Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Annual Report July 2000- June 2001 Contents
Mission 1
Letter from the Director 2
Executive Summary 3
Programs 8
Advisory Committee 27
Faculty 30
Students 36
Development and Institutional Support 46
Academic Committees 53
Staff 56
Financial Summary 57
© Copyright 2001 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
Production: Amanda Austin and Marna Walthall under the supervision of Publications Director June Carolyn Erlick
Cover photos (clockwise from top left): Jose Carlo Gonzalez, Lee Cott, Reginald Jackson, andTim Stumph Unless otherwise noted, photos are by DRCLAS staff and affliates: June Carolyn Erlick, José Falconi, Jill Netchinsky Toussaint, Marcela Renteria, and Alana Taranto Mission Statement
Mission quote about DRCLAS The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University works to increase knowledge of the cultures, economies, histories, environment, and contemporary affairs of Latin America, foster cooperation and understanding among the peoples of the Americas, and contribute to democracy, social progress, and sustainable development throughout the hemisphere.
Objectives • Expand research and teaching on Latin America and related fields at Harvard University
• Strengthen ties between Harvard University and institutions throughout Latin America
• Enhance public understanding of Latin America in the United States and abroad
The Center pursues these objectives by engaging the attention and energies of diverse scholars, students, and other specialists, by coordinating educational and cultural activities related to Latin America, and by organizing projects and programs that draw on the human and material resources of the Harvard community to address scientific, scholarly, and public issues.
MISSION 1 Letter from the Director August, 2001
arvard University and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies bade farewell to President Neil L. Rudenstine and welcomed president-elect Lawrence Summers this past spring. The HCenter devoted the annual Advisory Committee dinner on May 11 (described in this report) to honor- ing Neil for the crucial role he played in the founding of the Center and for his continuous and indispensable support since the Center’s inauguration on December 3, 1994. In a much hoped-for, coincidence, Professor David Carrasco of Princeton University attended the dinner and announced that he had just that day accepted Harvard’s offer to become the first Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America. Neil’s contribu- tions to the University, and to Latin American Studies, will continue to bear fruit for many years to come.
The Center also paid tribute to Provost Harvey V. Fineberg, who spoke eloquently at the Center’s luncheon meeting on May 12 on the need to make internationalization of education and research more central to Harvard’s mission and to higher education in the United States. Harvey’s support and encouragement for inter-faculty, university-wide initiatives, like the David Rockefeller Center, played a crucial role in the Center’s success over the past four years.
Special thanks this year are due to Bussey Professor of Biology Otto T. Solbrig, who has served on the Center’s Executive Committee since its founding, for the tireless and effective leadership he provided the Center as Acting Director during my yearlong sabbatical that ended in January of this year.
This is only the seventh annual report of the David Rockefeller Center, but it marks a new millennium and thus a propitious moment to take stock and consider new directions. The Center will begin the coming academic year with a one-day retreat in which the 50 faculty members on the Center’s Policy Committee will convene to chart the next phase of the Center’s development.
Remarkably, the Center has already reached or surpassed all of the goals its founders set for it. It has become a window on Latin America for the Harvard community and for increasing numbers of teachers, scholars, students, journalists, policymakers, NGO leaders, and business people in New England and throughout the nation. It has become increasingly effective in making Latin America more accessible to students and faculty throughout the University, encouraging research and the production of new knowledge, and focusing attention on issues that matter.
These achievements would not have been possible without the support and participation of scores of Harvard faculty, the enthusiasm of our extraordinary students, the generosity of friends throughout the region, and the inspiring warmth and hard work of the Center’s still growing staff.
John H. Coatsworth Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
2 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR Executive Summary
INTRODUCTION As the faculty numbers have risen over helped by DRCLAS staff to arrange In its seventh year, the David the past six years, so have the number internships working for government Rockefeller Center for Latin American of courses with significant Latin agencies, community organizations, Studies continued to grow and develop American content (at least 25 percent), non-profit hospitals, NGOs, newspa- with near exponential speed. During from 182 to 251. The number of pers, and a range of private businesses. 2000-01, the Center sponsored 134 undergraduate lecture courses rose The Center also awarded research events, including 21 international even faster, from only eight in 1994-95 travel grants to 19 undergraduates conferences and workshops, two to 19 last year. Enrollments increased working on honors theses and 42 seminar series, four art exhibitions, and from 4,053 to 5,060. graduate students engaged in profes- three film series. Total attendance sional or doctoral research or summer at these events surpassed 5,000. intensive language training. The The Center’s impact also grew remaining 10 students participated in through its publications, includ- the Center-supported field trip to Peru. ing two new books on key issues for the region, several new ECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL working papers and reports, and REFORM three issues of Since its founding, the Center has the increasingly popular devoted a major portion of its attention DRCLAS NEWS (to make its fall and resources to addressing economic 2001 debut as ReVista: the policy issues and their implications for Harvard Review of Latin America). growth and welfare in the region. The A newly expanded Outreach program, William Fash and David Carrasco slowdown in the world economy made possible by U.S. government exposed persistent vulnerability in a designation of the David Rockefeller number of economies and made the Center as a Title VI National Resource Seven DRCLAS Visiting Scholars and development of effective policies even Center for Latin American Studies, three Robert F. Kennedy Visiting more urgent. At the same time, slug- reached pubic school teachers and Professors of Latin American Studies, gish or declining growth rates made it students as well as community organi- as well as over 40 other Latin American even more difficult for governments to zations, journalists, the business and Latin Americanist visitors community, and the general public as throughout the University added never before. considerably to the Center’s intellec- tual life during 2000-01. At the same Meanwhile, the number of faculty time, the number of Harvard faculty actively engaged in research on Latin research and consulting projects America throughout Harvard Univer- involving Latin America increased to sity continued to rise, from 81 in 1994- 88 (from just 20 in 1994-95). 95 to 103 in 2000-01. Counting only senior faculty who spent more than DRCLAS faculty and staff collaborated half their time in research and teaching on two major innovations in student on Latin America, the number rose programs in 2000-01. The first was a from 12 to 17. This number will course field trip organized by Social increase substantially again over the Studies Lecturer and DRCLAS next two years with new appointments, Undergraduate Coordinator Sylvia including five senior faculty to be Maxfield, who took her Freshman recruited to fill new professorships Seminar class to Peru, where the funded by endowment gifts to the students became official election Center. Searches are currently under- monitors and met with numerous Harvard students sport official election monitoring vests way in the FAS Departments of Peruvian officials and academics. This while they work in Peru. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, project worked so well that the Center Government, and Romance Languages has decided to make funds available confront the region’s accumulated and Literatures, and in the Kennedy through an application process to any social deficit and environmental School of Government. A fifth chair, the instructor with a field trip proposal. problems. first of the Center-endowed posts to be filled, is the Neil L. Rudenstine Profes- The second innovation was a major The Center addressed these issues in a sorship, which will be assumed in the increase in the Center’s support for series of seminars, conferences, and coming academic year by David student travel for work as well as publications during 2000-01. The Carrasco, formerly of Princeton research in Latin America. A record Center also collaborated and co- University, who will hold a joint number of 110 students received sponsored activities with other appointment in the Divinity School and DRCLAS grants in 2001. Of that Harvard entities. the Department of Anthropology. number, 39 were students who were
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 On economic policy issues, the Center described below in this annual report, provided major funding to support the went for the study of crucial economic annual conference of Economía, the issues. journal of the Latin American and Mark Mosely Caribbean Economic Association, Historical and contemporary evidence edited by Kennedy School economist demonstrates that while economic Andres Velasco. The Center contributed growth is a necessary condition for to a variety of projects initiated by the improvements in living standards over Center for International Development the long run, economic growth alone (CID) of the Kennedy School, including does not guarantee effective gover- the CID’s new project on economic nance or social equity. The Center and development in the Andean republics. its faculty have thus devoted more time The CID’s Central America project, and attention to institutional and policy supported by the Center, published its reform in the field of social policy and findings and recommendations in four democratic governance than to any Paul Farmer at work in Haiti volumes, two on economic develop- other topics. The past year was no America. The conference brought to ment and policy edited by former exception. The Center sponsored seven Cambridge researchers and practi- Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor conferences and workshops on issues tioners struggling to cope with drug- Felipe Larraín, one on environmental that ranged from public health and resistant tuberculosis and HIV, which policy edited by Kennedy School education policy to democratization differentially affect vulnerable Lecturer Theodore Panayotou, and a and human rights. fourth on legal reform by Law School populations such as the very poor. Harvard Medical School physicians Professors Martha Field and William In the field of education, as Associate and students, led by Paul Farmer, Jim Fisher. Professor of Education Fernando Yong Kim, and others have pioneered Reimers argues persuasively, that the development of new approaches to The Center collaborated with other policies designed to raise the general controlling these diseases by mobiliz- Harvard groups to organize confer- level of literacy and schooling are not ing victims and their communities. ences on the efforts to negotiate enough to reach marginalized popula- Public health issues were also ad- solutions to tensions over environmen- tions such as indigenous groups, the dressed in the Fall 2000 issue of tal and other issues between oil rural poor, and many children in urban DRCLAS NEWS, the Center’s widely companies and indigenous organiza- slums. Reimers edited the Center’s new read magazine, and an increasing tions in the lowland areas of the Andes, book, entitled Unequal Schools, Unequal number of Center research grants to Chances: The Challenges to Equal faculty and students have concentrated Opportunity in the Americas. The in this field in recent years. book contains extensive data and analysis on the problem of The Center sponsored or co-sponsored inequality of access to educa- additional meetings, detailed below, tion in Latin America as well as that focused on the connections the United States, based on between democratization and policies papers originally presented at a to improve social equity. These in- DRCLAS conference the cluded a one-day meeting on the social previous year. It demonstrates policies of the new Mexican govern- the need for new policies ment of President Vicente Fox, as well specifically targeted at popula- as conferences on democratic transition tions that have been left out of Otto T. Solbrig and Robert Paarlberg in Peru and the development of the educational advances of the past international human rights law. and on the future of private utilities in century. This DRCLAS book provided Latin America. The Center’s Corporate the occasion for a meeting on these THE ENVIRONMENT Partners Program seminars focused on issues at the Organization of American Environmental issues have received regulatory reform and prospects for States in Washington, where OAS priority attention at DRCLAS since its freer trade in the Americas. The Center Secretary General César Gaviria inception, in large part due to the funded a conference in the fall, orga- praised its contribution to education efforts of Bussey Professor of Biology nized by doctoral students in Govern- policy and reform in the Americas. ment, on the political economy of Otto Solbrig. In 2001, the Center added to its book series a volume of essays financial sector reforms, as well as the Two other areas of research and edited by Solbrig, Robert Paarlberg, annual spring conference on business policymaking occupied the Center’s and Francesco di Castri, Globalization in Latin America organized by the faculty and students during the past and the Rural Environment. As Solbrig students of the Harvard Business year: public health and democratiza- points out, Latin America has the School’s Club Ibero-Americano. In tion. In the fall, the Center hosted the largest potential for agricultural addition, a major portion of the major conference on Community-Based expansion of any region on earth. Center’s support for faculty and Responses to the Control and Treatment of Globalization has stimulated rapid student research, shown in the projects Emerging Infectious Diseases in Latin growth in output, but as crop produc-
4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY tion has risen, more and more than ever before. The major event of on Ethnic Studies and the Depart- forested areas and savannas have the past academic year was the first ment of Romance Languages and fallen to the plow with ecological ever exhibition of Latin American Literatures focused attention on the consequences that need to be better modern art at the Fogg Museum. The rise and significance of bilingualism understood. This volume grew out of exhibition, Geometric Abstraction: Latin in poetry. American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection opened on With support from the Center, March 9 with a reception and graduate students in the School of banquet followed by a two-day Design (GSD) organized the “First symposium on the exhibit and the Annual Conference on Latin Ameri- artistic traditions represented in it. can Architecture” and invited young The Fundación Cisneros provided Latin American and Spanish archi- support for the exhibit and the tects as well as several well-estab- accompanying catalog. Both were lished figures to present and discuss reviewed in glowing terms in the their work. The Center also sup- press and art media. The Cisneros ported a second GSD urban design Foundation also contributed to a studio in Havana, directed by GSD year-long lecture series on post- design critic Leland Cott, and agreed Conquest artistic traditions in Latin to support a new project in the America. coming academic year that will take a dozen GSD students with faculty Meanwhile, the Center’s Art Forum leaders including, Professor Jorge hosted exhibits of work by Domin- Silvetti, to Chile to work on the ique Pepin, Connie Lloveras, and design of low-cost housing develop- Reginald Jackson, selected by a jury ments. of DRCLAS faculty and consultants. Essence by Connie Lloveras The DRCLAS Outreach program The study of the ancient cultures of made it possible for local middle the Americas, a field in which a DRCLAS conference in 2000. A and high school students to meet and Harvard anthropologists and follow-up meeting on Opportunities interact with the artists. The Center’s archaeologists have long made and Challenges of Biotechnology to initiatives in the field of Latin important contributions, received the Agriculture in the Mercosur took place American art are described in detail Center’s support through faculty and in Mar del Plata, Argentina, co- in the page that follows. student research grants. At the sponsored by the Argentine Associa- suggestion of Bowditch Professor tion for the Promotion of Direct The Center sponsored three meetings William Fash, the Center became a Seeding. on aspects of Latin America’s rich co-sponsor of excavation work on the literary traditions during 2000-01. Royal Palace of Teotihuacan, a project In the coming year, the Department These included a major conference, that is expected to yield important of Organismic and insights into the origins and history Evolutionary Biology of one of the greatest of all the pre- (OEB) hopes to recruit a Colombian cities. distinguished specialist working on environ- IMMIGRATION AND LATINO STUDIES mental and ecological The 2000 Census results, published issues in Latin America throughout the spring of 2001, to the Monique and revealed to the U.S. public what Philip Lehner Profes- specialists had known for some time: sorship, one of the five the Latin American origin population new chairs allocated on of the United States has experienced the Center’s recom- tremendous growth in the past mendation for senior decade. At the dawn of the new searches throughout century the 35 million-plus Latino the University. The population in the United States made Lehner Professor will up roughly 12 percent of the total US Marcelo Suárez-Oroczo, John Coatsworth, and Doris Sommer join Solbrig and a population. The Bureau of Census growing cadre of faculty in OEB, who organized by Professors of Romance estimated that by the year 2050 a full are making Harvard a major center of Languages and Literatures Bradley quarter of the US population, nearly work in this field. Epps and Luis Fernández Cifuentes 100 million people, will be of Latino and co-sponsored with the Real origin. ARTS AND HUMANITIES Colegio Complutense, on España The artistic, literary, and cultural Fuera de España. Participants analyzed The Center’s Inter-Faculty Commit- achievements of Latin America, the impact and image of Spain in tee on Latino Studies, chaired by increasingly celebrated throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the Victor Thomas Professor of Education the world, have suddenly become world. Another conference, co- Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, expanded its much more prominent at Harvard sponsored with the FAS Committee activities during 2000-01. Suárez-
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5 Orozco, together with Education The Center’s initiatives to foster addition to programs relating to School colleague Mariela Paéz, as- research and teaching on the “third economic and human rights policies. sembled and edited papers presented sector” in Latin America received a In the spring, DRCLAS co-sponsored at the April 2000 Center conference major boost during the past year with with the Project on Justice in Times of Latinos in the 21st Century Mapping the the appointment of Professor Cynthia Transition a series of appearances by Research Agenda. Sanborn from the Universidad del Spanish judge Balthasar Garzón, who Pacífico in Lima to the William Henry discussed the international legal The new book Latinos! The Remaking of Bloomberg Visiting Professorship of implications of the effort he initiated to America will be published jointly by Philanthropy in the Kennedy School of prosecute Augusto Pinochet, former DRCLAS and the University of Government, starting in the coming military ruler of Chile. California Press in the coming year. academic year, The Center’s activities This year, Harvard University Press in this field are actively supported by DRCLAS Executive Committee published another new book by the Tinker and the Lampadia Founda- member Jorge Domínguez, the Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco tions and are described in detail below. Clarence Dillon Professor of Interna- entitled Children of Immigration, which tional Affairs, published an important reports on the results of their extensive A parallel effort, led by DRCLAS new book on U.S. relations with Mexico research on the impact of immigration Executive Committee member James with co-author Rafael Fernandez de to the United States on immigrant Austin, the John G. McLean Professor Castro entitled The United States and children from many nations. of Business Administration, was Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict. launched during the past year. The Meanwhile, DRCLAS formed a new Harvard Business School’s Social BRAZIL, CUBA, HAITI, MEXICO Task Force on Immigration and Latino Enterprise Initiative (SEI) in Latin The Center’s country-focused pro- Studies, composed of faculty, students, America aims to create a research- grams included special attention to alumni and alumnae, as well as driven network among leading Latin Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and Mexico during interested members of the Center’s American business schools to the past year. These activities are Advisory Committee. The Task Force strengthen their institutional capacity described in detail in the pages that met in May to discuss how to expand to train NGO managers through follow. and develop Latino Studies at Harvard. regular classes and executive educa- At the meeting, both Marcelo Suárez- tion. The initiative has received support CONCLUSION Orozco and DRCLAS Director John from the Avina Foundation. The DRCLAS-sponsored lectures, meetings, Coatsworth voiced strong support for network includes business schools in seminars, and conferences served the long-term goal of creating an Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, multiple purposes. They educate independent Center for Latino Studies Costa Rica, and Mexico. students, facilitate productive ex- with sufficient resources both to changes among experts and practitio- promote teaching and research at THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA ners, call attention to issues and Harvard and to have an impact As in past years, the Center sought to problems, and stimulate interest in contemporary policy debates. contribute understanding and analysis Latin America. They complement the of U.S.-Latin American relations, both formal courses offered in the depart- In April, the Center sponsored a one- by focusing attention on key issues and ments and Faculties. They help both day conference on a little-studied by fostering communication between student and faculty researchers to test aspect of immigration to the United U.S. policymakers and intellectuals and and refine their conclusions. Many of States. Entitled Passing Lines: Immigra- their Latin American counterparts. the DRCLAS programs bring leading tion and (Homo)sexuality, the conference During the 2000-01 year, the Center co- intellectuals and policy makers from examined a variety of issues and sponsored two major events with the Latin America to Harvard or make it problems related to the sexual orienta- Harvard Law School, related to U.S. possible for Harvard faculty and tion of migrants and prospective policy in the region. The annual HLS students to consult scholars, policy migrants. Colloquium on International Affairs makers, and other sources in Latin focused this past spring on A New America. The increasing number and PHILANTHROPY AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISE American Foreign Policy: Global Voices, diversity of these activities and the Over the past three years, the Center Opportunities, and Challenges. The topics they confront is testimony to the has collaborated closely with the Center co-hosted a major address by explosive of Latin American studies at Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organi- Mexican Foreign Secretary Jorge Harvard over the past seven years. zations to develop research and Casteñeda and organized a panel on teaching capacity at Harvard on the U.S. trade policy that included Argen- emerging “third sector” throughout the tine Economy Minister Domingo region. Redemocratization in the 1980s Cavallo, DRCLAS Director John and early 1990s fostered a new civic Coatsworth, and Andres Velasco, activism reflected in the proliferation of Sumitomo Professor of International non-governmental organizations and Finance and Development in the voluntary associations of all kinds. At Kennedy School of Government. the same time, the lack of tax and other incentives continue to discourage The Center sponsored several lectures private philanthropy despite economic and roundtable discussions of various restructuring aimed at reducing the aspects of U.S. policy toward Brazil, role of government. Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico in
6 DRCLAS BY THE NUMBERS
Faculty Resources in Latin American Studies
Indicators of Faculty Participation 1994-95 2000-01
Faculty listed in DRCLAS Latin American Directory 107 172 Faculty devoting > 25% time to area 81 103 Faculty serving on DRCLAS Policy Comm. 20 51 Senior faculty devoting > 50% time to area 12 17 Endowed professorships on Latin America 2 8 Faculty Research or Curriculum Grants 13 11 Faculty Working Groups/Projects 5 14 Sylvia Schmelkes and Fernando Reimers look on as Gary Orfield speaks at the March 2nd conference on Closing the Equity Divide
Strengthening Ties to Latin America
Latin American Relationships 1994-95 2000-01
Harvard Faculty Projects on Latin America c20 88 Visiting Professors from Latin America 0 3 Visiting Scholar Post-Doctoral Fellowships 0 7 Collaborating Latin American Institutions c10 36
DRCLAS Activities
Events sponsored by the Center 1994-95 2000-01
Lectures and seminars 42 134 Research conferences and seminars 5 21 Art exhibitions 1 4 Film series 1 4 Outreach programs for local schools 0 15 Total attendance at DRCLAS events c780 c5000 Grant recipient Elizabeth Walker and colleagues in Brazil
Engaging Harvard Students
Student Involvement 1994-95 2000-01
Undergraduates specializing in Latin America 29 42 Graduate/professional student specialists 75 114 Undergraduate students from Latin America 32 27 Graduate/professional students from Latin America 249 401 DRCLAS News, the Center’s Newslette have a new look as of Fall 2001 and a new Undergraduate summer travel grants 11 19 ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin Am Graduate/professional student travel grants 22 39 DRCLAS summer internships 0 39 Students in field trips/courses in region 12 65 Term Time Study abroad 12 8 Graduate research fellowships 5 10 Graduate summer language training (FLAS) 3 3 Total DRCLAS aided students to region 53 175
Teaching Latin America DRCLAS Publications
Courses and Enrollments 1994-95 2000-01 Center Publications 1994-95 2000-01
Undergraduate lecture courses 8 19 DRCLAS book series (new titles) 0 3 Total courses on Latin America (>25%) 182 251 Working papers 0 4 Students receiving Latin American Certificate 11 24 Newsletter issues 0 3 Undergraduate enrollments in Service publications 0 7 Latin American Studies courses 4,053 5,060 Web page (number of hits monthly) n/a 2,000+
7 Programs
Conferences
This academic year, the Center sponsored or co-sponsored 21 Fawzi. Several resource guides for community-based health international workshops, seminars, and conferences, bringing programs are being produced, with the aim of disseminating together academics and policy makers, journalists and artists, participants’ experience to a wider audience and of fostering entrepreneurs and regulators, to grapple with many of the an inter-American network of community-based health most challenging issues facing the region. More extensive providers. reports on many of these conferences are available at the Center’s web page at
8 PROGRAMS CONFERENCES CLOSING THE EQUITY DIVIDE: ACHIEVING EQUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY IN THE AMERICAS, MARCH 2, 2001 Members of the academic, child advocacy, international development, and NGO communities came together at the Organization of American States’ Hall of the Americas to examine past efforts at educational policy reform and to discuss new strategies required to close the equity divide. The conference launched the new book Unequal Schools, Unequal Chances: The Challenges to Equal Opportunity in the Americas, recently published as the fifth volume in the Center’s book series on Latin American Studies. Edited by HarvardRaul Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers, the book Yzaguirre Fernando Reimers, John Coatsworth, and Jaime Gilinski examines the persistent inequalities in educational opportu- nity in the Americas, despite important gains in expanding educational access. Speakers included Secretary General César with the David Rockefeller Center. The discussion, held in Gaviria of the Organization of American States, and Raul Guatemala City, Guatemala, brought together approximately Yzaguirre, President and CEO of the National Council of La 75 officials and private individuals who play active roles in the Raza, as well as a number of Harvard faculty members. Major Guatemalan intelligence community with 9 intelligence support for the Closing the Equity Divide conference was experts from around the world. The three-day event was provided by the Jaime and Raquel Gilinski Endowment, with organized by Harvard Law Professor Philip Heymann, Faculty additional support from the William and Flora Hewlett Chair of the Project on Justice in Times of Transition. Major Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education Title VI support for this event came from the Central American Fund Program. at the David Rockefeller Center.
