David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Harvard University

ANNUAL REPORT 2007 – 08 The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard objectives University works to increase the knowledge of the cultures, Expand research and teaching on Latin America at Harvard economies, histories, environment and contemporary affairs of Strengthen ties between Harvard University Latin America; foster cooperation and understanding among the and institutions throughout Latin America peoples of the Americas; and contribute to democracy, social Enhance public understanding of Latin progress and sustainable development throughout the hemisphere. America in the United States and abroad

1 From the Director 2 DRCLAS in Latin America Regional Office Brazil Office

4 Programs and Initiatives Brazil Studies Program, Mexican Studies Program, Cuban Studies Program, Puerto Rico Winter Institute, Art Forum, Outreach, Social Policy Committee, Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives

10 Faculty Research and Teaching Faculty Grants

12 Events and Conferences Events Highlights, Conferences, Tuesday Seminar Series, History Workshop

16 Visiting Professors and Scholars Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professorship, Visiting Scholars and Fellows Program, Library Scholars Program

19 Publications Book Series, ReVista, Working Papers

20 Student Awards and Accomplishments

24 Advisors and Sponsors Advisory Committee, Friends of the Center, Foundations

28 Financial Statement

29 DRCLAS Staff

Abbreviation Key DRCLAS: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies FAS: Faculty of Arts and Sciences GSAS: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences HBS: Harvard Business School HDS: Harvard Divinity School HGSD: Harvard Graduate School of Design HGSE: Harvard Graduate School of Education HKS: Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government HLS: Harvard Law School HMS: Harvard Medical School HSPH: Harvard School of Public Health From the director

As these pages recount, 2007 – 08 was a busy and productive year at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, both in Cambridge and through our Offices and activities in Latin America. Amongst the accomplishments we take most pride in are the record- number of Harvard students who went abroad for internships, study and research; the new seminar series on current affairs in Mexico; the large audiences drawn to the two newly- launched film series about immigration and Brazil; the celebration of four Art Forum events; and the plethora of weekly and monthly seminars and events for students, faculty, friends of the Center and the public at large. In Cambridge, we hosted an extraordinary group of visiting scholars and Robert F. Kennedy visiting professors from different countries and with diverse research interests. They are part of an expanding scholarly network that makes a difference — to Harvard students and faculty, and to our ability to interact with universities and research centers throughout Latin America. A highlight of fall activities was the Tango! conference, co-hosted with the Harvard Humanities Center and the Radcliffe Institute. We are convinced that, taken together, these events have made a difference by disseminating knowledge and understanding of Latin America across the University, and by bringing Harvard’s resources to the region. The activities of the Regional Office in Santiago, Chile, and the Brazil Office in São Paulo have been of unique importance in providing enhanced opportunities for Harvard students and faculty traveling to Latin America. The Offices also made significant contributions to strengthening ties to institutions in the region and reaffirming Harvard’s commitment to its alumni from Latin America. Chile’s Un Buen Comienzo project and the Brazil Symposia are just two examples of how Harvard’s presence abroad can contribute to the ongoing development of Latin American countries. The Center made major progress toward opening an Office for Mexico and Central America, through which it will complete its vision for a regional network of offices to support faculty research and teaching, provide services to students, strengthen collaborations across scholarly institutions and encourage the further engagement of alumni in Latin America. Thus, we celebrate a year that has enriched understanding of the cultures, histories, and contemporary realities of a truly unique and important region of the world. Personally, the most rewarding highlights of 2007 – 08 were opportunities to work with wonderful and engaged colleagues across the University, to maintain contact with so many friends of the Center who support its activities, and to be engaged daily with a staff that is deeply committed to the University and to the Center’s mission. I am very much looking forward to 2008 – 09. On behalf of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, I thank you for your interest in and support of our activities. We are eager to continue to create value at Harvard and in Latin America.

Merilee Grindle Cover: Textiles from a crafts market in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development Left: Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) South Building, home to the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Education (HGSE) and Medical School (HMS), The perennially popular School of Public DRCLAS, Chile’s Ministries of Education and Health Winter Term Course on Health Health, Fundación Educacional Oportunidad, Reform and Community Medicine, directed Universidad Diego Portales, the Junta Nacional by Professor Thomas Bossert, continued d r c l a s de Jardines Infantiles (JUNJI), Fundación in January 2008. Fifteen students visited Integra, Hogar de Cristo, Municipalidad de Santiago with Professor Bossert for a three- Peñalolén, The World Bank and UNICEF. week program. They engaged in daily lectures in Latin During 2007 – 08, five faculty from HGSE and visited Chilean health care system and HMS visited Santiago frequently to representatives. A highlight was a private America contribute to the project’s development. meeting with former President Ricardo Lagos, During the year, the Regional Office at his Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo. hosted a number of events including the The semester-length, for-credit Study Abroad Chile-launch of Americas Quarterly: The Policy Program in Argentina and Chile, developed in Regional Office Journal for Our Hemisphere, a new policy collaboration with the Office of International journal of the Americas Society and Council Programs, received 11 students during 2007 – 08. Santiago, Chile of the Americas, and the first DRCLAS In Chile, the Program offers a public health Corporate Partners Program held abroad, focus for students with an academic interest During its sixth year of operation, the Regional Checking Latin America’s Vital Signs. The in medical and public health matters. Students Office based in Santiago, Chile continued to Regional Office also co-hosted the Harvard also received support in identifying internship serve faculty, students, staff and alumni on a Business School Centennial celebration as opportunities aligned with their academic areas wide range of academic, policy and research part of the HBS Global Outreach Program of concentration. initiatives in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. with the Harvard Club of Chile, during which In order to enhance student experiences, Among the initiatives undertaken by HBS Professor Forest Reinhardt and Gustavo the Regional Office and DRCLAS created the the Regional Office in 2007 – 08 bearing the Herrero, director of the HBS Latin America Diálogo Latinoamericano in November 2007. greatest impact is Un Buen Comienzo (UBC), an Research Center, delivered presentations. This forum is organized by College students interdisciplinary, collaborative project designed The Office was also host to a number of upon their return to Cambridge to reflect on to improve the quality of early childhood students from the College and the professional and learn from their experiences studying, programs in Chile. UBC uses a multi-faceted schools. The Summer Internship Program working and researching in Latin America. approach to enhance the development, (SIP) has grown to be the University’s largest of In May 2008, the first meeting of a new education, health and growth of underserved this kind, placing College students at carefully Faculty Committee for the Regional Office children through teacher training and active selected internship sites in Buenos Aires, La was held in Cambridge. Composed of eight family involvement. Through continual, Paz, Lima and Santiago. During summer 2008, faculty members from different disciplines, generous funding and leadership from 59 students were matched with an organization the Committee reviews the Regional Office Andrónico Luksic’s Fundación Educacional and internship supervisor in a specific country activities, provides guidance and helps assess Oportunidad, the project seeks to place Chile at of interest. Over half of the students received activities from the University’s perspective. the vanguard of early childhood education, and financial grants from DRCLAS and the Office has brought together national and international of Career Services. actors from the public and private sectors. Among them are Harvard’s Graduate School of

This page: Harvard College students Carlos Becerril ’10, Elizabeth Ryznar ´10, Diane de Gramont ´10, Nadia Mohamedi ´08, and Walter Howell ´09, on the 2007 DRCLAS Summer Internship Program, in Ica, Peru. Right page: Harvard faculty members and their counterparts from Brazilian universities crossing the Jequitinhonha River, during a trip to plan the First Collaborative Course on Infectious Diseases organized by the DRCLAS Brazil Office and affiliated institutions 2 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Brazil Offi ce SÃo paulo, BraZil

The Brazil Offi ce, based in São Paulo, works eight Harvard faculty members, four graduate University’s undergraduate and graduate hand-in-hand with the Brazil Studies Program students, two Harvard alumni and 15 leading students. Building on the success of its 2007 in Cambridge to enhance research, teaching Brazilian academics and practitioners. More Internship Program, the Offi ce welcomed and learning among Harvard faculty and than 10 Harvard faculty members from across a second class of interns in June 2008. students and their Brazilian counterparts. disciplines and schools participated in the Internships in São Paulo are developed in Over a dozen distinguished Brazilians and second Harvard-Brazil Symposium on the collaboration with some of Brazil’s most Americans from across disciplines and sectors Environment & the Sciences in Salvador, Bahia innovative and dynamic organizations and comprise a dedicated and active Brazil Offi ce in August 2008. are based on each student’s concentration Advisory Group, which sadly lost one of its The 2007 Symposium generated a range of and professional objectives. In order to foster founding members, Dr. Ruth Cardoso, in concrete, positive outcomes for both students interaction with some of Brazil’s leading June 2008. In the two years since the Offi ce’s and faculty. One important initiative was the academic, policy, artistic and social leaders, the creation, its staff has assisted more than 60 fi rst HSPH collaborative fi eld course in Brazil. program completed the fi rst week of orientation Harvard faculty members and 90 students Focused on several infectious diseases that with a group trip to Brasília that included visits studying and doing research in the country. are present in developing countries, including to the Brazilian Congress and the Ministry of A key initiative of the Brazil Offi ce was Brazil, such as schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, Education. the creation of an annual Harvard-Brazil malaria, dengue, Chagas disease and yellow The Brazil Offi ce has dedicated signifi cant Symposium. The symposia are frank, off- fever, the course was offered in collaboration time and energy to developing, implementing the-record discussions in which Harvard with the Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São and refi ning information management systems. faculty, distinguished Brazilian scholars in Paulo Medical School (FCMSCSP). The Brazil The Center’s new website, created by the Brazil the selected subject area and Lemann Fellows Offi ce worked closely with HSPH and HMS Offi ce, has improved external communications — Brazilians awarded fellowships at Harvard’s Professors Mary E. Wilson and Felipe Fregni and insured adequate infrastructure for the Kennedy School (HKS), School of Public Health and their Brazilian counterparts in planning future. The Offi ce also developed an online (HSPH) and Graduate School of Education and executing the course, held in January 2008. database, used by U.S. and Brazil-based (HGSE) — gather in Brazil to explore potential The multi-disciplinary course was unique staff; the database has enabled the regular collaborations that can be undertaken in the in that it included an equal number of local distribution of the Program’s Informativo, an near-term. Organized and executed by the graduate students. electronic newsletter that highlights Harvard- Brazil Offi ce, the inaugural 2007 Symposium The Brazil Offi ce continued to provide Brazil activities, to over 1,300 people worldwide. focused on health and medicine and included individualized support and advice to the

http://drclas.harvard.edu 3 Programs and Initiatives

Professor Kenneth Maxwell (right) with Antonio Patriota, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States at an event entitled, Brazil-US Relations: The Bilateral, Regional and Global Agendas

