Central America & the Caribbean Studies Program

Faculty Committee

Jocelyn Viterna

Professor of Sociology;
Chair, Central America & the Caribbean Faculty Committee
Jocelyn Viterna is Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate studies at Harvard University. She is also the co-director of the Politics and Social Change workshop, and Co-Chair of the Central America and the Caribbean committee in the David...
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Kirsten Weld

Professor of History
Kirsten Weld is a historian of modern Latin America. Her research explores 20 th-century struggles over inequality, justice, historical memory, and social inclusion. Her first book , Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (2014)...
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William L. Fash, Jr.

Charles P. Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology
William Fash served as Chair of Harvard’s Department of Anthropology from 1998 – 2004, and as Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 2004 – 2011. He worked on archaeological digs in Arizona, and Copán, Honduras, Central America during...
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