#  Mexico Studies Program 

 



## Faculty Committee



 

  [### Alejandra Vela Martínez

 ](/people/alejandra-vela-mart%C3%ADnez) <alejandravelamartinez@fas.harvard.edu>Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

 

 

 Research Interests: 20th-21st Century Mexican Cultural Studies, with broad interests in transnational mass culture, archives, feminine periodicals and literature, diasporic and border feminine literature, their reception and preservation throughout Latin... 

 

 

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   [### Alejandro L. Madrid

 ](/people/alejandro-l-madrid) [alejandro\_madridgonzalez@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:alejandro_madridgonzalez@fas.harvard.edu)Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music

 

 

 Alejandro L. Madrid is a cultural theorist of sound and music working in Latin American and Latinx studies. His recent scholarship, at the intersection of musicology, ethnomusicology, and performance studies, focuses on sound archives; race and... 

 

 

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   [### Diane E. Davis

 ](/people/diane-e-davis-0) <ddavis@gsd.harvard.edu>Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, GSD;

Co-Chair, Mexico Faculty Committee

 

 

 Diane E. Davis is the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Davis served as Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design... 

 

 

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   [### Gabriela Soto Laveaga

 ](/people/gabriela-soto-laveaga-0) <gsotolaveaga@fas.harvard.edu>Professor of the History of Science;

Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico;

Co-Chair, Mexico Faculty Committee

 

 

 Gabriela Soto Laveaga is Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include modern Latin America, the intersection of science and culture, public... 

 

 

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   [### John D. Macomber

 ](/people/john-d-macomber-0) <jmacomber@hbs.edu>Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

 

 

 John Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School. His professional background includes leadership of real estate, construction, and information technology businesses. At HBS, Mr. Macomber's work focuses on the future of... 

 

 

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   [### María Luisa Parra

 ](/people/mar%C3%ADa-luisa-parra-0) <parra@fas.harvard.edu>Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures

 

 

 Dr. María Luisa Parra has a BA in Psychology, a PhD in Hispanics Linguistics and fifteen years of experience in the fields of Second Language Acquisition and Child Bilingual Development. She has taught Spanish Language and Culture at Boston University and... 

 

 

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