties with Brazil. An initiative of the Bhabha, was presented along with the Mahindra Humanities Center and recently formed Harvard-Wide Brazilian Student the Cultural Agents Initiative. The Program also co-sponsored the HLS Association, the Harvard Brazil Conference— Brazil +30: The Legacy Of 30 Years of Democracy and Challenges to Come—took place on April 17 and 18. In its first edition, the Conference, co-sponsored by the Brazil Studies Program, gathered scholars and practitioners from a variety of fields for vibrant discussions about Brazilian political, social, and Programs & Initiatives economic realities in an increasingly globalized world.

6 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES drclas.harvard.edu 7 Harvard College students visit Viñales in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, during the Study Abroad Program. Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean Program

Cary García Yero have prepared the current 2015 issue, number 43, on In 2014–15, the Mexico and Central America Program the pressing challenges of Cuban demography. maintained an active series of events, as well as Additionally, Professor Jorge I. Domínguez continued his two Cuba academic and internship opportunities for students. programs focused on research on economic and social policy in Cuba. The Program placed emphasis on supporting faculty In November 2014, Professor Jocelyn Viterna traveled to Cuba to hold a by offering the opportunity to apply for funding for three-day academic workshop on research design in the social sciences at an intellectual event of their design. Additionally, the University of Havana. As part of the projects on economic and social the Program partnered with the Mexico and Central policy, the Cuban Studies Program sponsored two short-term research America Office and the Consulate General of visits by Cuban scholars. Mexico in Boston to gain a greater presence in the Harvard Medical School invited one Cuban visiting scholar to form community. part of the ongoing research project examining infectious diseases. A The faculty programming initiative allowed events four-day research trip to the Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kurí proposed by three faculty members to be funded. HSPH Health care in Mexico (IPK) in Havana by Professors Michael Starnbach and Eric Rubin took The first of these was a private book conference on course participants talk to locals U.S.-Mexico migration, chaired by Professor Filiz about curanderos in San Juan place in May 2014 to advance the planning of future collaborations The Center continues to support academic Garip. The Program also assisted Professor David Chamula, in Chiapas, Mexico. between Harvard and Cuban scientists. opportunities for students by coordinating a study Carrasco in organizing a conference presenting new Taking note of the changes under way in U.S.-Cuban relations, in abroad program with El Colegio de México. Two knowledge on the relationships between Mexican January Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Chief of Mission at the U.S. students participated during the summer for 2014, pictorial manuscripts, sacred objects and storytelling Interests Section in Havana, gave an off-the-record talk at Harvard on enrolling in four courses and carrying out thesis in pre-Hispanic traditions in central Mexico. the process leading up to the announcement of rapprochement and the research. Lastly, Professor Ana Langer chaired a colloquium prospects of U.S.-Cuban relations. Professor Domínguez analyzed U.S.- The Mexico and Central America Program and titled Closing the Gaps: Increasing Equity in Sexual Cuban relations in a public talk after the VII Summit of the Americas in Office supported 26 students in internships at various Cuban Studies Program and Reproductive Health Outcomes in Mexico. This April 2015. organizations in Mexico City and Nicaragua, six in conference convened a group of five experts on This past academic year, the program worked under the joint Summer 2014, and 20 in January 2015. Summer 2014 The historic announcements by Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl women’s reproductive rights in Mexico. leadership of co-chairs Professors de la Fuente and Domínguez and internships in Mexico City were at Ambulante and Castro to change the pattern of relations between the United States and The Seminar Series in Cambridge featured was ably assisted by Program Coordinator Rainer Schultz. The Program Cine Pantera, two documentary and film production Cuba on December 17, 2014, and to reestablish diplomatic relations presentations on political, economic and social established a new Advisory Group to advise the Program’s faculty co- companies; ProDESC, a human rights organization; in July 2015 have made world news. At Harvard, they have significantly topics, among others. Special events included a panel directors on issues central to its mission and provide support for the and the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y increased the interest in Cuba-related activities. The Cuban Studies on the Central American migrant crisis. The Program Program’s goals and activities. Nutrición Salvador Zubirán (INCMNSZ), a pre-medical Program, since its founding 15 years ago, has advanced disciplinary co-sponsored a seminar with the Consulate General of The accomplishments of the Cuban Studies Program have been internship. The internship opportunities in Nicaragua and interdisciplinary academic joint projects with Cuba that deepen Mexico in Boston entitled Food, Cooking and the City, underwritten by the generous support of Atlantic Philanthropies, the were in partnership with the INCAE Business School, our understanding of the important challenges Cuba faces for its chaired by José Castillo of the GSD. Collaborations Ford Foundation, and the past members of the Cuban Studies Fund. where research was conducted on socioeconomic development. In its history, scope and variety, Harvard's Cuban Studies included the launch of Mexico Week at the GSD, and More information at drclas.harvard.edu/cuba. development. Program continues to distinguish itself from other Cuba programs in the Mexican Cities Initiative at Harvard. A seminar The Mexico and Central America Program the U.S. was also held with René Castro, former Minister of continues to expand its network throughout the This past academic year, the Program organized or co-sponsored Environment and Energy in Costa Rica, on climate region by developing conferences in collaboration a record number of 16 academic events as part of its Seminar Series, change. Finally, the Program welcomed former with organizations and individuals from the region. attracting more than 700 attendees. Presentations included, among President of Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla to campus More information at mcao.drclas.harvard.edu. others, themes on race and migration, cooperatives and monetary for an executive education session with 80 students policy, social media, the arts, ballet in Cuba, U.S.-Cuban relations, as from the INCAE Business School. well as historiography and Cuba's role in the Atlantic world. In the fall, five students spent a semester at the University of Havana Program for Latin American through the Harvard College Study Abroad Program. For the fall 2015 semester, 12 students have been accepted into the program, making it Libraries and Archives (PLALA) Harvard's most attractive semester-long study abroad program in the world. Through a grant from the Mellon awarded to Centro de la Imagen In the spring semester, Professor Alejandro de la Fuente inaugurated Foundation, DRCLAS plays in Peru to clean, organize, identify his art exhibition Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro- a unique and important role and digitize 23,582 negative films Cuba at Harvard’s new Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African in providing support to Latin dated from 1890 to 1935, along American Art with the presence of several of the participating artists. American Libraries and Archives with gelatin and glass plates Drapetomania is a tribute to Grupo Antillano (1978–1983), a forgotten for the conservation, restoration displaying Chilean soldiers from visual arts and cultural movement that privileged the importance of and renewal of their collections. 