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Faculty Voices
by David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Faculty Voices is produced by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. Hear what Harvard faculty think about relevant topics that impact Latin America.
Episodes
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Episode 78: Gareth Doherty on Urban Ecologies of Afro-Brazilian Sacred Groves
Gareth Doherty, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and an affiliate at the Department of African and African American Studies, discusses his most recent book, Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design. He tells us a fascinating...
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Episode 77: Raquel Jimenez and David Guerra on the Arts in Puerto Rico
How does art make a difference? Students in Raquel Jimenez’s Arts and Cultural Organizing Intensive course at the Harvard School of Education got to see how in a learning experience in Puerto Rico. In Faculty Voices, Jimenez, a lecturer on education and co-chair of the Arts and Learning...
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Episode 76: Louis E. Caldera on the Panama Canal and DEI under Trump's Administration
Louis E. Caldera, a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, chaired the Panama Canal Commission the year the Canal was returned to Panama, 1999. He was also the first (and only) Latino to serve as Secretary of the Army. He talks on issues ranging from President Trump's threat to "take back"…
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Episode 75: Aitor Bouso-Gavín on the importance of Latinx Studies
As we head into a new era under President Donald Trump, migration and rights are very much in the news, even as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Threatened deportations and the end of some existing paths to legal status, as well as the Supreme Court decision against university use of...
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Episode 74: Tomomichi Amano on Colombian Markets
Tomomichi Amano is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Market Unit at Harvard Business School. Recently he's been researching a large Colombian retailer.
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Episode 73: Amber Henry on Black History Present and Past
In honor of Black History Month, Amber Henry, an assistant professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard, discusses the importance of Black history past and present. An anthropologist of Latin America and the Caribbean, her latest book focuses on San Basilo de Palenque in Colombia…
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Episode 72: Gabrielle Oliveira on Trump's Hardline Immigration Policies
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Episode 71: Vesall Nourani on Education for Community Development
Vesall Nourani, an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, will be teaching a course on Education for Community Development this semester. With a disciplinary background in development economics, he talks about his research on education and development in both Colombia and...
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Episode 70: Ignacio Bunster-Ossa on the Panama Canal Under Trump's Administration
Ignacio Bunster-Ossa, a design critic in landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design,co-teaches a timely studio course on the Panama Canal with fellow faculty member Anita Berrizbeitia. He talks about the implications of President Donald Trump's threats to take over the Canal,...
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Episode 69: Alejandra Caraballo on Implications for LGBTQ Community Under Trump's Administration
Are Latinx immigrants and transgender people the canaries in the coal mine for the new Trump administration? Alejandra Caraballo, Esq., a clinical instructor in the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard University Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, reflects on future challenges, historical...
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Episode 68: Raúl Zegarra on Faith and Politics in Latin America
Raúl Zegarra, Assistant Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies at the Harvard Divinity School, talks about the relationship between faith and politics, as well as surprising trends in today's Catholicism.
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Episode 67: Brian Farrell on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and his Latest Research
Brian D. Farrell, Harvard Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Entomology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, talks about his latest research with mosquitos and other insects.
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Episode 66: Marcel Roman on the Latinx Vote in the 2024 Election
Marcel Roman is an Assistant Professor of Government at the Department of Government. He specializes in racial and ethnic politics in the United States, with a focus on Latino political behavior, immigration, and policing. In this Faculty Voices, he talks to us about the Latino vote in the…
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Episode 65: Americo Mendoza-Mori on Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
Américo Mendoza-Mori. an interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on U.S. Latinx and Indigenous communities, discusses Hispanic Heritage Month in the context of post-affirmative action. Mendoza-Mori is affiliated with Harvard’s Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights and is currently...
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Episode 64: Chris Lombardo on Engineers Without Borders in the Dominican Republic
Chris Lombardo, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Harvard, is very active in the Harvard University Chapter of Engineers without Borders. He just came back from a trip to Los Sanchez Water Supply Project in the…
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Episode 63: Noreen Tuross on Archeological Research in Oaxaca, Mexico
Noreen Tuross, Landon T. Clay Research Professor of Scientific Archaeology at Harvard's Department of Evolutionary Biology, talks about her most recent project, "A Land of Art and Botanicals: Collaborative Research at the Cueva de las Manitas, Oaxaca, Mexico."
