#  Cuba 

 



##  Cuba 

 

 

       ![cuba-banner](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/drclas2/files/cuba-banner.jpeg?itok=nkR5BwkA) 

 

 



 

 



 

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

 ](/cuba-studies-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

 ](/cuba-studies-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

 ](https://casa.education/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.



 

   ![view of Universidad de la Habana with students on the steps](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/drclas2/files/front_view_of_universidad_de_la_habana_0.png?itok=rwkytwl_) 

 

 

 

  [### STUDENT FUNDING

 ](/student-opportunities)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.



 

   ![mural of people dancing on a wall in Cuba](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/drclas2/files/mural_in_cuba.png?itok=IzJozIwn) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

##  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.



 



      ![nearly empty street in Cuba](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/drclas2/files/street_in_cuba.png?itok=9PmJVTDo) 

 

 

  

 



 

 

 

##  Visiting Scholars 

 



  [### BECOME A VISITING SCHOLAR

 ](/visiting-scholars-fellows)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

 ](/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*.



 



 

 

 



 

 

 

##  Collaborative Opportunities 

 



### PARTNER WITH DRCLAS 

 

Through dynamic collaboration with organizations and educational institutions, DRCLAS seeks to program a wide variety of events, lectures, and exhibitions relevant to the Harvard community, the academic mission, and Latin America.



 [ About Partnerships arrow\_circle\_right ](/get-involved) 

 



      ![open field of green in cuba](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/drclas2/files/open_field_in_cuba.png?itok=bY0Mhd_g) 

 

 

  

 



 

 

 

##  Recent News 

 



  [### Cuban Entrepreneurs Drive Innovation in Growing MIPYMES Sector

 ](/news/2024/10/cuban-entrepreneurs-drive-innovation-growing-mipymes-sector) October 04, 2024 

 Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MIPYMES) are reshaping Cuba's economy, with innovative entrepreneurs leading the charge despite significant obstacles. Officially recognized by the Cuban government in 2021, MIPYMES have since become vital job... 

 

 

   [### Announcing the 2023-2024 cohort of DRCLAS Visiting Scholars and Fellows

 ](/news/announcing-2023-2024-cohort-drclas-visiting-scholars-and-fellows) April 04, 2023 

 Three historians, two political scientists, an engineer, an anthropologist, an economist and a gender studies scholar make up the 2023-24 group of Visiting Scholars at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). The interdisciplinary... 

 

 

   [### New day for Afro-Latin American Studies

 ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/03/consortium-to-transform-afro-latin-american-studies/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020230316%20(1)) March 15, 2023 

 

  

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