History Workshop series, and launched a thesis, Reading Space and Place between Morro Brazil Studies Program new Brazilian film series co-sponsored by the and Asfalto: An Itinerary through the The Brazil Studies Program, directed by student-run, Harvard Brazilian Organization. Contemporary Zona Sul of Rio de Janeiro. Professor Kenneth Maxwell, seeks to enhance The film series featured both contemporary and A University-wide Faculty Advisory collaborative research among Harvard faculty classic Brazilian films depicting the country’s Committee, chaired by Professor Kenneth and their Brazilian counterparts, encourage rich cinematic tradition and complex socio- Maxwell, comprised of more than 50 Harvard faculty engagement with Brazil and student economic and cultural realities. In conjunction faculty and ex-officio members, along with the participation in language programs, internships with the Harvard Film Archive and the Harvard newly created Brazil Studies Program’s Student and research projects, and provide a hospitable Kennedy School’s Program in Criminal Justice Advisory Committee, co-chaired in 2007 – 08 environment for Brazilians at Harvard and for Policy and Management, the Program co- by Bruno Carvalho (GSAS) and Gabriel Rocha Harvard scholars in Brazil. Over the past year, sponsored the Boston premiere of Elite Squad (AB ’08), provided the Program with critical the Program organized and executed a rich (Trope de Elite), by Brazilian director José visibility across schools and disciplines. Their set of programmatic activities to foster Brazil- Padilha; the director participated in a panel active engagement and recommendation helped related research in Cambridge and Brazil. discussion after the screening. shape the Program’s agenda. Over 25 events attracted strong student and The Program also co-sponsored the sixth In the fall 2007 semester, the Brazil faculty interest and attendance. Eight Conversas annual Brazil Week in April with Harvard’s Studies Program welcomed the second — lunchtime seminars — featured academics, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese class of Jorge Paulo Lemann Fellows to the journalists and policymakers from Brazil, the Studies and the Department of Romance Harvard Kennedy School, the Graduate School United States and Europe. Topics ranged from Languages and Literatures; it was entitled Brazil of Education, the University’s Department challenges of urban violence, human rights, and Japan: A Century of Journeys Across Borders of Music and the School of Engineering politics, economics, the history of slavery and and Generations. In collaboration with the Brazil and Applied Sciences. The Program also abolition, to film and music. The Program Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International hosted Lemann Visiting Scholar, Professor also hosted the Brazilian Ambassador to the Center for Scholars and O Estado de São Paulo Robert Gay from Connecticut College. United States, Antonio Patriota, who visited the newspaper, it also hosted a major summer Planning is underway for an annual South University to participate in a special event on photographic exhibition called Amazônia Atlantic Seminar; a collaborative project with U.S.‑Brazil relations, the new role of Brazil in Photography. A record number of students Columbia University on the Cold War during the global economy and President Lula’s foreign submitted theses to the Kenneth Maxwell the détente period; a new series of Conversas policy. The Program organized two Brazil Thesis Prize in Brazilian Studies; Gregory and films; and the inauguration of a seminar Studies workshops jointly with the DRCLAS Scruggs was the 2008 award recipient for his series of graduate students writing dissertations on Brazil-related topics.

4 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies President Calderón’s predecessor, President International Relations at Mexico’s Instituto Mexican Studies Vicente Fox, also delivered an address at the Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and Program JFK Jr. Forum on Democracy, Good Government HUMA, The Coyote’s Trail brought 12 feature and Development. films and documentaries to the University. The The Mexican Studies Program continues to ¡Mexico Hoy!, co-chaired by Professors screenings were free and open to the public develop links with Mexican institutions and to Merilee Grindle, Jack Womack, and Robert F. and often featured discussions with local provide opportunities for Harvard faculty and Kennedy Visiting Professor Rafael Fernández immigration scholars. students to develop interest in and deepen their de Castro, was conceived to offer the Harvard In addition, the Mexican Studies Program knowledge of Mexico. community different views of the panorama redesigned its section on the DRCLAS website During 2007 – 08, the Mexican Studies of contemporary Mexican society. Over the to serve as a clearinghouse for events, news Program provided Harvard students and academic year, ¡Mexico Hoy! hosted 10 eminent articles, publications, and other information faculty increased exposure to themes of cross- journalists and academics from Mexico and related to the interaction between Mexico and border interest as well as opportunities for across the United States, all of whom addressed the University. Since its launch in September, collaboration with Mexican institutions. Apart the complexity of modern-day Mexico. During the site has received close to 7,000 unique and from the 18 co-sponsored events with Centers the fall 2007 semester, lecture topics focused 10,800 total page views. While these visitors and student groups across the University, on the media’s diverse presentations of Mexico, come from all over the world, more than including the Reischauer Institute of Japanese both within Mexico and as seen from the 1,300 of the hits were from 85 different cities Studies, the Peabody Museum, the Harvard United States. In spring 2008, ¡Mexico Hoy! throughout Mexico. Film Archive, the Harvard University Mexican featured topics of pressing concern for modern Association (HUMA) and the Graduate School Mexico — from the debates surrounding energy of Design’s Latin GSD, the Center launched the reform and political transition, to the realities new initiatives ¡Mexico Hoy! and The Coyote’s of urban reform and the cultural reaction to the Clockwise from top leflt: College students visiting drug wars. Mexican family in Mexico; Advisory Committee Trail. Visiting dignitaries complemented member Agustin Edwards during a visit to Renca, these initiatives: in February, Mexican The Coyote’s Trail initiative consisted Chile, site project of the Elemental initiative. Front of a series of films on the Latin American row from left to right: Kevin O`Herin ´09, Carlos President Felipe Calderón (MPA 2000) visited Becerril ´10, Nadia Mohamedi ´08. Back row from the University and addressed the Harvard immigration experience. Chaired by RFK left to right: Elizabeth Ryznar´10, Walter Howell community and the general public at Harvard Visiting Professor Rafael Fernández de Castro ´09, Diane de Gramont ´10; 2008 SIP participants and co-sponsored by the Department of at lunch with Universidade de Brasília Professor Kennedy School’s JFK Jr. Forum. In April, David Fleischer.