1880 to 1881. As this grant is African and Afro-Caribbean influences in the formation of the Cuban For the last six years, DRCLAS ending, the Mellon Foundation nation. In February, the Cuban edition of de la Fuente’s book Una had provided over $1.5 million has provided a new planning Nación para todos: raza, desigualdad y política en Cuba, 1900–2000, was to 75 projects across the region. grant, which will help determine if featured at the Feria del Libro in Havana. In FY14, the Center awarded the the PLALA Program can continue This past year, Professor de la Fuente was named the editor of the last of numerous PLALA grants its work. journal Cuban Studies, now hosted at Harvard. He and managing editor Harvard College students during the to Brazil and Peru. One was an We are deeply saddened to Semester Abroad Program in Havana. $18,500 grant to Arquivo Público announce the passing of our Students hear about health care in an dear colleague and founder of isolated village in the mountains of do Estado do Rio de Janeiro in Chiapas, Mexico with Partners in Health. Brazil to conserve and digitize the PLALA, Dan Hazen. We at DRCLAS pamphlets and related materials promise to redouble our efforts to confiscated by the Political see Dan's visionary leadership and Police between 1911 and 1983. legacy live on. Additionally, a $2,990 grant was

8 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES drclas.harvard.edu 9 arts@drclas Faculty In 2014–15, ARTS@DRCLAS The DRCLAS Film Series organized two exhibitions in featured Beyond Samba: The Faculty Grants Cambridge as part of the Exhibits Musical Others of Brazilian at 1730 series in collaboration Counterculture, in conjunction Awarded with the South Asia Institute. with the Brazil Studies Program The Ephemeral City: Looking at and the department of Romance Temporary Landscapes of Religion Languages and Literatures, in South Asia and Latin America and Reembarque/Reshipment, in Research was based on Professor Rahul collaboration with the Cuban Mehrotra’s (GSD) research project, Studies Program, the Afro-Latin the Ephemeral City. A panel American Institute at the Hutchins featuring Harvard scholars from Center and Professor Alejandro de different disciplines was held in la Fuente. In collaboration with 19 conjunction with the exhibition. the Mexico and Central America & Teaching On view at the Fisher Family Program and Office, the Program Commons, Latin America in the co-sponsored a screening of the 60s: Color Images by Martin Karplus documentary H2OMX as part showcased photographs taken of the Mexican Cities Initiative In 2014–15 the Center’s Faculty Grants program awarded funding to by Harvard Professor Emeritus events led by Professor Diane faculty from FAS, GSD, HMS, HKS, HSPH, and SEAS. Awards included and winner of the Nobel Prize in Davis (GSD). The fifth ARTS@ nine research grants, one research conference grant, two workshop Chemistry Martin Karplus, during DRCLAS–Harvard Film Archive grants, two course-based field trip grants, one curriculum development trips to Mexico, Brazil and Peru in Retrospective featured Mexican grant, two language study and translation grants, and two grants for the 1960s. filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke ongoing programs. Support was made possible through the generous As part of its ongoing over three days of screenings and contributions of the Banco Santander Fund, Peggy Rockefeller Fund, collaborations designed to dialogue with the director. Also the Lacayo Fund, the Andronico Luksic Fund, the Francisco Soler Fund, establish long-lasting and in- with the Harvard Film Archive, Assistant Professor of Romance the Leman Endowment, the Santo Domingo Endowment, the Matching depth relationships with arts ARTS@DRCLAS featured the Languages and Literatures Sergio Fund, the Lehner Fund, the Bloch Fund, the Cisneros Fund, the Top: Diane Davis. Bottom, L-R: Professor Fran Hagopian, Michael Chu and Marcia Castro. initiatives throughout the latest works of two of the most Delgado and Professor Thomas Azcarraga Fund, and the Miguel Alemán Fund. University, the Program organized relevant contemporary Argentine Cummins (HAA). and co-sponsored various filmmakers, Martín Rejtman and During the spring, the activities, including the ARTS@ Matías Piñeiro. Program collaborated with GSD Faculty Research Research Conference Course-based DRCLAS–Graduate School of The Program continued visiting professor Luis Valenzuela, Design Series, featuring architect strengthening ties between Universidad Adolfo Ibañez and the Grant Recipients Grant Recipient Field Trip Fabrizzio Gallanti, and a panel Harvard and Latin American art Chilean copper company Codelco Grant Recipients discussion on Santiago Cerros Isla, institutions and facilitating the in organizing the seminar Calama/ Allen Counter, HMS Ajay Singh, HMS University’s presence in the region CL: La Minería y los Territorios Toxic Lead (Pb) Exposure in Harvard's GCSRT Clinical Research moderated by Professor Anita Determinants of Tuberculosis Jorge Silvetti, GSD through the Overseas Faculty de Extracción. In Mexico, the Ecuadorian Andean Children and Conference Berrizbeitia (GSD); the ARTS@ 22 Transmission in Fortaleza, Brazil, CHAMAMé – the sounds, rhythms Series, designed to create academic program collaborated with Adults Living in Pb-Contaminated DRCLAS–Romance Languages and Film and Implications for Control and words of Guarani Literatures Series, presenting and public activities and develop Laboratorio para la Ciudad with a Communities research projects overseas. During follow-up session of the H2OMX lectures by Argentine theatre Screenings Michèle Lamont, Sociology, FAS Michael Van Valkenburgh, GSD the fall semester, the program documentary screening and with Chad Vecitis, SEAS Curriculum director Vivi Tellas and Puerto The Quest for Equality and Respect: Teaching Creativity: Landscape organized, in collaboration Ambulante in the organization of Synthesis of Novel Inorganic-Polymer Rican performance artist Josefina Experiences and Responses to Development Architecture, Originality, and with DRCLAS overseas offices the workshop Paisajes Sensoriales: Composite Membranes and the Baez; the ARTS@DRCLAS–Graduate Stigmatization and Discrimination Autobiography Student Speaker Series, featuring and several local universities, Cine y Etnografía Experimental, Investigation of the Novel Membrane in Brazil, Israel and the United Grant Recipient Silvio Torres-Saillant as guest the symposium, exhibition and which showcased work from the Distillation Process for Advanced States Daniel Shoag, HKS speaker in the Spanish 254: presentation of the book Ecological Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab. Water Purification Urban Economics Course Segment Imagining Caribbean Communities Urbanism in Santiago, Chile, Through these activities, Rahul Mehrotra, GSD course; and the fifth iteration and São Paulo, Brazil. The event organized in collaboration with Daniel Hartl, Organismic & Temporary Urbanism in Latin Workshops, Working of the Spring Music Concert, included presentations by GSD specific departments and faculty Evolutionary Biology, FAS America Groups, and featuring dance music from Dean Mohsen Mostafavi and GSD and aligned with course content Collaborative Research and Training Northeastern Brazil by Harvard- faculty Charles Waldheim, Diane within Harvard, ARTS@DRCLAS in Complexity of Plasmodium vivax Sven Beckert, History, FAS Language Study Film Series Davis and Gareth Doherty, among seeks to foster and develop the Infections in Brazil affiliated music group Forró Weatherhead Initiative on Global or Translation Zazumbeca, which took place for other scholars and practitioners 24 scope of Latin American visual History (WIGH) Outreach to Latin Diane Davis, GSD the first time in an outdoor setting from Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, arts@drclas and performing