Cuba
Cuba
The Cuba Studies Program seeks to continue, consolidate, and extend its program of scientific and scholarly exchanges with Cuba and aims to continue its efforts to foster the development, dissemination and analysis of Cuba-related research throughout Harvard and the US.
Leadership
FACULTY COMMITTEE
Under the leadership of its faculty chair, the Cuba Studies Faculty Committee leads the vision, priorities and projects related to Cuba undertaken by the program.
ADVISORY GROUP
The mission of the Cuba Studies Program Advisory Group is to provide support for the program’s goals and activities as well as to advise the program on issues central to its mission.
Student Opportunities
STUDY ABROAD IN HAVANA
CASA-Cuba provides students with a unique opportunity to have direct access to Cuba’s leading institution of higher learning, the University of Havana, and to Casa de Las Américas, the Cuban government’s premier research institution – since its founding in 1959 – on Caribbean and Latin American studies, Cuban culture and the arts.
STUDENT FUNDING
DRCLAS offers a variety of travel grants for summer research, conferences, and internships in Latin America. Additionally, DRCLAS awards Student Group Grants to Harvard student groups working with a Harvard faculty member for publications, workshops, conferences, and/or events at Harvard University related to Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinx populations in the United States.
Faculty Opportunities
FACULTY GRANTS
The Faculty Grants program offer Harvard faculty funding support in a variety of capacities including individual and collaborative research, course-based field trips, curriculum development, research conferences, and more.
Visiting Scholars
BECOME A VISITING SCHOLAR
Over 90 Cuban scholars have come to DRCLAS for extended periods of work and collaboration in fields such as archival work, botany, economics, history, medicine, microbiology, organismic and evolutionary biology, political science, public administration, and urban planning.
CURRENT VISITING SCHOLARS
In the 2022-2023 academic year, DRCLAS will welcome 13 Visiting Scholars in a variety of disciplines including anthropology, literature, international relations, public policy, and visual culture.
Los Cubanos de Harvard Documentary
In the year 1900, more than half of all Cuban public school teachers traveled to Cambridge to participate in a Summer School organized by Harvard. The people of Cambridge contributed over $70,000 to finance the visit and in turn, Harvard offered courses free of charge to the nearly 1,300 teachers. The project became the largest cultural exchange that has ever existed between the two countries. In 2016, Cuban journalist and documentarian Danny González Lucena conducted archival research and interviews, culminating in the documentary Los Cubanos de Harvard.