http://drclas.harvard.edu 5 6 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Cuban Studies Program levels. The second class of College students Puerto Rico Winter Institute completed a semester-long program of study Seminars The Cuban Studies Program has persisted at the University of Havana in the fall 2007 in strengthening and extending its ties to semester. The 16-week program, which participating faculty individuals and institutions engaged in was inaugurated in January 2007 when a Alice Flaherty, Harvard Medical School; scientific, scholarly and policy research in historic agreement was signed between both Massachusetts General Hospital, faculty lead institutions, allows undergraduates to enroll in Cuba despite continued policies that seek to Margarita Alegria, Harvard Medical School; courses for credit at Cuba’s most prestigious halt visits by Cuban academics to Harvard Center for Multicultural Health Research University and to impede important bilateral university. Harvard students attend classes meetings. The past year was important for alongside Cuban students and work with Marco Abarca, University of Puerto Rico, the Program as it consolidated its work with former DRCLAS Cuban visiting scholars for Law School the publication of a number of significant mentoring and guidance. In this and in every Alan del Castillo, Psychiatrist; musician other endeavor, the Program complied with works that are fruits of long-term, sustained Melissa Gerald, University of Puerto Rico; the regulations of both the U.S. and Cuban engagement between Harvard faculty and Caribbean Primate Research Center Cuban scholars. Arachu Castro, co-Director governments. Co-Directors of the Cuban of the Cuban Studies Program and Assistant Studies Program, Professors Domínguez and Antonio Martorell, DRCLAS Visiting Scholar Professor at the Medical School recently Castro, presided over an interdisciplinary Spring 2008; artist, University of Puerto Rico published an article on the quality of life of Cuba Study Group for graduate students Alicia Pousada, University of Puerto Rico, people living with HIV. The piece was co- with Cuba-related master’s theses and Department of English authored with Ida González of the Pedro dissertations. Activities of the Cuban Studies Graham Ramsay, Massachusetts Institute of Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK) and Program are underwritten by the generous Technology; photographer Yasmin Khawja, in AIDS, a leading publication support of the Ford Foundation, Christopher at the forefront of research on HIV disease, Reynolds Foundation and the members of the Doris Sommer, Harvard University, and focuses on the impact of antiretroviral Cuban Studies Fund, whose contributions Department of Romance Languages and therapy on elective pregnancies in Cuba based are acknowledged later in this report. Literatures on the collection of life histories of patients In addition to the seminars, Professor living with HIV and AIDS throughout Cuba. Puerto Rico Winter Flaherty gave two public lectures titled The Program also began publishing a series Human Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment of working papers on applied social policy Institute of Movement and Mood and The Midnight research on equity and social mobility as part Disease: Hypergraphia, Writer’s Block, and The David Rockefeller Center for Latin of the DRCLAS Working Paper Series. The the Brain. Site visits included a private tour American Studies, jointly with the University five papers feature research at the forefront of of Antonio Martorell’s art studio in Ponce, of Puerto Rico, sponsored a two-week Winter applied sociological and economic research a walk-through of his nationally renowned Institute in San Juan, Puerto Rico in January in Cuba on gainful income and consumption exhibit, Martorell D.F., in the Museo de las 2008. The Institute’s goal is to stimulate decisions, housing, rural development, Américas, Cuartel de Ballajá, in old San Juan, research, collaboration and intellectual ethnic segmentation and the impact of social and a visit to Museo de Ramon Frade at UPR exchange between Harvard and key institutions policies on social mobility trends in Cuba. The Cayey campus. The collaborating institutions of higher learning in Puerto Rico. In its fourth papers emerged from a 2007 joint research — the Universidad de Puerto Rico, the Centro year, the Institute’s theme was Beyond Babel: seminar, Equity and Social Mobility: Theory de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el The Art and Science of Empathic Translations. and Methodology, sponsored by DRCLAS and Caribe, and the Escuela de Artes Plásticas — Each week, eight professors, four from the the United Nations International Poverty were key in assuring the Institute’s success University of Puerto Rico, three from Harvard Center (UNDP-IPC), a renowned institute and in providing a memorable experience and one from the Massachussetts Institute of with expertise in advancing research on the to all participants. The Puerto Rico Winter Technology (MIT), co-taught a seminar on a poverty concerns of developing countries, held Institute is made possible by the generous topic related to this major theme. in Brasilia, Brazil. The Spanish translation of support of the Wilbur Marvin Foundation. The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty- The Institute was led by Alice Flaherty, first Century co-edited by Jorge I. Domínguez, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva and Lorena and Director of the Movement Disorders Art Forum Barberia was published in Mexico City jointly Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. The 2007 – 08 academic year was one of the by DRCLAS and El Colegio de México in Her objective was to give a comprehensive strongest years of expansion for the Art Forum. 2007. The launch of the translated edition overview of non-verbal communication, In addition to featuring a major show of juried was celebrated during the XXVII International bilingualism and translation. Neuroscience competition winners each semester, the Art Congress of the Latin American Studies can reveal generative things about natural Forum also organized two site-specific shows Association in Montréal, Canada in a ceremony language, verbal and nonverbal, that have and a robust speakers’ series aimed at fostering that included all of the Cuban authors. possible implications for how best to teach debate about Latin American art. The Cuban Studies Program also continued communication skills, make art and respond The past year was a “Venezuelan year,” to support the study and research of Cuba to suffering, whether personal or political, featuring three of four shows by natives of at both the undergraduate and graduate and how these lessons may be applied to cross-cultural communications and artistic Caracas. During the fall semester, renowned photographer and video-artist Alexander Top: Participants in the Argentina Summer Internship Program at expression. Seminar participants included a Casa Natura in Buenos Aires. (From left to right: Pilo Mella, Anna total of eight faculty, an independent scholar Apóstol presented In Lieu of Modernity, a show Ho ’11, Jessica Erickson ’10, Annelie Berner ’10, Molly Swenson ’10, and 24 students from Harvard and the that explored the fragility of the modernization Jessica Frisina ’10). Middle left: Morgan Radford ’09 in class at the process in Venezuela by interrogating and Universidad de la Habana. Middle right: Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell University of Puerto Rico. Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Alice Flaherty, Assistant Professor of Neurology, during the 2008 Puerto Rico Winter Institute. Bottom: Students greeting Leonel Fernández Reyna, President of the Dominican Republic http://drclas.harvard.edu 7 8 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies revealing the insufficiency of some of Caracas’ Department of Anthropology and Haitian Education Policy Program at the Graduate most iconic architectural projects. In an effort Creole in the Medical School — initiatives in School of Education, the DRCLAS Social to make the exhibition available to a larger the arts and humanities, and public events Policy Committee held regular seminars, audience, the Art Forum presented the show at and outreach. DRCLAS also provides training bringing together faculty and graduate students Space Other Gallery, in Boston’s South End; the programs to elementary, middle and high interested in discussing key social development show gathered the public’s attention and that school teachers and students to promote greater challenges in Latin America that lend of the specialized press, which hailed it as one understanding and learning about the region. themselves to inter-disciplinary collaboration. of 2007’s most important shows. In the spring, In the past year, DRCLAS continued During the fall semester the Committee conceptual artist Alessandro Balteo presented its successful collaboration with Primary met to discuss four topics: “Children’s Rights Pedacito de Cielo at the Sert Gallery in Harvard’s Source, a non-profit educational resource and Development in Latin America,” led by Carpenter Center. Conceived as an “intimate center for Massachusetts school districts. In co-chairs Professors Castro and Reimers; museum,” in which the artist acted as a curator, October 2007, Primary Source held a one-day “Criminal Violence, State Responses and the show displayed original pieces by Alejandro teacher workshop, Mexico: An Introduction for Human Rights in Latin America,” led by Jim Otero, Gego, Eugenio Espinoza and Miguel Elementary Educators. In January 2008, Primary Cavallaro, Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Arroyo that had never before been exhibited Source and DRCLAS launched a five-part Law School; “Women and Power in Latin at Harvard. This show also received a record seminar series on Latin America targeting America,” co-led by Gratzia Villarroel, DRCLAS number of visitors and continues to receive middle and high school teachers, Latin America: Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar and Brad critical acclaim from the specialized press. A Thematic Approach to a Diverse Region. Each Epps, Professor of Romance Languages and Following Pedacito de Cielo, Ana Blohm’s session combined a scholarly presentation on Literatures; and “Binational Health Initiatives photographic show Awkward Intimacies/ topics such as regional, geographic and cultural between the United States and Mexico,” hosted Vague Boundaries opened in the Center’s office diversity, social movements and indigenous by Xóchitl Castañeda, Director of the Health space. A medical doctor who photographs peoples, and immigration with interactive, peer- Institute for the Americas at UC Berkeley. her patients in an unusually intimate light, to-peer workshops. In addition, in June 2008, In the spring, the Committee explored the Blohm’s show received the attention not only Romance Languages and Literatures Senior topics of “Children’s Health and Nutrition of the medical community but also of those Preceptor of Portuguese, Clémence Jouët- in Latin America,” led by Eduardo Villamor, interested in the thorny relation between ethics Pastré, convened a two-part training workshop Assistant Professor of International Nutrition and aesthetics. Completing the year’s special for Portuguese teachers. at the Harvard School of Public Health; and on-site projects at the Center was Capital The Center sponsored school field trips “Children, Civic Participation, and Citizenship,” Architectures, by legendary photographer Jim to the University’s museums. In fall 2007, 60 led by Mona Serageldin, Adjunct Professor Dow. The exhibit featured a photographic middle and high school students participated of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate comparison between Mexico City and in the commemoration of Day of the Dead at School of Design. Buenos Aires, and debuted at the DRCLAS the Peabody Museum for insight on the day’s Open House event in September, 2007. cultural significance. In spring 2008, 90 middle Complementing these exhibits, and opening school students visited the Peabody to tour its Program for Latin a space for academic discussion in the field of Storied Walls exhibit. Harvard College students Latin American art, the Art Forum organized who received DRCLAS-sponsored travel grants American Libraries an unprecedented number of symposia also participated in outreach activities, speaking and monthly lectures during the academic about their experiences in Central and South & Archives year, featuring some of the most important America to area high school and community The Program for Latin American Libraries historians and art practitioners of Latin college audiences. and Archives (PLALA) continued to provide America. These informal meetings have been DRCLAS and the Harvard Summer School resources to libraries and archives throughout instrumental in fostering dialogue and research collaborated for a second year in offering a Latin Latin America whose research collections are for both the University’s graduate students and America-related course specifically for teachers. either in acute danger of irreversible losses those working in the field. Tuition provided by the Center allowed 13 or simply stagnating due to lack of support. teachers from across the country to attend. Between July 2007 and June 2008, the Program awarded 16 grants to projects ranging from Outreach improving storage conditions for special Social Policy Committee collection preservation to digitizing photo As a U.S. Department of Education-designated negatives. For the past 11 years, PLALA has National Resource Center on Latin America, In spring 2007, DRCLAS Director Merilee enabled the preservation of many different DRCLAS serves the University community Grindle convened a group of professors from works through specific project grants, between by promoting awareness of and teaching on across the University who created a working $10,000 and $20,000 each, as well as larger Latin America across a variety of disciplines. group on social policy in Latin America. The development grants that offer up to $70,000 for The government’s funding provides support to group’s mandate is to foster interdisciplinary more extensive and complex projects. Eligibility University faculty for interdisciplinary projects collaboration on evidence-based social policy is limited to repositories in Latin America and related to Latin America, including research reform. During the 2007 – 08 academic year, the Caribbean; PLALA’s operations are made conferences and assistance with curriculum under the leadership of professors Arachu possible by generous support of The Andrew development. It also sponsors less-commonly- Castro, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine W. Mellon Foundation. taught-language learning — Nahuatl in the at Harvard Medical School and Professor Fernando Reimers, Director of the Office of Global Education and of the International Top: Detail of La Virgen con el Niño, by Domenico Ghirlandaio, at the Fogg Art Museum. Charcoal on paper previously imprinted with playing cards of the age, by Wilbur Marvin Visiting Fellow Antonio Martorell. Bottom: Student from La Casa de la Cultura Center for Latino Arts in Boston at the Fogg Art Museum during a school trip organized by the Outreach Program http://drclas.harvard.edu 9 Jeff Frieden, Government, FAS Aldo Musacchio, HBS Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy in New Frontiers in Latin American Latin America. Economic History. Sofia Gruskin, HSPH Thomas Ponniah, Social Studies, FAS Faculty Enhanced Collaboration between Faculty of the The Politics of Regime Change, Continuity PIHHR at HSPH and the Brazilian Nucleus for and Stability in Venezuela. Research & AIDS Prevention Studies at USP. Donald Pfister, Organismic and Evolutionary c o u r s e - b a s e d f i e l d t r i p Biology, FAS grant recipients Teaching Fungal Diversity in the Southern Beech Forest: Cheryl Giles, HDS Truffle-like Fungi in Southern Chile. Latin American Women’s Stories of Trauma and Healing: A Multicultural and Fernando Reimers, HGSE Multidisciplinary Approach to Ministry, In 2007 – 08, Harvard faculty members received Assessing the Effectiveness of a Teacher Healing and Scholarship, Ecuador. 16 individual and collaborative research grants, Professional Program to Enhance Literacy Charles Langmuir, Earth and Planetary two grants for language study or translation, Instruction, Mexico. Sciences, FAS five research conference grants, five grants for Peter Rowe/Mark Mulligan, HGSD Ore Deposits and Volcanism in the Chilean course-based field trips to Latin America, three Urban Design Issues and Proposals in Southern Volcanic Zone. grants for workshops, working groups and San Jose, Costa Rica. Harvard courses on Latin America, and one Jonathan Losos/James Hanken, Organismic Sonya Shin, HMS grant to invite a short-term associate from Latin and Evolutionary Biology, FAS Psychosocial Determinants of Antiretroviral America to the University. Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles, Non-adherence and HIV Outcomes in Support for faculty research and teaching Costa Rica. Lima, Peru. related to Latin America was provided by the Jorge Silvetti, HGSD Jorge Paulo Lemann Fund, the Antonio Madero Mariano Siskind, Romance Languages and Proposals for new sports and recreational Fund, the Julio Santo Domingo Fund, the Jaime Literatures, FAS facilities for the Sector Sur de Buenos Aires. and Raquel Gilinski Fund, the Amalia Lacroze Paul Groussac’s Archives. Mary Wilson/Felipe Fregni, HSPH de Fortabat Fund, the Lorenzo Weisman Fund, Kimberly Theidon, Anthropology, FAS Field Trip to Brazil: Biosocial, Environmental, the Fundación Mexico Endowment, the Mark Commissioning Truth, Constructing Silences: and Economic Contributors to Endemic Fuller Endowment, the Gustavo Cisneros The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Infectious Diseases. Fund, the Andrónico Luksic Fund, and the Commission and Sendero Luminoso. Francisco DeSola Fund. Grants are awarded in Gary Urton, Anthropology, FAS an open competition judged by DRCLAS faculty w o r k s h o p , w o r k i n g g r o u p Development of Andean Art and Archeology. committees. and harvard c o u r s e s Kim Williams, HKS on latin america grant recipients faculty research grant Transition: The Politics of Racial and Ethnic Brad Epps/Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, recipients Change in Urban America. Romance Languages and Literatures, FAS Mercedes Becerra, HMS A Latin American and Iberian Studies Course Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in l a n g u a g e s t u d y o r on Gender, Sexuality, and Literature. At-risk Households, Peru. t r a n s l at i o n g r a n t Kit Parker, School of Engineering and Applied Thomas Bossert, HSPH recipients Sciences, FAS Analysis of Current Chilean Health Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, Romance Working Group on the Role of Air Pollutants System Reform. Languages and Literatures, FAS Special Training in Native Language and Vasospasm, Chile. Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, Romance Continuity in Study of Mapudungun. Gary Urton, Anthropology, FAS Languages and Literatures, FAS Sucre Summer Program – Logistical Support. New Poetics, New Politics: From Pablo Rachel St. John, History, FAS Neruda to the Mapuche Canto. Line in the Sand: National Space and State Power on the U.S.-Mexico Border. s h o r t - t e r m a ss o c i at e g r a n t Arachu Castro, HMS recipient Prenatal Testing for HIV and Other STI: A conference grant recipients Mariano Siskind, Romance Languages and Situation Analysis in Latin America and Davíd Carrasco, Anthropology, FAS Literatures, FAS the Caribbean. From Coyolxauhqui to Tlaltecuhtli: 30 Years of Proposal to invite Dr. Martín Kohan as Brian Farrell, Organismic and Evolutionary Archaeology at the Templo Mayor, (Mexico). Short-Term Associate. Biology, FAS Brad Epps, Romance Languages and Initiating Acoustic Studies in Biodiversity in Literatures, FAS the Dominican Republic. Top: Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study Ibero-American Cinema: Entertainment, of Latin America. Middle left: Professor Maria Amelia Veras from Hamish Fraser, HMS Experimentation and Politics in a Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo Medical School and Mary Wilson, Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health and Impact of a National Tuberculosis Laboratory Globalized Age. Population (HSPH) with students during a site visit at Barra Funda Network, Peru. Primary Health Clinic, as part of the 2008 Collaborative Course Steven Levitsky, Government, FAS on Infectious Diseases in Brazil. Middle right: Bill Fash, Bowditch Latin America’s Left Turn: Causes Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and and Implications. Ethnology, in Copán, Honduras. Bottom left: SIP participants during a visit to the Congresso Nacional in Brasilia. Bottom right: Nancy Ortiz, Chilean pre-school teacher at the Luis Arrieta Cañas School in Santiago, and participant in the Un Buen Comienzo program.