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REFORM IN LATIN AMERICA: GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE, NOVEMBER 30, 2000 Graduate students in the government department coordinated Raul this conference to explore the political economy of financial sector reform, as well as liberalization, privatization and Yzaguirre country credit-worthiness. The conference brought together graduate students from Columbia, Duke, Northwestern, and Yale universities, as well as students from Harvard’s Depart- ment of Government, to present their ongoing research. Professor Jorge Domínguez, Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Development, served as chair of the BILINGUAL EFFECTS, MARCH 9, 2001 conference. This symposium focused on issues of poetry and bilingualism in the Andes, Mexico, Paraguay, Spain, and the United States. The conference considered the aesthetic and political dimen- sions of bilingualism, its advantages of flexibility and mutual respect of differences, as well as the challenges it brings to Reaction to España fuera de España narrow notions of patriotism and cultural patrimony. In a series of panels, speakers from the fields of literature and “This was perhaps the most intellectually stimulating conference I linguistics discussed the theme Bilingual Effects in the Andes and have been to. The selection of speakers was first-rate: it was a privilege to hear such distinguished scholars, and the proportion Paraguay, in Spain, and in Other Contexts. The symposium of outstanding papers was exceptionally high. The conference concluded with two special readings on Bilingual Effects in benefited from having a very clear focus, while also allowing Poetry by Peruvian poet Róger Santiváñez and Puerto Rican different speakers to explore varied angles on the issue of how poet Tato Laviera. Cosponsors of the event included the Spanish culture has been constructed in and outside of Spain. The Committee on Ethnic Studies, the Department of Romance issues addressed were important both pedagogically and Languages and Literatures, and DRCLAS. The Gustavo intellectually.” Brillembourg Memorial Fund provided support for this Jo Labanyi, Professor of Spanish and Cultural Studies, School of conference. Modern Languages,University of Southampton LATIN AMERICAN ART SYMPOSIUM, MARCH 9 - 10, 2001 In conjunction with the exhibition Geometric Abstraction: Latin “El Seminario ha supuesto una enriquecedora dialéctica American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection intelectual al contraponer métodos de análisis y teorías críticas (works from the celebrated Cisneros Collection of Caracas, de variada observancia; desde la estilística o la historiografía Venezuela), the Harvard University Art Museums, the tradicionales hasta los estudios culturales y la teoría de un “nuevo Department of the History of Art and Architecture, and historicismo’’ fundado en una rigurosa Filosofía de la Historia Literaria se ha podido encarar una cuestión que no es un mero DRCLAS presented a two-day symposium on twentieth tópico académico, sino mucho más: la referencia a un hogar century abstract painting in Latin America. The symposium colectivo en el que experimentan su vividura cotidiana muchos explored the rich and diverse development of geometric millones de personas.” abstraction in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela from the late 1940s through the 1980s. The conference began with a Leonardo Romero Tobar, Universidad de Zaragoza lecture by Paulo Herkenhoff from the Department of Paintings and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
PROGRAMS CONFERENCES 9 Speakers included Guy Brett, English critic and scholar of modern Latin American art; Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. In Reaction to Passing Lines.... Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University; and Luis Perez Oramas, curator, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, “It certainly was one of the most exciting programs I have Caracas, Venezuela. participated in. I came back to Columbia totally inspired to keep on talking about the way our conversations and challenges to each other could change our concepts and practice across ESPAÑA FUERA DE ESPAÑA: LOS ESPACIOS DE LA HISTORIA LITERARIA, disciplines.” MARCH 16 - 17, 2001 This two day conference brought together 18 prominent Alice M. Miller, Law and Policy Project scholars from distinguished universities in the United States, Spain, and Great Britain to address two interrelated subjects: the roles and images of Spain in an increasingly globalized countries, the economic models that have been applied to the age, and the function of literary history in the wake of theory region, their successes and failures, and what might be and its attendant programs of study (cultural studies, expected in the future. Panel presentations included Private postcolonial studies, new historicism, subaltern studies, etc.). Equity and Venture Capital Investment Opportunities, Fundraising Participants discussed such topics as the politics of literature Strategies in Latin America, and Entrepreneurs after the Hype. and the relations, in the realm of print culture and pedagogy, between Spain and Latin America. The presentations and PASSING LINES: IMMIGRATION AND (HOMO)SEXUALITY, APRIL 5, 2001 discussions were conducted in a mixture of Basque, Catalán, This one-day conference initiated a dialogue on the role of English, Galician, and Spanish. The conference was organized sexuality and sexual orientation in immigration to the United by Professors Brad Epps and Luis Fernández Cifuentes and States from Latin America and the Caribbean. Participants graduate students María Colbert and Daniel Frost, with the considered such issues as political asylum, health support of DRCLAS, Real Colegio Complutense, and the requirements (HIV/AIDS), marriage and marriage fraud, Department of Romance Languages and Literature. This political affiliation, profiling, border controls, and INS conference was made possible through the generous support interviews, while simultaneously reflecting on the of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. complexities, inconsistencies, and paradoxes of immigration. In recognition of the importance of eyewitness testimony, SOCIAL POLICY IN MEXICO: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES, expertise, and advocacy for this issue, the conference brought MARCH 19, 2001 together a dozen scholars and activists from both sides of the This conference focused on the challenges and opportunities border. The conference was organized and moderated by facing President Fox’s administration in the field of social Professor Brad Epps from the Department of Romance policy, particularly in light of the political transition in Mexico. Languages and Literature. A collection of essays based on the The Center worked closely with the Harvard University conference is also being planned. An executive summary is Mexican Association (HUMA) and the Center for International available at:
10 PROGRAMS CONFERENCES THE CHANGING AGENDA OF U.S.- MEXICO RELATIONS, as the editor and conference organizer. This conference was APRIL 23, 2001 made possible through the support of the Antonio Madero and The recent shifts in the United States and Mexican Julio Mario Santo Domingo endowments, as well as the governments spurred the organization of this seminar, which William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The fourth panel focused on changing relations between Mexico and the United meeting will be held on October 18 - 20, 2001, in Montevideo, States., specifically on the questions of economic integration Uruguay, along with the LACEA annual meeting. and the problem of immigration. The agenda included debate and discussion on NAFTA and Economic Integration and IS THERE A FUTURE FOR PRIVATE UTILITIES IN LATIN AMERICA?, Contested Spaces: Immigration and Foreign Policy. The event was MAY 4 - 5, 2001 sponsored by DRCLAS with the collaboration of the Harvard Latin America has been at the forefront of the privatization University Mexican Association (HUMA) and made possible movement, with many of the companies sold to the private through the generous support of the Antonio Madero sector in the 1990s currently thriving without substantial Endowment. An executive summary is available at
THIRD ECONOMÍA PANEL MEETING OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION (LACEA), APRIL 27 - 28, 2001 Economía, launched in 2000, is the policy journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, in which new theories and techniques are applied to policy questions. The journal publishes papers on issues that are both at the forefront of the policy agenda and of broad interest to countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. LACEA holds panels twice a year at which candidate papers for future issues are presented and discussed. In 2001, the first panel meeting was held at Harvard University, with the presence of 25 scholars from the United States, Europe, and Latin America. The panels and journal were co-sponsored by the CID, Antonio Jacanamijoy, Luis Fernando de Angulo, and Theodore MacDonald DRCLAS, LACEA, and the World Bank. Andres Velasco, participate in the Oil Dialogues conference. faculty member of the Kennedy School of Government, served
PROGRAMS CONFERENCES 11 Outreach DEAR CONNIE, he David Rockefeller Center looks slides and paintings at Harvard provided back with great satisfaction on its the cohesive link they needed to form a “Gracias por dejarnos ver tus pinturas Tfirst year as a National Resource new community with their peers.” Center, having won that coveted designa- y tus expresiones sobre las pinturas. tion from Title VI of the U.S. Department Teachers also spoke of how their power- Espero que un día de estos tenga la ful encounters with Latin American art, of Education in the spring of 2000. The oportunidad de ir a la escuela de accompanying funding supports the history and culture at DRCLAS brought Center’s outreach projects and enables them closer together as educators and nosotros a la Irving Middle School.” DRCLAS to create and develop new colleagues. Students sent personal programs that make Latin American drawings and emailed questions that resources at Harvard more accessible to illustrated their deep involvement in the the public, serving schools, journalists, haunting images of the Brazilian- African and businesses as well as cultural and diaspora in Reginald Jackson’s work, or community groups. the play of nature and spirituality in Pepin’s Mexican photographs. From A tour of this year’s highlights indicates private suburban academies or inner city the breadth and depth of the Center’s public schools, young people found outreach initiatives, and their central role respect afforded their diverse cultural in the DRCLAS mission. backgrounds. Teachers found lively resources to weave with state curriculum K-12 PROGRAMS frameworks, and the visiting artists found “El corazón con el agujero es como lo DRCLAS has forged strong and dynamic themselves profoundly inspired. relationships with local schools, particu- siento mi corazon, los remolinos al larly at the intermediate and secondary Hot off the press is the first in a series of dentro son todas las confusiones que curriculum guides to DRCLAS NEWS, levels. In the past academic year alone, tengo, las estrellas son como un poco we hosted over 250 schoolchildren as part shaped to help teachers utilize our unique of our Latin American and Latino Art topical publication as a primary source in de esperanza... Por lo menos el rojo es Forum (see p. 20) and other cultural high school and postsecondary Latin sangre y el negro es fuerza y presentations. Visiting artists are invited America-related instruction in social tristeza.” to interact in various ways with and studies, art, world languages, history and schoolchildren and the community. other subjects. Guides are prepared by outreach staff in collaboration with the On a page torn from a memo pad, a Graduate School of Education and in young boy wrote, “Thank you for consultation with local K-12 educators. accepting us in your library…. I learned that when I am seeing a[n abstract] In partnership with Boston’s World picture, I’m not seeing a messy thing – I Affairs Council, DRCLAS maintains a am seeing the feelings of a person.” A curriculum resource library for teachers classmate of his sent her response in and offers professional development Spanish, which was spoken throughout workshops. This year’s programs her class visit by the artist, teachers, and featured The Dominican Republic and DRCLAS representatives: “Estoy Carnival Traditions Across the Americas. orgullosa de mi cultura cuando pienso en With the Harvard Graduate School of “Lo que me gusta de usted es que las obras de arte que vi en su lindo Centro.” Education, the Center supports the todo lo que has soñado lo has Teachers as Scholars program, offering in- The Center’s transportation scholarship depth, high level seminars for high school logrado y que eres una persona fund covers the cost of field trip busses for teachers; language immersion institutes in positiva y he aprendido que si uno under-served schools. DRCLAS also Spanish and Portuguese are also offered se propone hacer lo puedes lograr.” partners with the Harvard Museums so to educators. students can view the Mayan and Aztec collections during their visit. Curriculum Our fruitful collaboration with other Title consultations for classroom enrichment VI Outreach Centers (Russian, Middle before and after visits to the Center are Eastern, and East Asian Studies at available to all teachers. “Frankly,” Harvard and the African Studies Center at admitted a teacher from the MLK middle Boston University) produced World school in Dorchester, “I never expected a Literature in the Classroom. Piloted as an in- Harvard institution to be so welcoming! service professional development course When can we come back?” for which teachers could earn state recertification credits at neighboring “You have no idea what an effect our visit Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, the to your Center has had on our entire six sessions explored regional literatures bilingual program,” said Ms. T. Bottomley as a means of understanding culture and of the Washington Irving Middle School current events. Emphasis was placed on in Roslindale, with some emotion. “There developing practical curricular materials. were kids who had arrived in the U.S. just days before, and their experience with the
12 PROGRAMS OUTREACH DRCLAS contributed to the organization and service opportunities. The Center’s and support of the World History recent collaboration with the Philips Symposium at Northeastern University, Brooks House further expands our reach. which is partly funded by the Massachu- setts Foundation for the Humanities. K- The Latin American and Latino Speakers “Connie... te quiero agradecer poder 12 educators from throughout the region Bureau sends graduate students and other haber compartido contigo mis participate and benefit from this annual scholars on request to local K-12 class- event, whose theme this year was Personal rooms, community colleges and organiza- sentimientos y mis penas.” Identities and Public Communities in World tions. History. DRCLAS participation at other highly attended K-12 educator events, “My time at the Center was such as the New England Regional rewarding and inspirational. I was Conference on the Social Studies, en- surprised by all of your clever hanced public awareness of the Center’s questions and beautiful under- resources and services. standing of my work. It confirmed the potential of youth and the LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS AND PROGRAMS The Harvard University Libraries add respect that we must have towards twenty thousand volumes from or about you.“ Latin America each year. More than $510,000, including $10,000 from DRCLAS Dominique Pepin, exhibiting artist outreach, was spent on Latin American acquisitions. During the summer, DRCLAS worked closely with library staff Outreach funds supported various faculty to inventory and document Latin America and professional staff travel. One related film and video holdings of the highlight was the Latin American entire University. In the coming year, the Journalists and Editors Conference in “Tus obras me parecieron Center will also help facilitate a formal Miami, which DRCLAS helped sponsor in maravillosas. Todas me gustaron. assessment of the library system’s Latin partnership with Florida International Es muy bonito expresarse con American holdings, accessibility and University, as part of the Center’s services. outreach to media and journalists. símbolos y colores.” Nieman Journalism Fellows and DRCLAS In the summer of 2001, DRCLAS was publications and outreach personnel were pleased to host three Library Scholars, among the Harvard participants at the who were chosen in a competitive meeting, which featured international process. Richard Weiner, from Indiana panels and audiences of academics and University-Purdue University at Fort journalists covering the hemisphere. Wayne, explores economic discourse and political identity in Porfirian Mexico; Spring brought a percussive splash to Sophia McClennen, University of Illinois, DRCLAS in the person of Grammy is analyzing gender and politics in Latin award-winning musician Roberto American cinema; and Stuart McCook, Vizcaíno Guillot. A faculty member at the The College of New Jersey, is completing Instituto Superior de Arte in Cuba and a a study on how values and ideologies of Tinker Visiting Professor at the University institutions have shaped the encounters of Wisconsin-Madison for the 2001 Spring between North Americans and Cubans, Semester, Vizcaíno came to DRCLAS particularly vis-à-vis the Atkins Garden in through a scholarly exchange program Cienfuegos, Cuba. The program affords with our fellow Title VI Center in scholars from non-research institutions Madison. DRCLAS sponsored local access to the Harvard libraries, office workshops and master classes given by “This is the symbol of going back in space at DRCLAS, and the chance to this extraordinary classical and Afro- time to the place I love, Dominican mingle and consult with faculty and Caribbean drummer at locales ranging Republic.” visiting scholars. from the New England Conservatory to the Brazilian Cultural Center in Cam- COMMUNITY bridge. The new Outreach website (accessible from www.fas.harvard.edu/~drclas) is We look forward to expanding our geared toward educators and the general outreach programs in the years to come, public. We are planning an informative in sync with the active intellectual culture and interactive space to foster dialogue and mission of the Center and surround- and increase public access to Harvard’s ing communities. To this end, an Out- Latin American Studies resources. reach Advisory Group has been formed, Harvard graduate and undergraduate so that DRCLAS can respond to voices students may consult our listings, both on from its many and varied constituents. and off line, of Spanish, Portuguese and Creole-speaking organizations in sur- rounding communities to find internship
PROGRAMS OUTREACH 13 Program on Philanthropy, Civil Society, and Social Change
he David Rockefeller Center and Dr. Cynthia Sanborn was named the that will be run in Buenos Aires by the the Hauser Center for the Study of Philanthropy Program Director in Harvard Business School, the Hauser TNonprofit Organizations at January 2001 and begins her tenure as Center, and Universidad de San Andrés. Harvard University the William Henry continued their Bloomberg Visiting During the spring 2001 semester, the fruitful collaboration Professor of Philan- Program launched the Philanthropy on the Program on thropy at Harvard in Seminar Series, with the aim of Philanthropy, Civil August 2001. The expanding the opportunities at Harvard Society, and Social Bloomberg Chair was University to learn about and discuss Change in Latin established in 1996 as philanthrophy and civil society in Latin America. Highlights a rotating University- America. The series brought together for this year include wide faculty position, some of the leading academics and the arrival of is designed to bring to practitioners in the field. Program Director Harvard scholars and Cynthia Sanborn, practitioners in the A key priority of the Program has been the initiation of the fields of philanthropy the promotion of a tax and legal Philanthropy policy and practice, environment that is conducive to the Seminar Series and public service and development of philanthropy and the Visiting Fellows Cynthia Sanborn volunteerism, and/or nonprofit organizations in Latin Program, continued work on tax reform effective leadership America. This year, the project continues and fiscal incentives for philanthropy, and management of nonprofit and public working in this area, conducting and the development of a comprehensive institutions. comparative research on the tax codes of Web site on philanthropy in Latin America. In January 2001, the Program started a series of short-term residential fellowships for leading scholars PHILANTHROPY ON THE WEB and practitioners from Latin America. The first visiting fellow The Program on Philanthropy, Civil was Gabriel Berger, Director of Society and Social Change’s webpage the Graduate Program on Non- contains links to more than 100 institu- profit Organizations, tions that are promoting philanthropy in Universidad de San Andrés, the Americas. Searches may be conducted Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, easily by focusing on one of the many and Centro de Estudios de categories: Academic Programs, Directo- Estado y Sociedad in Argentina. ries, Events, Magazines and Portals, During his stay at Harvard, Nonprofit Organizations, and Publications Professor Berger gave a lecture, and Research. The program continues to The Nonprofit Sector in Argentina: Ambassador Thomas McNamara, President of the update and improve its Web page to Americas Society at the Philanthropy Challenges and Opportunities, as Subcommitte meeting facilitate the access to and expansion of part of the Philanthropy Lecture information on philanthropy in Latin Series, and provided important America. Recently, the Philanthropy strategic direction to the Pro- a number of Latin American countries Program created a virtual library that gram on Philanthropy, Civil and documenting the findings on the contains conference papers, information Society, and Social Change in program’s Web page, which offers links about philanthropy courses and projects Latin America. Berger collabo- to more than 100 institutions that at Latin American academic institutions, rated with Harvard faculty on a promote philanthropy in the region. By and documents about legislation for the three-day donor-training building a virtual library with relevant nonprofit sector in the region. The Web workshop on strategic giving documents for those interested in page also contains a description of the philanthropy and civil Philanthropy Program; information on society in the Americas, the opportunities that DRCLAS offers the Program seeks to make for scholars and practitioners in the resources available to the philanthropy and civil society area; broadest constituency of summaries on the workshops and scholars, practitioners, and international conferences held at the organizations. David Rockefeller Center; information about legal and tax issues related to The Philanthropy Program philanthropy and to nonprofit organiza- is made possible through tions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, generous support from the Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela; Tinker Foundation and the and information on the Philanthropy Lampadia Foundation. Lecture Series. Major support for the Philanthropy Web page is provided by
the Tinker Foundation. Philanthropy Program Associate Rodrigo Villar and Advisory Committee member Roberto Cezar de Andrade
14 PROGRAMS PHILANTHROPY Cuba Program he DRCLAS Cuba Program In promoting cross-disciplinary scholar- connects scholars and scientists ship, DRCLAS has helped Harvard’s from Harvard’s diverse disciplines professional schools to expand current “The key to Harvard’s Cuba program T is a full engagement with Cuban in collaborative projects with Cuban exchange initiatives with Cuban institu- colleagues and their institutions. Now in tions. In 2000 - 2001, the Harvard Medical academics across disciplines and its third year, the Program has evolved School and the School of Public Health points of view. That is good for into one of the most extensive and varied have undertaken scientific exchanges with Harvard; that is good for Cuba.” programs of its kind. Cuba’s leading tropical medicine research Jorge Domínguez With generous support Executive Director, Weatherhead Center for from the John D. and International Affairs and Clarence Dillon Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of International Affairs Foundation, DRCLAS sponsored eight extended practitioners from Cuba and the United visits by Cuban researchers States. Four Harvard faculty members, this academic year. At four graduate students, and three Harvard, the scholars undergraduates traveled to Cuba to researched issues ranging conduct research as a result of DRCLAS from ethnicity and race in grants. Six Cuba-related courses were contemporary Cuba and offered at Harvard in government, US- Cuban relations to the history, anthropology, literature, public development of a dengue health and sociology. virus vaccine. DRCLAS’s efforts to develop and Lee Cott, Harvard Design Critic in Urban Planning and Design, and Mario disseminate Cuba-related Coyula, Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Architecture, Instituto Superior research will lead to the “José Antonio Echeverría” and Director of the Grupo para el Desarrollo first joint publication Integral de la Capital, present a lecture on Havana’s urban design. CUBAN VISITING RESEARCHERS between Harvard and a Cuban 2000-2001 institution. In summer 2001, DRCLAS and institute and treatment center, the the Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Pedro Marta Aleida Díaz, Research in Orchidology, de la Cultura Cubana “Juan Marinello” Kourí.” The Graduate School of Design Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática will release Culturas Encontradas: Cuba y conducted its second Havana design Arabel Cuesta Moline, Research in los Estados Unidos, an edited volume studio in the spring 2001 semester with Orchidology, Cienfuegos Botanical Garden exploring the cultural and social aspects the Grupo para el Desarrollo Integral de Mayra Mune Jiménez, Dengue Virus Vaccine of U.S.-Cuban relations since the la Capital, to study planning and urban w/DNA Immunization, Pedro Kourí Institute nineteenth century. design strategies in the Almendares River of Tropical Medicine district. Faculty from the Kennedy School Gisela Arandia Covarrubias, Comparative of Government were hosted by the Study of Race in Cuba, Dominican Republic and University of Havana’s Center for the Puerto Rico, Unión Nacional de Escritores y Study of the United States and the Artistas Cubanas (UNEAC) “Hasta el presente más de 10 profesores de Isabel Jaramillo Edwards, U.S. Foreign Cátedra de Administración Pública to Harvard y 9 estudiantes de Harvard han Policy Towards Latin America, Center for the explore the development of a new public pasado por el IPK, asi como cuatro estudiantes Study of the Americas (CEA) nuestros y tres profesores han vistado Harvard. policy exchange program with the Victor Fowler Calzada, The Way Writers in El intercambio entre Harvard y el IPK (Instituto University of Havana. the U.S. Imagine Havana, Biblioteca de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kourí) a través del Internacional de Jose Martí DRCLAS ayuda a conocernos más y promueve To raise the visibility of Cuban studies at Orlando García, The Sugar Trade between el intercambio de ideas, además de ayudarnos Harvard, DRCLAS sponsored the Cienfuegos and Boston, Archivo Provincial a poder entrenar a nuestros estudiantes con Perspectives on Contemporary Cuba Cienfuegos & UNEAC acceso a tecnología de alta calidad. Los Lecture and Film Series, promoting estudiantes aprenden aquí en Cuba cosas Oscar Zanetti, Cuba’s Sugar Industry in early nuevas sobre las diferentes enfermedades discussions between academics and 20th Century, Instituto Nacional de Historia tropicales, pero también sobre nuestra realidad, nuestros problemas, nuestra vida y nuestros enfoques. Para la ciencia, es importante recibir diferentes puntos de vista, diferentes enfoques abren nuevas perspectivas de pensamiento y trabajo. DRCLAS ha dado todo el apoyo financiero y logístico para posibilitar este intercambio, sin éste apoyó yotrabajo no hubiésemos podido materializarlo al intercambio.”
Jorge Pérez Subdirector del Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kourí
Alumni of the Cuban Visiting Researchers Program meet with visiting Harvard faculty members at a reception in Havana, Cuba
PROGRAMS CUBA 15 Brazilian Studies at Harvard University
uring the 2000 - 2001 academic from Harvard’s Kennedy School of international organizations and a year, the David Rockefeller Government, the Center for International comprehensive Web page, Center for Latin American Development, the School of Public Health
Distinguished speakers included Ceará Governor Tasso Jereissati, Secretary of Health Anastácio Sousa, economist Werner Baer, former Minister of Finance Ciro Gomes, CAPES Director Luiz Loureiro, International Program Coordinator Geraldo Nunes, composer and musician Nelson Motta, photographer Reginald Jackson, and curator Paulo Herkenhoff. The centerpiece of support for this work has been the Jorge Paulo Lemann Endowment for Brazilian Studies.
