# Central America & the Caribbean Studies Program ## Faculty Committee [### George Aumoithe ](/people/george-aumoithe) Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies ![George Aumoithe](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/Captura%20de%20tela%202024-09-10%20161759.jpg?itok=bKW4vJ0E) [### Jocelyn Viterna ](/people/jocelyn-viterna-0) 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... ![jocelyn_viterna.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas/files/jocelyn_viterna_1.jpg?h=e12f0a92&itok=unTj46ex) [### Kirsten Weld ](/people/kirsten-weld-0) 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)... ![weld_0_1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas/files/weld_0_1.jpg?h=fe769f29&itok=xStSVwTO) [### William L. Fash, Jr. ](/people/william-l-fash-jr-0) 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... ![fash](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/Captura%20de%20tela%202024-09-10%20162858.jpg?h=979d92e6&itok=UosRC85J)