10 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies http://drclas.harvard.edu 11 December December 10 Una Gringa en Bogotá Book presentation by DRCLAS Publications Events & Director, June Erlick. Conferences 2007–08 HIGHLIGHTS December 13 Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society Book presentation by Carola Suárez-Orozco, New York University, and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University.

September October S e p t e mb e r 2 4 October 5 December 14 Development and Democracy in ¿Puedo hablar? May I Speak? Crude Matters: The 2002 Coup Against Latin America: The Dominican Documentary film on Hugo Hugo Chávez and its Aftermath Example Chávez and Venezuela’s political Fernando Coronil, Associate Professor of Lecture by President of the conditions. Presentation by Anthropology and History, University of Michigan; Dominican Republic, Leonel film’s director and co-producer, 2004 Cisneros Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS. Fernandez Reyna. Christopher Moore, moderated by Dan Levy, Harvard Kennedy School. September 25 DRCLAS Open House November February This annual, semester-opening event featured the Latin American November 27 February 13 and Latino Art Forum’s opening of Haiti 2004: Coup de Grace or Brazil-U.S. Relations: The Bilateral, “Capital Architectures,” with a gallery Coup d’Etat? Regional and Global Agendas Peter Hallward, Professor of Antonio Patriota, Brazilian Ambassador talk by artist, Jim Dow, and live music Philosophy, Middlesex University, to the United States. by Sol y Canto. London, discussed his book, Damming the Flood.

12 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies March May March 31 April 4 May 7 Art Forum: Vague Boundaries/ The Left in Power in Latin America: Santiago’s Children: What I Learned Awkward Intimacies Does it Make a Difference? About Life at an Orphanage in Chile Photo exhibit and gallery talk by Panel examining the issue of the Book Presentation by DRCLAS Regional artist Ana Blohm. left in Latin America with a focus on Office Director, Steve Reifenberg, with Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and introduction by Paul Farmer, Harvard Venezuela. Medical School. April June April 1 April 22 June 4 Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor Lecture New Short Fiction from Cuba Student Certificate Ceremony Policy, Politics and the Impact of Illegal Book presentation with editors Antonio Martorell, Wilbur Marvin Immigration from Latin America, Edward Jacqueline Loss and Esther Visiting Scholar, delivered the Schumacher-Matos, RFK Visiting Professor, Whitfield. Moderated by Doris keynote address at the 2007 – 08 DRCLAS; Former Journalist, The New York Times Sommer. certificate ceremony hosted by and The Wall Street Journal. DRCLAS. Twenty three graduating Harvard College seniors and four graduating doctoral students received the Certificate in Latin April 8 April 29 American Studies. The Perception Gap: Real and Perceived Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Conflict Between Latinos and African Professor Lecture Americans in the United States The 2006 Mexican Election: Kim Williams, Harvard Kennedy School and Lessons and Prospects for the Future Edward Schumacher-Matos, RFK Visiting Luis Carlos Ugalde, RFK Visiting Professor. Professor, DRCLAS; Former President, Federal Electoral Institute of Mexico.

April 30 The Future of Democracy in Top: Alexander Apóstol, Skeleton Coast Latin America: A Conversation (detail), 2005. Cprint. Courtesy of the artist. Bottom: Dr. Dieter Koch-Weser, Associate with Mario Vargas Llosa Dean of International Programs, Emeritus Moderated by Steven Levitsky. (HMS), at the seminar and art exhibit entitled A Conversation on the Amazon

http://drclas.harvard.edu 13 Conferences

The Center sponsored or co-sponsored their effects in terms of political transformation, Sixth Annual Brazil Week at Harvard: domestic and international conferences, democracy and order. To remedy this Brazil and Japan: A Century of Journeys seminars and workshops, offering a wide information gap, invited participants were Across Borders and Generations range of experts an opportunity to address carefully selected from across the political Cambridge, MA many of the most challenging topics spectrum so as to ensure that the conference Clémence Jouët-Pastré, FAS, Department of confronting Latin America. included representatives of a diversity of Romance Languages and Literature perspectives on the politics of regime change, This year’s Brazil week was dedicated to the continuity and stability. They included: Carlos september 2007 – may 2008 centennial celebration of Japanese immigration Blanco, former Minister for the Reform of the Ibero-American Cinema: Entertainment, to Brazil. Co-sponsored by the Reischauer State in Venezuela; Arachu Castro, Harvard Experimentation, and Politics in a Center for Japanese Studies, the week-long Medical School; Fernando Coronil, University Globalized Age program included a keynote speech by Takeyuki of Michigan; Javier Corrales, Amherst College; Cambridge, MA (Gaku) Tsuda, Arizona State University entitled, Merilee Grindle, Harvard’s Kennedy School; Brad Epps (coordinator), Luis Cárcamo- ‘Japanese’ in Brazil but ‘Brazilian’ in Japan: The Luis E. Lander, Universidad Central de Huechante, Clémence Jouët-Pastré, Nicolau Transnational Ethnic Experiences of the Japanese Venezuela; J. Chappell Lawson, MIT; Steve Sevcenko, Mariano Siskind, and Doris Brazilians, and a photo exhibit of Japanese Levitsky, Department of Government; and Sommer, FAS, Department of Romance arranged marriages in Brazil from the 1940s Gerver Torres, Venezuela’s former Minister for Languages and Literatures to the 1970s. Other topics included: 100 Years Privatization. DRCLAS co-sponsored this endeavor, held of Japanese Immigration in Brazil: From Yellow throughout the 2007 – 08 academic year, Peril to Model Citizen; Second-Generation and April 2008 to bring together a majority of the Latin “First-and-a-half”Generation Brazilian-Japanese Latin America’s “Left Turn:” Causes and Americanists and Hispanists working in Youth in Japan; Haiku in the Coffee Plantations: Implications the Humanities at Harvard. Representatives The Japanese Immigrants in Brazil. There was Cambridge, MA included members of the Harvard Film Archive, also a screening of the film Gaijin II and Steven Levitsky, FAS, Department of colleagues from the Visual and Environmental a conversation with its filmmaker, Tizuka Government Studies Department and the Boston Latino Yamasaki. The week culminated with a lecture Film Festival. The project convened filmmakers Leading social scientists from the United States by famed international cartoonist, Maurício de and actors from Latin America and Spain for a and Latin America gathered for this conference Sousa. series of one- to two-day events (public lectures in an attempt to explain the origins, dynamics and closed student-oriented workshops) and and consequences of Latin America’s shift to May 2008 culminated in a two-day critical research the left. The primary objective was to identify New Frontiers in Latin American conference. It fostered inter-departmental the common pressures that transform discrete Economic History collaboration and cultural ties to the Spanish- national experiences into a larger political trend, Cambridge, MA and Portuguese-speaking communities in the as well as the factors that produce such striking Aldo Musacchio, Harvard Business School variation within overarching patterns of political Boston metropolitan area. The screenings and Seeking to continue John Coatsworth’s change. Topics included: Varieties of “Left” in lectures highlighted the work of directors such groundbreaking work on economic history, Contemporary Latin America, The Politics of as Víctor Erice, Spain; Fernando Meirelles, this conference brought together economic Left Governments, Economic and Social Policy Brazil; Lucrecia Martel, Argentina; Arturo historians of Latin America from Harvard and Alternatives and The Southern Cone and Brazil, Ripstein, Mexico; and Andrés Word, Chile. other U.S. and Latin American institutions. The Andean Cases. Conference presenters Participants included young scholars as well included: Ruth Berins Collier, UC Berkeley; December 2007 as experienced academics with the aim of Manuel Antonio Carretón, Universidad The Politics of Regime Change, fostering a network of economic historians de Chile; Sebastián Etchemendy, Torcuato Continuity, and Stability in Venezuela and creating a publication based on the Di Tella University, Argentina; Benjamin Cambridge, MA papers presented. Participants included: John Goldfrank, University of New Mexico; Thomas Ponniah, Division of Continuing Coatsworth, Columbia University; Alan Dye, Wendy Hunter, University of Texas-Austin; Education, Social Studies Barnard College; Andres Gallo, University Jorge Lanzaro, Universidad de la República, Jonathan Eastwood, Assistant Professor, of North Florida; Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato, Uruguay; Margarita López-Maya, Universidad Washington and Lee University CIDE-Mexico; Stephen Haber, Stanford Central, Venezuela; Raúl Madrid, University University; Alejandra Irigoin, James Robinson This conference explored how scholars evaluate of Texas-Austin; David Samuels, University and Jeffrey Williamson, Harvard University; the politics of regime change, continuity of Minnesota; and Deborah Yashar, Princeton Richard Sicotte, University of Vermont; William and stability in Venezuela. Given the highly University. polarized debate, both inside and outside of Summerhill, UCLA; Gail Triner, Rutgers; and the country, scholars have found it difficult to Catalina Vizcarra, University of Vermont. access reliable, sound and thoughtful analysis on the Venezuelan government’s policies and