The presence of three Visiting Scholars from Brazil this year had a catalytic effect within Harvard, increasing the visibility of country-specific and comparative June 28th Public Lecture, Current Political and Economic Issues in Brazil: The Development research, forming Brazil-U.S. institutional Project of the State of Ceará, Brazil. Photo (left to right): Salvador Sandoval, Andrew Reider, networks, and expanding local outreach. Jennifer Burtner, Renata Jereissati, Tasso Jereissati, Joana Jereissati, Cleidson Rangel, and Marcel UNICAMP sociologist Teresa Sales’ Amorim. research on Brazilian immigrants in the greater Boston area documented social Paraná business professor Gilmar Maseiro interns in Brazil during summer 2001. A transformations in one of the largest conducted research on Brazil’s national significant proportion of these students Brazilian communities outside Brazil. economic development and worked on a worked in public health and development Sales helped establish a Boston-based guide to Brazilian Studies in the United utilizing DRCLAS contacts. network of academics and practitioners States. In fall 2001, Sandoval and Masiero and aided the Brazilian consulate in its will be joined by political scientist Sonia In 2001 - 2002, the Center is expanding its outreach efforts, reinforcing the de Avelar, a specialist on philanthropic support for Brazil, beginning with a visit relationship between Massachusetts and culture and networks, and sociologist by the founder of Comunidade Solidária, Minas Gerais. Rowan Ireland, a scholar of Brazilian First Lady Dr. Ruth Cardoso the urban movements and religious establishment of a faculty working group PUC- São Paulo and UNICAMP social associations. on Democratizing Brazil and three faculty- scientist Salvador Sandoval’s work on led conferences. Extending AIDS Treatment labor and social movements has helped Through its semester-long thematic series, to Poor Communities Worldwide: Lessons form a network of faculty and students each of which is co-sponsored by two from Brazil will bring together officials Harvard departments, professional from the Brazilian Ministry of Health, schools, or campus organizations, National AIDS Program, and other DRCLAS brings additional academics and medical and community health “Gostaria de parabenizar ao practitioners from Brazil for public lecture representatives with counterparts from DRCLAS pela organização das and research opportunities. In fall 2000, Haiti, Mexico, Chile, Peru, and the United palestras sobre Saúde Pública no the Center worked with Harvard Medical States. Social Movements in the South: Brasil. Muitas questões foram School, the School of Public Health, and Brazil, India, and South Africa in abordadas pelos palestrantes e the Harvard Brazilian Organization to Comparative Perspective will develop a agora cabe a nós, brasileiros, organize a conference on Brazilian Public research agenda on social movements in assumirmos a responsabilidade de Health Systems. In spring 2001, it worked these three countries and work to create a sanar de uma vez por todas esses with faculty from Harvard’s Center for framework for a broader three-year problemas. Esses eventos tem um International Development, the Kennedy collaborative research project. What About papel importante para a informação, School of Government, the School of the Other Latinos? examines the changing educação e a conscientização de Public Health, and the Medical School to face of Latin Americans in the United nosso povo.” develop a conference on Democratization States., featuring panels on and the and Social Movements in Brazil. participation of members of Boston’s J. Otavio DePaula-Santos, M.S. Brazilian community. Massachusetts DEP - Drinking To facilitate the sharing of information, Water Program DRCLAS developed an organizational contact database of 100 Brazilian and
16 PROGRAMS BRAZIL Expanding the Study of Mexico at Harvard
nterest in Mexico surged this past year Robert Pastor, Professor of Political the relationships among education, at Harvard, with myriad seminars, Science, Emory University; Jesús Reyes poverty, and inequality. The book’s editor, Iconferences, and distinguished Heroles, former Ambassador of Mexico to Harvard Graduate School of Education speakers. the United States; Ricardo Hausmann, Associate Professor Fernando Reimers, Professor of the Practice of Economic cited his extensive research in Mexico in The Center’s Mexico program included a Development, Kennedy School of Govern- his overview chapter and throughout the semester-long speaker series entitled book. Mexico in Transition, major conferences on Social Policy in Mexico and on U.S.- In a vivid example of Mexican Relations, three Robert F. the synergies created Kennedy Visiting Professors from Mexico by the support from teaching at Harvard and numerous the Fundación Mexican visiting researchers, as well as México en Harvard significant support for Harvard faculty and the Madero and students undertaking research on Visiting Scholars Mexico. Building on the strength of the program, Teresa Mexico program, the fall 2001 issue of the Bracho, the first such Center’s newsletter will be devoted to Visiting Scholar, recent work on Mexico. Most of these wrote one of the key activities were co-sponsored with the chapters and served Harvard University Mexican Students as a commentator on Association (HUMA) and made possible another chapter in with generous support from the Antonio the Unequal Schools Madero Endowment for the Study of Antonio Madero, Solomon Chertorivsky, Florencio López de Silanes, and Steve Reifenberg book. To raise Mexican and Latin American Politics and awareness about this Economics. ment; Luis de la Calle, Undersecretary for important work, the Center organized a International Trade at the Finance Minis- day-long conference on March 2, 2001, at During the 2000 -2001 academic year, the try; Adrián Lajous, former CEO of PEMEX; the Organization of American States in Center organized the series, Mexico in William Richardson, former U.S. Ambassa- Washington, D.C. with policy makers and Transition: What Does It Mean? Where Is It dor to the United Nations and U.S. authors to discuss the ways that the Going? José Wollenberg, President of the Secretary of Energy; Marcelo Suárez findings of the book may influence Mexican Federal Election Institute, gave Orozco, Professor, Harvard Graduate educational policy in the region. OAS the initial talk on the Mexican electoral School of Education; Gustavo Mohar, Secretary General César Gaviria hosted the process. Other policy makers included U.S. General Coordinator for Migratory Affairs conference and noted that the book “is Ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Davidow at the Ministry of Foreign Relations, particularly valuable for those who are and Minister of Foreign Relations Jorge Mexico; Robert Bach, Deputy Director, committed to fostering educational Castañeda, who spoke as part of the 2001 Working Communities Division, opportunity and social equity in this new Harvard Colloquium on International Rockefeller Foundation. John Coatsworth age of globalization.” Affairs, A New American Foreign Policy? served as chair for both conferences. Global Voices, Challenges & Opportunities. On the archeology front, Harvard Profes- Harvard also hosted three Mexican sor William L. Fash was invited by the On March 19, 2001, the Center hosted the specialists as Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Mexican government to excavate the royal conference, Social Policy in Mexico, with Professors in Latin American Studies. palace at Teotihuacán in collaboration with Harvard faculty and Mexican participants. Social anthropologist Rodolfo Stavenhagen leading Mexican archeologists León López Social Policy Coordinator José Sarukhan taught courses on indigenous people in the Lujan at INAH, and Linda Manzanilla, and Professor Jeffrey Sachs developed this anthropology department; educational Director of Investigaciones Antropológicas project to engage policy makers and specialist Carlos Muñoz-Izquierdo at UNAM. According to many experts in Harvard faculty interested in Mexican discussed the links between poverty and the field, the palace complex is potentially social policy. Mexican representatives education at the Graduate School of one of the most important sites for included Carlos Elizondo, Director, Centro Education; and philosopher and theolo- Mexican archaeology of this century. de Investigación y Docencia Económica gian Enrique Dussell contributed to the (CIDE); Vicente Arredondo, National intellectual debate on globalization at the Support from the Center and the Madero Coordinador of PROGRESA, Government Divinity School. Endowment also has helped underwrite of Mexico; Clara Jusidman, former the student research and internship Secretary for Social Development, Mexico DRCLAS also published the fifth volume program and complemented funds from City Government, Carlos Hurtado, in its book series, this one with a signifi- the Fundación México en Harvard. Undersecretary of the Treasury, Govern- cant focus on Mexico. Unequal Schools, DRCLAS and the Fundación supported ment of Mexico; and Roberto Villarreal Unequal Chances: The Challenges to Educa- five students to do research work in Gonda, advisor for the Comisión Para el tional Opportunity in the Americas was the Mexico during the summer of 2000 and 15 Desarrollo Social y Humano, Government result of a two-year collaboration among students in 2001. Their research topics of Mexico. 18 colleagues. The book’s contributors, ranged from work on Water-related Illness many of them key participants in educa- along the U.S-Mexico Border to The Politics of The Center organized a second major tion policy reform in the region, examined Financial Liberalization in Mexico. conference on U.S.-Mexico Relations on current policies and issues in Mexico, April 23, 2001. Participants included Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and the United States, and explored the nature of
PROGRAMS MEXICO 17 Haitian Studies: A New Initiative
he DRCLAS Haitian Initiative fellowship’s goal is to help Haiti’s current fosters collaboration between The series generated a great deal of and future leaders address the economic, THarvard and institutions in Haiti enthusiasm among faculty, students, and education, public health, and legal system and facilitates research opportunities for the public, and plans are underway for challenges facing the country. Dean of the Harvard faculty and Haitian program- Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye, Jr., was students. The ming over the enthusiastic about the scholarship: “The program stresses next two years Sogebank Fellowship for Haiti will help interdisciplinary with an eye develop a corps of well-trained profes- approaches to toward 2004, the sional public leaders.” thinking about Haiti, bicentennial of a nation that pro- Haitian indepen- The crucible of Haitian survival has also foundly reflects the Mark Mosely dence. created a unique signature of religion, historical, cultural, arts, language, and above all a deeply and even ecological The Massachu- rooted sense of identity. The Center has dynamics established setts Haitian received expressions of interest and by the forced meeting community is the support from across the University for of three worlds: third largest in courses in Haitian Creole language and Arawak, European, the United States. culture. “ There is culture in language and African. Local participa- that cannot be translated, particularly in Paul Farmer talks with a patient in Haiti tion enhances the case of Haitian Creole,” commented The DRCLAS-Haiti program- connection has its own history. In the fall matic initiatives, and the commu- of 1998, the Art Forum featured the work nity itself benefits. The Center has of Haitian painter and poet Marilene created a database of local Haitian organizations and service or internship opportunities for “I am very interested in Haitian issues, and am delighted there is more going on students.
at Harvard University in this regard. Patrick Sylvain Given the large and vibrant Haitian Another sign of the growing community in Boston (and right next visibility of Haiti at Harvard is door in Cambridge and Somerville), there the Kennedy School of are some great opportunities for outreach and linkage with the community. I, for Government’s recently estab- one, look forward to being very involved lished scholarship for midcareer with whatever Haitian studies initiative Haitian public-sector profession- comes out of this!” als. Funded by Haiti’s Fondation Michelle Pierre-Louis and Michel Trouillot lead a talk on Haitian Sogebank, the scholarship will Education, Economic, Political, and Social Systems: Joel Sawady, Harvard College graduate and allow one Haitian professional current Harvard medical student each year to attend the Kennedy School as Charlene Dèsir, doctoral candidate at the an Edward S. Mason Fellow. Initiated by Harvard Graduate School of Education. Phipps. For many years, DRCLAS Policy former Mason Fellow and chief economist Ms. Dèsir was awarded a DRCLAS travel Committee member Paul Farmer (physi- of Sogebank, Pierre-Marie Boisson, the grant for research in Haiti this summer, a cian and faculty member of the Harvard harbinger of things to come. Medical School and co-founder of the international Partners in Health organiza- tion) has been known for his work in ANDEAN COMPETITIVENESS PROJECT: Haiti. This coming November, DRCLAS SETTING A NEW COURSE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY will sponsor the first-ever panel on Haiti at the New England Council for Latin The Center for International Develop- has succeeded in putting competitive- American Studies. ment at Harvard University and the ness on the public agenda in the Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) Andean countries, holding more than The 2001 Haitian Studies Seminar Series are cooperating on a multi-year Andean 20 workshops, mini-conferences, and Education, Health, Immigration, and Competitiveness Project (ACP), in dialogues in the region, and focusing Development in Haiti was both conjunction with Andean research particularly on information technology, groundbreaking and catalytic for the new institutions, private sector representa- foreign direct investment, and the initiative. Sponsored by an unusually tives, other members of civil society, specific practices that countries need to broad coalition of faculty, administrators, overcome to improve competitiveness. and community groups, it was made and the governments of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezu- possible in part by a grant from the On June 21-22 the project held a ela. The ACP began officially in Harvard University Provost’s Fund for conference in Caracas entitled “Com- December, 1999, with the goal of Interfaculty Collaboration. The seminars petitiveness and Development: Vision defining and promoting an integrated attracted a large and diverse audience and Priorities for Action.” The confer- agenda for national and regional including many first time visitors to the ence provided an opportunity for 80 competitiveness that will encourage Center. Panels featured a balance of U.S. high-level Andean government and environmentally sustainable growth and Haitian academics, figures from business leaders to discuss how to and significantly improve living Haitian politics and NGOs, and leaders move forward in areas that are crucial conditions in the region. The project from the diaspora community. to improving competitiveness.
18 PROGRAMS HAITI Latin American Art at Harvard
his year, for the first time ever, a Professor Cummins also served as a Harvard Art museum hosted an Visiting Professor of Latin American Art Geometric Abstraction in Texhibition of contemporary Latin at Harvard during the fall of 2000, Latin American Art Symposium American art. teaching two March 9-10, 2001 Geometric Abstrac- courses on colonial tion: Latin American Latin American art, Art from the Patricia the first regular Paulo Herkenhoff, Adjunct Curator, Phelps de Cisneros courses on post- Department of Painting and Sculpture, Collection opened at contact Latin The Museum of Modern Art, New York the Fogg Museum American art ever Southern Boundaries of the Modern: The Case of Neoconcretismo in Latin American on March 9, 2001. Johnson Theresa offered in Harvard’s history Art “Not only is the of art and architec- work of these ture department. Mary Schneider Enríquez, Co-curator important artists too of the Exhibition Outlined the history behind the organiza- little known in Engaging Harvard North America, but tion of the exhibition, Geometric Abstrac- faculty with some tion, and the creation of the first annual collaborations of Latin America’s Latin American art lecture series at between North and Patricia Phelps de Cisernos speaks at the Geometric collectors and Harvard Latin American Abstraction exhibit opening leading art experts, critics, scholars, and many of whom are Gustavo Buntinx, SUR - Casa de institutions are far too rare,” said James members of the David Rockefeller Estudios del Socialismo, Lima, Peru Cuno, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Center’s Advisory subcommittee on Latin The Return of the Sign: The Director of the Harvard University Art American art, was another critical step Resymbolization of the Real in Carlos Museums. “With increasing awareness of forward. Subcommittee members Leppe’s Performance Work our cultures’ common histories and Estrellita Bograd Brodsky, Barbara interests, it is only appropriate that Duncan, Mary Schneider Enríquez, Yve Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., individuals and institutions from all of the Angeles Espinosa Yglesias, Robert and Professor of Modern Art, Harvard Americas join together to present the Emily Marcus, Patricia Phelps de University work of the most important artists of our Cisneros, and David Rockefeller met Encounters, Latin American abstract common hemisphere,” he said. during the year with faculty members artists of the 1960s from a personal vantage point John Coatsworth and James Cuno to The David Rockefeller Center for Latin explore ways to promote Latin American Luis Enrique Pérez Oramas, Curator, American Studies participated in an art at Harvard. historic collaboration with the Harvard Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Caracas University Art Museums and the Depart- “I am really thrilled to witness the The Poetics of the Penetrable and the ment of the History of Art and Architec- heightened awareness of Latin American Minimalist Scene: The Paradoxes of Absolute ture to develop a year-long speaker series, art at Harvard,” commented Mary Absorption New Perspectives on Latin American Art Schneider Enríquez, Advisory Committee member and graduate of Harvard’s Guy Brett, independent critic and master’s in fine arts program, who served curator as a guest curator for the Cisneros show at Brazilian Experimentality and the World the Fogg. “Things are changing in Scene dramatic ways and the future holds incredible promise,” she said.
Among the auspicious signs are discus- sions about devoting part of the planned new art museum at Harvard to Latin American collections. Faculty members are enthusiastic about developing new courses and inviting visiting professors in Latin American art to Harvard. Momen-
tum is developing, and there is every Johnson Theresa indication that Latin American art has Mary Schneider Enríquez found a home at Harvard. from the 16th Century to the Present. The “We hope this is just the beginning,” said series featured art experts from North and John Coatsworth, director of the David South America, including Natalia Majluf, Rockefeller Center. “Next on our long list director of the Museo de Arte in Lima, comes recruiting new faculty and Peru, and Tom Cummins, Associate curators, then dedicated exhibition space, Professor of Art History at the University visiting artists, graduate fellowships, the of Chicago. museum collections, and much more.”
Cisneros exhibit opening at the Fogg Museum of Art
PROGRAMS ART INITIATIVES 19 Art Forum
he 2000-2001 academic year could Center hosted the paintings of be considered the year of Latin Cuban-American artist, Connie TAmerican Art at Harvard. Lloveras. Her show, entitled Through a number of important Interior Gardens, was a visual initiatives, from the Cisneros Exhibition reflection of subtle emotional at the Fogg Museum of Art to Harvard’s states, rendered in shades of year-long lecture series New Perspectives red and black. The spring semester featured local photographer and anthropolo- gist Reginald Jackson, who presented a collection of photographs that documented the Yoruba Young Filhas by Reginald Jackson religious practices in Brazil, Africa, and the United States. One of the most striking aspects of this exhibition was the large Reginald Jackson chats with an ESL student from Cambridge Rindge and number of people who Latin High School visited Dr. Jackson’s show in the virtual gallery space on Latin American Art, the University on the DRCLAS Web site presented Latin American art and artists (www.fas.harvard.edu/~drclas), which also to the Harvard and Boston communities links to Jackson’s site: in an unprecedented way. (www.gis.net~olaleye).
DRCLAS helped organize and support The Center expects the coming year to be each of these events and continued its even more active. Not only has the own series of Latin American art number of entries from artists from Latin activities, which headlined the DRCLAS America and nationwide increased winter/spring 2001 Newsletter, “Art in dramatically from last year, but the Forum the Americas.” The Center’s Latin has also started to work closely with American and Latino Art Forum members of the Harvard faculty and showcases up-and-coming artists. museum curators in the organization of Generously supported by the Gustavo exhibitions. Joining efforts with the Brillembourg Memorial Fund, the DRCLAS Outreach Program to plan artist Forum’s goal is to present new Latin presentations for students from area American artists, and artists who feature primary and secondary schools, the Latin America as their primary theme, to Forum is in the process of implementing a Harvard and its surrounding new and comprehensive agenda of Locked-In by Connie Lloveras community. activities for future featured artists.
This year, the Forum hosted three major exhibitions: Montreal-based artist Dominique Pepin, Miami-based painter
Connie Lloveras, and Warren Tim Boston photographer Reginald Jackson. During the fall of 2000, Dominique Pepin presented a series of photographs entitled Reflections and Ceremonies: Meeting with a Mazatec Shaman that Artist Connie Lloveras presents her work at DRCLAS as explored the Steve Reifenberg looks on. relationship between nature and healing Cerro de la adoracion in shamanism. During the winter, the by Dominique Pepin
20 PROGRAMS ART FORUM Lectures, Seminars and Cultural Events 19: Incas and Mulattos at the Spanish Court: The Center sponsored more than 70 Looking at Royal Presence, by Tom Cummins, 6: Three Perspectives on the Future of Mexico, by lectures, symposia, seminars, and Associate Professor and Director, Center for Harvard’s three Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Latin American Studies, University of Chicago, Professors of Latin American Studies: Rodolfo cultural events during the 2000-2001 and Visiting Professor, Harvard University Stavenhagen, Department of Anthropology; academic year. Co-sponsors are (Latin American Art Series). Enrique Dussel, Harvard Divinity School; and indicated where applicable in this Carlos Muñoz-Izquierdo, Harvard Graduate chronological list of events. 20: Rethinking Regulation: New Roads to School of Education. (Mexican Series). Investment in Latin America, DRCLAS Corpo- S______EPTEMBER 2000______rate Partners Program Fall Seminar. 7: Cuban Literature During the 1990’s, by Victor Fowler Calzada, Adjunct Professor of Letters at 19: Borderless Identities: A Workshop in Latin 24: Harvard Student Reception for recipients of the University of Havana, member of the American/American Latino Approaches to Summer 2000 Latin American Travel Grants. Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba International Law, by Liliana Obregón, Byse- (UNEAC), Coordinator of the National DRCLAS Fellows, and SJD candidate at 26: Epidemiological Profiles of Malaria in the Program of Literacy, and associate of the Harvard Law School. Western Amazon Region, by Dr. Luiz Biblioteca Nacional Jose Martí (Cuban Series). Hildebramdo Pereria da Silva, Professor at the 21: Fidel, Che, and the 21st Century, by Enrique University of São Paulo and Director of the 8: Outreach presentation at Teachers as Scholars, Oltuski, author of The People of the Plains and Center for Research for Tropical Medicine, Latin American History Class, by John H. former Minister of Communications (Cuban Porto Velho, Rondonia. Commentary by Coatsworth, Director, DRCLAS. Series). Andrew Spielman, Harvard School of Public Health. Co-sponsored by the HSPH and the 9: Perspectives on Genetically Modified 21: The 5th Annual Latina/o Welcome Day for Harvard Brazilian Organization (Brazilian Agriculture: Biology, Ecology, and Economics, by Harvard students with Latin American Series). Otto Solbrig, Professor of Biology and Acting background or interest, sponsored by Concilio Director, DRCLAS, and Ana Vázquez,Professor Latino. of Biology.
29: DRCLAS Annual Open House,and opening 9: Revisiting the Conflict in Chiapas, by Samuel of the Latin American Latino Art Forum Ruíz García, former Bishop of San Cristóbal de Exhibit, Reflections and Ceremonies: Meeting with las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico; Rodolfo a Mazatec Shaman, by Dominique Pepin. Stavenhagen, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor and Professor of UNAM; Carlos Tello O______CTOBER 2000 ______Díaz, DRCLAS Visiting Scholar; Miguel Alvarez, Director of Serapaz, Mexico; and John 5: Latino U.S.A.: A Cartoon History, by Ilan Womack, Professor of History (Mexican Series). Stavans, professor and author, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Lalo Alcaraz, 9: Designing, Conducting and Writing Applied illustrator, co-sponsored by the Askwith Social Science Research, featuring Harvard Education Forum at the Harvard Graduate Student Research and Internship work School of Education. (Brazilian Series).