arts and strives Gunther Fink, HSPH America Grant Recipients Fostering Community Resilience at the Science Center Plaza. Ecuador and Brazil. In collabor- to ensure academic relevance, Using Hair Cortisol Assays to in Acapulco, Mexico Building upon the research ation with Universidad Católica Events expand research and contribute to Measure Chronic Stress in High-Risk Tamar Herzog, History, FAS project originated in the region de Chile (PUC) and the Museo de the University’s teaching mission. Brazilian Women and Children Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Matthias Marti, HSPH during spring 2014, Critical Design la Solidaridad Salvador Allende More information at drclas. Portugal in Europe and the Americas Malaria Control: From the Bench and Research for Informal Learning, (MSSA), ARTS@DRCLAS organized harvard.edu/arts. Jesse Snedeker, Psychology, FAS to the Field the program co-organized at the a series of roundtables on Chilean Nicaraguan Sign Language as a Erez Manela, History, FAS GSD a weeklong workshop led Contemporary Art in Santiago, Window into Language Development Empires at War, 1911–1923 by Professor Krzysztof Wodiczko Chile, as part of the Conceptual Art and Cognition (GSD). Stumblings research project led by Exhibits Marcia Castro, HSPH

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Harvard GSD Professor Diane Davis during the 2015 Advisory Committee Weekend at DRCLAS. OCTOBER 11 LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS CONFERENCE COLLEGE HARVARD AT (HILAR) is a Harvard College Initiative for Latin American Relations student-run organization whose main objective is to unite the region's current and future leaders in business, public service, academia. Through the conference, students had opportunity to hear premier academics, public figures, and activists speak on the most pressing spanned through disciplines Topics issues facing Latin America today. and exposed students to relevant topics that they may not necessarily study in their courses. The fall conference took place Cambridge, while the spring conference took place in Mexico. OCTOBER 27 CENTRAL AMERICAN OF CRISIS THE HOME: ESCAPING CHILD MIGRANTS This multi-panel conference, sponsored by the Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean Program, delved into background of and reasoning for the surge of Central American child migrants at border during the crisis in fall of 2014. Jacqueline Bhabha, the U.S. and Professor of the Practice Health FXB Director of Research, Human Rights at the HSPH, chaired a panel of leading experts who discussed the root causes of accelerated patterns migration, migrant statistics, immigration policies and procedures, as well human rights. 27-28 MARCH CHILE POLÍTICAS EN PÚBLICAS Públicas brought together Chilean students of public policy Políticas in the United States. Its main objective was to create a network of interested Chileans to generate debate and reflection on public policies in Chile. This meeting had an academic and practical approach, offering the opportunity to talk with prominent panelists on policies that have been conducted successfully in other countries and which can contribute to the development of Chile, along with sharing studies and analyses of Chile. 28 MARCH CONFERENCE AMERICA LATIN 17TH ANNUAL WAY: OWN OUR SCHOOL BUSINESS HARVARD AT The 17th annual Latin American Conference, a student club conference at HBS, brought together leaders from the public and private sectors who share a deep commitment to fostering social and economic growth in Latin America. The goal of the conference was to inform and inspire students industry professionals act on business opportunities in Latin America, as well to position America as an area of interest in academic, political, and professional speakers included Laura communities in the United States. Keynote Gonzalez,CEO Chinchilla, President of Costa Rica 2010–14, Fernando of CEMEX, and Susan Segal, President CEO the Americas Society and the Council of Americas. 2-3 APRIL 2030 ARGENTINA PENSANDO This student-organized seminar was created to analyze and reflect on the regional and international scene that awaits Argentina in next 15 years and to identify the main opportunities threats for national development process and create a strategy outline. APRIL 17 DEMOCRACY OF YEARS 30 OF LEGACY THE +30: BRAZIL COME TO CHALLENGES AND This student-organized conference created a platform to discuss challenges related to the future of Brazil and its impact in world. The year 2015 represented Brazil’s 30th anniversary of renewed democracy, after two decades under military dictatorship. The Harvard Brazil Conference debated both the legacy of last three decades and the challenges ahead. 21-23 APRIL WEEK & 1ST LUSO WEEK BRAZIL ANNUAL THIRTEENTH HARVARD AT organized by the Department of The main objective of Brazil Week, Languages and Literatures, is to promote the exchange of Romance ideas and experiences among students, researchers, health care community. professionals who interact with the Portuguese-speaking Presenters from several Lusophone countries and over 250 professors, students, and researchers gathered at Harvard for three days of panel countries discussions about linguistics policies in Portuguese-speaking and their projections around the world. 24–25 APRIL HARVARD-MIT AT CONFERENCE COLOMBIAN THIRD In its third edition, this student-organized conference convened and Colombia, along with academics from Harvard, MIT, representatives from the Colombian government, to promote visibility of topics current relevance in Colombia an academic setting that allows for open dialogue, criticism, and communication. HKS Professor Ricardo Hausmann during the 2015 Advisory Committee Weekend. DRCLAS Director Brian Farrell D. playing the cajon with the iRESI Quartet at the 2014 Open House. Conferences This year, the Center sponsored or co- sponsored 13 conferences, offering a wide range of experts an opportunity to address many of the most challenging and contemporary topics on Latin America. Some of this year’s conference included: Lectures Lectures Seminars and 120 Research Research Conferences and Workshops Events Total Attendance at Attendance Total DRCLAS CLAS continued to 13 The Center continued to sponsor Tuesday Additionally, DR CGIS South Tsai Auditorium at maximum capacity during the 2015 Advisory Weekend. Committee Events sponsored or co-sponsored DRCLAS more than 120 events in Cambridge this year, including our regular seminars on contemporary Latin American politics, Brazil, Central America, Cuba, Mexico, cinematic art from the region, art exhibits and lectures various specialized roundtables, workshops, and conferences. Highlights among these President of Costa were lectures by Former Rica Laura Chinchilla Miranda and Edmundo Ambassador of Nicaragua Jarquin, Former to Spain and Mexico. The Ephemeral City exhibition involved a collaborative effort and the South Asia between DRCLAS Institute at Harvard University, and works were featured on two floors of the Center for Government and International Studies. Seminar, a weekly series on current Latin American politics and economics, in addition to many events supported by the continually Program, as well successful ARTS@DRCLAS as the Andes and Southern Cone Program, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Program, the Cuban Studies and Brazil Studies Program, all of which convened numerous and varied audiences at events featuring distinguished speakers presenting their research and experience on a wide range of topics. provide meeting and office space for graduate students, encouraging the discussion of their dissertations at lunchtime talks throughout the year, and supported activities of several undergraduate and graduate student organizations and clubs related to Latin America. Visiting professors and scholars were also active participants of the Center’s events. Events & Conferences

12 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES drclas.harvard.edu 13 5000 Cuban Visiting Scholars and Visiting Scientists Elaine Díaz Rodríguez, Cuba Nieman Foundation/Nieman Fellow Social Media and Internet in Cuba

Professors & Raúl Díaz Rodríguez, Cuba Harvard Medical School/Atlantic Philanthropies Issues of ReVista: Harvard Tuberculosis and Histoplasmosis 3 Transmission Review of Latin America Scholars Reynaldo Miguel Jiménez Guethón, Cuba DRCLAS/Ford Foundation Visiting Scholars and Cooperatives and their Contribution Fellows Program to Agrarian and Non-Agrarian Development in Cuba and Latin America The Visiting Scholars and Fellows Jeffery Paige, USA Program strengthens ties between Santander Visiting Scholar Jessica León Mundul, Cuba Harvard and other institutions by The Discourse of Indigenous DRCLAS/Ford Foundation hosting distinguished academics Revolution in the Andes Monetary Policies in Cuba and their and professionals who conduct Impact on Economic Growth research on a particular topic Maritza Paredes, Peru or region of Latin America. In Custer Visiting Scholar Beatriz Marcheco-Teruel, Cuba 2014–15, the Center hosted 14 Shaping State Capacity: A Hutchins Center/Hutchins Fellow scholars and fellows; their fields of Comparative Historical Analysis of Luksic Visiting Scholar Sebastian Reconstructing the history of Soto and DRCLAS special guest from admixture and the African study included demography, law, Mining Dependence in the Andes Beatriz Urdinola, Colombia Partners in Health in Mexico Daniel Genealogy through DNA studies in political science and sociology, 1840s–1920s Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar Palazuelos. Cuba among others. Latin American Human Mortality Pedro Reina Pérez, Puerto Rico Database Expansion Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, USA DRCLAS Visiting Scholar Elio Rodríguez, Spain Afro-Latin American Research Wilbur Marvin Visiting Scholar El exilio invisible Luis Valenzuela, Chile Institute/Cohen Fellow On Being Blacks: Challenging the Luksic Visiting Scholar Corridas y Venidas Hegemonic Knowledge Through Jeffrey Rubin, USA Seizing Evidence Based Design: Racial Self-identification Processes Cisneros Visiting Scholar Urban Inequality & Territorial Publications Devyn Spence Benson, USA in Post-Soviet Cuban Cultural Citizen Subjectivities Reconfigured: Disaster Risk Spatial Modeling Production Social Movements, Business, and Afro-Latin American Research Collaboration was the informal thread that united all three issues of Religion in Latin America's 21st Institute/Sheila Biddle Ford ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America this year, bringing together Jordi Diez, Canada Century Democracies Foundation Fellow authors and photographers both physically and virtually. Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar Not Blacks, but Citizens: Race and “Peru,” the theme of the fall issue of ReVista: Harvard Review of The Judicialization of Sexual and Willibald Sonnleitner, Mexico Revolution in Cuba Latin America, celebrated its collaborators with a November launch in Reproductive Rights in Latin America Madero/Fundación México Lima, Peru, under the auspices of the Universidad del Pacífico. The Visiting Scholar launch featured an authors’ panel and a special exhibition by talented Gabriel Duarte, Brazil Social Origin of Election Turnout: photographers from the Ojos Propios project, which teaches youth from Lemann Visiting Scholar Between Corporatist Vote Buying all parts of the country to document their surroundings. The winter issue Reverting Atlantis: Urbanization and and Individual Voter Autonomy in of ReVista featured the unusual subject of “Garbage” from many different New Oil Territories in Brazil Sub-National Mexico and Central perspectives, ranging from art to community organization. ReVista closed America out the year with a thoughtful look at the “Territory Guarani,” a theme Nina Gerassi-Navarro, USA developed in close collaboration with Professor Jorge Silvetti, the Nelson Santander Visiting Scholar Sebastian Soto, Chile Robinson, Jr. Professor of Architecture at Harvard’s GSD, and Graciela Travels Beyond a Divided Luksic Visiting Scholar Silvestri, the 2014 Robert F. Kennedy Professor. The issue focuses on the Landscape: Women, Science and The Relation Between the President four-country area around the River Plate, encompassing subjects varying Politics in Nineteenth-Century and the Congress over the Budget: from its Jesuit history to environmental challenges to music and film. Americas The Case of the United States and Chile Monica Gordillo, Argentina De Fortabat Visiting Scholar Lester Tomé, USA Union Democratization in the Post DRCLAS Visiting Scholar Dictatorships of the Southern Cone Cuban Ballet: Cosmopolitan Dancers, Nationalist Gestures; A Study in Ballet and Globalization Luksic Visiting Scholar Luis Wilbur Marvin Visiting Scholar Odette Valenzuela during the 2015 Casamayor-Cisneros presents her work as part Advisory Committee Weekend. of the Cuban Studies Program Seminar Series.

14 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES drclas.harvard.edu 15 Awards and CERTIFICATE IN LATIN AMERICAN Mayumi Cornejo STUDIES Government Accomplishments The Peruvian State and Rural The DRCLAS-administered Civil Society: The Impact of State Certificate in Latin American Intervention on the Development of DOCTORATES AWARDED TO Carlos Varón González Studies is awarded each year by Peasant Auto-Defense Organizations STUDENTS SPECIALIZING IN Romance Languages & Literatures Harvard’s Committee on Latin in Peru LATIN AMERICAN OR LATINO Malos tiempos para la lírica: Poesía American and Iberian Studies STUDIES y cancelación del espacio público (CLAIS) to students graduating Plinio Tadeu Degoes, PhD from Harvard College and the Romance Languages & Literatures DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY Graduate School of Arts and The 1824 Confederation of the Maria Cecilia Acevedo Juan Miguel Marin Sciences who have fulfilled Equator and Cultural Production in Philosophy A Firestone of Divine Love: Erotic specific course requirements, Brazil Essays on the Political Economy of Desire and the Ephemeral Flame of demonstrated proficiency in Conflict and Development Hispanic Jesuit Mysticism Spanish or Portuguese, and Andrea Laura Delgado presented an honors thesis or Romance Languages and Lotte Bernarda Buiting DOCTORS OF EDUCATION dissertation on a topic related Literatures Romance Languages & Literatures Alejandro Jorge Ganimian to Latin America. This year, The New Lives of Inca Stone Echoes of the Child in Latin Quantitative Policy Analysis in six graduate students and in Twentieth-Century Peru: American Literature and Film Education 27 undergraduates received Representations in Literature, The Predictive Validity of Latin American Studies Certificate recipients with Steven Levitsky, Certificates in Latin American Photography and Advertisements Dylan J. Clark Information from Clinical Practice Jorge I. Domínguez, Joan Hutchins, Ned Strong and James Hammond. Studies. Anthropology Lesson: Experimental Evidence from Monika Anna Glowacki Laura P. Lagomarsino, PhD Fernando Espino Casas The Residential Spaces, Social Argentina Social Studies Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Elizabeth Sophia Auritt Social Studies Organization and Dynamics of Isla Pragmatism versus Ideological Systematics and Evolution of Government Municipal Dynamics of Remittance Cerritos, an Ancient Maya Port Soojin Susan Oh Purity: Distinct Approaches of the Neotropical Bellflowers When the Numbers Don’t Add Flows and Household Poverty Levels Community Human Development and Human Rights Organizations to (Campanulaceae: Lobeliodeae) Certificates Up: Political Intervention into the in Post-NAFTA Northern Mexico, Education Exposing the Myth of “Nunca Más” Argentine Statistics Institute 1990–2010 in Latin Plinio Tadeu Degoes A Contributing Role of Parental in Argentina Taonga Rolando Leslie Romance Languages & Literatures Investments in Early Learning to Sociology American Lotte Buiting, PhD Renzo Fall The 1824 Confederation of the Head Start Impacts on Children’s Carlos Varón González, PhD Sissies or Soldiers? Sexual Stigma Romance Languages & Literatures Government Equator and Cultural Production in Language and Literacy: Examining Romance Languages & Literatures and Collective Identity in the Putos Studies Echoes of the Child in Latin From Bust to Brawl: The Impact Brazil How Mechanisms of Program Impact Malos tiempos para la lírica: Poesía Peronistas Movement American Literature and Film of Commodity Prices on Political Awarded to Differ for Spanish-Speaking Dual y Cancelación del Espacio Público Instability in South America Laura P. Lagomarsino Language Learners (DLL) and Manuel Andrés Meléndez Sánchez Graduating Dylan J. Clark, PhD Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Non-DLL Quinn David Hatoff Government Anthropology Seniors Systematics and Evolution of Government Toward a Theory of Conservative The Residential Spaces, Social the Neotropical Bellflowers Germán Iván Treviño González The Consolidation of Pro-Market Party Cohesion and Schism: El Organization and Dynamics of Isla (Campanulaceae: Lobeliodeae) Administration, Planning, and Reforms: The Argentine and Chilean Salvador's National Republican Cerritos, an Ancient Maya Port Social Policy Cases Alliance (ARENA) in Comparative Valeria M. Pelet Ethan Samet-Marram Community 33History & Literature History James Ivor Loxton Serving the Poor Differently: The Perspective, 1980–2009 Political Science Effects of Private and Public Schools Hilary J. Higgins A Multi-Viral Multitude: The As Ripe for Mischief as Any: Julia Grace Cohn Authoritarian Inheritance and on Children’s Academic Achievement Government Anahi Mendoza Evolving Politics of Solidarity in the Representations of Interracial History and Literature Conservative Party-Building in Latin in Basic Education in Mexico Counternarcotics to Social Studies Music of Calle 13 Collaboration During Golden Age Abandoned Pan American Ambitions: America Counterinsurgency: Assessing U.S. “The Golden Cage:” The Impact Piracy Diego Rivera’s Later Murals Maria Elena Ortega Hesles Intervention in Colombia, 1998– of Criminalization on the Lives Sylvia Alejandra Percovich Tuesta Demonstrate his Disillusionment Sergio Rivero-Navarro Quantitative Policy Analysis in 2002 of Immigrants and the Quality of Social Studies Carlos A. Schmidt Padilla with the Ideal Romance Languages & Literatures Education American Democracy Peace Without Reconciliation: Why Government Epifanía, trance, arrebato y otras School Choice and Educational William Douglas Horton Reconciliation Failed in Peru Non-State Violence as a Democratic iluminaciones: Manifestaciones Opportunities: The Upper-Secondary Social Studies Nathalie R. Miraval Constraint: An Empirical Study on extáticas en la cultura Ibero- Student-Assignment Process in 12Graduate/ Secularization, Pluralism, and History of Art & Architecture Ishani D. Premaratne the Effects of Crime on Democratic Americana contemporánea Mexico City Church Response in Chile The Persistence of Nahua Artistry Anthropology Outcomes in El Salvador Professional and Beliefs in Actopan's Open PLAYING NOT TO LOSE: Women's Nancyrose Houston Chapel Wall Paintings Healthcare Seeking Behaviors and Jonathan Shpall Student Social Studies their Conceptualization of Value Social Studies Reframing Ivan Illich: Utopia and Lenica Judit Morales-Valenzuela within the Changing Healthcare El Barrio Bravo: How a Conference Cooptation in “Deschooling Society” Romance Languages & Literatures Marketplace of the Sierra Madre Neighborhood in the Center of Bodies as Narratives: Processes of Region of Chiapas, Mexico Mexico City Continues to Resist Grants Carolyn Eileen Killea Healing and Memory Building in the Redevelopment Government Aftermath of the Guatemalan Civil Alexandra Ileana Ramirez ¿Nunca Más Qué? Mass Political War Government Anneli Lucia Tostar Learning in Post-Dictatorship Oportunidades for Political Change: Anthropology Argentina Bryan Padilla Mexican CCTs and Democratic Bodies in the Street: Social Mobility Student History & Literatures Political Culture and Spatial Segregation in São Ashford Layne Robinette King A Dangerous Thesis: Death by the Paulo, Brazil Romance Languages & Literatures Spanish Pen in the Era of Trujillo Sergio Rivero-Navarro, PhD. “Syndycalist Slang:” Mobility and Romance Languages & Literatures Tourism in Contemporary Antillean Epifanía, Trance, Arrebato y otras Verse Iluminaciones: Manifestaciones Extáticas en la Cultura Ibero- Opportunities Americana Contemporánea

16 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES drclas.harvard.edu 17 Grants entitled Politics Against the Grain: de Puertorriqueños en Harvard; Tomás Insua, HKS STEVE REIFENBERG FELLOWSHIP Undergraduate Programmatic Politics and Political the Harvard Dominican Student Martín Maximino, HKS The Steve Reifenberg Fund and is intended to encourage Honors Entrepreneurs in Federal Brazil. Association; and the Harvard Pilar Tavella, HKS Fellowships Argentine Tango Society. graduating seniors to engage in Thesis SUMMER INDEPENDENT Daniel Vicente Vigo, HSPH a transformative international INTERNSHIP GRANT RECIPIENTS COATSWORTH FELLOWSHIP IN experience in the area of social Prizes SUMMER RESEARCH TRAVEL A total of three grants were LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY JORGE PAULO LEMANN FELLOWS or environmental development. GRANT RECIPIENTS awarded to undergraduate and The John H. Coatsworth Latin The Jorge Paulo Lemann The post-graduation fellowship JAMES R. AND ISABEL D. THESIS PRIZE The David Rockefeller Center for graduate students for internships American History Fellowship Fellowships give Brazilians opportunity in Latin America HAMMOND THESIS PRIZE Originally established in 2003 as Latin American Studies awards in the summer of 2015. The grants was established through a gift who work or aspire to work as will contribute not only to the Established in 1992 with a gift the Inter-Faculty Committee on Summer Research Travel Grants are made possible through the from Mr. David Rockefeller and a professionals in public health, student’s education, but also to Graduate from James R. Hammond (AB Latino Studies Thesis Prize, the for senior thesis or dissertation generous support of 10 individual challenge grant from the Andrew public policy or education the career, personal and leadership ’57), the Hammond Prize is Joan Morthland Hutchins Thesis research to undergraduate and endowment funds at the Center. W. Mellon Foundation in honor of opportunity for advanced study development, consistent with Student awarded to the best undergraduate Prize recognizes the College senior graduate students. This year, a Professor John H. Coatsworth. The and training through a degree and inspired by the example senior honors thesis related to who writes the best thesis on a total of 28 grants were awarded: TERM-TIME TRAVEL GRANT Fellowship provides a stipend for program at Harvard University, of Steve Reifenberg. Steve was Associates Spanish-speaking Latin America. subject concerning Latinos (either RECIPIENTS aiming to help build a stronger, former Program Director of the 7 19 to graduate students and Harvard graduate students in the Candidates are nominated by recent immigrants or established nine to undergraduate students. Term-time Travel-Grants are field of Latin American History at more effective public sector DRCLAS Regional Office, and his their departments, and a faculty communities of Latin American These grants were made possible intended for undergraduate the Graduate School of Arts and in Brazil. The fellowships are early experience as a volunteer in committee selects the prize descent in the United States). This KENNETH MAXWELL THESIS through the generous support of students completing thesis Sciences (GSAS). In academic year administered by the Committee Latin America informed a lifelong recipient. The 2015 Hammond annual prize is funded by a gift PRIZE IN BRAZILIAN STUDIES 20 individual endowment funds at research, for graduate students 2014–15, four students received on General Scholarships and are commitment to social, economic Prize was awarded to two students. from Joan Morthland Hutchins The Kenneth Maxwell Thesis the Center. conducting dissertation research the Coatsworth fellowships: awarded for one academic year, and environmental justice that They are Manuel Andrés Meléndez (AB ’61). The 2015 Hutchins Prize Prize in Brazilian Studies was and for students from the Guilherme Lichand, Economics with the possibility of renewal for became the hallmarks of a career Sánchez for his Government was awarded to two students: established to recognize the best THE JOHN WOMACK, JR. professional schools executing and Government Department, one additional year, to students dedicated to these issues. thesis, Toward a Theory of Anahi Mendoza for her Social College senior thesis on a subject SUMMER RESEARCH TRAVEL specific projects, such as the GSAS/HKS who are citizens of Brazil and who The recipient of the 2014–15 Conservative Party Cohesion and Studies thesis, The Golden Cage: related to Brazil. This annual GRANT Policy Analysis Exercise at the will enroll at Harvard University’s Steve Reifenberg Fellowship was Luigi Patruno, Department Schism: El Salvador’s National The Impact of Criminalization on the prize is funded by a gift from The John Womack, Jr. Summer Harvard Kennedy School. A total School of Public Health, Graduate Joshua Hernández, who spent of Romance Languages and Republican Alliance (ARENA) in Lives of Immigrants and the Quality Dr. Kenneth Maxwell. The 2015 Research Travel Grant was of 17 grants were awarded to five School of Education, or Harvard time in Mexico volunteering Literatures, GSAS Comparative Perspective, 1980– of American Democracy; and Maria Kenneth Maxwell Thesis Prize Kennedy School. The fellowships at Ambulante, an organization established at DRCLAS in 2008 undergraduates and 12 graduate Andrei Roman, was awarded to Enzo E. Vasquez Government, GSAS also support dissertation research 2009; and Nathalie Miraval for her Isabel Romero for her History and in honor of John Womack, Jr., students for research conducted in that supports and promotes Toral for his History and Literature Juan Torbidoni, Comparative for doctoral students of any History of Art and Architecture Literature thesis, Pieces of Salomé: Robert Woods Bliss Professor the winter of 2014–15. documentary films as a tool for thesis, Arena Conta Boal: Teatro Literature, GSAS nationality at the Graduate School thesis, The Persistence of Nahua Mythic Motherhood in the Name of of Latin American History and social and cultural transformation. de Arena and Augusto Boal’s Early of Arts and Sciences whose work Artistry and Beliefs in Actopan’s Salomé and Salomé U: Cartas a una Economics, Emeritus, and his CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANT Theater Works in Dictatorial Brazil, AMALIA LACROZE DEFORTABAT primarily focuses on Brazil and Open Chapel Wall Paintings. Ausencia. lifelong commitment to the RECIPIENTS GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATES 1956–1971. study of Mexican history. The The Center’s Conference Travel FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM who need to conduct dissertation Harvard’s graduate students are JOAN MORTHLAND HUTCHINS grant is awarded to a graduate or Grant Program is intended to The Amalia Lacroze de research in Brazil. For academic an integral part of the Center’s Professional School student for alleviate travel expenses for Fortabat Fellowship Program year 2014–15, seven students scholarly community. The DRCLAS thesis or dissertation research Harvard graduate students was established by Argentine received Lemann fellowships: Graduate Student Associate related to Latin American or presenting at conferences outside businesswoman and philan- Guilherme Trivellato Andrade, (GSA) Program formalizes this Student Mexican history or requiring travel of the Boston area. In 2014–15, thropist Amalia Lacroze de HSPH connection and facilitates doctoral to Mexico. The 2014–15 recipient DRCLAS awarded 12 Conference Fortabat in order to give promising Karina Baba, HKS students’ research on Latin Organization Travel Grants to students from Argentine students financial America by providing affiliation of the John Womack, Jr. Summer Filipe Correa Nasser Silva, HKS Research Travel Grant was Erin the Graduate School of Arts support to pursue or continue and research support to seven Flavia Nasser Goulart, HKS/HBS Grants Kinsella James, from the T.H. and Sciences (GSAS) and other graduate studies at Harvard. graduate students each year, with Chan School of Public Health, for professional schools throughout The Committee on General José Frederico Lyra Netto, HKS several working in shared office her dissertation research entitled Harvard. Scholarships (CGS) administers Adauto Modesto Junior, HKS space at the Center. Graduate the selection process. Awards are Political Analysis of the Passage of Luciano Ribeiro Sobral, HKS Student Associates are selected the Soda Tax in Mexico. STUDENT ORGANIZATION GRANT need-based and take academic through a competitive process that James Hammond and Joan Hutchins join thesis prize recipients during RECIPIENTS merit into account. Priority is includes all professional schools the 2015 Latin American Studies given to degree candidates in THE KENNETH MAXWELL SUMMER In 2014–15, the Center awarded and academic departments. This Certificate Ceremony. RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANT 16 grants to Latino and Latin fields that will enable them to year’s GSAs were: The Kenneth Maxwell Summer American student organizations contribute to Argentina’s social, Lotte Buiting, Romance Languages Research Travel Grant was throughout Harvard. economic and scientific progress; and Literatures, GSAS 16 the formation of public policies established by DRCLAS in 2008 Organizations supported were Kyrah Malika Daniels, African and that strengthen Argentine in honor of Dr. Kenneth Maxwell the Harvard Association for the African American Studies, GSAS and his lifelong commitment Cultivation of Inter-American democracy; and Argentina’s Leslie Finger, Government, GSAS to Brazil and the study of its Democracy (HACIA Democracy); academic and professional history. The grant is awarded to a Harvard College Initiative for development. Recipients of Thenesoya Vidina Martín De la graduate or professional school Latin American Relations; Latinas the de Fortabat Fellowship are Nuez, Romance Languages and student for thesis or dissertation Unidas de Harvard College; the expected to return to Argentina Literatures, GSAS research or for a master’s degree Graduate School of Education’s upon completion of their studies Luigi Patruno, Romance final project related to Latin Latin America Education Forum; at Harvard. For academic year Languages and Literatures, GSAS American or Brazil studies the Harvard Mexican Student 2014–15, eight students received Max Seawright, Romance requiring travel to Brazil. The Association; the Harvard de Fortabat fellowships: Languages and Literatures, GSAS 2014–15 recipient of the Kenneth Kennedy School Latin American Nicolás Matías Ajzenman, HKS Term-time Juan Torbidoni, Comparative Maxwell Summer Research Travel Caucus; the Harvard Argentina 17 Fiorella Benedetti, HKS Literature, GSAS Grant was Jonathon Phillips, from Student Society; the Harvard Maria del Mar Carpanelli, HKS Research Travel the Government Department, Ecuadorian Student Association; Adriana Conconi, HKS for his dissertation research the Harvard Haitian Alliance; Grants {winter} Concilio Latino; La Organización