14 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies drclas by the Numbers Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Affairs events Sponsored by the center The Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Affairs allows faculty, visiting scholars, Lectures and Seminars 120 graduate students and invited guests to Research Conferences 12 present their research on contemporary and Workshops issues in Latin America. The seminar series Art Exhibits 4 is open to the public and regularly attracts a diverse audience of academics, students Film Showings 24 and the community. The 2007 – 08 series Outreach Programs 12 co-chairs were Jorge I. Domínguez and Total Attendance at ~ 8,950 Steve Levitsky. DRCLAS events During the year, DRCLAS hosted 21 seminars on political, economic and social themes such as: The 2007 Argentine Student Involvement Elections: Peronism or Post-Peronism?; The Certificates in Latin 27 Changing Cuban Diaspora and Its Homeland American Studies Impact; De Facto Power: Paramilitaries Graduate/Professional 21 and Politics in Colombia; On Seeing and Student Specialists Believing: The Politics of Race in Postcolonial Nicaragua; and Indigenous Voters and Students in DRCLAS 123 Populist Politics in the Andes. Study Abroad and Experiential Learning Programs*

Boston Area Workshop for Grants, Internships, Latin American History and Support Undergraduate Research 17 The Boston Area Workshop for Latin Travel Grants American History provides faculty, Graduate/Professional 47 graduate students and invited scholars Student Travel Grants engaged in Latin American history with a forum to share their work. The series is Graduate/Professional 41 made possible by the generous support of Student Conference Grants the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. There DRCLAS Summer 16 were eight History Workshop sessions Internship Grants over the academic year, two of which were Students in Field Trips/ 63 co-sponsored with the Brazil Studies Courses in Region Program. Workshop titles included: Bonds Graduate Research 18 and Brands: Some Lessons from the First Fellowships Latin American Debt Crisis, 1820-1830; Art and Visual Culture Under Chávez; and Why Graduate Summer 4 Language Training (FLAS) Do Americans Drink Coffee: The Boston Tea Party or Brazilian Slavery? The series Total DRCLAS-Aided 377 also included a screening of La Sierra, a Students documentary on the Colombian civil war, presented by one of its co-producers. Center Publications DRCLAS Book Series 3 DRCLAS/IDB Book Series 4 Working Papers 6 Issues of ReVista: Harvard 3 Wilbur Marvin Fellow Review of Latin America Antonio Martorell at the Fogg Art Museum *Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and Peru

http://drclas.harvard.eduhttp://drclas.harvard.edu 15 Top: Edward Schumacher-Matos, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies. Bottom: Rafael Fernández de Castro, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor in Latin Visiting American Studies Professors

& Scholars Carlos III in Madrid. As President of the In 2003, Mr. Schumacher-Matos founded Uruguayan Economic History Association, he Rumbo Newspapers/Meximerica Media, a chain organized the First Latin American Economic of four Spanish language dailies in Houston, History Congress held in Montevideo in Austin, San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley. December 2007. While at Harvard, Dr. Bértola By its second year Rumbo was named one of the participated in the Department of Economics three best Hispanic newspapers in the United graduate seminar and the Economic History States and had great impact in Texas, where Workshop. Mr. Schumacher-Matos was on the front line of Robert F. Kennedy rafael Fernández de Castro is the Latino issues. Professorship founding chair of the Department of Mr. Schumacher-Matos received a International Studies at the Instituto bachelor’s degree in literature and politics from The Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Visiting Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Vanderbilt University and a master’s degree in Professorship in Latin American Studies was Dr. Fernández de Castro is an expert on international economics and politics from the created at the University in 1986 through the bilateral relationship between Mexico Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts a generous gift from Edmond Safra and and the United States, as well as in Mexican University. He has been a Fulbright Fellow in the Republic of New York Corporation. foreign policy. On these issues he has Japan and a Bi-National Commission Fellow The endowment enables Harvard to invite published numerous articles and several in Spain. He served in the U.S. Army and was Latin Americans from any academic field to books, including United States and Mexico: awarded a Bronze Star for meritorious service teach at the University for one semester. Between Partnership and Conflict with Jorge in Vietnam. While at Harvard during the Each year, the Center invites faculty I. Domínguez, The Controversial Pivot: The spring semester, Edward Schumacher-Matos members to nominate eminent scholars U.S. Congress and North America with Robert taught a course on Latinos and immigration. or practitioners for the Professorship. RFK Pastor, and La agenda internacional de México Luis Carlos Ugalde received a Ph.D. in Professors are eligible for appointment in any 2006–2012. Rafael Fernández de Castro is political science and a master’s degree in of the University’s departments or schools. In also the editor of Foreign Affairs en Español, political science and public administration 2007 – 08, the Center hosted four RFK Visiting the sister magazine of Foreign Affairs, and has from Columbia University. He also holds a B.A. Professors: Luis Bértola from Uruguay, Rafael been a columnist for the weekly magazine in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Fernández de Castro from Mexico, Edward Proceso and the newspaper Excélsior, two of Autónomo de México. Schumacher-Matos from Colombia, and Luis the most important printed media in Mexico. Mr. Ugalde was a professor of political Carlos Ugalde from Mexico. Dr. Fernández is a Foreign Policy Advisor science and chair of the undergraduate program Luis Bértola, a researcher with Uruguay’s to Mexican President Felipe Calderón, and in political science and international relations Ministry of Education, was previously research is also Chairman of the Advisory Board with the Centro de Investigación y Docencia vice-rector at the Universidad de la República, for Mexico’s National Migration Institute. Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. He has been Uruguay, and the Dean of Social Science and While at Harvard, Professor Fernández a researcher and adjunct professor at various professor of economic and social history at taught a course in the Government academic institutions, including DRCLAS; the same university. He has worked as advisor Department on U.S.-Mexican relations. Georgetown University; American University; for the Economic Commission for Latin edward Schumacher-Matos, born the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México America and the Caribbean, the Inter-American in Colombia, has 30 years of newspaper (ITAM); and the Instituto Tecnológico de Development Bank and the Uruguayan Budget experience. He was part of a team at The Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, ITESM. and Planning Department. Philadelphia Inquirer in 1979 that won a In addition to his academic career, he has Dr. Bértola is one of the leading economic Pulitzer Prize. For nearly a decade afterwards, worked in the Mexican government; he was historians of Latin America. His survey with Mr. Schumacher-Matos worked at The New chief of staff to the Secretary of Energy in Jeff Williamson in the Cambridge Economic York Times, mostly in Buenos Aires and 1997 and chief of staff at Mexico’s embassy History of Latin America, entitled Globalisation Madrid. In 1991, he returned to New York to the United States of America from 1997 in Latin America before 1940, is a sweeping as director of the Spanish Institute, a private to 2000. He was appointed president of the interpretation of the impact of globalization cultural and public affairs institute dedicated Federal Electoral Institute by the Congress in Latin America in the 150 years after to U.S.-Spain relations. Two years later, of Mexico in October 2003 where he served independence. he joined The Wall Street Journal, where until December 2007. While at Harvard Dr. Bértola recently became one of the he was the founding editor and associate for the spring 2008 semester, Professor founding editors of the Journal of Iberian and publisher of The Wall Street Journal Americas, Ugalde taught a course in the Department of Latin American Economic History, an exciting insert editions in Spanish and Portuguese Government on Latin American politics. new project begun in conjuncture with Spanish published throughout Latin America. economic historians and based at Universidad

16 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies http://drclas.harvard.edu 17 antonio Martorell, Puerto Rico Justin wolfe, USA Visiting Scholars & Wilbur Marvin Fellow Central America Visiting Fellow Fellows Program University of Puerto Rico Tulane University Dancing with Cinderella: A Life in Art. Cosmopolitan Rabble: Race, Empire and Nation in Nicaragua, 1700-1900. The Visiting Scholars and Fellows Program victor vich, Peru strengthens ties between Harvard and other Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar institutions by hosting distinguished academics Pontifi cia Universidad Católica del Perú and professionals who wish to conduct research War Texts: Literature and Political Violence Library Scholars on a particular topic or region of Latin America. in Peru. Program In 2007 – 08, the Center hosted 10 scholars Jesús velasco, Mexico and fellows; their fi elds of study included art Antonio Madero/Fundación México The U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI history, journalism, literature, political science, Visiting Scholar Program provides support for competitively architecture and the visual arts. Center for Teaching and Research in selected scholars to spend time using the Benjamín Fernández Bogado, Paraguay Economics, (CIDE) Mexico City extensive Latin American collections in the Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar Seducing America: The Relationship Between University’s library system. Scholars from Fundación Libre and General Director of Radio the Mexican Government and American non-research institutions who lack access to Libre in Paraguay Transnational Intellectuals, 1920s – 2006. necessary materials for their research benefi t from the special collections as well as from Media and Violence in Paraguay or How gratzia villarroel, USA DRCLAS offi ce space during short-term stays. the Press Set the Agenda in an Unmature Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar In the summer of 2008, the Center hosted three Democratic Society. St. norbert College De Pere library scholars: tatiana Flores, USA In the Footsteps of Bartolina Sisa: Bolivian Cisneros Visiting Scholar Indigenous Women, Evo Morales and the Jake Frederick Rutgers University Bolivian Indigenous Revolution. Assistant Professor, Lawrence University Art and Visual Culture Under Chávez. Without Impediment: Crossing Ethnicities in Colonial Mexico. robert J. gay, USA Jorge Paulo Lemann Visiting Scholar ana Santos olmsted Connecticut College Lecturer in Portuguese, Emory University Drugs, Corruption and Everyday Violence in Rio Brazilian Texts and Contexts. de Janeiro: A Soldier’s Story. Julia l. Sloan Matías irigoyen testa, Argentina Assistant Professor, Cazenovia College DRCLAS Visiting Scholar, and Fellow of the Crucible of Revolution: 1968 in Mexico. Real Colegio Complutense Universidad nacional del Sur Punitive Damages in the U.S. Legal System. Flavio Jánches, Argentina de Fortabat Visiting Scholar School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Buenos Aires The Signifi cance of Public Space in Marginal Areas.

18 DAVID ROCKEFELLER CEnTER FOR LATIn AMERICAn STUDIES Publications

Book Series ReVista The David Rockefeller Series on Latin American ReVista, Harvard Review of Latin America Studies, distributed by Harvard University began the academic year with a full-color Press, published two books over the past issue, “Dance! Global Transformations of year. The Other Latinos, co-edited by José Luis Latin American Culture,” in conjunction Falconi and José Antonio Mazzotti, examines with a major conference on tango, organized immigration trends beyond the traditional jointly by the Center for the Humanities, groups of Latino immigrants coming to the the Radcliffe Institute and DRCLAS. The United States. Blood of Brothers: Life and War winter issue, “Violence: A Daily Threat,” took in Nicaragua, by Stephen Kinzer, is a reissue a hard look at such problems as gangs and with a new Afterword by the author reflecting violence against women and children, as well on transitions in Nicaragua since the book was as positive responses to violence throughout originally published in 1991. the continent. The spring issue, “Puerto In conjunction with the Americas Rico: The Island and Beyond,” featured Society, DRCLAS published Beginning with an original cover illustrated by Wilbur T. a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy: An Marvin Visiting Fellow, Antonio Martorell. Exhibition of Argentine Contemporary Artists 1960–2007, edited by independent curator Victorial Noorthoorn, with an introduction by Susan Segal, president and CEO of the Working Papers Americas Society. The cooperative publishing DRCLAS published several working papers agreement between DRCLAS and the Inter- during the year, all of which are available American Development Bank (IDB), the Latin on the Center’s website: Public Research American Development Series, produced Universities in Latin America and Their Relation five new titles in the past year: Outsiders? to Economic Development, by Juan Carlos The Changing Patterns of Exclusion in Latin Moreno-Brid and Pablo Ruiz Nápoles (Paper America and the Caribbean, IDB 2008 Report; No. 07/08–1) and five Cuba-related working Governing the Metropolis; Policymaking in papers, including, Política social en Cuba: Latin America: How Politics Shapes Policies; Equidad y movilidad, by Mayra P. Espina Prieto Privatization for the Public Good? Welfare Effects (Paper No. 07/08–3) and Equidad y movilidad of Private Intervention in Latin America; and social en el contexto de las transformaciones Taxation and Latin American Integration. agrarias de los años noventa en Cuba, by Lucy Martin Posada (Paper No. 07/08–2).

Left: Wilbur Marvin Fellow Antonio Martorell with a group of students from Boston’s La Casa de la Cultura Center for Latino Arts at the Fogg Art Museum http://drclas.harvard.edu 19 Doctors of Philosophy Juan P. Rivera-Herrera, Romance Languages Jessica G. Callaway, Comparative Literature and Literatures Mothers, Orphans and the Law of the Free Sexuality, Multilingual Love and the Latin Womb: The Rhetoric of Brazilian Abolition in the American Diaspora. Student Fiction of Aluisio Azevedo, Machado de Assis and Natalia Santamaria Laorden, Romance their Contemporaries. Languages and Literatures Awards & Amilcar Eduardo Challú, History El Retorno de las Carabelas: Debates Grain Markets, Food Supply Policies and Living Finiseculares entre Autores Españoles y Accomplishments Standards in Late Colonial Mexico. Latinoamericanos sobre el Regeneracionismo Greg Cohen, Romance Languages and Español. Literatures Miriam Nechama Shakow, Anthropology Cinema, Spatial Thought, and the Ends of States of Discontent: Patronage, Liberalism, and Doctorates Awarded to Modernity. Argentina and Brazil in the Sixties. Indigenist Democracy in Central Bolivia Students Specializing in Luisa Laura Heredia, Sociology Noelle Monet Stout, Anthropology Faith in Action: The Catholic Church and the Revolutionary Desires: Sexuality and Late- Latin American Studies Immigrant Rights Movement, 1980-2007. Socialism in Cuba. Doctor of Design Jason Morris Lakin, Government and Allison Brownell Tirres, History Juan Carlos Vargas Moreno Social Policy American Law Comes to the Border: Law Participatory Landscape Planning Using The Possibilities and Limitations of Insurgent and Colonization on the U.S./Mexico Divide, Portable Geospatial Information Systems and Technocratic Reform: Mexico’s Popular Health 1848-1890. Technologies: The Case of the Osa Region of Insurance Program, 2001-2006. Alexandre Andreevich Tokovinine, Costa Rica. Sonia Song-Ha Lee, History Anthropology Between Boricua and Black: How the Civil Rights The Power of Place: Political Landscape and Doctors of Education Struggle Shaped Puerto Rican Racial and Ethnic Identity in Classic Maya Inscriptions, Imagery, Kristin Huang, Human Development and Identities in New York City, 1950s-70s. and Architecture. Psychology Crooked Trees Growing Straight: The Experiences Ernesto Martínez, Anthropology Patricia Isabel Lontro Vieira, Romance of Boys Transitioning off the Streets of La Paz, Border Chinese: Making Space and Forging Languages and Literatures Bolivia. Identity in Mexicali, Mexico. Seeing Politics Otherwise. Representations of Carmen Luisa Oquendo Villar, Romance Vision in Iberian and Latin American Political Paula Louzano, Administration, Planning and Fiction. Social Policy Languages and Literatures Chile 1973: el golpe mediático. Do Schools Matter in Brazil? Excellence and Doctor of Science in Society, Equity in Brazilian Primary Education. Alberto Ribas-Casayas, Comparative Literature Human Development, and Haunting Contemporary Narrative: Juan Rulfo, Health Doctor of Juridical Science Toni Morrison, Carlos Fuentes, Leslie Marmon Joanna Almeida Álvaro Santos Rivera, International Economic Silko, Martin Amis. The Social Epidemiology of the Latino Law and Labor Law Health Paradox. International Economic Law and Domestic Labor Law Regimes: Reconsidering the Case of North American Economic Integration and Mexico.

Harvard students with Professor Andrea Gazinielli, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, on a case discussion in Jequitinhonha, Brazil 20 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Joseph Forrest Busa, Social Studies Miriam Shakow, Ph.D., Anthropology DRCLAS Graduate Jungle Politics: Shayari in the Quotidian. States of Discontent: Patronage, Liberalism, and Student Associates Nina María Catalano, Government Indigenist Democracy in Central Bolivia. “The Pantomime:” United States Military Aid Noelle Stout, Ph.D., Anthropology Harvard’s graduate students are an integral to Colombia and the State Department Human On the Malecón: Revolutionary Desires in Late- part of the Center’s scholarly community. The Rights Certification. Socialist Cuba. DRCLAS Graduate Student Associate Program formalizes this connection and facilitates Denise Linda Delaney, Anthropology Aidan Tait, Romance Languages and doctoral students’ research on Latin America Marginality and Violence: The Experience of Literatures by providing affiliation and research support Being a Desplazado in the Colombian Capital. A Pesar de Todos, Nosotros Hicimos el Mundial: for seven to ten graduate students each year, Areli Fernández Valdés, Romance Languages The Military, the Argentine Media, and the with several working in shared office space at and Literatures Enduring Legacy of the 1978 World Cup. the Center. Graduate Student Associates are Entre Continuidad y Ruptura: Figuraciones de Nícola Ulibarrí, Anthropology selected through a competitive process that la Mujer Maya y su Cultura en la Poesía de Sense of Place in a Changing World: Identity, includes all professional schools and academic Briceida Cuevas Cob. Ritual, and Development in Ocongate, Peru. departments. The 2007 – 08 graduate student associates were: Elizabeth Cronin Goodwin, History and Patrícia Vieira, Ph.D. Romance Languages Literature and Literatures Leticia J. Braga, HGSE Finding a Voice in the Shadows: Silvina Seeing Politics Otherwise: Representations of Robert Karl, GSAS, History Ocampo’s Literary Persona. Vision in Iberian and Latin American Political Clara Masnatta, GSAS, Romance Languages Jamie Elizabeth Greenman, Anthropology Fiction. and Literatures Feministas and Chiquitas: Reproductive and Beatrice Viramontes, Anthropology Erin McCloskey, HGSE Sexual Rights Activism Among Chilean Women. Journeys to Aztlán: The (Re)creation of Pre- Miles Rodríguez, GSAS, History Erika Helgen, Romance Languages and Columbian Forms in the Contemporary Chicano Miriam Shakow, GSAS, Anthropology Literatures Murals of Los Angeles. Sergio Silva-Castañeda, GSAS, History A Polish Pope in Puebla: Liberation Theology, Nina Vizcarrondo, Anthropology Lindsay Smith, GSAS, Anthropology Ecclesiology, and the Third General Conference Cooperativism in Guatemala: Contradictions, of the Latin American Episcopate. Chimeras and Conflict. Ariel Huerta, Government The Struggle to Enforce Mano Dura Anti-Gang Term-Time Travel Grant Recipients Certificate in Latin Legislation in El Salvador: State Weakness and The Center initiated the Term-Time Travel American Studies Democratic Strength. Grant Program in 2001 in response to student Miles Alexander Johnson, Social Studies requests for academic year research funding. The DRCLAS-administered Certificate in Latin Color into Race, Romance into Realism: The grants support undergraduate students American Studies is awarded each year by Affirmative Action and Racial Identity in Brazil. completing thesis research, graduate students Harvard’s Committee on Latin American and conducting dissertation research, and students Ernesto Martínez, Ph.D., Anthropology Iberian Studies to students graduating from from the professional schools executing Border Chinese: Making Space and Forging Harvard College and the Graduate School of specific projects, such as the Policy Analysis Identity in Mexicali, Mexico. Arts and Sciences who have fulfilled specific Exercise at the Harvard Kennedy School. course requirements, demonstrated proficiency Kenneth Walter McKinley, Anthropology Three undergraduate students and 26 graduate in Spanish or Portuguese and presented an Who Decides? The Intersubjectivity of Live students received grants for research conducted honors thesis or dissertation on a topic related Organ Transplant in Argentina and the in the winter of 2007 – 08. to Latin America. This year, 23 graduating United States. College seniors and four graduating GSAS Danielle Olga Garner Mirabal, Anthropology doctoral students received certificates. DRCLAS Summer Internship Interpretation of Faunal Remains from the Stephen Amrock, Sociology Contact Site of Magdalena de Cao Viejo: North Program and Internship Grants The Center’s Summer Internship Program Globalizing Actionable Rights: The Role of Coast of Peru. Policy Elites in Health Care Reform in Chile and places students in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, David Robinson Porter, History Bolivia, 1982-2007. Chile, and Peru. In each country, students work Making Trade Fair: The Negotiation and at organizations aligned with their personal or Rosa Evangelina Beltrán, History and Implementation of NAFTA Chapter Twenty. career interests. The Center’s Regional Office Literature Mónica María Renta, Romance Languages and Brazil Office arrange host family stays and Ordem e Progresso: The Dead-Beat Malandro and Literatures weekly seminars, lectures, and excursions. and National Identity in João Antônio’s “La Fama es una Estupidez:” La Construcción y In 2008, a record-high 67 undergraduate “Malagueta, Perus, e Bacanaço.” el Desarrollo del Fenómeno Roberto Bolaño. students participated in the Summer Internship Eleanor H. Broh, Government Program. There were 19 in Chile, 30 in Gabriel Rocha, Literature Domestic Implementation of International Argentina, one in Bolivia, 10 in Peru, and seven “This Inscrutable People:” Hesitancy, Anthology, Human Rights Norms: Therapeutic Abortion in in Brazil. DRCLAS offers funding for students and Repetition in Elizabeth Bishop. Nicaragua and Colombia. to participate in the Summer Internship Gregory Scruggs, Literature Program or to conduct independent summer Olivia Tileston Brown, History Reading Space and Place between Morro and In Sickness and in Health: The U.S. Influence internship experiences. In 2008, DRCLAS Asfalto: An Itinerary through the Contemporary on the Development of Sanitation and Public supplied grants to seven undergraduate and Zona Sul of Rio de Janeiro. Health in Cuba between the Spanish-American nine graduate and professional school students War and the Cuban Revolution, 1898-1959. for internships in Latin America.

http://drclas.harvard.edu 21 Conference Travel Grants The Center’s Conference Travel Grant Program provides financial support for travel expenses to Harvard graduate students presenting papers at conferences outside of the Cambridge area. In 2007 – 08, DRCLAS awarded 41 Conference Travel Grants to students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and several of the University’s professional schools. Undergraduate Honors Thesis Prizes James R. and Isabel D. Hammond Thesis Prize Established in 1992 with a gift from James R. Hammond (AB ’57), the Hammond Prize is awarded to the best undergraduate senior honors thesis related to Spanish-speaking Latin America. In 2008, two students received the Hammond Thesis Prize: Denise Linda Delaney for her Anthropology thesis, Marginality and Violence: The Experience of Being a Desplazado in the Colombian Capital; and Erika Helgen for her Romance Languages and Literatures thesis, A Polish Pope in Puebla: Liberation Theology, Ecclesiology, and the Third General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate.

Joan Morthland Hutchins Thesis Prize in Latino Studies Originally established in 2003 as the Inter- Faculty Committee on Latino Studies Thesis The Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Coatsworth Academic Year Fellowship Prize, the Hutchins Thesis Prize recognizes the College senior who writes the best thesis Fellowship Program in Latin American History The Coatsworth Fellowship provides a stipend on a subject concerning Latinos (either recent The Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Fellowship of $18,000 for graduate students in the field of immigrants or established communities Program was established by Argentine Latin American History in the Graduate School of Latin American descent in the United businesswoman and philanthropist Amalia of Arts and Sciences. In the 2007–08 academic States). This annual prize is funded by a gift Lacroze de Fortabat in order to provide year, there were four Coatsworth Fellows: to DRCLAS from Joan Morthland Hutchins. promising Argentine students financial support Olga González-Silen Sabrina Forte received the 2008 Hutchins to pursue graduate studies at Harvard. Upon Thesis Prize for her History and Literature completion of their studies, recipients of the Robert Karl thesis, Representing and Documenting Mexicans de Fortabat Fellowship are expected to return Miles Rodriguez and Mexican Americans During the Era of to Argentina. Ten students received de Fortabat Rainer Schultz Repatriation, 1931–1939. fellowships for academic year 2007-08: Lucas Emiliano Barreiros, HLS Kenneth Maxwell Thesis Prize in Student Organization Grant Mariano Jorge Buscaglia, HKS Recipients Brazilian Studies Elena Ximena Fernández Ordóñez, HKS In the past year, DRCLAS awarded grants The Kenneth Maxwell Thesis Prize in Brazilian Germán González-Campaña, HLS to 34 Latino and Latin American student Studies was established to recognize the best Martín Gramont, HKS organizations at the University to assist in College senior thesis on a subject related to event management and publications. The Andrea Margulis, HSPH Brazil. This annual prize is funded by a gift to organizations’ initiatives ranged from a , HKS DRCLAS from Professor Kenneth Maxwell. Nicolás Pavlovsky collaborative effort, PeruAid, a concert that Gregory Scruggs received the 2008 Maxwell Shunko Rojas, HLS raised funds to support survivors from an Thesis Prize for his Literature thesis, Reading Germán Sturzenegger, HKS August, 2007 earthquake in Peru to the Harvard Space and Place between Morro and Asfalto: An Santiago Subotovsky, HBS Kennedy School Latino Caucus, which provides Itinerary through the Contemporary Zona Sul of social and professional opportunities to all Rio de Janeiro. members of the school interested in Latino culture and issues relating to Latinos in the United States. For a complete listing of Latin American and Latino student organizations, please visit the Center’s website. 22 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Foreign Language and Area Studies Jorge Paulo Lemann Fellowships Danyela Moron (FLAS) Fellowship Program To contribute to a stronger, more effective Master of Public Policy, HKS The Foreign Language and Area Studies public sector in Brazil, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Teresa Pontual Fellowship Program, supported with a grant Fellowships give Brazilians who work or aspire Master of Education, International Education from the U.S. Department of Education, to work as professionals in public health, Policy, HGSE public policy, or education the opportunity for provides financial assistance for graduate and Carlos Eduardo de Sousa advanced study and training through a degree professional school students seeking advanced Master of Education, HGSE training in modern foreign languages and area program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of studies related to Latin America, during the Government, the Graduate School of Education Fabio Tran summer or academic year. or the School of Public Health. Lemann Master of Public Administration, HKS Fellowships may also be awarded to students of FLAS Fellowship Recipients The Lemann Family Endowment also provided any nationality at the Graduate School of Arts generous support to seven undergraduates Linda Abarbanell, GSAS, Anthropology and Sciences whose study and dissertations for research travel, internships, and intensive Kathryn Auffinger, GSAS, Romance Languages focus on an aspect of Brazil. language study during the summer of 2008. and Literatures Lemann Fellows Sophia Zamudio-Haas, HSPH Heloisa Micheletti Alvarez Sarah MacCarthy, HSPH Master of Education, HGSE Emily Martin, HSPH Rosabelli Coelho Linda Rodriguez, GSAS, History of Art and Master of Public Administration, HKS Architecture Mark Gidal Above, left to right: Erika Helgen, recipient of the Summer 2008 FLAS Intensive Language James R. and Isabel D. Hammond Thesis Prize; Doctoral Candidate, Ethnomusicology Training Grant Recipients Sabrina Forte, recipient of the Joan Morthland Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Hutchins Thesis Prize in Latino Studies; Areli Laura Connor, GSAS, Romance Languages and Fernández Valdés, Latin American Studies Certificate Literatures Stephanie King recipient; Denise Delaney, recipient of the James R. Doctoral Candidate, Environmental Chemistry and Isabel D. Hammond Thesis Prize; Gregory Bryant Ives, HKS Scruggs, recipient of the Kenneth Maxwell Thesis Prize School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Brazilian Studies. Background image: Posters, Raul Núñez-Negrón, GSAS, Romance Havana, Cuba Languages and Literatures Megan Sullivan, GSAS, History of Art and Architecture http://drclas.harvard.edu 23 Top: Detail of La Alfombra Voladora #3, in mixed media, by Wilbur Marvin Visiting Fellow Antonio Martorell. Bottom: Advisory Committee members and special guests at a presentation by President Drew Faust, as part of the 2008 Advisory Committee Weekend. (Front row, from left: George Landau, Marnie Pillsbury, David Rockefeller, Advisors & and Peter Johnson) Sponsors