10: Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican 15: Art in the Absence of Criticism: Francisco Laso Republic: Identity and Race in the Hispanic and the Failure of the Public Sphere in 19th Century Peru, by Natalia Majluf (Latin Caribbean, by Gisela Arandia Covarrubias, Victor Fowler-Calzada member of the Union of Writers and Artists of American Art Series). Cuba (Cuban Series). ____NOVEMBER______2000 16: Fox in the Hen House: The Mexican Tradition, 12: Solving Public Health Challenges at the State by DRCLAS Visiting Scholars Carlos Tello Díaz Level, by Dr. Anástacio de Queiroz de Sousa, 1: The Hero and the Nation: General Rondon and and Todd Eisenstadt, hosted by the Boston Secretary of Health, Ceará, Brazil, commentary the Brazilian National Identity, by George de Area Consortium on Latin America. by Judith Tendler. Co-sponsored by the Cerqueira Leite Zarur, Brazilian House of Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Representatives Academic Advising Staff 16: Language and Cultural Barriers and Health and Brazilian Organization (Brazilian Series). member. Introduction by David Maybury- Social Services, with community organizations, Lewis, Department of Anthropology (Brazilian hospitals and clinics working with the 13: Colombian Artists Between Emotion, Nation, Series). Brazilian community. Panel moderated by and Imagination. Participating artists included: Teresa Sales, DRCLAS Visiting Scholar. Josefina Jacquin-Bates, Jairo Barragan (Naide), 2: Linking Research to Practice: Participatory Commentary by Carola Suárez-Orozco, Elsa Borrero, Jorge Olarte, and Ana Uribe. Art Action Models in Social Science Research, Lecturer and Senior Research Associate, critic Luis Camnitzer gave an opening gallery Harvard Faculty Research, by John David, Harvard Graduate School of Education. talk. Co-sponsored by the Colombian Karen Peterson, Alberto B. Ascherio, Ana (Brazilian Series). Consulate in Boston and the Colombian Cristina Terra de Souza, and Dieter Koch Colloquium at Harvard and MIT Student Weser. Commentary by Felton Earls. Co- 17: An Encounter with Carlos Fuentes, by Carlos Association. sponsored by The Harvard Medical School, Fuentes, diplomat, essayist, literary historian, The Harvard School of Public Health and The and author of numerous screenplays, dramas, 16: La Inseguridad Hoy en El Salvador, by Harvard Brazilian Association. (Brazilian short stories, and novels. Co-sponsored by the Douglas Marcouiller, Boston College, hosted Series). Graduate School of Education (Mexican Series). by the Pan American Society of New England. 3: Can International Law Help the Colombian Peace 17: Salsa, Picos, and Identity in Cartagena and 17: U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Latin America and Process?, by Jorge Esquirol, Assistant Professor, Cali: A Audiovisual Presentation, by Deborah the Caribbean: The Challenges of Instability, by Northeastern University School of Law. Co- Pacini, ethnomusicologist, Trinity College, co- Isabel Jaramillo Edwards, Senior Research sponsored by the Colombian Colloquium at sponsored by the Colombian Colloquium at Fellow at the Center for the Study of Ameri- Harvard and MIT Colombian Student Harvard and MIT Colombian Student cans in Havana, Cuba (Cuban Series). Association. Association.
LECTURES, SEMINARS AND CULTURAL EVENTS 21 23: Cuban Education: Our Role Model?, by Pedro ______FEBRUARY 2001______Noguera, Professor, HGSE; Judith K. Dimond, Professor, HGSE; Barbara Hunt, journalist; and 2: Redrawing the Nation: Pablo Gastón, high school student. Indigenous Intellectuals and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia, M_____ARCH______2001 by Jean Jackson, Professor of Anthropology, MIT, and 1: Graduate School of Education Alumni Joanne Rappaport, Professor Reception, Organization of American States, of Spanish, Georgetown Washington D.C. University, co-sponsored by the Colombian Colloquium 7: The Return of the Sign: The Resymbolization of at Harvard and the MIT the Real in Carlos Leppe’s Performance Work, by Colombian Student Gustavo Buntinx, Independent Scholar, CUR- Association. Casa de Estudios del Socialismo, Lima (Latin American Art Series). Audience members listen and take notes at a Haitian series lecture 7: DRCLAS Summer Internship Program 8: Decentralization, Social Capital, and Executive Information Session Power: Social Policy Reform in Brazil, by Marta 18: Dominican Identity: A Glimpse of a T.S. Arretche, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Complex Mosaic, Professional Development 12: El Proceso Electoral de Mexico 2000, by Dr. São Paulo, Brazil, Visiting Scholar, Department Workshop for K-12 Teachers and Counselors, co- José Woldenberg, Consejero Presidente ante el of Political Science, MIT, Fall 2000/ Spring sponsored by the World Affairs Council and Bunker Consejo General del Instituto Federal Electoral, 2001. Commentary by Richard M. Locke, Hill Community College. Mexico, co-sponsored by the Harvard Associate Professor of Management and University Mexican Students Association Political Science, MIT (Brazilian Series). 30: Information Session on DRCLAS grants (Mexican Series). available for student research and internships 8: Research Roundtable: Doing Challenging in Brazil, followed by a workshop on the 12: Cooperación Internacional en una Epoca de Research in Cuba, by Harvard College seniors proposal and application (Brazilian Series). Globalización: Retos y Oportunidades, by Ray Priscilla Aquino, Education Policy; Suzanne Offenheiser, President of Oxfam America, Besu, Health Policy; Jackie Hamm, Catholic hosted by Pan American Society of New Church in Cuba; and Patrick Nobel, D______ECEMBER 2000 England. Ethnomusicology (Cuban Series). 1: Latin American and Latino Art Forum Opening and Exhibition of Interior Gardens, by 12: Roberto Viscaino Guillot, Faculty Member Cuban-born artist Connie Lloveras. at the Instituto Superior de Arte, New England Conservatory of Music 5: Cuban Immigration and Transnational Ties, by Susan Eckstein, Professor of Sociology, 12: Sol y Canto: Su Música e Inspiraciones, by Boston University, and Lorena Barberia, Brian and Rosi Amador, hosted by the Pan- DRCLAS Cuba Program Associate (Cuban American Society of New England. Series). 13: The Role of Foundations in the Strengthening 7: Afro-Hispanic Literature of the Caribbean, Civil Society in Latin America, by David Content and Curriculum Interactive at Winder, Director of Global Philanthropy and Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School. Foundation Building, The Synergos Institute Collaborative effort with other National Harvard Graduate School of Education Administrative Dean (Philanthropy Series). Resource Centers at Harvard. Joel Monell and HGSE alumni (courtesy of Carolyn Johnson) 14: Havana and Its Architecture: Living in the 8: Urban Transportation and Collective Self- Past and Future, by Lee Cott, Design Critic in Esteem: The Case of Bogotá, by Arturo Ardila, 13: The Nonprofit Sector in Argentina: Challenges Urban Planning and Design, HGSD, co- doctoral student, Massachusetts Institute of and Opportunities, by Gabriel Berger, Director of sponsored by Latin GSD (Cuban Series). Technology, co-sponsored by the Colombian the Graduate Program in Nonprofit Organiza- Colloquium at Harvard and MIT Colombian tions, University of San Andres, University Student Association. Torcuarto Di Tella and CEDES, and Visiting Fellow at DRCLAS (Philanthropy Series). 14: Política de la Identidad y Movimientos Cocaleros en Bolivia y Colombia: Apreciaciones 16: Haitian Education, Economic, Political, and Culturales sobre la Guerra Antidrogas, by Bret Social Systems: An Historical Perspective, by Gustafson and María Clemencia Ramírez, PhD Michele Pierre-Louis, Executive Director, Open candidates in Social Anthropology. Society Institute – Haiti, and Michel-Ralph Trouillot, Professor of Anthropology, Univer- sity of Chicago. Discussants: Paul Farmer, ______JANUARY 2001______HMS/PIDSC, and Alix Cantave, University of 22: Grupos Indígenas de Argentina: Luchas Massachusetts-Boston (Haitian Series). Políticas y Redefinición de Identidades, by Gastón Rafael Gordillo, DRCLAS Visiting Scholar, 21: Stabilization, Growth, and Other Economic hosted by Pan American Society of New Policy Dilemmas: Brazil, 1985-2000, by Eduardo England. Loyo, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, KSG; Faculty Associate, CID (Brazilian Series). 25: Localism and Regionalism: New Social Movements and Territorial Identities, by Carlos B. 23: Colombian Literature in the Twentieth Century, Vainer, Professor, Instituto de Pesquisa e by Maria Mercedes Jaramillo, Professor, Planejamento Urbano e Regional, Fitchburg State College, co-sponsored by the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Colombian Colloquium at Harvard and the Roberto Viscaino Guillot (Brazilian Series). MIT Student Association.
22 16: DRCLAS Latin American and Latino Art 16: Adaptación y Conflicto Cultural: Los Latinos en 11: Mexico in Transition, by Jeffrey Davidow, US Forum Opening and Exhibition: AXE II / The el Mundo de Negocios de Estados Unidos, by Geraldo Ambassador to Mexico, co-sponsored by the Unbroken Circle: Afroethnographs, by Reginald L. Villacres, President, Hispanic-American Harvard University Mexican Students Jackson. Chamber of Commerce of Boston, hosted by Association (HUMA) (Mexican Series). the Pan-American Society of New England. 19: Distant Alliances: Promoting Education for 11: The Crisis of Democracy in Colombia: From a Girls and Women in Latin America, by Nelly 20: Haitian Education and Development, by Serge Restricted to a Besieged Democracy, by Ana Maria Stromquist, Professor of Education at the Madhere, Howard University, and Paul- Bejarano, visiting fellow, Notre Dame University of Southern California. Co- Antoine Bien-Aime, Minister of Education, University, and Eduardo Pizarro, visiting sponsored by the Gender and International Haiti. Discussants: Mary Jo Bane, KSG and fellow, Notre Dame University, co-sponsored Education Student Group, the Gender Studies Gary Orfield, HGSE (Haitian Series). by the Colombian Colloquium at Harvard and Program, HGSE Women in Public Policy the MIT Colombian Student Association. Program, KSG, and HGSE Diversity Fund 20: Freedom of the Press in Chile, by Consuelo Saavedra, Nieman Fellow 2001, organized by 14: El Papel de la Ilegalidad en la Epoca Colonial 20: Cuban Images: Society, Transitions, and the Chilean graduate students at Harvard, Latinoamericana, by Angela Pérez-Mejía, Public Policy, by Xavier de Souza Briggs, MIT, Tufts, Clark and Boston University. Assistant Professor, Brandeis University, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, co- hosted by the Pan American Society of New sponsored by MPA-ID, and the KSG’s Latino 23: Nightgowns from the Past: Dilemmas of Telling England. Student Caucus (Cuban Series). a Cuban Story Where African Spirits and Jewish Memory Converge by Ruth Behar, Professor of 16: DRCLAS Student Grant Reception for 22: Rethinking the Rights of Children and Anthropology, University of Michigan, co- Summer 2001 Internship and Research Grant Adolescents, by Felton Earls, Professor of sponsored by Askwith Education Forum at the recipients Human Behavior and Development, Harvard HGSE (Cuban Series). School of Public Health and Benedito Rodrigues dos Santos, Professor, The Catholic 24: Reflections on the March 2001 Bay of University of Goiás, Brazil (Brazilian Series). Pigs Conference: Declassifying Cuban Documents and Choreographing 29: Rural Colombia and The Plan Colombia, by Political Theater, by Jorge I. Domínguez, Alfredo Molano, sociologist and journalist, co- Clarence Dillon Professor of Interna sponsored by the Colombian Colloquium at tional Affairs and Director of the Harvard and the MIT Colombian Student Weatherhead Center of International Association. Affairs (Cuban Series).
30: Fifty Years of Violence in Colombia: Continu- 30: The War Against Oblivion: A ities and Discontinuities, by Alfredo Molano, Learning Experience, by John Ross, sociologist and journalist, co-sponsored by the author of The War Against Oblivion - Colombian Colloquium at Harvard and the Zapatista Chronicles 1994-2000. MIT Colombian Student Association. ______MAY 2001______
A______PRIL 2001 ______Harvard Law School Professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger and 2: Latino Transnational Ties: A New Kind Governor Tasso Jereissati 4: Understanding Philanthropy in the Latin of U.S.-Latin American Relation?, by American Context, by Cynthia Sanborn, Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College; Susan Universidad del Pacifico (Peru) and DRCLAS Eckstein, Boston University; and Lorena Director of the Program on Philanthropy, Civil Barberia, DRCLAS. Hosted by Boston-Area 24: Noites Tropicais: Brazilian Music Since Bossa Society, and Social Change in Latin America Consortium on Latin America. Nova, by Nelson Motta, composer, journalist, (Philanthropy Series). music critic and producer (Brazilian Series). 3: Nutrition and Fertility: Changing Lifestyles and 6: Economic Integration in the Americas, Policy Implications, by Claudia Valeggia, Post- Corporate Partners Program, Spring Seminar, Doctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, ______JUNE 2001 co-sponsored by Florida International Harvard University and Researcher, Centro del University’s Latin American Center Miami, Hombre Antiguo Chaqueno, CONICET, 6: Awards Ceremony and Reception for Certificate Florida. Argentina. in Latin American Studies Program recipients and their families 11: Allegories of Conflict: Mexican Art and the 4: Establishment and Fiscal Performance: A Second World War, by James Oles, Art Depart- Snapshot Of the Chilean Experience in the Nineties, 11: Economics and Ecology of Land Use Change in ment, Wellesley College, co-sponsored by by Joaquin Vial, former Chilean Director of Brazil, workshop on new ways of mapping Harvard University Art Museums and Budget and project director of the Andean land use in the Brazilian Amazon. Co- Department of History of Art and Architecture Competitiveness Project, at Harvard’s Center sponsored by the Center for International (Latin American Art Series). for International Development. Organized by Development (Brazilian Series). the Chilean graduate students at Harvard, 11: Violence Prevention: The Need for a Global MIT, Tufts, Clark and Boston University. 28: Current Political and Economic Issues in Approach, by Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Harvard Brazil: The Development Project of the State of Professor of Public Health Practice; Rodrigo 5: Economic Integration in the Americas: How Ceará, Brazil by Governor Tasso Jereissati, co- Guerrero, former mayor of Cali, Colombia; and Much? How Fast? Why Bother?, Harvard 2001 sponsored by the Harvard Brazilian Organiza Joan Serra Hoffman, a representative from the Colloquium on International Affairs at the tion (HBO) (Brazilian Series). Inter-American Coalition for the Prevention of Harvard Law School, John Coatsworth, Violence. Co-sponsored by IACPV, the Director, DRCLAS; Andrés Velasco, HKSG; Colombian Colloquium at Harvard and the Carmen Suro-Bredie, Office of U.S. Trade MIT Student Association. Representative; and Domingo Cavallo, Minister of Economy, Argentina. 12: Re-encountering ‘lo local’: Approaches to Urban Community Development in 1990’s Havana, by 7: Challenges and the Future of Business Groups in Miren Uriarte, PhD, Gaston Institute for Public Latin America, by Gonzalo Jiménez, DRCLAS Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Visiting Luksic Scholar, Chile. Boston (Cuban Series).
EVENTS 23 Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Affairs
The Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Affairs allows faculty, visiting scholars, graduate students, and invited guests to present their research on contemporary issues in Latin America. The seminar series is open to the public and regularly attracts a diverse audience of academics, students and members of the community. Co-chairs were Otto Solbrig, John Coatsworth, Jorge Domínguez, and Steven Levitsky.
October 3 The Dollarization Trend in Latin America Alvaro Guerrero, Visiting Fellow, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
October 10 Gastón Gordillo Feeding a Small Planet: Food Production in an Era of Globalization Otto T. Solbrig, Bussey Professor of Biology; Acting Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies October 17 Privatization in Latin America Werner Baer, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois December 5 Politics After Neoliberalism: Reregulation in Mexico Richard Snyder, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign December 12 Robert E. White, James Hammond, Remembering ‘‘The Ancient Ones’’: Memory, Hegemony and the Roger Fisher Shadows of State Violence in the Argentine Chaco Gastón Gordillo, Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
December 19 Whither Public Health in Latin America: Equity Versus Efficiency and the Struggle for Health Paul Farmer, Associate Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard October 24 Medical School; Executive Director, Institute for Health and Making Bad Matters Worse: U.S. Policy Toward Colombia Social Justice, Partners in Health Ambassador Robert E. White, President, Center for Interna- tional Policy February 13 Courting Democracy in Mexico: Party Strategies, Electoral October 31 Institutions, and Political Opening Campaign Effects in Mexico’s 2000 Presidential Elections Todd Eisenstadt, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Chappell Lawson, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of New Hampshire; Visiting Scholar, David Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
November 7 February 20 Party Collapse and Civil Society in Peru Stuffing the Ballot Box: Fraud, Reform, and Democratization in Katrina Burgess, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Costa Rica Syracuse University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute at Fabrice Lehroucq, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Brown University Government, Wesleyan University
November 14 February 27 “We Know Nothing, It Isn’t Taught” - Secret Histories of Argentina’s The Mexican Congress: Old Player, New Power Dirty War Luis Carlos Ugalde, Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Marguerite Feitlowitz, Author, A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina Center for Latin American Studies and the Legacy of Torture March 6 November 21 Big Business, The State, and Free Trade in Mexico Hard-Working Newcomers: Brazilian Immigrants in the Boston Area Strom Thacker, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Teresa Sales, Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Boston University Latin American Studies March 13 November 28 The Coming to Power of Chávez in Venezuela: An Interpretation Back to the World: The Reforms of the 1990s in Argentina Leonardo Vivas, Fellow, Weatherhead Center for Interna Rodolfo Díaz, Research Fellow, Kennedy School of Govern- tional Affairs; Sociologist, Ph.D. in International Economics ment, Harvard University; Fellow, Weatherhead Center for and Finance, Nanterre, France International Affairs
24 EVENTS TUESDAY SEMINAR March 20 April 10 Brazilian Labor’s Turning Point: Demobilization and New The Future of Private Utilities in Latin America Forms of Working-Class Contention in the 1990s José Gómez Ibáñez, Bok Professor of Public Policy and Salvador Sandoval, Professor of Political Psychology, Pontifical Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design and John Catholic University of São Paulo; Visiting Scholar, David F. Kennedy School of Government Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies April 17 April 3 The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Challenges for the Conservation of Biodiversity in Latin Contemporary Mexico America Matthew Gutmann, Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor Jaime Cavelier, Senior Program Officer, Endangered Species of the Social Sciences, International Affairs, Brown University Program, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC April 24 Poverty in Peru: Causes and Solutions Richard Webb, Managing Director, Instituto Cuanto
History Workshop The Latin America History Workshop provides a forum for historians of Latin America to share their work and engage with colleagues. In the 2000-2001 academic year, the Center sponsored ten workshops on topics ranging from the study of Mexican campesinos to Argentine politics. The series is made possible by the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
September 20 November 20 Margaret Chowning James Dunkerley Associate Professor of Latin American History, University of Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University California at Berkeley of London Liberals, Women, and the Church: Politics and the Feminization of “Seeing the Elephant”: Some Reflections on Pan American History at Piety in Mexico, 1700-1930 the Eve of the Millennium
October 18 December 13 Jane Mangan Dain Borges Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University Visiting Associate Professor of History, Harvard University Cash-starved in a City of Silver: Credit Strategies and the Corner Can Historians Work with Machado de Assis? Store in Colonial Potosí February 7 November 9 Sujay Rao Rebecca Scott Harvard University Professor of History, University of Michigan, with the collabo- Argentine Politics in the 1820s: The Provinces and the ration of Orlando García Martinez (Archivo Provincial de National Congress Cienfuegos) and Michael Zeuske (Universität zu Köln) The Provincial Archive as a Place of Memory: Confronting Oral and March 7 Written Sources on the Role of Former Slaves in the Cuban War of Ann Farnsworth-Alvear Independence (1895 - 98) University of Pennsylvania “Campesino” as a Chosen Identity: an Oral History Approach to Rural Subjectivity in the Colombian Chocó
March 21 Christopher Boyer WCFIA, Harvard University Becoming Campesinos: Agrarian Struggle and Political Culture in Postrevolutionary Michoacán, Mexico
April 11 Julia Rodriguez University of New Hampshire The Idea of Responsibility in Argentine Code Law, 1887 - 1921
April 25 Oscar Zanetti Instituto de Historia de Cuba Proceso de regulación de la industria azucarera cubana por el Estado, 1926-1941 Orlando García, Rebecca Scott, John Coatsworth, and Michael Zeuske
EVENTS HISTORY WORKSHOP 25 Center Publications
Book Series Directory of Faculty, Fellows, and The David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies Professional Staff now has six books with themes ranging from the Latin American The Directory of Faculty, Fellows, and Professional Staff contains the economy since 1800 to inequalities in education. names and contact information for all Harvard-affiliated faculty, scholars, fellows, professional staff, and organizations related to The two latest books, distributed by Harvard University Press, Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, and Latino Studies. are Unequal Schools, Unequal Chances: the Challenges to Equal Op- portunity in the Americas, edited by Fernando Reimers, and Glo- Course Guide balization and the Rural Environment, edited by Otto T. Solbrig, Rob- The Course Guide lists all Harvard courses on Latin America, the ert Paarlberg, and Francesco di Castri. Earlier books in the series Iberian Peninsula, and Latino Studies. are The United States and Latin America: The New Agenda, edited by Vistor Bulmer-Thomas and James Dunkerley (and co-published For More Information with the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Lon- For publications information, contact June Carolyn Erlick, tele- don); Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800, edited by phone: 617-495-5428 e-mail:
Forthcoming is a book in English entitled Latinos! Remaking America, edited by Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, to be co-published with the University of California Press, and another in Spanish, Culturas Encontradas: Cuba y los Estados Unidos, edited by Rafael Hernández and John H. Coatsworth, to be co-published with El Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo de la Cultura Cubana Juan Marinello.
ReVista ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, formerly DRCLAS NEWS, published three times yearly around a specific theme, focused this year on public health, art, and food. The newslet- ter, which features articles by Harvard faculty, students, visiting scholars, and experts in their fields, also showcases local, Latin American, and Latino photography. The newsletter, usually published in black and white, featured color in its special issue on art in the Americas.
2000 -01 Harvard Working Papers on Latin America http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~drclas Paper No. 00/01-1: The Role of Bank Restructuring in Recovering from Crises: Mexico 1995-98 This past year we significantly revised and improved the By Anne Krueger and Aaron Tornell DRCLAS web site to better match the needs of Internet Paper No. 00/01-2: Impact of Globalization on the Grasslands in the users at Harvard and around the world who seek informa- Southern Cone of South America tion about the Center and its programs. We continue to By Otto T. Solbrig and Raúl R. Vera offer complete information on all of our programs, Special Paper: Why Was Brazil Different? The Contexts of corporate relations, outreach and events, and provide Independence resources for students and faculty. All of the Center’s By Kenneth Maxwell publications are available online, with many available as from John Parry Memorial Lecture, April 25, 2000 free downloads.
The newest improvement is the addition of several new DRCLAS DATES links on the main page. Now, with the click of a button, DRCLAS DATES is a monthly calendar providing Harvard visitors to the web site can easily learn more about the faculty, students, affiliates, and friends of the Center with news Center’s substantive work on specific topics and countries on events involving Latin America, Latinos, and the Iberian in Latin America. The Philanthropy, Civil Society and Peninsula at Harvard and throughout the New England area. Social Change button contains a wealth of knowledge about that Program, as does the link to Immigration and Latino Studies. The pages on Brazil and Cuba, for Annual Report example, offer detailed, country-specific information. All The Annual Report summarizes the Center’s activities each of the Center’s publications are cross-indexed and there academic year; published in September. are many links to other resources both within and outside of Harvard.
