Latin American and Iberian Studies
Faculty of the Committee on Latin American and Iberian Studies
John H. Coatsworth, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (Chair, spring term) (on leave fall term)
Luis Fernández-Cifuentes, Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Acting Chair, fall term)
Thomas N. Bisson, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History
Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Language and Literature of Portugal and Professor of Comparative Literature (on leave spring term)
Jorge I. Domínguez, Harvard College Professor, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, and Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (on leave 2000-01)
Bradley S. Epps, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (on leave fall term)
William L. Fash, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology
Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Acting Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Mary Gaylord, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
N. Michele Holbrook, Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Steven R. Levitsky, Assistant Professor of Government and of Social Studies
Jane E. Mangan, Assistant Professor of History
Francisco Márquez, Arthur Kinsgley Porter Research Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
J. Lorand Matory, Professor of Anthropology and of Afro-American Studies (on leave spring term)
David H. P. Maybury-Lewis, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Anthropology (on leave spring term)
José Antonio Mazzotti, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (on leave spring term)
Otto T. Solbrig, Bussey Professor of Biology, Acting Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Doris Sommer, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Kay B. Warren, Professor of Anthropology
John Womack, Jr., Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics (on leave 2000-01)
The Committee on Latin American and Iberian Studies, established in 1960, forms part of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Its purpose is to coordinate the Center’s research and curricular programs that operate solely within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, including Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The Committee presently includes twenty-three members representing nine academic disciplines appointed by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Harvard/Radcliffe students have developed undergraduate programs focused on Latin America in Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Biology, Environmental Studies, Government, History, History and Literature, Romance Languages and Literatures, Social Studies, and the Special Concentrations program. The Committee itself does not offer an undergraduate concentration or an advanced degree.
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, founded in 1994, coordinates and supports research, teaching, and public programs on Latin America and related fields such as the Caribbean, the Iberian peninsula, and the Latin American diaspora in the United States throughout the University. It works to strengthen ties between Harvard and the countries of Latin America and to promote public understanding of the cultures, histories, and societies of this diverse region. The Center’s governing bodies and committees include faculty from many faculties, departments, and the professional schools; the Center’s annual Directory of Faculty and Professional Staff lists over 150 faculty members, librarians, curators, administrators, and visiting fellows and scholars with substantial Latin American or related interests.
The Center sponsors lectures, seminars, conferences, exhibitions, and other academic and cultural events; supports faculty research; advises students; funds summer research travel grants to graduate, professional, and undergraduate students; manages the competition for Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships for graduate and professional students; hosts visiting scholars and fellows; and administers the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professorship of Latin American Studies.
The Center publishes a monthly calendar from September to May; the DRCLAS Newsletter each semester; an annual Guide to Courses that lists over 150 courses on Latin America and related topics at Harvard each year; and the Directory of Faculty and Professional Staff mentioned above.
The office of the Committee is in 61 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138.