18 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES drclas.harvard.edu 19 Student Programs JANUARY IMMERSION Advisory Wolff Klabin PROGRAMS Peter Lehner in Latin America This year, DRCLAS organized 11 Committee distinct programmatic activities Jorge Paulo Lemann for Harvard students in Latin Mauricio López Obregón DRCLAS SUMMER INTERNSHIP SUMMER 2015 PROGRAMS ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER America during the January winter AND IMMERSION PROGRAMS Summer Internship Program in Graduate ROSTER 2014–15 Oivind Lorentzen break with opportunities in Brazil, DRCLAS offers structured Argentina José Antonio Alonso Espinosa Andrónico Luksic Craig Chile and Mexico. We are thrilled internship and immersion Summer Internship Program in Fellowships to have been able to respond once Arturo Álvarez Demalde Antonio Madero programs in Argentina, Brazil, Chile again to the significant student Gastón Azcárraga Eugenio Madero Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Health and Spanish Immersion demand for overseas programs, These eight-week programs allow Ernest Bachrach Manuel Montori Program in Chile successfully running concurrent students to be placed as interns or Pablo Pappalardo Summer Internship Program in cross-disciplinary programs Arturo and Hilda Ochoa volunteers with local organizations Colombia throughout Latin America. Brillembourg Gabriela Poma Traynor aligned with their personal or DRCLAS also assisted in the Fernando Campero career goals or to participate in Global Health Program in Ricardo Poma organization and execution of structure research, language or Colombia John H. Coatsworth three graduate student modules Alejandro Ramírez Magaña pre-med immersion programs Summer Internship Program in through the T.H. Chan School of Tony Custer, Chair Lauren Reiss with partner universities. The Mexico City Public Health, in Brazil, Chile and John Davies Center’s overseas Offices arrange Renate Rennie El Colegio de Mexico Study Abroad Mexico, as well as collaborating on host family stays and weekly Diego de la Torre David Rockefeller, Honorary Chair Program in Mexico three initiatives with the School of seminars, lectures and excursions. Susana de Sola Funsten Engineering and Applied Sciences Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui In summer 2015, 48 students Summer Internship Program in in Brazil, Chile and Peru. Juan Pablo del Valle Carlos Rodríguez Pastor participated in eight programs in Peru 19 AC member Fernando Campero attends the 2015 Advisory Peggy Dulany Gabriel Rozman five countries. JANUARY 2015 PROGRAMS STUDY ABROAD AND Committee Executive Session. Felipe Edwards Healthcare in Rural Settings, in Faculty Neil Rudenstine EXCHANGES partnership with Universidad Samuel Elia Alejandro Santo Domingo DRCLAS organizes three distinct Governance Mayor in Chile Ernesto Fernández Holmann semester-length study abroad Juan and Mary Schneider Enriquez School of Engineering and Applied programs for Harvard College Dionisio Garza Medina Cristián Shea Sciences and Universidad de Chile students, in Santiago, Chile; EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Jaime and Raquel Gilinski Antonio Soler Collaborative Astronomy Field Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Twelve senior faculty members Gustavo Herrero Course Havana, Cuba. In each country, who serve three-year renewable Guilherme Vidigal Andrade HSPH Winter Course in Chile: DRCLAS assists students with terms meet with the Director each Marlene Hess Gonçalves Health Reform and Community direct enrollment in local month to advise on Center policies Peter Johnson Thomas Weisman Medicine universities and provides housing and operations. During 2014–15 and an orientation. Each program the following Harvard faculty Winternship Opportunities served on the DRCLAS Executive Program in Mexico City provides four half-course transfer credits toward a Harvard degree. Committee: HSPH Winter Course in Mexico: In 2014–15, six Harvard College Brian D. Farrell, Chair, FAS The Mexican Health System: students spent a semester in David Carrasco, HDS Reform, Implementation, Argentina; one student spent Michael Chu, HBS Monitoring, and Evaluation a semester in Chile; and five Course Thomas B. F. Cummins, FAS Advisors & students spent a semester in Cuba. Collaborative SEAS/Poli-USP In addition to the January Alejandro de la Fuente, FAS Environmental Engineering programs in Latin America for William L. Fash, FAS Field Course in Brazil: Urban Harvard graduate students, (on leave Spring 2015) Adaptation to Climate Change: DRCLAS also coordinates three Frances Hagopian, FAS Resilient Cities graduate student exchanges. Since Noel Michele Holbrook, FAS Mentoring and Language 2006, Harvard Medical School Sponsors Acquisition Program in Brazil (HMS) students in their final years Steven Levitsky, FAS can participate in month-long HSPH Winter Course Program in Fernando Reimers, HGSE clinical rotations at the University Brazil of Chile and Pontifical Catholic Doris Sommer, FAS SEAS/Universidad de Tecnología University in Chile. In a reciprocal Diana Sorensen, FAS e Ingeniería Field Course in Peru: arrangement, Chilean students are Michael Starnbach, HMS Air and Water Quality in Emerging able to participate in the Exchange Economies Clerkship Program at HMS. The DRCLAS Brazil Office and POLICY COMMITTEE Director Brian D. Farrell's Harvard Regional Office in Santiago works Faculty from eight graduate Summer School students explore with the Harvard Law School (HLS) and professional schools and species in the Dominican Republic. to offer study abroad opportunities the Faculty of Arts and Sciences DRCLAS for HLS students at the Fundação meet each term to guide the Getúlio Vargas Law Schools in Center’s development and to Summer São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and recommend candidates for at the Universidad de Chile Law the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Grants to School, in Santiago. As part of the Professorship of Latin American exchange, Brazilian and Chilean Studies to the President of the Students law students can spend a semester University. One hundred and three at HLS. faculty members serve on the Pepe Avalos and AC member Eugenio Madero Center’s Policy Committee. More during Advisory Committee Weekend 2015. information at drclas.harvard.edu/ faculty-governance. 20 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN31 AMERICAN STUDIES drclas.harvard.edu 21 We remain extremely grateful to the Advisory Committee, which continues to be a very important source of counsel and support for the Center. Advisory Committee members, as well as members of the Brazil Office Advisory Group in São Paulo, the Regional Office Advisory Group in Santiago, Chile, and the newly founded Cuban Studies Program Advisory Group, provide critical advice and support for our work. Our continued success would not be possible without the immense commitment of our members and friends. The Center is also grateful to Banco Santander, which, in academic year 2014–15, renewed their support through two important new gifts: a gift to the Banco Santander Fund for Latin American Studies at DRCLAS to enable the Center’s core vital to our work in Brazil, as has been the generosity activities, including our work with students, and partnership of the Fundação Maria Cecília Souto faculty, publications and visiting scholars, and a Vidigal. We cherish the commitment of our most gift for the Banco Santander Fund for Research and valued internal partners at the University, including Conservation of Maya Sculpture to ensure continuity Harvard’s Center for Public Interest Careers, Brazil Cuban Regional of important work in archaeology in Central America, Government Department, Global Health Institute, Office Studies Office led by William Fash, Bowditch Professor of Central John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology, Sciences and the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Advisory Program Advisory and Barbara Fash, Director of the Corpus of Maya We are sincerely grateful to all Advisory Group Advisory Group Group Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program at the Peabody Committee members from Mexico and Central Museum. America whose contributions have been crucial in During the Advisory Committee Weekend the establishment of our office in Mexico City. Over The Brazil Office Advisory Group is The Cuban Studies Program The Regional Office Advisory Activities, held in May 2015, we were delighted to the next couple of years, the office will embark on the composed of senior leaders from established a new Advisory Group includes distinguished announce the creation of the Dissertation Award in expansion of its reach to serve not only Mexico and across disciplines and sectors Group to provide support for the members of the DRCLAS Advisory Latin American Politics in honor of Professor Jorge