# Andes & Southern Cone Studies Program ## Faculty Committee [### Alicia Yamin ](/people/alicia-yamin) 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... ![yamin](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/yasmin.jpg?itok=KroX4Ti6) [### Alisha C. Holland ](/people/alisha-c-holland) 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... ![alisha](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/Alisha-Holland-e1669652325704.jpg?h=47751115&itok=d40cnWug) [### Charles Alcock ](/people/charles-alcock-0) 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... ![charles](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/charles-alcock-20180322-2B.jpg?h=e8c4c516&itok=FWNVA_9B) [### David R. Foster ](/people/david-r-foster-0)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... ![drf_photo_mv_2016_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/drf_photo_mv_2016_0_0.jpg?h=e99518ff&itok=JseMf9hE) [### Donald H. Pfister ](/people/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... ![don](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/don_pfister_crop.jpeg?h=0c0664ac&itok=dR4cY-Zm) [### Doris Sommer ](/people/doris-sommer-0)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... ![doris_sommer](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/doris_sommer%202.jpg?h=57c42cb5&itok=rLWk46xi) [### Fernando Reimers ](/people/fernando-reimers-0) [fernando\_reimers@harvard.edu](mailto: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... ![fernando](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/fernando-reimers-252.jpg?h=0dc9813e&itok=iHDzZ8Jt) [### Forest L. Reinhardt ](/people/forest-l-reinhardt-0)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... ![forest](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/Captura%20de%20tela%202024-09-11%20155751.jpg?h=38d19386&itok=rm6A2EZj) [### Gonzalo Giribet ](/people/gonzalo-giribet-0) 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... ![gonzalo](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/gonzalo_giribet_2021.jpeg?h=b2fe3416&itok=mohVS1eZ) [### Judith Palfrey ](/people/judith-palfrey-0) 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... ![judy_palfrey_for_website.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/judy_palfrey_for_website_1.jpg?h=e99518ff&itok=UvpGiyyM) [### Mercedes Becerra ](/people/mercedes-becerra-0) [mercedes\_becerra@hms.harvard.edu](mailto: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... ![07_m_becerra.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas/files/07_m_becerra_1.jpg?h=e7c28f62&itok=SlYywhDc) [### Noel Michele Holbrook ](/people/noel-michele-holbrook-0) 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... ![noel](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/Holbrook_200x300.jpg?h=d42a39c8&itok=V2Fyq3nR) [### Thomas B. F. Cummins ](/people/thomas-b-f-cummins-0) 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... ![t_cummins_1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/t_cummins_1_0.jpg?h=8ac9f532&itok=CdGhfJGy)