# Cuba Studies Program ## Faculty Committee [### Alejandro de la Fuente ](/people/alejandro-de-la-fuente-0) Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics; Professor of African and African American Studies; Chair, Cuba Studies Program; Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute A historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes in the study of comparative slavery and race relations, Professor de la Fuente’s works on race, slavery, law, art, and Atlantic history have been published in Spanish, English, Portuguese... ![alejandro](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/51322_ONLINE_ALARI_WKSHP_MelissaBlackall_-23-1.jpg?h=030ef6e1&itok=q__EW6Q_) [### 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) [### Eric Rubin ](/people/eric-rubin-0) Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, HSPH Eric Rubin is an American microbiologist currently the Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases as well as Chair of the Department at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His current concerns are tuberculosis and its... ![Eric-Rubin](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/Eric-Rubin2023.jpg?h=fc58dd1a&itok=h7R7aJqt) [### Fernando Rodriguez-Villa ](/people/fernando-rodriguez-villa-0)Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital Fernando Rodriguez-Villa, MD is the medical director of the Short Term Unit, North in the Division of Depression and Anxiety Disorders. His main areas of interest include mood disorders, suicide, college mental health, medical education, stigma reduction... ![rodriguez-villaheadshot198nov1316.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas/files/rodriguez-villaheadshot198nov1316_1.jpg?h=909c6520&itok=P3N5t9RH) [### Janina Galler ](/people/janina-galler-0)Professor of Psychiatry, HMS; Psychiatrist in the Chester M. Pierce MD Division of Global Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital Janina R. Galler, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Psychiatrist in the Chester M. Pierce MD Division of Global Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Galler studies the effects of childhood malnutrition... ![janinagaller_1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas/files/janinagaller_1_0.jpg?h=3d01589b&itok=b0pCNQEd) [### Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof ](/people/jesse-hoffnung-garskof)Professor of History, History Department Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is Professor of History at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on the history of Latinx people in the United States, the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, immigration and asylum law, publicly engaged... ![picture_of_jesse_hoffnung-garskof](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/picture_of_jesse_hoffnung-garskof.png?h=36d984c5&itok=JvnRxdou) [### Jonathan Hansen ](/people/jonathan-hansen-0) Lecturer in Social Studies Jonathan Hansen is Senior Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University. An intellectual historian, he is author of The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity, 1890-1920 (Chicago, 2003) and Guantanamo: An American History (Hill and Wang... ![hansen_photo_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas/files/hansen_photo_0_0.jpg?h=d70d3a3f&itok=4aiYTIUW) [### Michael Starnbach ](/people/michael-starnbach-0) Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, HMS Research in Dr. Starnbach’s lab uses a combination of cellular and molecular approaches to analyze the mammalian responses to bacterial infection. Many virulence factors have been identified that allow bacteria to survive and replicate within the host. Dr... ![starnbach.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas/files/starnbach_1.jpg?h=b2fe3416&itok=c5dpgf_a) [### Tania Bruguera ](/people/tania-bruguera)Senior Lecturer in Media & Performance, Theater, Dance & Media; Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies; Interim Chair, Cuba Studies Program 2022-2023 Tania Bruguera is a Cuban artist and activist whose performances and installations examine political power structures and their effect on society's most vulnerable people. Her long-term projects have been intensive interventions on the institutional... ![tania_bruguera._copy-of-claudio_fuentes](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/drclas2/files/tania_brugyera._copy-of-claudio_fuentes-3_2500-1200x800.jpg?h=2f6a20f7&itok=2byF8SHJ) [### Yosvany Terry ](/people/yosvany-terry-0)Director of Jazz Ensembles Yosvany Terry, Senior Lecturer on Music / Director of Jazz Bands, is an internationally acclaimed Cuban musician, American composer, saxophonist, percussionist, bandleader, educator and cultural bearer of the Afro-Cuban tradition. Born into a musical... ![yosvany-terry](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-09/Yosvany-Terry-2016-4-8-12-16-20-25a.jpg?h=e27eebae&itok=bzVkD0H_)