26 PUBLICATIONS Advisory Committee
he newly inaugurated Spangler added another feather to his cap. We, Over the past few years, members of Center at the Harvard Business the members of the Advisory Commit- the Center’s Advisory Committee have TSchool was the tee, will remem- formed a number of subcommittees and setting for the gala ber Neil not just working groups devoted to particular opening dinner of the as a great thematic areas. The first such orga- David Rockefeller President of nized group was the Philanthropy Center Spring Advi- Harvard and an Subcommittee, established in 1999 to sory Committee accomplished explore ways in which the Center could meeting on Friday, Renaissance May 11, 2001. Mem- scholar, but as a bers of the DRCLAS knowledgeable Advisory Committee and devoted joined members of the Gustavo Herrero and President-Elect enthusiast of Harvard Business Lawrence Summers Latin America.” School Latin American Advisory Committee, Harvard President One of the most compelling moments of Neil Rudenstine, President-Elect the evening was the announcement of Princeton University professor and historian of religions David Carrasco as the very first Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of Latin American Studies, an Harvard Business School Dean Kim Clark endowed faculty position created by Center founder David Rockefeller in help to strengthen philanthropic giving 1998. Professor Carrasco, Director of in Latin America. With the encourage- the Mesoamerican Archive and Re- ment from this group, the Center search Project at Princeton, is the editor developed an initiative on Philanthropy, of the multi-volume Oxford Encyclopedia Civil Society, and Social Change in Latin of Mesoamerican Cultures with Bowditch America, in collaboration with
President Rudenstine receives a certificate in Latin Professor of Central Harvard’s American Studies from John Coatsworth American and Mexican Hauser Center Archaeology and for the Study of Lawrence Summers, HBS Dean Kim Ethnology William Nonprofit Clark, and over one hundred special Fash of Harvard Organizations. guests from throughout Latin America University. After The Philan- and the United States. presenting a copy of the thropy Sub- collection to President committee has Following the dinner, members of the Rudenstine, Professor conducted DRCLAS Advisory Committee, faculty Carrasco described the comparative and students paid tribute to Neil personal and intellec- research on the Rudenstine for his unwavering commit- tual journey that led Neil Rudenstine with David Carrasco and William Fash tax codes of ment to the Center since it was estab- him to a Harvard Latin American lished in December 1994. The Center’s University endowed professorship. As countries, held workshops on tax and Director, John Coatsworth, invited a the Rudenstine Professor, Carrasco will regulatory reform, and established a number of Advisory hold a joint appoint- consultative network of third-sector Committee members, ment in the Divinity organizations throughout the region. faculty and an School and the Depart- The Center’s early efforts were re- undergraduate ment of Anthropology. warded this year with the announce- student to the podium He will join the Harvard ment of the appointment of Professor to read from their faculty in the fall of Cynthia Sanborn as the William Henry letters to the Presi- 2001. Bloomberg Visiting Professor of dent, describing the Philanthropy and Director of the Project difference the Center Neil Rudenstine leaves on Philanthropy, Civil Society, and has made for their many great legacies at Social Change in Latin America. own careers, for Harvard University. Yet Ambassador George Landau Harvard, for Latin for all “enthusiasts of Like the Philanthropy Subcommittee, America, and for all who benefit from its Latin America,” in the Latin American Arts Subcommit- extraordinary resources. Advisory attendance on May 11, the true hall- tee was established by Advisory Committee member George Landau mark of the Rudenstine presidency is Committee members seeking to spoke on behalf of all members of the the creation of the David Rockefeller strengthen the presence and awareness Committee when he said, “In his Center for Latin American Studies. of Latin American art at Harvard triumphant decade at Harvard, Neil has University. The early efforts of this
ADVISORY COMMITTEE 27 committed group enabled Tom annually during the Advisory Commit- American-origin population of the Cummins, Professor of Art History and tee meeting to continue the dialogue on United States; and the less commonly Director of the Center for Latin Ameri- the Central American effort. taught languages. In addition, the can Studies at the University of Chi- Center will seek to strengthen ties with cago, to come to Harvard as the Visiting Two new Advisory Committee working Latin American institutions by increas- Professor of Latin American Art during groups also met this year to discuss ing the numbers of Harvard students the fall 2000 semester. Professor timely themes of critical importance to who study in the region; increasing Cummins taught two courses at the the region. The Immigration and support for faculty and student re- College and developed a distinguished Latino Studies Task Force gathered for search; developing collaborative speaker guest series, New Perspectives in the first time on May 11 to examine programs to utilize new communica- Latin American Art what Professor tions technologies with institutions in from the 16th Marcelo the region; and establishing a DRCLAS Century to the Suárez-Orozco, presence in the region. Present. The the chairman of crowning achieve- the Interfaculty Following the Director’s Report, the ment of the Arts Committee on Executive Session featured progress Subcommittee this Latino Studies, reports from each of the Center’s year has been the called “the working subcommittees. Advisory special exhibition, most profound Committee members also discussed the Geometric Abstrac- demographic Center’s Corporate Partners Program, tion: Latin Ameri- transformation which held the spring 2001 seminar, can Art from the in the United Economic Integration in the Americas: Patricia Phelps de Barbara Duncan and Merilee S. Grindle States in the How Much, How Fast, Why Bother? in Cisneros Collection, last fifty years,” Miami, Florida. New members of the the first-ever exhibition of contempo- the tremendous growth of the Latin Program include Eagle National Bank rary Latin American art at Harvard American-origin population in the U.S. (Miami), El Mercurio (Chile), Strategic University, on display from March to to nearly 35 million people. Advisory Investment Group (USA), and November 2001. The exhibition, Committee members, faculty, and organized by guest curator and Advi- alumni discussed the need for sory Committee member Mary systematic research, policy analysis, Schneider Enríquez, was made possible and responsible public debate on the through the generosity of Advisory great changes brought about by large- Committee member Patricia Phelps de scale immigration, globalization and Cisneros and the Fundación Cisneros. transnationalism. Similarly, a working group on Education in the Central America is a region of great Americas convened on May 11 to interest to a review Harvard number of Advi- initiatives on education sory Committee and competitiveness members, who and to discuss future Philip Lehner and John Duncan gathered during collaborative opportu- the May meeting nities. Venevision (Venezuela). The fall to discuss the seminar has been scheduled for Friday, success of the Advisory Committee November 2, 2001, in Cambridge. Central American members assembled for Fund at Harvard the Executive Session on The Executive Session included a and to explore Saturday, May 12, with lengthy discussion on the idea of ways to strengthen Harvard President Neil developing an office for the David Harvard’s links to Rudenstine and David Rockefeller Center in Latin America. the region through Rockefeller presiding. In Advisory Committee members ex- the Visiting Scholar his Director’s Report, pressed keen interest in seeing a Program, Harvard John Coatsworth re- regional office created, and discussed alumni clubs, and viewed the progress to how such an endeavor might build on new faculty date and noted that the the Center’s strengths to maximize its initiatives in Center faces a critical impact in the region. In addition to Central America. Peggy Dulany transition, consolidating Santiago de Chile, where the Center Members of the the gains of the last six now contemplates establishing an Central American group celebrated the years and focusing special attention on office, members suggested combining achievement of their $2 million goal for a number of key goals. Among the forces with the Business School in the Central American Fund, and Center’s priorities for the coming Buenos Aires and mentioned locations collectively pledged to raise another decade are developing faculty strength in Brazil, Mexico, Central America, and 1 million to support the Center and on the Andean region as well as elsewhere as possible future locations. provide fellowships for graduate and Brazilian Studies; the humanities, The use of innovative technologies will professional students from the region. particularly Latin American art and art also enable the Center to strengthen The group also resolved to reconvene history; Immigration and the Latin relationships with institutions and
28 ADVISORY COMMITTEE Advisory Committee Members partners in Latin America. A faculty retreat is planned for the fall of 2001 to further explore these opportunities. Mr. David Rockefeller, Chair, United States Mr. Manuel Arango, México Harvard faculty strength in Latin Mr. Gastón Azcárraga, México American Studies was apparent at the Barker Center for the Humanities on Mr. Pedro Nicolás Baridón, Uruguay Saturday, May 12. Advisory Committee Mr. Eneko de Belausteguigoitia, México members and special guests attended a broad range of seminars on topics Mr. Arturo Brillembourg & Mrs. Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg, United States ranging from Health Care Policy in Latin Mr. Roberto P. Cezar de Andrade, Brazil America to the Harvard Business School Mr. Gustavo A. and Mrs. Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Venezuela Entrepreneurship Program; from the Havana Design Studio of the Graduate Mr. Eduardo F. Costantini, Argentina School of Design to a session on the Mr. Francisco de Sola, El Salvador Ms. Peggy Dulany, United States Mr. John C. and Mrs. Barbara Duncan, United States Mr. Agustín E. Edwards E., Chile Mr. Juan C. and Mrs. Mary Schneider Enríquez, United States Mrs. Angeles Espinosa Yglesias, México H. E. Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, Argentina Mr. Dionisio Garza Medina, México Mr. Jaime and Mrs. Raquel Gilinski, Colombia Mr. Roberto Hernández Ramirez, México Raquel, Josh and Jaime Gilinski Mr. Roland A. Hernández, United States
Impact of Biotechnology on the Rural Mr. Enrique V. Iglesias, Uruguay Environment. Following the faculty Mr. Israel Klabin, Brazil presentations, a closing luncheon was Hon. George W. Landau, United States held at the Harvard Faculty Club, featuring Harvard University Provost Mr. Philip Lehner, United States Harvey Fineberg as the keynote Mr. Jorge Paulo Lemann, Brazil speaker. Provost Fineberg, a longtime supporter of the Center, spoke of the Mr. Andronico Luksic, Chile importance of providing international Mr. Antonio Madero, México opportunities for Harvard students Mr. José Ermírio de Moraes Filho, Brazil during their years at the University, and lauded the Center’s support for nearly Ms. Martha T. Muse, United States 100 students to travel to the region for Mr. Ricardo Poma, El Salvador academic research and internships during the summer of 2001. The Mr. Pablo A. and Mrs. Luisa E. Pulido, Venezuela activities concluded with lively musical Mr. José E. Rohm, Argentina entertainment provided by Un Poquito Mr. Fernando Romero Moreno, Bolivia Mas, a talented group of Harvard undergraduates whose stirring rendi- Mr. Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Colombia tions of traditional Spanish songs Mr. Carlos Slim Helú, México brought the weekend to a festive close. Hon. Francisco Soler, El Salvador Mr. Lorenzo D. Weisman, United States
At the Advisory Commitee dinner, DRCLAS bade farewell to Neil Rudenstine
ADVISORY COMMITTEE 29 Faculty
Support for Faculty Research and Teaching
2000 GRANT RECIPIENTS
ECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL REFORM cases. The historical weakness of Latin Rafael La Porta, Economics American legislatures Why Do Banks Go Bankrupt? Supervision and Related Lending in has left these institutions Mexico understudied.
As a result of privatization, several countries, like Mexico, have One of Maxfield’s most seen the formation of large industrial/financial groups. Some daunting tasks was to believe that these newly formed groups have been instrumental build a database that in channeling resources from the banking sector to the real would bring together economy. However, this interpretation does not square with information that could scattered evidence that suggest that preferential access to credit measure relevant for the firms associated with banks may be at the core of the concepts regarding recent wave of bank bankruptcies in several developing coun- legislative systems. For tries. example, she sought to construct measures of La Porta set out to evaluate the Mexican commercial banking Sylvia Maxfield party system fragmenta- system: an ideal setting for testing these different hypotheses. tion, an index of party “Understanding the evidence may not only solve a very discipline, and to quantify membership or turnover in national important debate in Mexico, but may also prove useful for other legislatures. The research grant enabled Maxfield “(to) bridge the Latin American and developing countries where similar gap between highly stylized theories developed with the U.S. circumstances have been experienced in recent years,” com- case in mind and the messy empirical reality of Latin American mented La Porta. legislative behavior.” Steven Levitsky, Government EDUCATION Structuring Democracy: Party Organizations in Latin America
Notwithstanding its fame for personalistic leaders, Latin Catherine Snow, Graduate School of Education America is home to a large number of established and highly Children Learning Spanish: A Synthesis and Research Agenda successful political parties. Moreover, the region contains an While a fairly wide-ranging literature about the acquisition of unusual diversity of party organizations, ranging from tradi- Spanish exists, this literature is scattered across many journals tional clientelistic parties to powerful populist parties to and volumes, as well as in difficult-to-locate theses. The litera- modern, media-based parties. However, little work—empirical, ture is also unsystematic, reflecting the absence of any central conceptual, or theoretical—has been done on Latin American theory on the acquisition of Spanish that would establish links party organizations. Levitsky used his faculty research grant to across the work of different researchers. Much of it is focused on begin a four-year comparative study of Latin American party hypotheses derived from previous work in English, rather than organizations. being based on prior description of Spanish on its own terms. “A central objective of the study will be to explain why party organizations have survived in some cases, but eroded in Catherine Snow used the DRCLAS grant for two goals: to make others,” observed Levitsky. the research on the acquisition of Spanish by monolingual Spanish-learning children available to the international commu- The study also examines the changing bases of party organiza- nity of child language scholars and to produce a synthesis of tion in Latin America. Given the weakening of unions and the what is known about the subject of Spanish acquisition to dismantling of statist economic models, Levitsky observes that promote more programmatic research. one might expect the organizational bases of established labor- based and clientelistic parties to erode. However, Levitsky THE ENVIRONMENT asserts, many of these parties have maintained strong base-level organizations. “Despite their importance for the stability and Noel Michele Holbrook, Biology quality of democracy, Latin American party organizations have The Hydraulic Capacity of Deep-Rooted Amazonian Trees: Linking received little scholarly attention,” Levitsky commented. “This Transport Processes with Forest Resistance to Drought project seeks to fill that gap, and if it bears fruit, it will create several opportunities for future collaboration with DRCLAS.” The Amazon basin contains millions of miles of diverse tropical forest. The purpose of Holbrook’s study was to determine which Sylvia Maxfield, Social Studies aspects of the hydraulic system of deep-rooted Amazonian trees Legislative Behavior and Economic Reforms in Latin America makes them susceptible to drought. Legislatures are becoming crucial to Latin American political She worked with an ecosystem-scale artificial drought experi- economy. Even as democracy took hold in the 1980s, economic ment at a site in the Brazilian Amazon run by Dr. Daniel Nepstad policy was still made by executive decree. However, decrees are of the Woods Hole Research Center. The study addressed increasingly being challenged by legislators or through court specific physiological mechanisms associated with draft
30 FACULTY SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING responses of deep-rooted Amazonian trees. It also linked basic the first royal palace of Teotihuacan, and home to its ruling class. biology with a critical area of forest function that has important The project will focus on the documentation, investigation, and implications for the future of the Amazonian landscape. conservation of the Xalla Compound, which was built at the same time as the Sun and Moon Pyramids and is located Richard Levins and Tamara Awerbuch, School of Public Health equidistant between them. This work promises to reveal much An Ecosystem Approach to Organic Agriculture: Cuba about the origins of the pristine state at Teotihuacan, as well as about its development and eventual demise. Levins and Awerbuch took Cuba as an example of an ecosystem approach to organic agriculture. By looking at how organic “The identification and investigation of the royal palace of a culture functions in Cuba, one can understand models for other pristine state is of inestimable importance in cross-cultural developing and developed countries. Although Cuba developed comparisons of the rise of the state,” said William Fash. organic agriculture - agriculture without chemical fertilizers - because of economic necessities, its experiences have developed Sharmila Sen, English and American Literature and Language into an experiment in an ecosystem approach. Sugar and Spice: Literary Representations of Indo-Caribbean Culture
Otto Solbrig, Biology Between 1838 and 1917, indentured laborers from India crossed The Promise and the Problems of Transgenic Crops for Agriculture in the dreaded black waters—kala pani—in the thousands to the Mercosur Caribbean to work in British colonial sugar estates. While some indentured Indian laborers were taken to islands such Otto Solbrig has been as Jamaica, Barbados, Martinique, and Cuba, the exploring the future of majority landed in Guyana and Trinidad. transgenic crops in Latin America. He was able to However, with the notable exception of V.S. Naipal, share results from this work Indo-Caribbean authors are still relatively invisible to at a well-attended sympo- the global anglophone readership, notes Sen. The sium in Mar del Plata, DRCLAS grant enabled Sen to travel to Georgetown Argentina, in August 2000 (Guyana), Port of Spain (Trinidad), and Warwick (U.K.) that explored themes such as to research archival materials and interview authors. biotechnology, biodiversity, sustainable agriculture and Rosanna Vaccarino, Graduate School of Design transgenic crops in the Embracing Immensity: the Landscape of Roberto Burle Marx Mercosur. David Rockefeller and Otto T. Solbrig Roberto Burle Marx (1909-94) was Latin America’s HUMANITIES most influential landscape architect and an internationally renowned figure in the modern arts. For the past four years, John H. Coatsworth, History Vaccarino has been working at Harvard and in Brazil to develop Economic History of Mexico 1700-1910 a new method of analysis and documentation of a number of projects by Marx. The aim of this project is to contribute to knowledge about the causes of relative economic backwardness by looking carefully “This research project is an important one for Brazilian cultural at a single case. Coatsworth produced rough, but robust, heritage, and has much potential to develop a better understand- th estimates of Mexican GDP and GDP per capita in 1800, 1845, ing and respect for this Brazilian master of 20 century art,” 1860, and 1877 and linked them to a Banco de México series commented Vaccarino. “It is also leading to a number of produced starting in 1895. opportunities for academic and cultural exchange between Harvard, Brazil, and Venezuela.” Mexico’s GDP in 1700, says Coatsworth, could not have been much lower than that of British North America. It then fell to a John Womack, History purchasing power parity (PPP)-adjusted GDP per capita equal to Conversion of Data Collected on the Industrial Working Class of less than one-fourth that of the United States in 1860. Since the Veracruz, Mexico, 1800-1940, into an Electronic Database 1870s, Mexico’s economy has grown at the same 1.6 per cent rate of the U.S. economy. Coatsworth seeks to find out how and why Womack received a DRCLAS grant to turn data manually Mexico failed to keep pace between 1700 and 1860, taking into collected in Mexico 25 years ago on the working class population account that it has been able to do so ever since—despite a major of Veracruz, Mexico, into an electronic database. The historical social revolution, a depression, and periodic financial crises. project of surveyed information gathered from working class study participants was stored in 50 boxes of 500 forms each in William L. Fash, Anthropology Widener Library. Womack intends to leave the new electronic The Origins of the Pristine State in the Americas: Investigations of the database at Harvard and to give a copy to Veracruz University. Royal Palace of Teotihuacan PUBLIC HEALTH In February of 1999, Drs. Linda Manzanilla Naim (UNAM) and Leonardo López Luján, (INAH) invited William Fash, chair of Karen E. Peterson, School of Public Health Harvard University’s Anthropology Department, and Barbara Childhood Diarrhea in Rural Northeast Brazil Fash, research associate in the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, to join the excavation of the Xalla compound at In Ceara in northeast Brazil, diarrheal disease prevention has the ruins of Teotihuacan, Mexico. Though the origins and received high priority in both state and municipal health plans. demise of Teotihuacan have been the subject of endless scholarly Control of diarrheal diseases and reduction of child mortality inquiry and speculation over the past century, one critical piece have made some progress through such methods as promotion of the picture has been missing until now. The Xalla compound of breast-feeding and maternal education on management and is believed by Manzanilla Naim and López Luján to have been home treatment. Nevertheless, 14.5 infants out of every 1000
SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING CON’T 31 died from diarrhea-related diseases in Faculty Research and Curriculum Development Grants the 140 municipalities of Ceara State, according to a recent ecological analysis. This year, DRCLAS awarded nine Faculty Research Grants and one Curriculum Development Grant to support Harvard faculty Karen Peterson, working with post- research and travel in Latin America, as well as to help develop doctoral Fellow Ana Cristina Terra de courses related to the region. Topics ranged from Democracy and Souza, used the faculty grant to further Development in Brazil to Reform of the Cuban Health Care System to understand caregivers’ knowledge, Biodiversity of Mexican Amphibians. More than 70 faculty members beliefs, and traditional health practices have received research grants since the program’s initiation in regarding childhood diarrhea in rural 1994. These grants were made possible with the generous support northeast Brazil. They planned to draft of the Angeles Espinosa Yglesias, Jorge Paulo Lemann, Antonio an action plan to improve communica- Madero, and Peggy Rockefeller Endowments. Additional support tion about diarrheal diseases with was provided by the MacArthur Foundation. mothers of young children based on the study findings and in collaboration with Children in Brazilian colleagues. Ceará, Brazil 2001 Faculty Research Grants
“This is a very important step in the research process,” observed Thomas N. Bisson Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History Peterson. “So often there is a lack of continuity between research Faculty of Arts and Sciences results and their application to program planning and policy- Power in 12th Century Galicia making.” Arachu Castro Research Fellow in Social Medicine 2000 FACULTY CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT GRANTS Harvard Medical School Origins, Evolutions and Current Reform of the Cuban Health Care System Jane Mangan, History Jorge I. Domínguez History 1757: Colonial Latin America Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs Faculty of Arts and Sciences Mangan used the faculty curriculum development grant to U. S. - Latin American Relations; Contrasting Democratic Governance; develop the course History 1757: Latin America to 1825 (Fall 2000) Latin American Border Disputes by identifying primary sources, producing a set of slides to Peter Ellison accompany lectures, and developing a website. A research Professor of Anthropology assistant helped her comb through a number of primary source Faculty of Arts and Sciences collections, finding a newly published book edited by Richard Reproductive Health and Ecology of the Indigenous People of the Argentine Boyer and Geoffrey Spurling, Colonial Lives, Documents in Latin Chaco American History, 1550-1850 (Oxford, 2000). James Hanken Professor of Biology The book includes wills by slaves and letters from indigenous Faculty of Arts and Sciences participants in an 1781 rebellion in Peru. “The added bonus of Biodiversity of Mexican Amphibians the collection is that it draws students away from the words of the famous and infamous of colonial Latin America to materials Sanjeev Khagram Assistant Professor in Public Policy that represent concerns of people of color, the lower classes, and Kennedy School of Government middle-level bureaucrats,” Mangan said. She also worked with a Dams, Democracy and Development: Transnational Struggles for Power and research assistant to identify visual images outside her own Water collection to go with her course, and comments, “It was not just a slide show. Students responded to the images and compared Richard Levins John Rock Professor of Population Sciences them with what we learned from readings and lectures....I am Harvard School of Public Health now convinced that I will not teach another course without Sustainable Agriculture: Productivity, Conservation and Equity incorporating visual images. The funds from the David Rockefeller Center were critical in providing not only the Andrew M. Moravcsik Professor of Government material needs but also the assistance with which I carried out Faculty of Arts and Sciences these course development objectives. Many thanks for such Democratic Delegation: Explaining the Establishment and Evolution of the generous support at this early stage of my teaching career.” Inter-American Rights Regime
Karen E. Peterson, School of Public Health Edward Z. Tronick MCN 200: Growth and Development and MCN 217: Nutritional Associate Professor of Pediatrics Associate Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health Surveillance Harvard Medical School, School of Public Health Collaborative research project on “Social-Emotional Development” between Peterson used a curriculum development grant to modify two the University of Buenos Aires and Harvard Medical School courses by developing and testing computer exercises based on Latin American data sets. The purpose was to provide Harvard John Womack, Jr. School of Public Health students with skills to analyze trends in Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics Faculty of Arts and Sciences order to inform the design of national and local programs to The Industrial Working Class in the State of Veracruz address nutrition challenges. The new course material is to be translated and made available through a Web-based format to colleagues in Mexico and Colombia. 2001 Curriculum Development Grant Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Afro-American Studies Faculty of Arts and Sciences Afro-American Studies 168; Visual Culture of Latina and African- American Women 32 The Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professorship
The Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professorship in Latin American Studies was created at Harvard University in 1986 through a generous gift from the late Edmond Safra and the Republic of New York Corporation. DRCLAS administers the Professorship program, which enables Harvard to regularly invite eminent Latin Americans from any field to teach at the University for a semester or an academic year.
During the past year there were three distinguished Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professors, hosted in the Department of Anthropology, the Divinity School, and the Graduate School of Education.
Enrique Dussel, a leader in the study of philosophy and theology, particularly in Latin American liberation theology, spent the Fall semester teaching at the Harvard Divinity School. Currently based at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico, he has taught at many institutions in the United States, including Duke University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Notre Dame. His academic background includes training in philosophy and theology, with a doctorate in both philosophy from Universidad Central Complutense in Madrid and in history from La Sorbonne in Paris. Courses he taught during his stay at Harvard included World History and Christian Ethics, and A Critique of Political Reason and Will.
Enrique Enrique Dussel EnE Carlos Muñoz-Izquierdo, a specialist on issues of education and equity in Latin America, taught at the Graduate School “As Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Education during the Fall. Professor Muñoz-Izquierdo is during the academic year 2000-01, I was in on the faculty of the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico a priviedged position to enjoy all the City. He earned an economics degree in Mexico and intellecutal and institutional resources completed a doctorate in education at Stanford University. available at Harvard University. The work of Professor Muñoz-Izquierdo studies the determinants of DRCLAS is truly impressive. The two educational inequality. His publications include several graduate seminars I taught alloews me to books on the relationship between education and social come in contact with the Department’s top- inequality, and education policy and planning. At Harvard notch faculty and a group of graduate and he taught the course Research Paradigms: Analyzing Educa- undergraduate students who are challeng- tional Inequalities in Latin America, and a seminar on educa- ing and stimulating to work with ... I had a tional reforms, Lessons from the Mexican Experience. wonderful time during my sabbatical year.”
Rodolfo Stavenhagen is a scholar of ethnicity and culture, -RODOLFO STAVENHAGEN agrarian social organization and social movements, the social dimensions of economic change and development, and human rights. He was selected as a Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor for the Anthropology Department for the Fall and Spring semesters. Professor Stavenhagen is based at El Colegio de México, and holds an MA .in anthropology from the National School of Anthropology and History in Mexico and a P.hD in sociology from the University of Paris. He has taught at academic institutions in Mexico, the United States, France, Switzerland and many other interna- tional venues. He taught two courses at Harvard, Peasants, Indians, and Activists in Latin America, and Ethnic Conflicts, Nation States, and the Politics of Identity.
John Coatsworth, Steve Reifenberg, Enrique Dussel and Rodolfo Stavenhagen
FACULTY ROBERT F. K ENNEDY VISITING PROFESSORSHIP 33 Visiting Scholars and Fellows 2000-2001
The Visiting Scholars and Fellows Program strengthens ties with other academic institutions by hosting distin- guished, non-Harvard University academics and practitioners who wish to conduct research on a particular aspect or region of Latin America. Each semester, the Center welcomes a select number of individuals who have applied through a competitive pro- cess. During their semester or year in residence at the Center, Visiting Scholars and Fellows have opportunities to collaborate with Harvard faculty and students, use the University’s library resources, and participate in Center conferences and seminars while working on their research. In 2000-2001, 13 Visiting Scholars and Fellows were in residence from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, the United States, and Venezuela, working on topics ranging from American Business in Venezuela: A Study on the Transfer of Organizational Reforms and Practices to Brazilian Immigrants in the Boston Area to Corruption and Transparency: the Case of Mexico. The following list represents the Visiting Scholars and Fellows, their affiliations, home institutions, and research topics.
Margarita Castillo, Central American Visiting Scholar Central American University, Nicaragua The Civilians and the Military: Subordination or Negotiation? A Case Study of Civil-Military Relations in Nicaragua “DRCLAS and Harvard have enabled me to broaden my perspec- Todd Eisenstadt, Visiting Scholar tives about Latin America not only University of New Hampshire on the business landscape, but well Courting Democracy in Mexico: Opposition Party beyond it. I gained valuable Protests, Electoral Dispute Adjudication, and Political insights into the way the US and Opening Latin American institutions interact and their joint potential. It has Gastón Gordillo, de Fortabat Visiting Scholar, been both a source of enrichment Argentina and inspiration.” The Production of Memories of State Repression: Indig- enous Voices from The Argentine Chaco Gonzalo Jiménez Seminario, Luksic Visiting Scholar Alvaro Guerrero Ferber, Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar National Council for Modernization, Quito, Ecuador Dollarization in Latin America: The Case of Ecuador
José Malavé, Cisneros Visiting Scholar Instituto de Estudios Superiores, Venezuela American Business in Venezuela: A Study on the Transfer of Organizational Reforms and Practices
Gilmar Masiero, Visiting Scholar State University of Maringá, Paraná, Brazil Brazilian Economic Growth in the Coming Years
Gonzalo Jiménez Seminario, Luksic Visiting Fellow Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile Digital Economy and Corporate Strategy: What Can Chilean Business Groups Learn From American Corpora- tions, LBO’s, Venture Capitalists, and Dotcoms?
Beatriz Palma, Luksic Visiting Fellow Universidad de Las Américas, Chile Research on the Nolana Plant in the Atacama Desert
Erika Pani, Fundación México en Harvard/Antonio Madero Scholar Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, Mexico Constructing Political Citizenship in the New World, Mexico and the United States, 1776-1917
Gilmar Masiero, Benno Sander, and Salvador Sandoval
34 FACULTY VISITING SCHOLARS AND FELLOWS Salvador Sandoval, Lemann Visiting Scholar Carlos Tello-Díaz, Funcación Mexico/Antonio Madero Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and Visiting Scholar, Mexico Universidade Estadul de Campinas, Brazil La Rebelión de las Cañadas, travel-book about Lacandón Rain Popular Contention in Brazil Over the Last Half-Century Forest
Teresa Sales, Lemann Visiting Scholar Luis Carlos Ugalde, Visiting Scholar University of Campinas, Brazil American University, Washington D.C.; Autonomous Techno- logical Institute of Mexico; Center for Economic Research and Brazilian Immigration in the Boston Area Teaching, Mexico City Corruption and Transparency: The Case of Mexico
“For a historian undertaking a comparative study that spans over 150 years, there is probably no better place to be. The libraries are amazing, and the contact with other Latin Americanist of diverse academic interests is both enriching and stimulating.”
Erika Pani, Fundación Mexico / Antonio Madero Scholar, Mexico
Gonzalo Jiménez, Beatriz Palma, and Advisory Committee member Andronico Luksic
“My stay at Harvard has been a major intellectual experience because of the opportunity to work in an institution with almost limitless research resources. I am especially thankful for the support of the cooperative project coordinators and staff of DRCLAS, who spared no effort to introduce me to important Harvard scholars and work groups, as well as to help in solving many of the practical problems of an outsider trying to settle down in New England.”
Salvador Sandoval, Lemann Visiting Scholar, Brazil
John Coatsworth and Alvero Guerrero
“Working as a Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies is an empowering experience. Everyone at the Center, mainly the friendly staff, is very supportive in all research activities, seminars, and events. They truly care about what is happening with matters regarding not only the academic field, but also the human side of every professional effort. The well-organized, well-respected events at the Center make the experience of researching at Harvard University very interesting and pleasant.”
From Gilmar Masiero, Visiting Scholar from Brazil Rodrigo Villar, Claudia Uribe, and Erika Pani
35 Students
The 2000-2001 academic year saw a major increase in Center support for Harvard student travel to Latin America for research and internships. The Center awarded a record number 110 individual student awards, including 58 research grants, 39 internship grants, 10 field study grants, and 3 intensive language study awards. Grant recipients include students from 16 academic concentratrions in Harvard College and seven graduate and professional schools, including the Schools of Design, Divinity, Education, Government, Medicine, Public Health and five departments in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In total, Harvard students received approximately $150,000 in DRCLAS funding to spend the summer in 16 countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela, as well as various locations in Puerto Rico and United States.
DRCLAS Research Grants totaled $97,000 this year and were presented to 39 graduate students and 19 undergraduates. These grants were made possible through the generous support of the Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants, Patricia and Gustavo Cisneros Endowment, Francisco de Sola Endowment, Mark B. Fuller and Jo Froman Endowment, Fundación Harvard en México, James R. and Isabel D. Hammond Fund, Jorge Paulo Lemann Endowment, Andronico Luksic Endow- ment, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Antonio Madero Endowment, Ricardo Poma Endowment, the Peggy Rockefeller Fund, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Endowment, Francisco Soler Endowment, and the Lorenzo Weisman Fund.
2001 Summer Research Travel Grants Graduate and Professional School Students Brian Delay, History * * denotes Tinker Grant Recipient The influence of Indians upon U.S. - Mexican relations, 1836 – 1854, Mexico Jodie Abbatangelo, School of Public Charlene Desir, School of Education * Health * The everyday school and political life of students in Haiti before An examination of the health care migrating to the United States, Haiti reform climate during the Castro take- over of 1959: Planning process, Carrie Endries, History * implementation and effect, Cuba The impact of women exiles on the Brazilian women’s movement, Brazil Gabriel Aguilera, Government The political economy of financial sector Daniel Fabrega, School of Design reforms in Latin America, Venezuela Waterfront development and preservation of the Malecon of Havana, Cuba Eduardo Borquez, School of Keiichi Hayashi took this photo Medicine of a boy in Havana, Cuba during a Harvard School of Greg Goering, Divinity School * The application of a rapid and inexpen- Public Health Study Tour Contemporary Jewish identity formation in the revival of Judaism sive method for identifying multi-drug under Castro, Cuba resistant strains of tuberculosis, Ecuador Sara Goldhaber-Fiebert, School of Medicine Isaac Campos, History * Diet and exercise intervention to decrease complications of Type 2 The rise of prohibitionist ideas about drugs, Mexico Diabetes Mellitus in Grecia, Costa Rica Amilcar Challu, History * Daniel Gutierrez, History * Study of economic instability, standards of living and social welfare, Autonomy and Power - States’ rights in nineteenth-century Mexico: 1800–1900, Mexico and Argentina Zacatecas, 1821–1857, Mexico Julie Chen, School of Medicine Clara Han, School of Medicine * Study of the association between patient gender and antibiotics Ethnographic analysis of the gendered experience and management of treatment for Acute Otitis Media, Costa Rica depression across political generations in poor, under-served communities in Santiago, Chile
“Classes in Portuguese and the support of the Magda Hinojosa, Government * Harvard faculty gave me the ability and confi- The percentile variation in Mexican women mayors, Mexico dence to independently research a very gripping subject in Brasil - the social reality of AIDS. A Sarah Jackson, Anthropology * grant from DRCLAS provided me the opportunity Comparative views of the Maya non-royal elite: Courtly society in the to spend a significant amount of time in Itaipu, classic period, Guatemala Niterói, Rio de Janeiro and to get to know the people and their circumstances. Each day was a Halbert Jones, History * challenge, but one worth taking.” Mexico’s involvement in World War II, Mexico Elizabeth A Walker, Sociology, 2000 Summer Research and Travel Grant recipient Alison Kidwell, History * Project: The Risk of HIV/AIDS Transmission to Family finances, gender division of labor and sociopolitical change in Children in Northeast Brasil Rio from 1870–1945, Brazil
36 Maria Martiniello, School of Education * Anje Van Berckelaer, School of Medicine The organizational characteristics and educational effectiveness of Health effects of the San Martin goldmine on the population of “Fe y Alegria” schools, Chile El Porvenir, Honduras
Suzanne Miller, School of Medicine Claret Vargas, GSAS-Romance Languages and Literature, Comparative study of health status and access to care in immigrant The relationship of the craft of poetry and political loyalties, Brazil, versus Costa Rican-born populations, Costa Rica Peru and Bolivia
Jesus Vazquez, School of Medicine Evaluation, through a patient-centered perspectives, of the imposition of DOT on the patient’s individual human rights, Peru
Claret Vargas Paloma Visscher, School of Education Identification of developmental gains and losses through the compari- son of sibling and mother care taking, Peru
Kasumi Yamashita, GSAS-Anthropology An examination of the representation of Japanese-Peruvians and Japanese-Brazilians in historical museums, the media and popular imagination, Brazil and Peru
Aaron Navarro, History * “DRCLAS funding has allowed me to carry out research on The demilitarization of Mexican politics and political opposition: the relationship between Brazilian literature and 1938-1954, Mexico television...(this support) has been indispensable to access material that would be otherwise inaccessible in Cambridge. I have been able to visit TV stations and interview screen- Shannon O’Neil, Government * writers, directors, producers and actors as well as audience Effects of economic reforms on popular organization, Argentina and members and have met local academics who study the field. Mexico In sum, my experience has been simply ótima.”
Kevin O’Neill, Divinity School Carmen Oquendo-Villa, Romance Languages and Literatures, 2000 Summer Research Travel Grant recipient Illegality: A socially constructed obstacle, Mexico Dissertation research on: Brazilian Soap Operas and Nationness Harish Padmanaba, School of Public Health The environmental and social conditions which led to the HantaVirus Undergraduate Students outbreak of 2000, Panama Lauren Baer, Social Studies Monica Ricketts, History * Indigenous women’s perceptions of knowledge to broaden feminist The circulation of certain new political ideas in four countries in Latin discourse on women’s ways of knowing, Guatemala America from 1808-1850, Peru and the United Kingdom Benton Bodamer, Anthropology Wendy Roth, Sociology * Comparative analysis and recording of Mesoamerican frog shrines Racial identification of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans within the and excavation of one such shrine in Copan, Honduras, Guatemala, context of Latin American immigration to the United States, Honduras and Mexico Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico Elena C. Chavez, Social Studies Jalane Schmidt, Divinity School * The commercialization of chocolate processing in Oaxaca and how An ethnography of religious syncretism and representations of this affects women’s roles, Mexico national identity in contemporary Cuban popular piety, Cuba Katherine Currie, Social Studies Laura Serna, History * The development of the collective memory of the Dirty War through Cultural history of the border region from content analysis of periodicals, Argentina 1915-1945, Mexico William Fash, Anthropology Kerri Sherlock, Law School Investigation of the social context of converging medical systems in A series of discussion groups in Chiapas with Latin America, Honduras NGO and community representatives about human rights advocacy, Mexico Francisco Flores, Social Studies The links between the regional disparities in economic development Brian Somoano, School of Medicine and democratization, Mexico AIDS education and prevention: A comparison study of adolescent males, relating HIV and Juan Carlos Gabarro, Anthropology condom use, Cuba State mediation of visual forms of expression in Cuba and the internationalization of Cuban art, Cuba Kristina Steenson, School of Medicine Study of the factors in the decision to refuse hospital care among the Mary Gates, Anthropology indigenous Krikati population, Brazil The changing social experience and position of women due to tourism, México Tami Tiamfook, School of Medicine A retrospective review of medical charts of Puerto Rican pediatric patients who have lupus nephritis, Puerto Rico
SUMMER GRANTS 37 Andrew Klein, Government Paul Ramirez, Study of Religion The effects of the economic reforms of Cuba in 1993, Cuba Ethnographic research in Mexico to study Miztec religious syncretism in their festivals for patron saints, Mexico Kimberly Levy, Government The Americanization of post-independence Jamaica: assessing the Robinson Ramirez, History impact of economic integration on Jamaican patterns, Jamaica Americanization and its effect on social protest in Colombia and Panama, 1945–1964, Panama and Colombia Min Katrina Lieskovsky, Biological Sciences Pre-thesis research in ethnobotany, Mexico Payson Schwin, Social Studies Why environmentally-concerned citizens have not shaped policy, Mexico Gordon McCord, Economics The geographical obstacles to trade in the Peruvian economy, Peru
James Meeks, Social Studies Examining Chile’s market diversification policy reforms under the Pinochet regime, Chile “DRCLAS has been an incredible resource for Carla Moore, History and Literature me . . . the Rockefeller Center, by bringing Indigenous traditions as seen in Argentine museum culture, everyone in Latin American Studies together, Argentina provides a great forum for meeting people and finding out more about happenings on campus. Patrick Noble, Folklore and Mythology The enthusiasm and energy of the people at the Contemporary Cuba through the lens of popular music beginning in Center has been most helpful—whether in 1990, Cuba organizing events or making contacts. The Center’s summer grants have enabled me to Suzannah Phillips, Anthropology travel to Brazil to begin my dissertation research Motives behind the racialization of the “campesino,” and the socio- at last!” political consequences, Bolivia Anadelia Alicia Romo, History, 2000 Summer Mellon Summer Field Research Grants Research Travel Grant recipient Dissertation: Literacy and Primary Education in Bahia, DRCLAS awarded ten Mellon Summer Field 1888-1988 Research Grants in 2000-2001. These grants, established through a grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, allow graduate students in Latin American History to pursue fieldwork related to preliminary dissertation research. In some cases, the Mellon grant serves to supplement a DRCLAS travel grant. 2000-2001 Mellon Fellows in Latin American History 2000-2001 Grant Recipients The Mellon Fellowship, established through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides a stipend for Amilcar Challu Harvard graduate students in Latin American History at Inequality in 19th Century Latin America: Social Welfare the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Brian DeLay Daniel Gutierrez Taking the Desert: Indian Power and the Contest for Northern Social Class, Stratification, Conflict, and Popular Politics in Post- Mexico, 1835 -1854 Independence Mexico
Oliver Dinius Lucas Llach Industrial Relations in Brazil’s “Cidade do Ago”- Volta Redonda, Economic Interventionism in Turn of the Century Argentina 1941 - 1984 Aaron Navarro Carrie Endries The Evolution of the Political Machinery of the Partido The Meanings of Feminism in Brazil in the 1970s and 1980s Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and its Predecessors, c. 1938- 1954 Daniel Gutierrez Social Class, Stratification, Conflict, and Popular Politics in Post- Jonathan Schrag Independence Mexico The Construction and Regulation of Mexico’s Irrigation and Electrical Infrastructure Since 1920 Halbert Jones Mexico’s Involvement in the Second World War William Suárez-Potts Capital, Labor, and the Development of Mexican Law, c. 1867 – 1952 Alison Kidwell Family Finances: Money, Crdit, Obligation and Socio-political charge in Rio de Janiero, 1870 – 1945
38 FLAS Scholarships de Fortabat Fellowship Program The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Six Argentine students in fields ranging from design to Program, initiated at Harvard in 1994 with a U.S. Department education, and from law to economics, received de Fortabat of Education grant, enables Harvard to support graduate and Fellowships for graduate study at Harvard University this professional school students seeking advanced training in year. The Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Fellowship Program was modern foreign languages and area studies related to Latin established by Argentine businesswoman and philanthropist America. Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat to give promising Argentine students financial support to pursue graduate studies at Summer FLAS Intensive Language Training Grant Recipients, Harvard. The endowment also made it possible for a distin- 2000 guished Argentine researcher, Gastón Gordillo, to spend the Claret Vargas (Portuguese), Romance Languages and Litera- semester at DRCLAS as a Visiting Scholar. ture Alison Alonso (Portuguese), History A Harvard faculty committee reviews the applications of all Carmen Oquendo-Vilar (Portuguese), Romance Languages Argentine citizens who have been admitted to Harvard’s and Literature degree programs and who have indicated they are interested in being considered for the de Fortabat Fellowships. The Academic Year FLAS Fellowship Recipients, 2000-2001 committee awards the fellowships on the basis of merit and Gabriel Aguilera, Government financial need. Alison Alonso, History Brian Delay, History 2000-2001 Fellowship Recipients James Fitzsimmons, Anthropology Carmen Oquendo- Villar, Romance Languages and Literature Lucas Llach Rosana Martinelli Jennifer Rabke, Public Health History Education Anadelia Romo, History Silvana Tenreyro Gaston Mirkin Summer FLAS Intensive Language Training Grant Recipients, Economics Law 2001 Nenita Ponce de Leon Elphick (Spanish), Art/Art History Juan Carlos Hallak Nora Libertun Tomas Jimenez (Spanish), Sociology Economics Design Viviane Mahieux (Portuguese), Romance Languages and Literature Jonathan Merson (Portuguese), Harvard Medical School
Hammond Prize The James R. and Isabel D. Hammond Prize was established in 1992 to recognize the achievements of the senior in Harvard “Writing on the labor and business history College who writes the best honors thesis on a subject concern of post-WWII Brazil is a challenge. If ing the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas. archives do exist, they are fragmentary or scattered over different locations - like the 2001 Hammond Prize Recipient federal archives divided between Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia. The researcher needs to Megan Beck, Government Collective Action Failure in the Bahía Magdalena Shrimp Fishery: A follow the smallest leads in the hope to Theoretical Analysis and Comparative Case Study Approach gather a sufficient source base for the dissertation. Multiple research trips to the field are crucial to this detective work, and the DRCLAS summer grants are invaluable in supporting that research strategy.”
Oliver Dinius, History, 2000 Summer Research Travel Grant recipient Dissertation: Industrial Relations in Brazil’s Steel City: Volta Redonda, 1941-1984
Megan Beck and James R. Hammond
GRANTS 39 Graduate Student Associates
Harvard’s graduate students are an integral part of the Center’s rich academic and cultural community. The DRCLAS Graduate Student Associate Program is designed to formalize this connection, while facilitating students’ independent work in Latin American Studies by providing office space at 61 Kirkland Street. Graduate students are selected through a competitive process that includes all of Harvard’s professional schools and academic departments.
In addition to their own studies, the 2000-2001 Graduate Student Associates served as a critical resource for the Center by advising students, organizing conferences, and coordinating some of the Center’s most successful programs, including the Mellon conference for Latin American History and the Boston Area Latin America History Workshop series.
2000-2001 Graduate Student Associates
Susan Antebi Graciela Fortin-Magaña Romance Languages and Literatures Urban Planning, Graduate School of Design
Benjamin Bross Maria Clemencia Ramírez Graduate School of Design Anthropology
Oliver Dinius Esther Whitfield History Romance Languages and Literatures
José Falconi Romance Languages and Literature
Latin America Internship Program
The Center’s Student Internship Program was developed last year to assist Harvard students in identifying internship oppor- tunities in Latin America and to provide financial support for these internships. The Center has established contact with over 150 organizations interested in hosting with Harvard student interns and works to link these organizations with prospective interns with particular skills and linguistic abilities.
In the 2000-2001 academic year, the Center selected 32 undergraduate and 7 graduate students to receive grants to support their internships.
Undergraduate Students Anna Falicov, Urban Studies Migrant farmer health outreach in Raleigh, North Carolina Leah Aylward, Environmental and Social Public Policy Foundation for Sustainable Development in San Jose, Costa Rica Jesus Garcia, Economics and Applied Mathematics Vector in Monterrey, an investment bank, performing economic Jessica Berwick, Undeclared analyses of the Mexican economy and stock market, Mexico Partners in Health, helping to curb the spread of tuberculosis in Lima, Peru Ellen Haddock, Government Consular division of the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile Rachel Bloomekatz, Sociology Semillero de Frutos, working to enhance community development, Ingrid Liff, Biology andVisual and Environmental Studies Mexico Hospital Guadalupe, assisting Dr. Jose Antonio Barcena, Mexico
Yael Braunschweig, History and Music Carla Moore, Literature and Art History Developing “Adopta un Hermano” Program, Chile Non-profit community health organization in Barahona, Dominican Republic Abigail Bucuvalas, Psychology IPODERAC, immersed in Mexican culture in Puebla, Mexico Charlene Music, Visual and Environmental Studies Palo Verde Biological Station, environmental education projects, Laura Coltin, Psychology Costa Rica Consulate of Mexico in Boston, under the supervision of Consul Carlos Rico, United States Shannon Music, Psychology BRASCRI, an NGO dedicated to improving the conditions of poor chil- Caitlin Costello, Biology dren in São Paulo, Brazil Working in the medical field, Chile Jonathan Newton, Government Michael James Faison, Government Teaching English to 7th through 9th graders in a rural public school, English literacy training for those living in remote areas, Costa Rica Costa Rica
40 STUDENTS GRAD. STUDENT ASSOCIATES/ LA INTERNSHIP PROGRAM Scott Rechler, Anthropology Lorrayne Ward, Social Studies Working on a community development program focusing on education, Vector’s investment bank, Puebla branch, learning about international Chile business, Mexico
Julie Rosenberg, Anthropology Taylor West, Economics Anthropological inquiry into the factors that enabled Peruvian patients United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, working on business re- with multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis to complete treatment with search, Washington, DC Socios en Salud, Peru
Graduate Students
Laura Gottlieb, School of Medicine Documenting the changing role of “comadronas” in San Juan, Guatemala
Luis Hernandez, Divinity School Office of Migration, under the supervision of Gustavo Mohar at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
Aaron Kuzin, School of Medicine CEPAS, a NGO, researching early detection and prevention of upper respiratory infections in infants, Brazil
Taylor West Rebecca Locke, School of Medicine Investigating the impact of sterilization campaigns on women’s repro- ductive health in Carabayllo, Peru Timothy Ruttan, Government Shawn Malone, Kennedy School of Government Community health NGO, focusing on rural health education, outreach, Conselho da Comunidade Solidaria, a government-NGO alliance ad- and service delivery, Mexico dressing poverty and marginalization, Brazil Patricio Sampayo, Economics Claudia Pineda, School of Education IMBRAN commercial real estate, Mexico Assessing the impact of the Program for Young Negotiators in several Argentine Schools, Argentina Kimberly Sanchez, Biological Anthropology IDL, a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and Lorelei Williams, Kennedy School of Government safeguarding of human rights, Peru Grupo Cultural Baguncaco, working in the cultural development program, Brazil Brittny-Jade Saunders, Sociology Teaching English as part of the Costa Rican Ministry of Education’s “telesecundaria” project, Costa Rica
Julia Sheketoff, Economics and Applied Mathematics “This internship gave me an opportunity to see IPODERAC, working on children advocacy programs, Mexico how conservation and development are viewed on the local level. Here at Harvard and in the Denis Schweder, Government Interning in the provincial government and working with the Gover- United States, I often hear about what interna- nor in the areas of economics, education, and health, Argentina tional development means from the level of international organizations, but actually being in Payson Schwin, Social Studies Bolivian communities gave me the chance to El Universal newspaper, Mexico understand how people in underdeveloped countries view development and to understand Carla Seidl, Folklore and Mythology their hopes for the future.” Teaching English as a second language to researchers and community members on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador Kimberly Collins, History, 2000 Summer Internship Grant recipient David Sylva, Literature, who worked with EcoBolivia, a grassroots environmental organization in La Paz, Bolivia El Universal newspaper, writing about marginal social groups, Mexico
Viviany Taqueti, Biochemical Sciences Fundacao Esperanca, working as a medical translator and research assistant on health issues in the Amazon region, Brazil
Frances Tilney, Government Prolena, an environmental organization, Nicaragua
Miriam Udler, Applied Mathematics Teaching English in a rural public school, Costa Rica
LA INTERNSHIP PROGRAM 41 Certificate in Latin American Studies Through the Center, the Committee on Latin American and Iberian Studies awards a Certificate in Latin American Studies to students at Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).
