David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)

"Founded in 1994, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University works to increase knowledge of the cultures, economies, histories, environment, and contemporary affairs of past and present Latin America. Use the navigation bar at the left to find out more about the Center's history and its broad selection of cultural and scholarly programs." [1]

"DRCLAS was founded as an initiative to promote high-quality teaching and research on Latin America and related fields at Harvard University. Neil L. Rudenstine, then University President, and David Rockefeller B.S. '36, LL.D. '69 (honorary), grandson of John D. Rockefeller, found they shared a sense that Harvard should be intellectually poised to respond to real-world changes in the Americas resulting from democratic transitions and economic restructuring." [2]

Biorn Maybury-Lewis - former executive director
Steve Reifenberg - former executive director (1996-2002)

Executive Committee

Merilee S. Grindle - Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development (KSG), Chair
John Coatsworth - Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs
David Carrasco - Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America
Thomas B. F. Cummins - Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art History
Jorge I. Domínguez - Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs
William L. Fash - Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology
Martha Field - Langdel Professor of Law
N. Michele Holbrook - Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Kenneth Maxwell - Visiting Professor of History; Senior Fellow, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Fernando Reimers - Ford Foundation Professor of International Education; Director Of International Office
Doris Sommer - Ira Jewell Williams Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Diana Sorensen - James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature; Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Michael Starnbach - Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
John Womack, Jr. - Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics