Andes & Southern Cone Studies Program

Alicia Yamin

ayamin@law.harvard.edu

Lecturer on Law and the Senior Fellow on Global Health and Rights at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School;

Adjunct Senior Lecturer on Health Policy and Management at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health;

Senior Advisor on Human Rights and Health Policy at the Global Health Justice Organization, Partners in Health

Alicia Ely Yamin JD MPH PhD is known globally for her trans-disciplinary work in relation to economic and social rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, the right to health, and the intersections between development paradigms and human rights...

Alisha C. Holland

aholland@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Government, Department of Government

Alisha C. Holland studies the comparative political economy of development with a focus on Latin America. Her first book, Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2017), examines the...

Charles Alcock

calcock@cfa.harvard.edu

Donald H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics;

Senior Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Charles Alcock was educated at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and at the California Institute of Technology. He has previously been a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study (1978-1980), an Associate Professor of Physics at the...

David R. Foster

Director of the Harvard Forest;

Senior Lecturer on Biology

David Foster has been a faculty member in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard since 1983 and Director of the Harvard Forest, the University's 4,000-acre ecological laboratory and classroom in central Massachusetts, since 1990. Foster has a PhD...

Donald H. Pfister

Asa Gray Research Professor of Systematic Botany;

Curator Emeritus of the Farlow Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany

Donald Pfister’s research interest center on the classification and relationships among several groups the fungi. A particular focus is on the fungi found in the Nothofagaceae forests of temperate South America. Our group studies taxonomy, biogeography...

Doris Sommer

Ira Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures;

Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative

Doris Sommer, Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University, is Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies. Her academic and outreach work promotes development...

Fernando Reimers

fernando_reimers@harvard.edu

Ford Foundation Professor of International Education;

Director, International Education Policy Program;

Director, Global Education Innovation Initiative

Fernando M. Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education and Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of the International Education Policy Masters Program at Harvard University. An expert in the...

Forest L. Reinhardt

John D. Black Professor of Business Administration, HBS;

Unit Head, Business, Government and the International Economy;

Co-Chair, Andes & Southern Cone Faculty Committee

Forest Reinhardt is a global expert on the interface between climate change, business, and energy. He is co-chair of the Harvard Business School’s Global Energy Seminar, an executive education course for leaders of firms that play important roles in the...

Gonzalo Giribet

ggiribet@g.harvard.edu

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology;

Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology;

Curator of Invertebrates in the Museum of Comparative Zoology

Gonzalo Giribet's primary research focuses on the evolution and biogeography of invertebrate animals. In the lab, he uses genomic, transcriptomic, and morphological data from living and extinct animals to better understand invertebrate evolution. A large...

Judith Palfrey

palfrey@fas.harvard.edu

T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, HMS

Dr. Palfrey is the T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, former chief of the Division of General Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, and 2009–2010 president of the...

Mercedes Becerra

mercedes_becerra@hms.harvard.edu

Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, HMS

Mercedes Becerra is a Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is a graduate of Harvard College (AB, history) and earned an ScD in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research...

Noel Michele Holbrook

holbrook@oeb.harvard.edu

Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry;

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Michele Holbrook studies the physics and physiology of vascular transport in plants with the goal of understanding how constraints on the movement of water and solutes between soil and leaves influences ecological and evolutionary processes. Dr. Holbrook...

Thomas B. F. Cummins

cummins@fas.harvard.edu

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art;

Co-Chair, Art, Film, & Culture Faculty Committee;

Director of Dumbarton Oaks

Thomas Cummins is The Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art. He has a PhD from UCLA, 1988. He taught for eleven years at the University of Chicago and was the Director of The Center of Latin American Studies from 1998...