Undergraduate students who fulfill specific course requirements, demonstrate a proficiency in Spanish or Portuguese, and present an honors thesis on a topic relating to Latin America may apply for the Certificate in Latin American Studies. For graduate students, the certificate is awarded to PhD candidates who apply and write a dissertation related to one or more of the Spanish-American countries or Brazil.
This year, 22 graduating seniors were awarded certificates on June 6, 2001. After the presentation, the Center hosted a reception for students and their families along with the faculty and Center staff.
2001 recipients of the DRCLAS Certificate in Latin American Studies
Kiara Alvarez Ferrer, Romance Languages and Literature Jacqueline Christina Hamm, Social Studies “Mi nada a nadie se la debo:” Self-Assertion, Multiplicity, and Exposing the Virtual Reality: The Catholic Church’s New Ambiguity in the Poetry of Julia de Burgos Emphasis on Intellectual Freedom and Citizenship in Contem- porary Cuba Priscilla Samady Aquino, Sociology Cuban Education Reviewed: A Study on the Effectiveness and Dona M. Kim, History and Science Purpose of a Socialist-Based System of Education Through the Extending Motherhood: Women in Ecuadorian Medicine and Voices of Educators and University Students and University- Public Health, 1900 -1970 Aged Cuban Youth Kristine Marie Koren del Rio, Government Clara Elena Brillembourg, History and Literature The Limits of Negotiation: Stalemate in the Gulf of Venezuela “I confess:” The Impact of Coerced Confession in Argentina’s Dirty War (1976 -1983) Arthur Eric Koski-Karell, Government A Statistical Analysis of the Impact of Latin American Democ- Jay Chen, Social Studies ratization on U.S. Congressional Activity Unlikely Allies: U.S. Intervention in the Kuna and Miskito Rebellions Jonathan Radames Lavy, Economics Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar: A Tale of Two Cities and One Michelle Monica Echeverría, Government Industrial Revolution The ETA Threat: The Testing of Political Parties in Spain Naima Rosele Lilly, History and Literature Ashley McRainey Forde, History and Literature Rethinking Legitimate Representation: Politics and Music in Revolutionary Tourism?: Cuba, Cubans, and Foreigners in the Argentina During the Transition Literature of the Special Period Jennifer Lin Liu, Social Studies Francisca Marie Geyer, Economics Film Industry Politics in Mexico The NAFTA Effect: Assessing the Determinations of the Wage Inequality in Mexico, 1990 -1998
42 STUDENTS CERTIFICATE IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Advisory Committee member Arturo Brillembourg with daughter Clara and Steve Reifenberg Casey John Noel and friends
José Alejandro Longoria, Economics Mexico’s Agrarian Reform: Effectiveness of the 1992 Privatization on Ejido Sector Productivity
Casey John Noel, Government Beyond Ethnic Politics: A Comparative Analysis of Political Behavior in Trinidad and Tobago and the United States
Caroline Perkins, History and Literature Song of America: The Representative Poetry of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda
Joseph Clay Petre, Social Studies Venezuela After the Fairy Tale: Culture, Crisis, and the Rise of Hugo Chávez
Mónica Marie Ramírez, Literature ¡Viva El Teatro Campesino! A People’s History on a Living Stage DRCLAS Intern Elizabeth Walker and family Justin Skinner, History and Literature Panamanian Identities: Exploring Notions of Panamanian Consciousness Through History, Politics, and Contemporary Culture
Elizabeth Anne Walker, Sociology AIDS and Breastfeeding: Counseling, Services, Politics, and the Experiences of Families Living with HIV/AIDS in Northeast Brazil
Camilo Calderón Zaks, Anthropology Diets of Infants and Toddlers on the Reserva Chirripó, Costa Rica
Justin Skinner and family
John Coatsworth and Jay Chen
43 Doctoral Dissertations Freshman Seminar Trip To Peru Every year the David Rockefeller Center for Latin Ameri- When members of the Fall semester Freshman Seminar can Studies compiles a list of all the dissertations pre- class “The Contemporary Political and Economic Land- sented on or about issues related to Latin America, the scape of Latin America,” proposed a trip to observe the Iberian Peninsula, or Latinos within the United States. April 8, 2001, presidential elections in Peru, Lecturer This year there were 28 dissertations whose topics ranged Sylvia Maxfield responded enthusiastically. The students from the Mexican labor market to community housing received support from a broad array of Harvard entities, developments in Puerto Rico. including DRCLAS, the Weatherhead Center for Interna- tional Affairs, the Center for International Development Doctor of Philosophy and the Harvard College Research Program. Miguel Braun, Economics The 14 class members met Tuesday nights during the Three Essays on Economic Policy in Developing Countries Spring semester to discuss Peruvian issues with faculty, journalists and visiting scholars to better understand Eileen L. Brooks, Economics contemporary Peruvian politics and the process of Why Don’t Firms Export More? election monitoring. José Reinaldo Cartagena-Calderón, Romance Languages The Peruvian NGO, Transparencia, agreed to sponsor and and Literatures train the students as official international election observ- Entre telones masculinos: teatro, literatura y construcción de ers. Members of the Harvard Club of Peru met the masculinidades en la España aurisecular students at the airport and served as local hosts. Harvard alumnus Tony Custer AB’76 MBA’79 organized a series of Karla Liza Davis-Salazar, Anthropology meetings and receptions to enable the students to meet Late Classic Maya Water Management at Copán, Honduras with relevant actors in the electoral process. Over the course of the week in Peru, the students met with the Víctor Figueroa Sepúlveda, Comparative Literature current Minister of Justice; the Swedish Ambassador to Each Man Is An Island: The Archipelago of Luis Palés Matos, Peru; an ex-Foreign Minister under then-President Alberto Aimé Césaire, and Derek Walcott Fujimori; a team of academics at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos; and several leading politicians and journalists. James W. Fuerst, Political Science Meztízo Rhetoric: The Political Thought of El Inca Garcilaso de On the evening of April 7th, the group took a bus to Ica, a la Vega town three hours south of Lima, where they were de- ployed to voting sites at rural schools and community María Regina García-Cuéllar, Economics centers to monitor the counting of the ballots. Following Essays on the Effect of Trade and Location on the Gender-Gap: the elections, the students returned to Lima and spent the A Study of the Mexican Labor Market remaining two days in follow-up meetings about the Carmen Y. Hsu, Romance Languages and Literatures elections. Courtesans in the Literature of the Spanish Golden Age Trip Participants Krista Kenyon Ingram, Biology Queen Number, Nest Ecology, and Colony Genetic Structure of Jessica Berwick John Rivera the Invasive Argentine Ant, Linepithema humile Rachel Bloomekatz Maria Luisa Romero Jesus Garcia Leah Tucker Paul William Mapp, History Andrew Klein Denis Schweder European Geographic Ignorance and North American Imperial Riley Mendoza Fabiana Silva Rivalry: The Role of the Uncharted American West in Sylvia Maxfield (faculty advisor) International Affairs, 1713-1763
David Michael Marx, Social Psychology Minority Role Models: Improving Minority Students’ Test Performance in the Face of Negative Stereotypes
John McAlearney, Health Policy Stretching the Safety Net: Child Participation in Public Insurance and the State of Community Health Centers
Karen Patricia Peña, Romance Languages and Literatures Modernism’s Gambit: Poetry Problems and Chess Stratagems in Fernando Pessoa and Jorge Luis Borges
Rosanna Rivero El Badaoui, Romance Languages and Literatures Janus Identities and Forked Tongues: Two Caribbean Writers in the United States Freshman Seminar Group with Sylvia Maxfield and Tony Custer
44 STUDENTS FRESHMAN SEMINAR TRIP TO PERU/DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS Neal Moses Rosendorf, History Doctor of Design The Life and Times of Samuel Bronston, Builder of ‘Hollywood in Madrid’: A Study in the International Scope and Influence of Scott D. Bassett American Popular Culture An Evaluation of Different Techniques for Combining Species Richness and Visual Preference Models in the San Pedro River Mario Luis Small, Sociology Basin, Arizona, U.S.A. and Sonora, Mexico How Neighborhoods Matter: Community Participation and Social Isolation in a Puerto Rican Housing Project Doctor of Education
Mary Elizabeth Casey, Human Development and Psychology Heroes of the Heart: Moral Inspiration in the Lives of Racially Diverse Rural Adolescents
Enrique Chaux, Human Development and Psychology Peer Conflicts in a Violent Environment: Strategies, Emotions, Reconciliations, and Third Parties in Conflicts among Colombian Children and Early Adolescent
David Bradford Marshall, Human Development and Psychology Communication Across Cultures: The Use of Newspapers in the Foreign Language Classroom
Photo of a newsstand in Perú, taken during the Freshman Seminar election monitoring trip
Robert Richard Taliercio, Jr., Public Policy Administrative Reform as Credible Commitment: The Design, Sustainability, and Performance of Semi-Autonomous Revenue Authorities in Latin America Eliane Betina Rubinstein-Avila, Language and Literacy Alvin Tan, Political Science From Their Points of View: Literacies Among Latino Immigrant Sovereign Credibility in International Political Economy Students
Hartmut Tschauner, Anthropology Emiliana Vegas, Administration, Planning, and Social Socioeconomic and Political Organization in the Late Policy (Concentration in Elementary and Secondary Prehispanic Lambayeque Sphere, Northern North Coast of Peru Education) Private and Public Schools in Latin America: Students, Gerardo Villalobos Aldana, History of Science Teachers, and School Management Oracular Science: Uncertainty in the History of Maya Astronomy, 500-1600
Esther Katheryn Whitfield, Romance Languages and Literatures Fiction(s) of Cuba in Literary Economies of the 1990s: Buying In or Selling Out?
Michael Vincent Wilcox, Anthropology The Archaeology of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680: A Contextual Study of Ethnicity, Conflict and Indigenous Resistance in Colonial New Mexico
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 45 Development and Institutional Support
With the extraordinary leadership of its Lorenzo Weisman AB ’66 recognized his The Miguel Aleman Endowment (1999), Advisory Committee and the generosity of 35th reunion at Harvard College with two established by Governor Miguel Aleman Harvard alumni and friends, the David new gifts. A significant new commit- of Veracruz, Mexico, supports key Rockefeller Center for Latin American ment to the Lorenzo Weisman Fund for programmatic initiatives and publica- Studies has built a strong foundation of Latin American Studies (1998), will endowment support to advance Latin support the Center’s programs, publica- American Studies at Harvard. Well beyond tions, and research activities. Second, a the official close date of the Harvard Univer- new gift to the Lorenzo Weisman Fund sity Campaign, supporters of the David for Central America (1998) will be added Rockefeller Center have stepped forward to to the Central American Fund to support ensure that Latin American Studies programs and activities related to the continues to have a place of prominence at nations of Central America. Harvard, as President Lawrence Summers takes the helm to lead the University into the Endowment Funds at Work next decade. Over the past six years, the Center has New Endowment Funds Established been the beneficiary of a host of endow- Margarita and Jaime Montealegre with Orlando Sacasa at the in 2000 - 2001 ment gifts established by loyal alumni Advisory Committee reception and friends for a variety of Latin This year, funds in support of the American programs and activities at tions, including the Center’s newsletter, Center’s endowment were established by Harvard University. The commitment of DRCLAS NEWS, and a variety of student Ernesto Fernandez-Holmann MPA ’66 the Center’s supporters, coupled with and faculty publications. PhD ’68 AMP ’76; Alejandro AB ’68, Joaquin, and Miguel Gomez; and the successful investment strategy of the The Azcárraga Andrade Endowment Adolfo Salume AB ’84 MBA ’85. All Harvard Management Company, (1999) was established with a gift from promises a robust and dynamic program Advisory Committee member Gastón of Latin American Studies at Harvard for Azcárraga to support Center programs, many years to come. publications, and research with priority for efforts related to social development The Center Endowment Fund and in Mexico. This year, the endowment Travel Grant Program helped to support the Center’s spring semester Mexico Series.
The critical unrestricted support of many The Estrellita Bograd Brodsky Endow- generous donors has allowed the Center ment for Latin American Arts and to grow to include numerous new Culture (1999) was created to promote Alejandro Gomez and Margarita Castillo, programs and initiatives. In particular the study of Latin American cultural Central American Visiting Scholar heritage including art, architecture, cinema, music, poetry, dance, literature, three new gifts will become part of and other forms of creative expression. the Central American Fund at the The endowment enabled the Center to David Rockefeller Center to support collaborate with the Harvard University activities related to Central America Art Museums and the Department of the in perpetuity at Harvard. The History of Art and Architecture to create Central American Fund underwrites the lecture series, New Perspectives in programs, publications, and Latin American Art from the 16th Century to research related to the region, the the Present, during the 2000 - 2001 Central American Visiting Scholar academic year. Program, and graduate scholarships for Central American students at the The Gustavo Brillembourg Memorial University. The Fernandez- Martha Gomez, Joaquín Gomez, Ricardo Poma, and Francisco Soler Endowment (1997) was established in Holmann, Gomez, and Salume gifts loving memory of Gustavo Brillembourg will supplement the generous support of the Center would like to recognize AB ’79 by his family and friends to the founders of the Central American Emilio Azcarraga, Arthur Byrnes AB ’67, recognize his love of poetry, writing, and Fund, Advisory Committee members Albert Gordon AB ’23 and Mary Gordon Latin American Studies. The Francisco de Sola, Ricardo Poma, Roberts, Joli Kansil P ’98, Israel Klabin, Brillembourg Memorial Endowment Francisco Soler, and Lorenzo Weisman, Wilbur Marvin AB ’41, David enables the Center to promote Latin and Fund members Federico Bloch and Rockefeller SB ’36 LLD ’69, Jose “Puchy” American art through the DRCLAS Latin Carlos Lacayo. Rohm, and Orlando Sacasa AB ’71 MBA American and Latino Art Forum, ’78. In addition, the Center wishes to featuring regular exhibitions by Latin acknowledge James R. AB ’57 and Isabel American artists and artists whose work Hammond for their generous support for carries Latin American themes. the Center’s Travel Grant Program.
46 DEVELOPMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT ENDOWMENT The Central American Fund (1998) the Center to award fellowships to post- The Angeles Espinosa Yglesias Fund celebrated the attainment in just three doctoral scholars and/or leading (1999) was created by Center Advisory years of the $2 million goal for Central practitioners from Venezuela to spend a Committee member Angeles Espinosa American programs, publications, and semester or a year in residence at Ygelsias to strengthen Latin American art research at Harvard. The Fund was Harvard. This year’s Cisneros Visiting at Harvard University. This year, the conceived in 1997 to bring attention to Scholar was Dr. José Malavé, Professor of Espinosa Yglesias Fund provided issues related to Central America in the Organization Theory at IESA (Instituto significant support for the New Perspec- Latin American Studies program. The de Estudios Superiores), whose research tives in Latin American Art from the 16th founding donors to the fund, Advisory at Harvard involves American business Century to the Present lecture series. The Committee members Francisco de Sola in Venezuela. The Cisneros Endowment endowment also enabled the Center to AB ’67, Ricardo Poma MBA ’70, Fran- provided support for several students to award a curriculum development grant cisco Soler AB ’67 MBA ’70, and Lorenzo travel to Venezuela to conduct research to Harvard faculty member Gwendolyn Weisman AB ’66, sought to create a fund and funding for the conference, Is There a DuBois Shaw for a new course through that would support three principal areas: Future for Private Utilities in Latin the Departments of the History of Art programs, publication and research, a America? Through a separate gift from and Architecture and Afro-American Central American Visiting Scholar, and the Fundación Cisneros, Patricia Phelps Studies. In addition, the Espinosa graduate scholarships for Central de Cisneros generously provided major Yglesias Fund helped to underwrite the American students at Harvard. In recent support for both the lecture series, New Center’s Winter 2001 Newsletter on Art years, Federico Bloch MBA ’79 and Perspectives in Latin American Art from the in the Americas. Carlos Lacayo AMP ’84 have joined the 16th Century to the Present, and the effort to raise significant support for groundbreaking special exhibition, The Mark B. Fuller and Jo Froman Central American programs and Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art Endowment (1997) provides support for activities at Harvard. New gifts from from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros student and faculty research on Latin Ernesto Fernandez-Holmann MPA ’66 Collection. Please see page 19 on Latin America, including thesis research for PhD ’68 AMP ’76, Alejandro AB ’68, American Art in this report for more undergraduates and preliminary Joaquin, and Miguel Gomez, and Adolfo information. dissertation research for graduate Salume AB ’84 MBA ’85 have put the students. This year, the endowment Fund over its initial goal of $2 million. Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Endowment provided support to four graduate This terrific success has encouraged the (1996), established through the generos- students traveling to Central America members of the fund to raise the bar to ity of Advisory Committee member from the Department of Anthropology, $3 million—including current-use Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, provides Harvard Medical School, and the funding for additional student travel to scholarship support for Argentine Harvard School of Public Health. the region—over the next few years. students undertaking graduate studies at Additional support from the endowment Harvard University. A full list of de enabled the Center to offer internship This year, the fund supported the grants to two undergradu- Roundtable Discussion on Guatemalan ates and one graduate Intelligence, co-sponsored by the Center, student to travel to Central the Latin American Faculty of Social America. Sciences (FLACSO) in Guatemala, and the Project on Justice in Times of Transi- The Garza Medina tion, based at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy Endowment (1997), School of Government. This event, held established by Advisory in Guatemala in November 2000, Committee member brought together experts on intelligence Dionisio Garza Medina, from a number of countries in Latin supports a variety of the America, North America, Africa, and Center’s programs and Europe. The fund also enabled the activities. Funding from the Center to invite Margarita Castillo Garza Medina Endowment Villarreal of Nicaragua to be the Central helped to underwrite the American Visiting Scholar during the spring 2001 Mexico Series, spring 2001 semester. Castillo is a including the conference, graduate of the Central American Jaime Gilinski and César Gaviria at the Social Policy in Mexico: University in Managua and Georgetown Closing the Equity Divide conference Challenges and Opportunities, University in Washington. Prior to her on March 19, 2001. arrival at Harvard, she was a Fulbright Fortabat grantees can be found on page Scholar and an OAS Fellow. Her work 39. The Endowment also enables The Jaime and Raquel Gilinski Endow- involves peace building and demilitari- Harvard to invite a top Argentine ment (1999) was created by Advisory zation in post-conflict societies. Finally, scholar, scientist, or professional to spend Committee members Jaime and Raquel this summer, with support from the a year at Harvard as the de Fortabat Gilinski to support multi-disciplinary Central American Fund, 17 students Visiting Scholar. This year, the de public conferences and workshops, traveled to Central America for scholarly Fortabat Endowment supported seven specifically discussions between academ- research or summer internships. graduate students and Dr. Gaston ics and practitioners to promote public Gordillo, a cultural anthropologist whose understanding of issues related to Latin The Patricia and Gustavo Cisneros research project is entitled The Production America. One of the year’s most Endowment (1997) was created by of Memories of State Repression: Indigenous important public events, the conference Advisory Committee members Gustavo Voices from the Argentine Chaco. Closing the Equity Divide: Achieving and Patricia Phelps de Cisneros to allow Equality of Educational Opportunity in the
ENDOWMENT 47 Americas, held at the Organization of The Jorge Paulo Lemann Endowment programs, publications, and research on American States in March, received (1997) was created by Advisory Commit- Latin American topics at Harvard major funding from the Gilinski Endow- tee member Jorge Paulo Lemann AB ’61 University, particularly those activities ment. to support Brazilian Visiting Scholars that strengthen resources for under- and programs, publications, and research graduates in Harvard College. The Hammond Prize (1992), established related to Brazil. Annual income from by James AB ’57 and Isabel Hammond, is the endowment enables the Center to The Andronico and Patricia Luksic awarded each year to the senior in award fellowships to scholars or leading Endowment (2000), created by DRCLAS Harvard College who writes the best practitioners from Brazil to spend a Advisory Committee member Andronico honors thesis on a subject concerning the semester or a year in residence at Luksic, supports a program of Visiting Spanish-speaking countries of the Harvard University. This year, during the Scholars and Fellows from Chile, as well Americas. This year’s Hammond Prize fall 2000 semester, the endowment as a variety of activities devoted to the winner was Megan Beck, a government supported the research of Dr. Teresa improved understanding of Chile and its concentrator, whose thesis was entitled Salles, Professor of Sociology at relations with Latin America and the Collective Action Failure in the Bahía UNICAMP, who studied second- world. The spring 2001 Luksic Visiting Magdalena Shrimp Fishery: A Theoretical generation Brazilian immigrants in the Scholars were Dr. Gonzalo Jimenez, Analysis and Comparative Case Study Boston area. During the spring 2001 Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Approach. semester, the Lemann Endowment Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, whose supported Dr. Salvador Sandoval, research includes an examination of the The Robert Hildreth Fund (1996), Professor of Political and Social Psychol- relationship between the digital economy supports the Center’s various programs, ogy at the Pontifica Universidade and business associations in Chile, and publications, and research activities Católica de São Paulo, who conducted Dr. Beatriz Palma, Professor of Plant related to Latin America. This year, the research on social movements in Brazil. Physiology at the Universidad de Las Hildreth Fund supported several student Américas in Chile, who conducted travel grants for summer research and The Jorge Paulo Lemann internships in Central America and Professorship for the Study of continues to support initiatives related to Latin America (1999) was Latino Studies at Harvard. established by Jorge Paulo Lemann to enable Harvard to The Philip Lehner Endowment (1994) appoint to the faculty a was established by Advisory Committee distinguished scholar of member Philip Lehner AB ’46 to cel- international stature whose ebrate the founding of the David work has contributed signifi- Rockefeller Center. The Lehner Endow- cantly to the knowledge of the ment has created a new endowed business, economic, social, professorship at Harvard University, the political, environmental, or Monique and Lehner Professorship of historical development of Latin Antonio Madero, Angelica Rudenstine, Carlos Tello Diaz, Tatiana Buch, Neil Rudenstine, John Coatsworth, Pat Coatsworth, and Latin American Studies, to support a America, with a preference for Solomon Chertorivsky distinguished scholar of international scholars whose work has stature whose work has contributed contributed significantly to the knowl- research on desert plants in the Atacama significantly to the knowledge of the edge of Brazil. A search is currently desert. Dr. Palma’s research on desert business, economic, social, political, underway for a senior Brazilianist plants promises to further scientific environmental, or historical develop- scholar. Until the position is filled, the understanding of Atacama plant ment of Latin America, and to the study endowment is enabling the Center to evolution and biodiversity. of Latin America’s relations with the rest sponsor a host of programs and activities of the world. A search is currently that strengthen the scholarly understand- The Antonio Madero Endowment for underway by the Department of Biology ing of Brazil and the critical role that Mexican Politics and Economics (1995) to bring a leading environmental Brazil plays within Latin America and was established by Advisory Committee biologist from the world. Specifically, the member Antonio Madero MBA ’61 to Latin America to Endowment sponsored the celebrate the founding of the David Harvard as the five-part lecture series, Rockefeller Center. The Madero Profes- first Lehner Brazilian Public Health sorship will bring to Harvard a senior Professor. Systems, and the six-part scholar of international stature whose During the lecture series, Democratization work has contributed significantly to search process, and Social Movements in Brazil, knowledge of the business, economic, the Lehner organized in cooperation social, political, environmental, or Endowment with the Center, the Harvard historical development of Mexico and is supporting a Jorge Paulo Lemann Center for International Latin America, or to the study of broad range of Development, and faculty relations of Mexico and Latin America the Center’s programs, publications, and from the Kennedy School of Govern- with the rest of the world. A search is research activities, including the research ment, the Harvard Medical School, and currently underway by the Kennedy of Harvard faculty and students in the Harvard School of Public Health. School of Government to recruit a senior Central America and the Center’s expert to that Faculty for the Madero Program on Strengthening Philanthropy, The John W. Littlefield, Jr. Endowment Professorship. During the search Civil Society, and Social Change in Latin (2000) was created by John Littlefield AB process, the Madero Endowment has America. ’76 in honor of his Harvard College 25th provided extensive support for faculty reunion. The endowment will support research on topics related to Mexican
48 ENDOWMENT political economy. Jorge Domínguez, The David Rockefeller Professorship The Neil L. Rudenstine Professorship Clarence Dillon Professor of Interna- for the Study of Latin America (1994) for the Study of Latin America (1999) tional Affairs, received a grant from the was established by Center founder was endowed with a gift from Center Madero Endowment for his work on US- David Rockefeller SB ‘36 LLD ’69. The founder David Rockefeller to honor the Latin American Relations/Contrasting professorship will recruit to Harvard a commitment of Harvard President Neil Democratic Governance/Latin American distinguished scholar of international Rudenstine to developing Latin Ameri- Border Disputes. The endowment also stature whose work has contributed can Studies at Harvard University. The supported the research of the faculty significantly to the knowledge of the Rudenstine professorship was created to members Professor of Biology James business, economic, social, political, bring to the faculty a distinguished Hanken on The Biodiversity of Mexican environmental, or historical develop- scholar whose work has contributed Amphibians, Professor of Government ment of Latin America, to the under- significantly to the knowledge of the Andrew Moravcsik on Democratic standing of Latin America’s artistic and business, economic, social, political, Delegation: Explaining the Establishment cultural achievements, or to the study of environmental, or historical develop- and Evolution of the Inter-American Rights Latin America’s relations with the rest of ment of Latin America, to the under- Regime, and Robert Woods Bliss Profes- the world. A search is currently under- standing of Latin America’s artistic and sor of Latin American History and way by the Department of Government cultural achievements, or to the study of Economics John Womack on The to recruit an expert to the David Latin America’s relations with the rest of Industrial Working Class in the State of Rockefeller Professorship. During the the world. The first Rudenstine Veracruz. Twenty-six Harvard students search process, the endowment has Professor at Harvard will be David received support from the Madero provided critical unrestricted support to Carrasco, former Director of the Endowment for their travel to Mexico for underpin the core administrative and Mesoamerican Archive and Research thesis and dissertation research, as well programmatic activities of the Center, Project at Princeton University, and as summer internships at a variety of including programs, publications, and editor, with Bowditch Professor of organizations. The Antonio Madero research. Central American and Mexican Endowment provided critical funding Achaeology and Ethnology William Fash for the yearlong series, Mexico in The Peggy Rockefeller Memorial of Harvard University, of the multi- Transition: What Does It Mean? Where is It Endowment (1998) was established with volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Going?, as well as for the DRCLAS edited an anonymous gift in honor of the late Mesoamerican Cultures. Professor volume, Unequal Schools, Unequal Peggy Rockefeller. The fund supports Carrasco will hold a joint appointment in Chances, by Harvard Graduate School of research, teaching, programs, and the Divinity School and the Department Education Professor Fernando Reimers. publications related to Latin America. of Anthropology. He will join the The Peggy Rockefeller Fund also Harvard faculty in the fall of 2001. The Ochoa-Brillembourg Endowment provides support for projects and (1998) was established by Advisory activities by Harvard faculty and The Julio Mario Santo Domingo Committee members Arturo AB ’68 and students that foster research on Latin Endowment (1995) was created by Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg MPA ’72 to America and related fields, including the Advisory Committee member Julio underpin the core activities of the Center, Center’s expansive travel grants pro- Mario Santo Domingo in 1995 to honor including programs, publications, and gram. This year, the Peggy Rockefeller the establishment of the David research. The Brillembourg-Ochoa Memorial Endowment provided Rockefeller Center with a program for Endowment has supported many of the significant support for history professor Visiting Scholars and Fellows from Center’s student publications, including Thomas Bisson’s research on power in Colombia and Ecuador, and to the Center’s Guide for Undergraduates. further understanding of these nations and the Andean The Reiss Endowment for Latin republics. This year, the Santo American Studies (2000) was created by Domingo Endowment Richard, Bonnie, and Lauren Reiss AB supported the Ecuadorian ’98 to support key programmatic Visiting Scholar Alvaro initiatives and publications, including Guerrero Ferber, former the Center’s newsletter, DRCLAS NEWS. Chairman of the Board at the National Council for Modern- Reiss Family Fund for Undergraduate ization (CONAM) in Quito, Studies on Latin America (2000) was Ecuador. While at Harvard, established with a separate gift from the Mr. Guerrero did research on Reiss family to expand opportunities for the process of dollarization in undergraduates to learn about the Adriana and Alvaro Guerrero with Ecuador’s Ambassador to U.S., Ecuador and other private history, art and culture, politics, econom- Ivonne A. Baki sector reforms in that country. ics, environment, and laws of Latin In addition, funding from the America. The fund provides major twelfth century Galicia, and Professor Santo Domingo Endowment enabled the funding for the Center’s dynamic Edward Tronick’s collaborative research Center to support a variety of programs Certificate Program in Latin American project between the University of Buenos and activities, including the Harvard Studies and the program’s Undergradu- Aires and Harvard Medical School on Dialogues on Oil in a Fragile Environ- ate Advisor, and offers opportunities for social-emotional development. ment, the Latin American Economic undergraduates to travel and do research Policy Review, and the conference in the region. Community-based Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Americas.
