Ruben Oliven is the DRCLAS Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor for the 2026–27 academic year. He is teaching seminars on “The Making of Modern Brazil: A Transnational Perspective” and “Brazilian Culture and National Identity” and is co-hosted by Harvard...
Sebastian Gallegos is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Business School in Chile. He holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Economics at...
Laura Fahrenkrog is Associate Professor of History at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile). Her research centers on musical practices in colonial Spanish America, examining their connection to social and cultural problems, labor, and colonial categories. Her...
Tomás Mantilla Lozano is a candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. His research interests comprise vernacular understandings of race, everyday processes of knowledge transmission, and popular articulations of post-racial politics. His...
Gustavo Freire Martins is a doctoral student at Harvard University in the Department of African and African American Studies with a primary field in History. He also worked as a history teacher for teenagers and adults. His research interests lie at the...
Félix Joaquín Galván-Díaz is a doctoral candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures. His research focuses on critical theory and Latin American literature through the lenses of Cultural Memory Studies, Gender Studies, Migration and Border Studies, and...
Ben Gregson is a fifth year PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature. With a background in Classics and English, he now mostly focuses on the literatures and cultures of the English-, French-, and Creole-speaking Caribbean and its diaspora. His doctoral...
Darien Dey is a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research explores the history of Black education in the British West Indies, particularly in Guyana, where she grew up. She examines how African-Guyanese educational...
Aaron Watanabe is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government. His research examines democratic backsliding, political elites, and the comparative politics of Latin America with a focus on Brazil and Peru. His dissertation examines why democracies...
Paola Cortes-Rocca is a cultural critic specializing in the intersections of writing and visuality in Latin America. She is Professor at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes and the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and a Researcher at Argentina’s National...