2011-2012

Mauricio Bustamante is a well respected journalist at Chile’s Public Television station TVN where he is the news editor. He is the news anchor for TVN’s morning and noon news program as well as other important news program including La Entrevista del Domingo, Sera Noticia, and Buenos Dias a Todos. He has been recognized with awards from the Chilean Academy of Language, an APES award for best television interviewer, and the 2010 TV-Gram Award for best Chilean News Anchor. He joins DRCLAS as a Luksic Visiting Scholar for the Fall 2011 semester to work on an innovative project titled Use and abuse on Twitter: State Authorities and Journalists in Chile during the 2010 earthquake, the miners rescue... and beyond.

Alfredo Prieto received his Ph.D. in Prehistoric Archeology from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, holds a M. Phil in Archeology from the University of Cambridge, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Concepción. He currently teaches and conducts his research at the Instituto de la Patagonia, Universidad de Magallanes. As a Luksic Scholar for the Fall 2011 semester his project, Fuego Patagonian Ethnography and Archaeology, will make use of objects and archives held exclusively at the Peabody Museum.

2010-2011

Claudio Fuentes is a Professor of Political Science and Director of Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. From 2004-2006, he was President of the Asociación Chilena de Ciencia Política and from 2004-2008 served as the Director of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Chile office. Dr. Fuentes received his undergraduate degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and holds both a Masters and Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has authored and edited six books and a multitude of articles on Latin American comparative politics and international relations. He joins DRCLAS in the Spring as the Luksic Visiting Scholar to work on his project The Politics of Constitutional Reform in Chile.

2009-2010

Mr. Jon Martínez is Professor of the ESE, the Postgraduate School of Business of the University of the Andes, in the area of General and International Direction. Mr. Martínez received his doctorate in Business Direction from the Institute of Superior Studies of Business (IESE) at the University of Navarra in Barcelona, Spain and has done post-doctoral studies at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He is the author of books and articles in Strategic Management Journal, Family Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, International Marketing Review, and Journal of Business Research. Mr. Martínez will be a Luksic Visiting Scholar for the fall of 2009 working on a project entitled The Impact of Globalization on Family Firms.

Mr. Jorge Tarziján is currently the Director of the School of Management at the Universidad Católica de Chile. He received his Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Strategy from the Kellog Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. His book publications include Organización Industrial para la Estrategia Empresarial (Industrial Organization for Business Strategy), and most recently Fundamentos de Estrategia Empresarial (Fundamentals of Business Strategy). He has also written numerous articles for a variety of publications and cases for the Harvard Business School. Mr. Tarziján will be a Luksic Visiting Scholar for the 2009 -10 academic year, working on a project examining business models in Latin America.

2008-2009

Luis Ortega Professor of History at the Universidad de Chile. He joins the Center from Santiago, Chile as a Luksic Visiting Scholar during the spring 2009 to work on his project: Evolution of the Entrepreneurial Class in Chile from 1880-1913. Ortega earned his B.A. from King’s College at the University of London and his Ph.D. at University College from the same institution. His published work includes: Crecimiento económico y desarrollo tecnológico. Textos e imágenes para una historia, 1850-1932 with Hernán Venegas, Chile en ruta al capitalismo and Cambio, euphoria y depression, 1850-1932.

Sol Serrano will be a Luksic Visiting Scholar during the Spring 2009 semester. Dr. Serrano is currently an associate professor for the History Institute at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). She earned her B.A. from PUC, her Master of Arts from Yale University and her Ph.D. in History from PUC. Serrano won a Guggenheim Scholarship in 2002 to work on the project: “Catholicism and Secularization in Chile in the 19th Century.” Her publications include: Qué hacer con Dios en la República. Política y secularización en Chile, 1845-1885 (2008) and Vírgenes Viajeras. Diarios de religiosas francesas en su ruta a Chile 1838-1874 (2000). She will be at the Center during the Spring 2009 semester to work on her next project, The Social Value of Education in the History of Chile.

2006-2007

Héctor Jorquera researcher at the Universidad Católica de Chile, joined the Center as the Luksic Visiting Scholar during 2006-2007 and was in residence for the full academic year. Dr. Jorquera is an engineer who partially specializes in the study of air quality. He has been a Visiting Professor at Imperial College in London, Université de la Bourgogne in France, and the University of Iowa. While at Harvard, he is working on a project entitled “Urban Air Quality in Latin America: Are We Moving Towards Sustainable Development?” He received his PhD in engineering from the University of Minnesota.

2005-2006

Arturo Navarro Executive Director of the Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho and teaches Cultural Policies at the Universidad de Chile. Navarro joined the Center as the Luksic Visiting Fellow during the Spring term 2006. During his time at Harvard he wrote a book on the topic of Cultural Administration and the Creation of New Cultural Audiences: "¿Quién Paga? Gestión, infraestrutura y audiencias en el modelo chileno de desarrollo cultural." Navarro is a journalist and holds a graduate degree in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile .

2004-2005
María Rodríguez-Pinto Profesor of Civil Law at Universidad de los Andes. She was the Luksic Visiting Scholar for Fall term 2004. During her stay at Harvard, Rodríguez-Pinto wrote a monograph on the "Law of Conflicts of Interest, Self-Dealing, and Undue Influences in Contracts from a Comparative Perspective" using Latin American and Anglo American sources. Rodríguez-Pinto has written extensively on private law and received her Doctorate of Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

2003-2004
Alfredo Rehren Professor of political science and Luksic Visiting Scholar at Harvard University for the 2003-2004 academic year. Mazzini Scholar at University of Genova in Italy from June-December 2007. Professor Rehren, who is an expert in political science from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, pursued his research project, “Politics and Corruption in Chilean Democracy.” Rehren worked closely with colleagues in Harvard´s Government Department and the Kennedy School of Government.

2002-2003
Hernán Cortés Douglas Professor of Economics and Economic History at the Catholic University of Chile and was one of the Luksic Visiting Scholars for the 2002-2003 academic year. From 1998-1999 he served as the Senior International Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury in Chile, after holding other distinguished posts with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Cortés Douglas work focused on “Business Cycles and Growth: the Chilean Economy and International Context.”

Gonzalo de la Maza Escobar sociologist and associate researcher on the project “Mapping Civil Society Networks in Latin America.” He also serves as the Executive Director of the Citizen and Local Management Program in the Chilean Foundation for Overcoming Poverty and Public Affairs Institute at the Universidad de Chile. Gonzalo de la Maza was Visiting Scholar --with the generous support from Ford Foundation--during the 2002-2003 academic year, and researched issues of civil society and the state in Chile since 1990.

2001-2002
Beatriz Palma Professor of Plant Physiology at the Universidad de Las Américas in Chile. At Harvard, she conducted research on desert plants in the Atacama desert on two different occasions, during the Spring term 2001 and again during the Spring term 2002. In her previous work, Dr. Palma collaborated with Harvard senior faculty member in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Missy Holbrooke. Dr. Palma’s research on desert plants promises to further scientific understanding of plant evolution and biodiversity in the region, and her Harvard colleagues look forward to future collaboration with her on this important work.

Gonzalo Jiménez Seminario Professor of Strategy at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and Director of the Centro de Empresas Familiares. Professor Jiménez is partner at PROTEUS, a Chilean estrategic consulting company. He was a Luksic Visiting Scholar in the Spring term 2002. His research work at Harvard focused on Latin American business groups' corporate strategies, and he has subsequently brought much of his work back into the classroom at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.