ENDOWMENT 49 Corporate Partners
The Corporate Partners Program, now in its fifth year, provides corporations doing business in Latin America with access to Harvard’s extensive resources on the region CORPORATE to promote dialogue on issues of mutual interest. This dynamic partnership between the Center and the corporate community offers business leaders an opportunity to ABN AMRO Bank interact with leading academics, policy makers, and other members of the private sector at Harvard University.
Alfa Corporativo (Mexico)
Anheuser - Busch
Halevi
Marcus Banco Comercial (Uruguay)
Fall 2000 seminar meeting Banco Edwards (Chile)
embers of the Corporate Partners Program are invited to two Banco General de Negocios annual events organized exclusively for them, a seminar in the (Argentina) Mfall and a half-day symposium in the spring. These events address the economic, political and social trends in Latin America that influence investors’ decisions and the general business climate in the region. Chase Manhattan Bank
The fall 2000 seminar, Rethinking Regulation: New Roads to Investment in Latin America, engaged representatives of recently privatized companies from the region, political leaders and experts on regulatory and techno- Cinemex (Mexico) logical issues. Participants included Mexican Undersecretary of Energy Policy Andrés Antonius; Enron Corporation’s Senior Director for Gov- ernment & Regulatory Affairs, Ricardo Charvel; and govWorks.com Chairman and CEO, Kaleil Isaza-Tuzman. These distinguished speakers Credit Suisse First Boston were joined by Harvard faculty members José Gómez-Ibáñez, Henry Lee and Florencio López-de-Silanes from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Delta Air Lines
“With the growth and potential of Latin America, it is becoming ever more critical to have a clear Eagle National Bank understanding the region’s global impact. Delta’s Latin American Region is honored to be associated with the highly
Marcus Halevi Marcus El Mercurio (Chile) respected David Rockefeller Center and contributing to promote the understanding of this dynamic region.” Exxon Corporation
Jorge Fernández, Director, Latin America Region, Delta Air Lines, Inc. Hon. Leonel Fernández and Allen Counter
50 o celebrate the fifth anniver- PARTNERS sary of the DRCLAS Corpo T rate Partners Program, the spring symposium was held in Miami, Florida. The seminar, entitled Economic Integration in the FleetBoston Financial Americas:Spring How2001 Much, symposimu How Fast, in Why Bother?Miami, drew Floridatogether representatives from many of Latin America’s premier compa- govWorks.com nies, including Citibank, Goldman Corporate Partners Spring 2001 symposium in Miami Sachs & Company and Telefonica. The event featured a lively exchange of opinion on the International Bank of Miami challenges and opportunities involved in the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. Speakers included Mexico’s J.P. Morgan Marcus Halevi Ambassador to the European Union, Jaime Zabludovsky; U.S. Ambassador to Chile, John O’Leary; Harvard faculty mem Nabisco Brands bers, Andres Velasco and Robert Kennedy; and Provost Mark Francisco de Sola and Francisco Soler Rosenberg from the Florida International University. Strategic Investment Group This year, the Program “The Corporate Partners Program brings welcomed several new together an incredible group, each with their members, including: Time Warner, Inc. own experiences and perspectives on many of El Mercurio (Chile); the critical challenges that face the region. For Strategic Investment me, it is important to understand and debate Group (U.S.); Eagle these various perspectives in order to form International Bank UBS Warburg conclusions on how to best solve some of the (U.S.) and the first key business issues in Latin America.” Venezuelan company, Venevision Interna- Venevisión International Keith Schneider, Managing Director, ABN tional, a member of the (Venezuela) AMRO Bank Cisneros Group of Companies.
Violy, Byorum & Partners
Marcus Halevi Marcus
schneider and littlefield
Marcus Halevi Marcus
John Coatsworth and Kaleil Isaza-Tuzman
Keith Schneider and John Littlefield CORPORATE PARTNERS 51 Foundations
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
he Program for Latin American Libraries and Ar- he continuing institutional support of the William chives, PLALA, assists libraries and archives and Flora Hewlett Foundation has had a significant T throughout Latin America in preserving scarce and impact on the Center’s programs, activities, and endangered documents, publications, and non-print materials T development. like film and sound recordings; and in making these resources more accessible to researchers. The David Rockefeller Center is Much of the Center’s dynamic growth in the past six years is now in its fifth year of administering the program, under the reflected in activities related to interdisciplinary thematic leadership of Dan Hazen, Harvard Librarian for Latin America, priorities. Scholars from diverse departments and Spain, and Portugal. Start-up and renewal funds from the professional schools come together to address issues of Mellon Foundation, totaling about $1,100,000, comprose the core common intellectual concern. The thematic areas that the of its capital. Additional contributions from the Antorchas Hewlett Foundation grant has helped promote and energize Foundation for projects in Argentina, plus less formal matching this past year include environment, health policy, humanities support from agencies and institutions in many other countries (cultural studies and Latin American art), immigration, help to underwrite the library program. institutional and economic reform, and Latino Studies. Hewlett Foundation funding has enabled the Center to move PLALA awards small grants, averaging about $10,000, for forward in ways that would have been impossible without the specific projects selected through competitions held three times foundation’s support. each year. Since its 1996 inception, the program has funded 75 projects in 16 countries. Argentina, Mexico, and Peru account for This year, the Center published an edited volume entitled about half the awards. PLALA’s grants have underwritten a Unequal Schools, Unequal Chances: The Challenges to Equal variety of activities. One award, for instance, allowed Opportunity in the Americas (January 2001) that resulted from Argentina’s Archivo General de la Provincia de Entre Ríos to last year’s Hewlett conference on the same topic. The Center purchase a photocopy machine so that original documents could also hosted a major conference, Closing the Equity Divide: be copied in-house rather than hauled off-site. Another enabled Achieving Equality of Educational Opportunity in the the Archivo General de la Nación in Bogotá, Colombia, to Americas, at the Organization of American States in Washing- microfilm unique church documents from the Archdiocese of ton D.C. in March 2001 to engage academics and policy Popayán. A third supported the “Fundación de Protección a la makers on these important themes. Infancia Dañada por los Estados de Emergencia” of Santiago, Chile, in preserving some 2,000 intake/evaluation files for The Hewlett grant has also significantly bolstered the Center’s children whose parents were “disappeared” or who otherwise work on immigration and on Latino Studies by supporting a suffered from direct or indirect violence during military rule. Yet major initiative bringing together leading scholars to develop another will allow the “Casa da Memória” in Curitiba, Brazil, to a basic research agenda on the Latino population of the preserve glass-plate photographic negatives. Finally, an United States. This project will lead to the joint publication extraordinary emergency grant of $10,000 was recently awarded with the University of California Press of an edited volume to the earthquake-damaged Biblioteca Manuel Gallardo in Santa from the conference entitled Latinos! The Remaking of Tecla, El Salvador, following the January 2001 temblor that America due for release in spring 2002. severely damaged the building housing this unique Salvadoran collection. The support of the Hewlett Foundation has sustained and expanded the Center’s capacity to bring together scholars and PLALA’s projects have proved important on their own terms. scientists interested in Latin America from Harvard’s rich, They have also been instrumental in highlighting the signifi- diverse, but often distant, disciplines and professional fields cance of each country’s documentary heritage in an era of for collaborative projects and activities that would not globalization and internationalization. Involvement by the otherwise have developed. It has also helped the Center to David Rockefeller Center and Harvard University has reinforced reach well beyond the University to collaborate with interna- grantees’ assertions concerning the importance of their holdings. tional organizations and other academic institutions. PLALA’s awards have been conditioned on recipients’ adherence to international standards and “best practices,” with conse- quences that have extended well beyond the collections receiv- ing support.
Lampadia Foundation MacArthur Foundation Now in the third year of a grant from the John The Lampadia Foundation has actively sup- D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, ported the Center’s initiatives on strengthening the David Rockefeller Center continues to philanthropy in Latin America, and has helped develop and expand relations between develop the program to support libaries and Harvard University and Cuban institutions. archives in Latin America. For a complete description of the Center’s Cuban program, please see page 15
52 DEVELOPMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT FOUNDATIONS Academic Committees
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee consists of senior faculty members, who meet each month to advise the Director on Center poli- cies and operations. All members of the Executive Committee also serve on the Center’s Policy Committee.
John H. Coatsworth (Chair) Otto T. Solbrig Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs Bussey Professor of Biology Faculty of Arts and Sciences Faculty of Arts and Sciences
James E. Austin Marcelo-Suárez Orozco John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Professor of Education Graduate School of Business Administration Graduate School of Education
Jorge I. Domínguez (on leave) John Womack, Jr. (on leave) Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Economics Faculty of Arts and Sciences William L. Fash Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Merilee S. Grindle Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development John F. Kennedy School of Government
Steve Reifenberg (Ex officio) Executive Director David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Marcelo Suárez-Oroczo and Doris Sommer
Policy Committee
The Policy Committee’s representatives from eight professional schools and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meet each term to guide the Center’s development and to recommend candidates for the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor- ship of Latin American Studies to the President of the University.
Robert H. Bates Eaton Professor of the Science of Government John R. David Faculty of Arts and Sciences Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health Professor of Medicine Thomas N. Bisson Harvard Medical School, School of Public Health Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History Faculty of Arts and Sciences Rafael Di Tella Assistant Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School
Bradley S. Epps Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Rafael di Tella, Faculty of Arts and Sciences GustavoHerrero and Miguel Paul E. Farmer Sacerdote Professor of Medical Anthropology Harvard Medical School
Luis Fernández-Cifuentes Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Romance Languages and Xavier De Souza Briggs Literatures Assistant Professor of Public Policy Faculty of Arts and Sciences John F. Kennedy School of Government William W. Fisher III Joaquim-Francisco Coelho Professor of Law Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Languages and Literatures of Harvard Law School Portugal Faculty of Arts and Sciences
ACADEMIC COMMITTEES EXECUTIVE AND POLICY COMMITTEES 53 Jeffry A. Frieden Jane Mangan Stanfield Professor of International Peace Assistant Professor of History Faculty of Arts and Sciences Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Mary Gaylord James Lorand Matory Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Professor of Anthropology and ofAfro-American Studies Faculty of Arts and Sciences Faculty of Arts and Sciences
David H. P. Maybury-Lewis Edward C. Henderson Professor of Anthropology Faculty of Arts and Sciences
José Antonio Mazzotti Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Michael E. Porter C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School
Fernando Reimers Associate Professor of Education Graduate School of Education
David Maybury-Lewis Jeffrey D. Sachs Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade Faculty of Arts and Sciences José Antonio Gómez -Ibañez Derek Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Jorge Silvetti Graduate School of Design Nelson Robinson, Jr. Professor in Architecture Graduate School of Design Ricardo Hausmann Professor of the Practice of Economic Development Doris Sommer John F. Kennedy School of Government Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dan C. Hazen (Ex-officio) Librarian for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal in the Widener Debora L. Spar Library Professor of Business Administration Harvard College Library Graduate School of Business
Philip B. Heyman Howard H. Stevenson James Barr Ames Professor of Law Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration Harvard Law School Graduate School of Business Administration
Noel M. Holbrook Lawrence E. Sullivan Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolution- Professor of the History of Religions ary Biology Harvard Divinity School Faculty of Arts and Sciences Roberto Mangabeira Unger Herminia Ibarra (on leave) Roscoe Pound Professor of Law Professor of Business Administration Harvard Law School Harvard Business School Rossana Vaccarino Michael Jones-Correa Associate Associate Professor of Government Harvard School of Design Faculty of Arts and Sciences Andres Velasco Dieter Koch-Weser Sumitomo Fasid Professor of International Development Lecturer in Immunology and Infectious Diseases John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard School of Public Health Kay B. Warren Rafael La Porta Professor of Anthropology Associate Professor of Economics Faculty of Arts and Sciences Faculty of Arts and Sciences Mary E. Wilson Steven Levitsky Associate Professor of Medicine; Associate Professor in Population and Assistant Professor of Government and of Social Studies International Health and Epidemiology Faculty of Arts and Sciences Harvard Medical School, School of Public Health
Florencio López de Silanes Associate Professor of Public Policy John F. Kennedy School of Government 54 Committee on Latin American and Iberian Studies
The Committee on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS), established in 1960, forms part of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Its purpose is to coordinate the Center’s research and curricular programs that operate within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, including Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
John H. Coatsworth (Chair) Mary Gaylord Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Faculty of Arts and Sciences Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Thomas N. Bisson Noel M. Holbrook Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Faculty of Arts and Science Biology Faculty of Arts and Sciences Joaquim-Francisco Coelho Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Languages and Literatures of Michael Jones-Correa Portugal Associate Professor of Government Faculty of Arts and Sciences Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Jorge I. Domínguez (on leave) Steven Levitsky Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs Assistant Professor of Government and of Social Studies Faculty of Arts and Sciences Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Jane Mangan Assistant Professor of History Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Francisco Márquez Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Romance Languages and Litera- tures Faculty of Arts and Sciences
James Lorand Matory Professor of Anthropology and Afro-American Studies Faculty of Arts and Sciences
David H. P. Maybury-Lewis Edward C. Henderson Professor of Anthropology Faculty of Arts and Sciences
José Antonio Mazzotti Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Jorge I. Domínguez Otto T. Solbrig (Acting chair, fall) Bussey Professor of Biology Bradley S. Epps Faculty of Arts and Sciences Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Faculty of Arts and Sciences Doris Sommer Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures William L. Fash Faculty of Arts and Sciences Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeol- ogy and Ethnology Kay B. Warren Faculty of Arts and Sciences Professor of Anthropology Faculty of Arts and Sciences Luis Fernández-Cifuentes Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Romance Languages and John Womack, Jr. (on leave) Literatures Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Economics Faculty of Arts and Science Jeffry A. Frieden Stanfield Professor of International Peace Faculty of Arts and Sciences
ACADEMIC COMMITTEES COMMITTEE ON LATIN AMERICAN AND IBERIAN STUDIES 55 Staff
(From top left): June Carolyn Erlick, Lorena Barberia, Magdalena López-Morton, Otto T. Solbrig, C. Bradley Russell, Jill Netchinsky Toussaint, Tanya Pérez- Brennan, Marcela Rentería, Jennifer C. Burtner, John H. Coatsworth, Ellen M. Sullivan, Rodrigo Villar, Neida M. Jiménez, Timothy Stumph, and Steve Reifenberg
John H. Coatsworth, Director Graduate Student Interns
Otto T. Solbrig, Acting Director (2000) Santiago Creuheras, Internship Program Coordinator
Steve Reifenberg, Executive Director David H. Edwards, Philanthropy Program and Education Outreach Assistant
Lorena Barberia, Cuba Program Associate José Falconi, Art Forum Coordinator
Normand P. Beauchemin, Financial Officer Kristi Gilbert, Education Outreach and Publications Assistant Jennifer C. Burtner, Brazil Program Associate Ana Gilligan, Corporate Partners and Philanthropy June Carolyn Erlick, Publications Director Program Assistant
Neida M. Jiménez, Conference Coordinator / Eliana Marcenaro, Education Outreach Assistant Human Resources Representative Susan A. Seefelt Lesieutre, Publications Assistant Magdalena López-Morton, Corporate Partners Program Coordinator Ernesto Treviño, Philanthropy Program Assistant
Tanya Pérez-Brennan, Assistant to the Executive Director /Visiting Scholars Coordinator Undergraduate Student Interns Rachel Aicher Marcela Renteria, Center Associate Gordon McCord Marcel Amorim Maria Paulina Mogollón Ana C. Ruiz, Financial Assistant Liliana Antelo Hashim Mooppan Amanda Austin C. Bradley Russell, Assistant to the Director Daryk Pengelly Alvaro Bedoya Renee Raphael Timothy Stumph, Information Technology and Silvia Cavalcanti David Rosales Grant Coordinator Elena R. Chavez Ellen Schneider Ellen M. Sullivan, Associate Director Michelle Echevarria David Segrera Salvador Espinosa Giselle Sotello Jill Netchinsky Touissant, Director of Outreach Gabriela Gonzalez Stubbe Lisa Stella Ana Falicov Yasemin Turkman, Financial Officer Patricia Ruvalcaba Vivian Fraga David Villarreal Rodrigo Villar, Philanthropy Program Associate Carla Martin Elizabeth Walker
56 STAFF Financial Summary
JULY 1, 2000 - JUNE 30, 2001
EXPENSES
Administration $ Publications Events and Programs Student Fellowships and Research Travel Grants Faculty Research and Curriculum Grants Visiting Fellows, Scholars, Professors Reserve Fund
Total Expenses $
INCOME
Income from Endowments $ Foundation Grants U.S. Department of Education Harvard University Harvard Business School Provost’s Fund for Interfaculty Initiatives Corporate Partners Current Use Gifts Publications and Other Income
Total Income $
FINANCIAL SUMMARY 57 NON-PROFIT ORG. David Rockefeller Center US POSTAGE PAID for Latin American Studies BOSTON, MA PERMIT NO. 1636 Harvard University 61 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138 phone: 617-495-3366 fax: 617-496-2802 email: [email protected] web: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~drclas