Current Graduate Student Associates

Raúl Duarte is a PhD candidate in Political Economy and Government. His research interests span political economy, economic development, comparative politics, and public finance. Among his specific interests are public service delivery, state capacity...

Grounded in the fields of Existential Anthropology and History of Religions, Alfredo García Garza uses an ethnographic methodology, driven by a phenomenological orientation, to examine transnational human existence across the Río Bravo. Through his...

Andrea Garza is a PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literature at Harvard University. Her dissertation focuses on contemporary Mexican literature pertaining to femicides, forced disappearances and the Mexican Drug War. She is interested in the modes...

Carlos A. González is a PhD candidate in the Romance Languages and Literatures Department at Harvard University. They specialize in Spanish and French literature, concentrating on horror and the Weird. They have published and presented on Latin American...

Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government. His research examines contemporary challenges to democratic institutions in Latin America, with a focus on Central America and Mexico. His dissertation explores the causes and...

Santiago Pulido-Gomez is a PhD candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education concentrating on Culture, Institutions, and Society. His research focuses on understanding how organizational culture in schools influences the ways in which teachers...