The DRCLAS Regional Office is often directly involved in Harvard faculty members' collaborative initiatives.

Each semester we will highlight some of the fantastic projects being carried out by Harvard faculty members with the support of the DRCLAS faculty grants.

Learn more about faculty projects in the region by visiting Harvard worldwide.
 

Anthropology and Archaeology

» Studies of Andean Art History and Archaeology (AAHA)
Gary Urton, Thomas Cummins, Jeffrey Quilter
» Language, history, and cultural study in La Ciudad Blanca, Sucre Summer Program
Gary Urton,  Diana Sorensen, Thomas Cummins
» Khipus: Counting Knots in the Incan Empire
Gary Urton
» Brindis con el Inca, un encuentro de la iconografía Andina, an International Encounter
Thomas Cummins

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Arts and Humanities

» Andean Art History and Archaeology Working Group
Gary Urton, Thomas Cummins, Jeffrey Quilter

» Cosmopolitan Desires. Latin American Literature and the Discourses of Globalization
Gary Urton, Thomas Cummins, Jeffrey Quilter
» Chilean Contemporary Art - Conceptual Stumbling: The Recasting of Chilean Art after 1975
Thomas Cummins, Doris Summer
» Cultural and Spanish language immersion in Argentina’s historic capital, Buenos Aires, Summer Program
Johanna Damgaard Liander
» Culture and the Markets in Latin America
Luis E. Cárcamo Huechante
» Gender, Sexuality and Culture: A Dialogue from the South
Bradley Epps, Luis E. Cárcamo Huechante, Doris Sommer, Diana Sorensen
» The Other Radio Voices of America
Luis E. Cárcamo Huechante, Doris Sommer

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Astronomy

• »  Magellan Project, Las Campanas, Chile
  
• Charles Alcock, Robert Kirshner

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Business

• » Business History in Latin America: Studying the Historical Impact of Globalization, Argentina and Chile
• Geoffrey Jones, Andrea Lluch and Aldo Musacchio

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Education

A Project involving Education and Medicine » Un Buen Comienzo Project (UBC) "A Good Start": An Early Education Program
Catherine Snow, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Cathy Ayoub, Judith Palfrey

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• Medicine and Public Health

• » Improving Detection and Treatment of Tuberculosis in High-risk Children 
• Mercedes Becerra
• » Health Reform and State Capacity in Chile and Colombia
• Thomas Bossert
• » Helminth Infection and the Risk of Tuberculosis in Children 
• Mercedes Becerra
• » A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Integrated Health and Education Intervention in Chilean Preschools: A Sub-Study within Working the Un Buen Comienzo Project
• Judith Palfrey,  Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Mary Catherine Arbour
• » Working Group on the Role of Air Pollutants and Vasospasm 
• Kit Parker
• » Extensive Drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR_TB) in at Risk-Households
• Mercedes Becerra
• » Impact of a National Tuberculosis Laboratory Network
• Hamish S.F. Fraser
• » Psychological Determinants of Antiretroviral Non-adherence and HIV outcomes in Lima-Peru
• Sonya Sunhi Shin
• » Resilience in Bolivian Street Children:  A Longitudinal Study of Boys in a Comprehensive Residential Program
• Cathy Ayoub, Thomas F. Burke
• » Analysis of the Current Chilean Health Reforms
• Thomas J. Bossert
• » Partners in Health
• Paul Farmer
• » Strategies to Address the TB in Resource Poor Communities
• Arachu Castro, Paul Farmer
• » Tracking the West Nile Virus
• Andrew Spielman
• » Improving Air Quality in Chile
• Petros Koutrakis, Helen Suh
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• Public Policy and Governance
   

  • » Recupera Chile
    
  • Doug Ahlers, Judith Palfrey, Miho Mazereuw
  • » ENLACE 27/02 Initiative 
  • Daniel Hojman
  • » Increased Maternity Leave or Day Care Centers for Toddlers? 
  • Alberto Abadie
  • » Chilean Leaders: Family Philanthropy and Civil Society
  • Charles Collier, Senior Philanthropic Advisor, Peter Dobkin Hall,  Christopher Stone
  • » Bolivia, Chile, Peru: Exploring Opportunities for Mutual Gain
  • Thommas Cummins, Jorge I. Domínguez, John Coatsworth, Merilee Grindle
  • » Teleconference Series in Argentina
  • Otto Solbrig
  • » Chile: el país que viene
  • Andrés Velasco
  • » Project on Philanthropy, Civil Society and Social Change
  • Christine Letts, David Brown
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    Science

  • » The Contribution of Stem Water Storage to the Water Balance of "Palo Borracho" along a Gradient in Northwestern Argentina: Morphological Plasticity and Physiological Performance of Arid Zone Trees
    
  • Noel Michele Holbrook
  • » Ascomycota and Mycorrhizae of the Southern Beech Forest
    
  • Donald Pfister
  • » Creating Collaborative Networks Among the Chilean Scientific Community in the Boston Area: Step 1—Research Symposium 2012
  • Albert M. Galaburda
  • » Biomimetic Solutions to Food Packaging Problems
  • Jaques Dumais
  • » Conservation Capital in the Americas: A Hemispheric Dialogue on Conservation Finance
  • David Foster, James Levitt
  • » Fungal diversity in the southern beech forests: Truffle-like fungi in southern Chile 
  • Donald H. Pfister
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  • Urban Design and Planning

  • » Neonatures Buenos Aires Reserve 
  • Ciro Najle, Charles Waldheim, Alex Krieger
  • » Innovative Designs in Social Housing
  • Jorge Silvetti
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