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Episode 62: Alicia Yamin on Mexico's Judicial Reform Plan
Alicia Yamin, Lecturer on Law and the Director of the Global Health and Rights Project at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, talks about Mexico's judicial reform plan, which makes all federal judges elected, rather than appointed...
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Episode 61: Alisha Holland on Ecuador's Current Political Climate
Alisha Holland, a Professor in the Government Department at Harvard University, discusses the situation in Ecuador, an Andean country that faces multiple challenges from organized crime, as well as economic and energy crises.
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Episode 60: Pablo Pérez Ramos on Oasis of Mezcal in Oaxaca
Pablo Pérez Ramos, an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, discusses “Oasis of Mezcal," his work in a Oaxacan rural community where agave-growing is changing agricultural production patterns. It is at once an intensely local story and a…
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Episode 59: Kathryn Sikkink on the Transitional Justice Database
Kathryn Sikkink, the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, talks about the findings of a new database for transitional justice: https://transitionaljusticedata.org/ You may find some of them surprising!
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Episode 58: Ricardo Hausmann on Venezuela's Political Crisis
Ricardo Hausmann, the founder and Director of Harvard’s Growth Lab and the Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, was Minister of Planning of Venezuela (1992-1993). Here, he reflects on the crisis in his country following a disputed...
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Episode 57: Steve Levitsky on 2024 Venezuelan Election Results
As protests rage in Venezuela and allegations of electoral fraud mount, Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, discusses the challenging situation.
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Episode 56: Christina Warinner on the Ancient City of Chichén Itza
Christina Warinner, Professor of the Social Sciences in the Harvard Department of Anthropology and Sally Starling Seaver Associate Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, has uncovered lost stories about the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itza. With techniques like ancient DNA, isotopes and...
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Episode 55: Natalia Garbiras-Diaz on Peace Agreements and Post-Conflict Solutions
Natalia Garbiras-Diaz, an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, examines peace processes in Colombia. She's particularly interested in the formation of citizens' and excombatants' attitude towards peace agreements and their role in stabilizing peace in...
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Episode 54: Dr. Louise Ivers on Health and Haiti
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned April 25, clearing the way towards new elections. Dr. Louise Ivers, Harvard professor of global health and social medicine, and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, has devoted 21 years of her life to Haiti. Here, she talks about the current...
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Episode 53: Paulina Alberto on Afro-Latin America and Racial Storytelling
Paulina Alberto, Harvard Professor of African and African American Studies and of History, discusses her work with Afro-Latin American lives, thought and politics, and why creating narratives about that history is important.
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Episode 52: Michael Chu on Businesses for Good in Latin America
Michael Chu, faculty at Harvard Business School, talks on Faculty Voices about how businesses can be instrumental in providing goods and services to low-income and middle-class people in Latin America.
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Episode 51: Thomas Bossert on Latin American Health
Thomas Bossert, Senior Lecturer. Emeritus in the Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, reflects on his career trajectory and the lessons he’s learned as a “traveling scholar” who has worked as a researcher, teacher and advisor in almost 80...
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Episode 50: Steve Levitsky On Argentine Presidential Election Results
Steve Levitsky, the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, discusses the recent landslide election of far-right Javier Milei as Argentina’s next...
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Episode 49: Dan Nocera On Saving Energy, Agriculture, and Biofertilizer
Daniel Nocera, the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, talks about a biofertilizer that has the potential to revolutionize world agriculture and save energy in the process.
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Episode 48: Steven Levitsky on Argentina's Elections
Steven Levitsky, the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government at Harvard University, takes a deep look at Argentine elections, the recent October 22 run-off and the final elections November 19 with the incumbent party Sergio Massa facing off against the...
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Episode 47: Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof on Transnational Migration from the Caribbean
In a wide-ranging conversation, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, a new faculty member in Harvard's History Department, looks at ethnic studies in the context of the Supreme Court's recent decision on affirmative action, as well as innovative digital humanities research, immigration justice and…
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Episode 46: Marcela Del Carmen on Hispanic Heritage Month and Equity in Medicine
Dr. Marcela del Carmen is the president of Massachusetts General Physicians and Vice President of Mass Gen Brigham. She is a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School. And she's also an immigrant from Nicaragua. On this episode of Faculty Voices, we…
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Episode 45: Daniel Neafsey on Malaria
Daniel Neafsey, Associate Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of of Public Health, as well as Associate Director of the Broad (Brode) Institute's Genomic Center for Infectious Disease, talks about his work combatting malaria in Colombia and Guyana through cutting-edge technologies.
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Episode 44: Kathryn Sikkink on the 50th Anniversary of the Sept. 11 Coup In Chile
Kathryn Sikkink, the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the 50th anniversary of the Sept. 11 coup in Chile and why the coup still matters.
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Episode 43: Adriana Umaña-Taylor on Developmental Science and the Identity Project
Adriana Umaña-Taylor, the Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, talks about her work with the Identity Project, applying developmental science to help reduce ethnic-racial disparities for adolescents both in Latinx communities in the United...
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Episode 42: Fernando Villavicencio's Assassination
Ecuadoran presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, an anti-corruption crusader, was assassinated at gunpoint August 9, just two weeks before the country's elections. Alisha Holland, Associate Professor in Harvard’s Government Department who specializes in the Andean region, analyzes the...
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Episode 41: Diane Davis Thinking about Water
Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism recently co-organized a two-day conference on water with Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico in Harvard's History of Science Department. The...
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Episode 40: Jennifer Alpert on Latinx Women in Media
On the occasion of International Women’s History Month, Jennifer Alpert, a Lecturer in Harvard’s History and Literature program, discusses the representation of Latin American and Latinx women in film and television—ranging from Carmen Miranda to Encanto to the Gordita Chronicles. As a film…
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Episode 39: Emiliana Vegas on Improving Educational Opportunity in Developing Countries
Emiliana Vegas, a professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, focuses on improving educational opportunity in developing countries. She discusses learning loss caused by Covid-19 in Latin America and what we can do about it, as well as the challenges faced by teachers in a...
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Episode 38: Steffany Chamut on an Oral Health and Nutrition Project in Mexico
Dr. Steffany Chamut, an instructor in oral health policy and epidemiology at the Harvard Dental School, talks about her work with a collaborative project between an interdisciplinary team of public health experts from Harvard and Mexico to jointly combat the increasing prevalence of...
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Episode 37: Steven Levitsky on the Political Crisis in Peru
What’s going on in Peru? Harvard’s Government Professor Steven Levitsky, who is also the director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the co-author of How Democracies Die, tells us of the many challenges the country faces after Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was…
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Episode 36: Daren Graves and Steve Ortega on the World Cup
World Cup: Daren Graves, Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Steve Ortega, an Associate at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, like to call themselves “the Sports Profs.” They discuss the World Cup and the role of Latin American teams.
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Episode 35: Marcia Castro on the Brazilian Presidential Election
Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is chair of the Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). We're talking to her about the recent election in Brazil.
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Episode 34: Mayra Rivera Rivera on Hispanic Heritage Month
During Hispanic Heritage Month, Faculty Voices talked with Mayra Rivera Rivera, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies at Harvard University,. She discusses what it means to be Latinx with shared cultures and history of a colonial past.
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Episode 33: Sidney Chalhoub on the Fate of Brazilian Democracy
After the October 2 first-round election, Brazilians will return to the polls October 30 to decide between left-leaning front-runner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva "Lula" and the right-wing incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro. Sidney Chalhoub, a Brazilian social historian, is David and Peggy…
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Episode 32: Gonzalo Giribet on Tracing History with... Worms?
Gonzalo Giribet, the director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and a Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, talks about the museum’s many collections, including a considerable quantity from Latin America. He also discusses his fieldwork and how...
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Episode 31: Doris Sommer on The Value of Uselessness
Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies, tells us of an unusual collaboration with Pope Francis and of her new projects, including the Renaissance Project, which aims to make cultural initiatives a priority in...
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Episode 30: Alisha Holland on The Challenges Facing Gustavo Petro's Colombia
In the wake of Gustavo Petro’s August 7 inauguration, Alisha Holland, Associate Professor in Harvard’s Government Department who specializes in the Andean region, talks about the challenges facing the incoming left-leaning government. In a wide-ranging interview from Bogotá, she discusses his...
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Episode 29: Architecture, Politics and Race at the Museum of Modern Art
Patricio del Real, Associate Professor of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, talks about his new book Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics and Race at the Museum of Modern Art. It’s the fascinating story of how race, gender, politics and even climate control formed the...
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