DRCLAS Announces 2017-2018 Visiting Scholars and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professors

Each year, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) welcomes a group of academics who study Latin America for a semester or two of research and writing at Harvard. The Visiting Scholars hail from across the globe, and their fields of study are wide-ranging, with specialists in biodiversity and zoology coming together alongside economists, anthropologists, and cultural historians. Complementing the robust roster of Visiting Scholars, DRCLAS will welcome two additional distinguished academics as Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professors in the Spring of 2018: Rosa Montes, Director of Research at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico, will be hosted by the Harvard Graduate School of Education; and Marcos Cueto, Researcher at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz in Brazil, will be hosted by the Department of History of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard College.

Additionally, DRCLAS is pleased to welcome Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva, former Professor in the Department of Economics and Senior Researcher at the Center for Studies of the Cuban Economy at the University of Havana, as a Short-Term Cuba Visiting Scholar this fall. The time at Harvard for all of these scholars is designed to stimulate cross-disciplinary exchange, both among the cohort of scholars at DRCLAS and between the cohort and the greater Harvard community. The public is invited to attend the many DRCLAS programs throughout the year that will feature the Visiting Scholars and the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professors.

Learn about the Center’s events on our website calendar, or join the DRCLAS e-email list to receive information about the Center’s events directly to your inbox. For a list of Visiting Scholars see below; and for more information, biographies can be found on the Visiting Scholars page on the DRCLAS website.

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Visiting Scholars 2017-2018

Alexandre Antonelli, University of Gothenberg, Sweden – Biology, Cisneros Visiting Scholar The Origins of Latin American Biodiversity Spring 2018

Taylor Boas, Boston University – Political Science and Religion, Custer Visiting Scholar Serving God and Man: Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America Full Year 2017-2018

Lila Caimari, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas – History, de Fortabat Visiting Scholar News From Around the World. The Newspapers of South America in the Age of the Submarine Cables Fall 2017

Eduardo Espinosa, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Anthropology, Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar Afro-indigenous transculturation of the baile de artesa. From invisibility to interactions Full Year 2017-2018

Veronica Herrera, University of Connecticut – Political Science, DRCLAS Visiting Scholar From Territorial Grievances to “Principled Ideas;” Constructing Environmental Citizenship in Latin American Cities Spring 2018

Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Rutgers University – Latino and Caribbean Studies, Marvin Visiting Scholar Overseas Archipelagoes: Reframing Comparative Colonial Caribbean Studies Spring 2018

Luciano Nicolas Naka, Universidad Federal de Pernambuco – Biology, Lemann Visiting Scholar Unveiling the Origins of Diversification of the Endemic Avifauna of the Brazilian Dry Forests Spring 2018

Francisco Ortega, Universidad Nacional de Colombia – History, Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar Social Difference in Nineteenth-Century Colombia: An Intellectual History; Gente Decente: Equality, Diversity & Citizenship in the Gran Colombian Republics 1770-1870 Fall 2017

Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, Boston College – History, Central America Visiting Scholar The Woman in the Window: A Criminal Case from Guatemala in 1800 Spring 2018

Veronica Vargas Lagos, Universidad Alberto Hurtado – Economics and Health Policy, Luksic Visiting Scholar Determinants of Access to Pharmaceuticals in Chile and Latin American Countries Full Year 2017-2018