I. Central America, but the countries of the Caribbean. with a demonstrated commitment program’s goals and activities and Committee and a selected group Domínguez. This annual prize will serve to recognize This expansion represents a unique opportunity for to education. We are grateful to to advise the program’s faculty of alumni and friends who outstanding original research in the study of politics DRCLAS to continue to develop its emergent work in the following members for their co-directors on issues central to have supported the Regional in Latin America and the Caribbean. This gift has the region. uncommon contribution of time, its mission. The group currently Office for many years. Shaping been created through the contributions of Professor The Regional Office in Santiago, Chile, is knowledge and guidance during consists of nine members, its course for the future, the Domínguez’s former students through the Latin deeply grateful to the Luksic family for their great academic year 2014–15: including alumni and friends, Regional Office recently renewed American Studies Association (LASA), as well as the generosity, supporting the office’s core activities and Mauro de Salles Aguiar deeply committed to the study of the leadership and membership great generosity of our Advisory Committee member contributing to more than a decade of success. We Cuba in a new era of U.S.-Cuban of its Advisory Group. The new Antonio Madero. Flavia Almeida also thank Eduardo Hochschild for his commitment This page, clockwise from top: Brazil relations. Members are: members represent the countries On the same occasion, through the committed to the Harvard-UTEC initiatives, Drs. Hugo Sigman Office Advisory Group Chair Claudio Claudio de Moura Castro Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, support and initiative of Advisory Committee Chair and Silvia Gold for advancing the Harvard-Mundo Haddad; Cuban Studies Program Chile, Peru, Uruguay and the Gilberto Dimenstein Mario Baeza Tony Custer, DRCLAS established a fund in honor Sano partnership, and Doug Ahlers for his constant Advisory Group member Mario Baeza; United States. of our former Director, Merilee Grindle. The Merilee AC member Oivind Lorentzen during David Fleischer support to the Recupera Chile project. Our heartfelt Jay Brickman Fernando Campero Grindle Making a Difference Prize will be awarded to the Executive Session of the 2015 Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter thanks also go to the Regional Office Advisory Group Advisory Committee Weekend; AC José Alvarez Guzmán an undergraduate or graduate student conducting and its new members. Hugo Carranza* member Gabriela Poma Traynor. Claudio Haddad, Chair Maria Elena Lagomasino scholarly work to make a positive difference in Latin DRCLAS remains deeply grateful to all members of Tony Custer America, a legacy initiated by Merilee and one we will Wolff Klabin its Advisory Committee and regional Advisory Groups, David Perez Ellen Guidera strive to further sustain. close collaborators and friends for their efforts to Jorge Paulo Lemann Cristina Rubio Suarez Gustavo Herrero* Core funding for the Brazil Office from the ensure the Center’s relevance and sustainability in Ana Paula Martinez Lemann Family and Lemann Foundation has been Carlos Saladrigas León Larraín the years ahead. Elisa Reis Rachel Weingeist Mauricio López* João José Reis Paola Luksic* This page, clockwise from top: Miguel Srougi RO Executive Director Marcela Victor Marroquín* Philip Yang Renteria (middle) and members Peter Morse of the RO Advisory Group, Hugo Carranza, Paola Luksic, Victor Judith Palfrey, Chair* Marroquin and Gustavo Herrero; Francisco Ravecca Jones Gustavo Herrero, DRCLAS AC member, attends the 2015 Advisory Cynthia Sanborn* Committee Weekend; AC member * Indicates new members Peggy Dulany; AC Member Antonio Soler during the Executive Session of the 2015 Advisory Committee Weekend.

22 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES drclas.harvard.edu 23 Brian D. Farrell Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Professor of Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Curator in Entomology, Museum of Comparative Zoology Financial Statement Staff 2014–15

Gracia Angulo Timothy Linden Alina Salgado Program Coordinator, Human Capital Development Development and External Mexico, Central America and the Liaison, Relations Associate, Caribbean Office Brazil Office Cambridge Office

Ann Bassi Verónica Martini Rainer Schultz FISCAL YEAR 2015 Associate Director of Finance and Associate Director for Strategy Fellow, Cuban Studies Program, JULY 1, 2014 – JUNE 30, 2015 Administration, and Development, Cambridge Office Cambridge Office Cambridge Office BEGINNING BALANCE Carlos Eduardo da Silva Gifts and Endowments $ 3,130,745 Catalina Campos Marta “Pilo” Mella Administrative Assistant, Foundations 304,704 Administrative Assistant, Student Programs Manager, Brazil Office Regional Office Regional Office INCOME Ned D. Strong Distribution from Endowments 3,570,331 Breno Carvalho dos Santos Nicole Miozza Executive Director Harvard University Communications and Outreach Events Coordinator, Program Fees 329,577 Coordinator, Cambridge Office Mónica Tesoriero Manager of Overseas Financial Miscellaneous 49,892 Brazil Office Rachel Murray Operations and Faculty Grants, Current Use Gifts 2,494,162 Patricia Céspedes Program Coordinator, Cambridge Office Publications 25,749 Peru Program Representative, Mexico, Central America and the Federal Government and Foundations 236,086 Regional Office Caribbean Program Grete Viddal Total Income $ 10,141,245 Program Fellow for PLALA, Kalan Chang Edwin Ortiz Cambridge Office EXPENSES Financial Assistant, Manager of Academic Services, Administration $ 757,508 Cambridge Office Cambridge Office Patricia Villarreal Administration: Harvard Fees 681,585 Executive Director, Educational Programs1 3,135,722 Stephanie Rose Charles Manuela Parisi Mexico, Central America, and the Faculty Conferences, Seminars, Events and Meetings 306,280 Post-Graduate Fellow, Student Programs Coordinator, Caribbean Office Faculty Research and Curriculum Grants 376,880 Brazil Office Brazil Office Maria Angelica Wiedmaier Publications 301,836 Juliana Deleo Manoel Pereira Neto Financial Officer, Student Fellowships and Research Travel Grants 290,582 Program Manager, Program Manager, Regional Office Visiting Fellows, Scholars, Professors 452,090 Brazil Studies Program Brazil Office Total Expenses $ 6,302,483 Jason Dyett Marco Perez-Moreno Interns Executive Director, Communications & Student Balance $ 3,838,762 Brazil Office Programs Coordinator, Toufiq Aitelfqih Restricted Balance2 $ 3,219,807 Regional Office Yordanos Amare Unrestricted Balance $ 618,955 June Carolyn Erlick Gilmar Cintra Publications Director, Marcela Ramos Cambridge Office Program Manager for David Coletti ARTS@DRCLAS, Luke Escobar 1. Includes funding for student and faculty programs and activities of overseas offices, country and regional studies programs, most foundation-supported initiatives and other activities. María José Ferreyra Cambridge and Regional Offices Isabel Espinosa Argentina Program Representative, Gabriela Farrell 2. Includes carry-forward grants from foundations plus restricted gifts to be used in multiple Regional Office Marcela Rentería years. Executive Director, Jonathon Glidden Erin Goodman Regional Office Gerson Gouveia Associate Director for Programs, Will Morningstar Cambridge Office Yadira Rivera Student Services Associate, Sylvia Percovich Paola Ibarra Cambridge Office Carlos Schmidt-Padilla Program Manager, Brittany Shea Andes and Southern Cone Isade Salcedo Program and ARTS@DRCLAS Film Office and Events Assistant, John Tesoriero Editors and Production Managers: Alina Cambridge Office Salgado, Verónica Martini, Erin Goodman Photography: Kristie Rae Gillogy, Jennifer Joyce Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Administrative Assistant, Photographer, Jorgetil, DRCLAS staff and Mexico, Central America, and the students participating in programs abroad Caribbean Office

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