The Center is grateful to Antonio Madero Faculty Governance Advisory Committee (MBA ’61) and to Alvaro Rodríguez Arregui The Center’s Director receives advice from two The Center’s Advisory Committee convened (MBA ’95) for their leadership of the Strategic faculty governing bodies: a small Executive for its annual spring meeting in Cambridge Consultative Committee for the Mexico and Committee and a larger Policy Committee, on May 9-10. The weekend events served Central America Office, as well as to the most of whom serve on at least one of the as an opportunity to celebrate the Center’s following Advisory Committee members and Center’s programs or grants committees. accomplishments with friends and supporters friends for their pledges of new gifts to support whose contributions enable the Center to this effort: Dionisio Garza Medina (MBA ’79), continue to make a difference both at Harvard Ricardo Poma (MBA ’70), Alvaro Rodríguez Executive Committee and in Latin America, while remaining Arregui (MBA ’95), Francisco A. Soler (AB ’67, MBA ’70) and Lorenzo Weisman (AB ’66), Eleven senior faculty members who serve three- exemplary as a model for regional study centers as well at to Center friends Joaquín Gómez year renewable terms meet with the Director at the University. and Juan Jose Gutiérrez Chapa. The Center each month to advise on Center policies and During the weekend, Advisory Committee is especially grateful to José Antonio, Javier operations. During 2007-08 the following members and special guests interacted with and Lucia Alonso, for their commitment to faculty served on the DRCLAS Executive faculty and students and learned how the renew the intention of their mother and long- Committee: Center supported their work on and experiences in Latin America. Guests also attended panel term friend and benefactor of the Center, Mrs. Merilee S. Grindle, Chair, HKS presentations on timely issues, such as Cuba: Ángeles Espinosa Yglesias, to support this effort Davíd Carrasco, HDS Today and Tomorrow and The Immigration with a major gift. Merilee Grindle also expressed the Center’s Thomas B. F. Cummins, FAS Conundrum. At the inaugural dinner, which featured gratitude to Jorge Paulo Lemann (AB ’61) and Brian Farrell, FAS world-class Venezuelan pianist, Gabriela Andrónico Luksic for their critical, continued William L. Fash, FAS Montero, University Provost Steven Hyman’s support of the Brazil and Regional Offices through which the Center adds to the presence N. Michele Holbrook, FAS remarks underscored the Center’s ability to help so many students and faculty in their of Harvard in Latin America, while serving Kenneth Maxwell, FAS pursuit of Latin American studies, both from large numbers of students and faculty, and Fernando Reimers, HGSE Cambridge and through the Center’s Offices in building important relationships with alumni and institutions in the region. Doris Sommer, FAS the region. President Drew Gilpin Faust also highlighted these accomplishments, citing the DRCLAS is also grateful to Estrellita Diana Sorensen, FAS number of faculty, students, publications and Brodsky for her support of the Latino and Latin Michael Starnbach, HMS events, among other activities, that the Center American Art Forum, to Jane Sacasa (MBA ’80), Orlando Sacasa (AB ’71, MBA ’78), and Maria John Womack, Jr., FAS supported and promoted throughout the past year. and Carlos Reynaldo Lacayo for generously A highlight of the weekend was a meeting hosting the summer 2007 trip to Nicaragua and Policy Committee with Advisory Committee members and friends Honduras, and to the founding members of committed to supporting the establishment of the Cuban Studies Fund: Jay Brickman, Adolfo Faculty from eight professional schools and the Mexico and Central America Office. Faculty Garcia (AB ’71), Consuelo Isaacson, Roberto FAS meet each term to guide the Center’s from Harvard Business School, the Graduate Mendoza (MBA ’74) and Roberto Servitje. development and to recommend candidates for School of Education, and the Department of DRCLAS benefited from new gifts and the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professorship Organismic and Evolutionary Biology shared endowment funds from a host of Advisory in Latin American Studies to the President of their work in Mexico and Central America Committee members and friends whose gifts the University. Seventy-seven faculty members and emphasized the many ways in which provide continuous support of the Center’s serve on the Center’s Policy Committee. an office in the region would be helpful in activities and programs. The Center expresses Twenty-eight of them are also members of the promoting their research, as well as building its deep gratitude to its advisors for all the Committee on Latin American and Iberian and strengthening their academic exchanges support received during the past year. Studies (CLAIS), which coordinates the with institutions and colleagues in Mexico and Center’s research and curricular programs that Central America. operate within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, including Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

24 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies http://drclas.harvard.edu 25 Advisory Committee Members Friends of the Center American Development Bank, Luis Alberto Javier Alonso Espinosa, Mexico Moreno, among other prominent figures. Lucía Alonso Espinosa, Mexico The 2007 – 08 academic year was eventful for During the Advisory Committee weekend activities in May, the Friends of the Center had Manuel Arango, Mexico the new Friends of the Center Program. An evolution of the Corporate Partners Program, an opportunity to interact with faculty, students, Gastón Azcárraga, Mexico Friends of the Center aims to further involve Advisory Committee members and DRCLAS Alejandro Baillères, Mexico sponsors in the Center’s activities as well staff, as well as to participate in a number of Pedro Nicolás Baridón, Uruguay as provide individuals with an opportunity exclusive activities organized for this occasion. Arturo Brillembourg and Hilda to contribute toward enhancing the quality Friends of the Center Member Roster Ochoa-Brillembourg, United States and reach of the Center’s work. This year, Alfa Corporativo, Mexico Roberto P. Cezar de Andrade, Brazil the Program welcomed two new members: Banco De Chile, Chile Gustavo A. and Patricia Phelps Deutsche Bank Quality of Life Markets and Cinemex, Mexico de Cisneros, Venezuela Merrill Lynch. The Center is grateful to all member companies and friends for their Codelco, Chile John H. Coatsworth, United States generous support, through which it funds Compass Group, Chile Eduardo F. Costantini, Argentina faculty and student research in every discipline D&S, Chile Tony Custer, Peru and professional field. Deutsche Bank Quality of Life Markets John Davies, United States Friends of the Center, whether corporate or Fidelity Management & Research Company Peggy Dulany, United States individual, gain access to the unique resources that DRCLAS offers. DRCLAS welcomes Grupo Periodístico El Mercurio, Chile Agustín E. Edwards, Chile members to Cambridge every spring both Grupo Altex, Mexico Juan C. and Mary S. Enríquez, United States for the annual Latin American Business IBS, Inc. Dionisio Garza Medina, Mexico Conference, planned in conjunction with Integrated Finance Limited, LLP Jaime and Raquel Gilinski, Colombia the Harvard Business School (HBS) Club International Bank of Miami Roberto Hernández Ramírez, Mexico Latinoamericano, and for the Center’s Advisory JP Morgan Chase Marlene Hess, United States Committee Weekend. In addition, DRCLAS facilitates assessments of our Friends’ particular Merrill Lynch Israel Klabin, Brazil interests and needs, and assists them with Venevision International, Venezuela Wolff Klabin, Brazil recruiting opportunities across the University’s Vitro, Mexico Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, Argentina schools and disciplines. George W. Landau, United States The Center also continued to build on Peter Lehner, United States and enhance its existing seminars. Last year’s Ford Foundation fall event was the first-ever held in one of the Philip Lehner, United States The Ford Foundation awarded a two-year Center’s offices abroad. In November 2007, the $200,000 grant to strengthen the initiatives of Jorge Paulo Lemann, Brazil Regional Office hosted Checking Latin America’s the Cuban Studies Program for research in the Andrónico Luksic, Chile Vital Signs. Chile’s Minister of Finance and areas of applied economic policy, social mobility Antonio Madero, Mexico Harvard Kennedy School Sumitomo-Fasid and equity, and the impact of AIDS treatment. Professor of International Development, Eugenio Madero, Mexico In collaboration with the University of Havana, Andrés Velasco, gave the keynote address, Martha T. Muse, United States the grant supports research aimed at exploring highlighting Chile’s economic progress during Brian O’Neill, United States the challenges of economic policymaking and the last several years relative to other countries the design of development strategies in an era Ricardo Poma, El Salvador in the region. Seminar panelists examined of global uncertainties, resource constraints and Pablo A. and Luisa E. Pulido, Venezuela current developments in economics, education significant reform for Cuba. The Program is and politics. A highlight of the session was Lauren Reiss, United States also deepening its collaboration with the Centro a presentation on the Un Buen Comienzo David Rockefeller, United States de Investigaciones Sociológicas y Psicológicas project. Andrea Rolla, director of the initiative, Alvaro Rodríguez Arregui, Mexico on social policy and household and individual Professor Hiro Yoshikawa of the Graduate mobility trajectories and with the Institute of Neil L. Rudenstine, United States School of Education, and Emiliana Vegas of the Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí on the impact Orlando Sacasa, United States World Bank stressed the importance of high- of the provision of effective AIDS therapy in Alejandro Santo Domingo, Colombia quality preschool education in Latin America Cuba, and on AIDS patients’ experiences. The and provided an overview of the program’s goals Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Colombia grant also permitted DRCLAS to support Temas, and progress. Francisco de Sola, El Salvador Cuba’s leading peer-reviewed journal in the In April 2008, the Center also co-sponsored Francisco Soler, El Salvador humanities and social sciences. the XII Latin American Business Conference, Lorenzo D. Weisman, United States New Horizons for Opportunities, organized by students of the HBS Club Latinoamericano. Clockwise from upper left: David Rockefeller with President Drew Over 750 participants attended a series of panels Faust; Merilee Grindle with Peter Morse and José Avalos; President and presentations on various topics ranging Drew Faust with Advisory Committee member John Coatsworth and his wife, Patricia; Advisory Committee member Mary Schneider- from economic policy to competitiveness in Enriquez with Tom Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the Latin America. Keynote speakers included History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art; Wilbur Marvin Visiting former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Fellow Antonio Martorell with Advisory Committee member Orlando Sacasa and Joaquín Gómez; Advisory Committee member George Gortari, former President of Honduras, Ricardo Landau and Peter Johnson; Advisory Committee member Jorge Maduro Joest, and President of the Inter- Paulo Lemann with Brazil Advisory Group member Claudio Haddad; Professor Kenneth Maxwell with George Landau and Assistant Professor of Public Policy Filipe Campante

26 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies http://drclas.harvard.edu 27 Financial FiSCal year 2008 Statement July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008

Beginning Balance Gifts and Endowments $ 1,249,477 Foundations 316,728

income Income from Endowments 3,651,892 Harvard University Program Fees 239,575 Miscellaneous 30,000 Grants Federal Government 432,227 Foundations 189,967 Current Use Gifts 867,995 Corporate Partners Program 80,333 Publications 66,397 total income $ 7,124,592

expenses Administration $ 577,310 Administration: Harvard Fees 499,778 Educational Programs* 2,605,335 Faculty Conferences, Seminars, Events and Meetings 468,013 Faculty Research and Curriculum Grants 236,603 Publications 321,278 Student Fellowships and Research Travel Grants 645,764 Visiting Fellows, Scholars, Professors 620,184 total expenses $ 5,974,265

Balance** $ 1,150,327 restricted Balance $ 780,981 unrestricted Balance $ 369,346

* includes funding for student and faculty programs and activities of overseas offi ces, title vi program, country and regional studies programs, foundation supported initiatives and other activities.

** Balance does not include long term and short term operating advances equal to $208,700. these advances will be settled in Fy09.

28 DAVID David ROCKEFELLERRockefeller Center CEnTER for FOR Latin LATIn American AMERICAn Studies STUDIES Merilee S. grindle Kenneth Maxwell Edward S. Mason Professor Professor of History; Director, of International Development; Brazil Studies Program Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

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