DRCLAS supports scholars and professionals whose work focuses on Mexico in a variety of ways. Visiting Fellows and Scholars from Mexico are supported through the Fundacion Mexico en Harvard-Antonio Madero Visiting Scholar Fellowship.  This fellowship is designed to finance Mexican individuals working on current social and public policy issues, including economic development, education, public health, the environment, and political development. 

In addition to the Madero/Fundacion Mexico Fellowship, Mexicanists from all countries are supported by the Peggy Rockefeller Fellowship. 

Visiting Scholars 2007-2008

Jesús Velasco is a former Fellow of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He joins DRCLAS as a Madero/Fundación México Visiting Scholar for the 2007 – 2008 academic year. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science, from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently an Associate Professor, at the Center for Teaching and Research in Economics, (CIDE) in Mexico City. Professor Velasco has been a Public Policy Scholar, at the Woodrow Wilson Center; and his research areas include: American Political Development and US-Mexican Relations. Dr. Velasco is co-editor of Bridging the Border: Transforming Mexico-US Relations; and the editor of Behind the Crown: The Influence of Neo-conservatism on American Foreign Policy. During his fellowship he will be working on his next book, Seducing America: The Relationship Between the Mexican Government and American Transnational Intellectuals, 1920s – 2006.

2006-2007

Alejandro Poire is the Antonio Madero/Fundacion Mexico Visiting Scholar.  A leading scholar on the Mexican electoral process, he has published several academic pieces analyzing public opinion, political culture, campaign dynamics and voting behavior in Mexico .  Dr. Poire has been a professor and department chair at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) in Mexico City as well as a senior official in Mexico 's Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE).  Last year he held the Robert F. Kennedy professorship (endowed through DRCLAS) and taught a class at the Kennedy School of Government.  As a Madero Scholar, Dr. Poire will be working on a project entitled Curbing the undue influence of "power money" in electoral democracy: Which Institutions Work? He received his PhD in political science from Harvard University .  He will be in residence for the full academic year.

Aurora Gomez-Galvariatto Freer is the Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar.   She is scholar of Mexican and Latin American economic history, with a focus on business, labor, and industrial histories as well as economic development.  At Harvard, Dr. Gomez-Galvariatto Freer will be revising her award-winning 2000 doctoral dissertation entitled The Impact of Revolution: Business and Labor in the Mexican Textile Industry, Orizaba Veracruz 1900-1930 for publication as a book. She is a professor in the Department of Economics at the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas in Mexico.  Dr. Gomez-Galvariatto Freer received her PhD in history from Harvard University .  She will be in residence during the fall semester.

2006-2007

Robert Bye was the Antonio Madero/Fundacion Mexico Visiting Scholar. A scholar in ethnobotany, taxonomy, and the history of botany, he will develop a project entitled, Bridging a Mexican Scientific Gap to Strengthen its Biodiversity Programs: Ethnobotanical Continuity between Colonial Explorations and National Scientific Institutions. Currently, Bye serves as Senior Researcher at the Botanical Garden of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma, Mexico. He holds a doctorate in Biology from Harvard University. He will be in residence in the spring term.

2005-2006

Richard Salvucci was the Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar. A respected historian of Latin America with a number of publications focusing on Mexico, Salvucci conducted research for a project entitled, La Deuda Eterna: A New Financial History of Mexico's London Debt, 1823-1887. Salvucci currently teaches at Trinity University in Texas. He holds a Ph.D. degree in History from Princeton University. He will be in residence in the spring term.

2004-2005 

Ernesto Torres-Lopez is the Antonio Madero/ Fundacion Mexico en Harvard Visiting Scholar for the 2004-2005 academic year. Torres-Lopez was trained as an immunologist and microbiologist at the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon in Monterrey N.L., Mexico.  During his fellowship at Harvard, he will be based at the Harvard Medical School and collaborate with David M. Knipe, Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics on a Herpes Simplex Virus Vaccine.  While at Harvard, in addition to his research project entitled Implementation of Advanced Viral Diagnosis Techniques in Mexico, Torres-Lopez will gain additional training at HMS for the opening of a virology laboratory at the Hospital Universitario of the Medical School at the Universidad Autonoma of Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico.