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David Rockefeller Centerfor Latin American Studies

Harvard University

MEXICAN STUDIESAT HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2001-06

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MEXICAN STUDIESAT HARVARDThe growth of Mexican Studies at Harvard reflects trends in both countriesand in U.S.-Mexican relations. Since the 1980s, the government ofMexico has opened the country’s economy, sought a new and closerrelationship with the United States and gradually but effectivelytransitioned to a more democratic and competitive political system.

IFC2 Mexican Studies at Harvard

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The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at HarvardUniversity works to increase the knowledge of the cultures,economies, histories, environment and contemporary affairs of LatinAmerica; foster cooperation and understanding among the peoplesof the Americas; and contribute to democracy, social progress andsustainable development throughout the hemisphere.

1 MEXICAN STUDIESAT HARVARD

5 FACULTY TEACHING AND INITIATIVES

12 VISITING SCHOLARSAND PROFESSORS

14 PUBLICATIONS ANDRESEARCH

18 STUDENT RESEARCH,INTERNSHIPS ANDACCOMPLISHMENTS

25 MEXICO EVENTSAT HARVARD

29 MEXICAN ADVISORSAND ALUMNI

33 USEFUL CONTACTINFORMATION

Expand research andteaching on LatinAmerica at Harvard

COVER: Templo de San Francisco in SanMiguel de Allende, Guanajuato, MexicoRIGHT: Policía Turística in San Miguel deAllende, Guanajuato, Mexico

Strengthen ties betweenHarvard University andinstitutions throughoutLatin America

Enhance publicunderstanding of LatinAmerica in the UnitedStates and abroad

2 Mexican Studies at Harvard 3http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu

During these same two decades, the United States embracedthe creation of a North American Free Trade Area (includingCanada as well as Mexico), adopted more flexible (though stillrestrictive) immigration policies, aided Mexico’s recovery froma sharp recession and welcomed Mexican official cooperation inaddressing common problems from border pollution to illegaldrug interdiction.

The movement of capital, commodities, people and ideasbetween the United States and Mexico has increased dramati-cally with far-reaching consequences for both. As the two coun-tries grew closer, research and teaching on Mexico in the UnitedStates took on a new importance and even urgency.

Harvard University and MexicoFor more than a century, Harvard University has encouragedresearch and teaching on Mexico. This long-term interest isreflected in Harvard’s extensive library resources and the diversecollections of Harvard museums. It is only in the past twodecades, however, that the number of faculty members and stu-dents engaged in research and teaching on Mexico has expandedto include the entire institution from the humanities, social sci-ences, and natural sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences tothe professional schools of Business, Design, Divinity,Education, Law, Medicine, Public Health and Public Policy. Thenumber of faculty actively engaged in research and teaching onMexico rose from a dozen or so to over 60. Student enrollmentsin courses on or related to Mexico skyrocketed, along with Ph.D.dissertations and College honors theses. The number ofMexican students studying at Harvard tripled. The number oflectures, conferences, exhibits, films and other events related toMexico increased from less than ten per year to dozens of eventsand programs. In 1971, Harvard students organized a pioneeringdance group, the Ballet Folklórico de Aztlan, which was followed

The DRCLAS Mexican Studies Initiative2001-2006In 2001, the David Rockefeller Center created a MexicanStudies Initiative to coordinate and promote activities related toMexico throughout the University. This report on MexicanStudies at Harvard focuses primarily on the past five years,from the creation of the Mexican Studies Initiative in 2001through academic year 2005-06. In this five-year period, newfaculty specialists engaged in research on Mexico have beenappointed throughout the University in the departments ofAnthropology, Economics, History, History of Art andArchitecture, Romance Languages and Literatures, andSociology in the FAS and in the professional schools ofBusiness, Design, Divinity, and Public Health. In the sameperiod, DRCLAS sponsored 56 public events devoted entirely toMexico, from meetings and seminars with Mexican public offi-cials to academic workshops and conferences, art exhibitions,film showings, cultural festivities and student dance andmusical concerts. Many other DRCLAS-sponsored eventsfocused on Mexico in the larger North American, LatinAmerican or global context.

Fernando Reimers, ChairAssociate Professor ofEducationHarvard Graduate School ofEducation

Merilee S. GrindleEdward S. Mason Professor ofInternational DevelopmentJohn F. Kennedy School ofGovernment

Davíd CarrascoNeil L. Rudenstine Professorfor the Study of LatinAmericaHarvard Divinity School andDepartment of Anthropology

John H. CoatsworthMonroe Gutman Professor ofLatin American AffairsDirector, David RockefellerCenter for Latin AmericanStudies

Sergio Cárdenas DenhamGraduate StudentHarvard Graduate School ofEducation

in 2001 by the first Mexican musical ensemble in Harvard’s longhistory, the Mariachi Veritas.

This rapid development of Mexican Studies at Harvardarose from collaboration among farsighted University leaders,visionary and generous alumni and the growing number offirst-rate scholars Harvard has recruited and trained. TheHarvard trend began when alumni in Mexico responded in1989 to an appeal for help in internationalizing access toHarvard graduate programs with the creation of the FundaciónMéxico en Harvard, which up to 2005-06 has provided loansand fellowships to nearly 500 Mexican students admitted toprofessional and doctoral degree programs at Harvard. Thesuccess of the Fundación encouraged Harvard president NeilRudenstine to seek out David Rockefeller with a project thateventually materialized, in late 1994, as the David RockefellerCenter for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). Since its incep-tion, the Center has vigorously promoted Mexican Studiesthroughout the University.

Harvard’s success in Mexican Studies could not have hap-pened without the generosity of Harvard alumni and friends.Decisive early support came from Antonio Madero, MBA ’61.The Madero Professorship and the Endowment that supports itplayed a crucial role in all of the Center’s efforts. TheEndowment Funds created by Miguel Aleman, GastónAzcárraga and Dionisio Garza Medina, together with theendowment and Cuauhtinchan project support provided byÁngeles Espinosa Yglesias, have funded a wide range of Centeractivities from research and student grants to art exhibits andlecture series. A detailed description of these EndowmentFunds can be found in the last section of this report.

Abbreviation KeyFAS: Faculty of Arts and SciencesGSAS: Graduate School of Arts and SciencesGSD: Graduate School of DesignGSE: Graduate School of EducationHBS: Harvard Business SchoolHDS: Harvard Divinity SchoolHLS: Harvard Law SchoolHMS: Harvard Medical SchoolHSPH: Harvard School of Public HealthKSG: John F. Kennedy School of Government

Jody HeymannAssociate Professor of Society,Medicine, HumanDevelopment and HealthHarvard Medical School

Gary OrfieldProfessor of Education andSocial PolicyHarvard Graduate School ofEducation

John Womack Robert Woods Bliss Professorof Latin American Historyand EconomicsHistory Department

Led by the faculty membersof the Mexican StudiesCommittee, the Center’sMexican Studies Initiative hassuccessfully consolidated theCenter’s efforts to support anincreasing number of activi-ties, research and teaching onMexico at the University. Bycoordinating activities relatedto Mexico throughoutHarvard, DRCLAS hasbecome the clearinghouse forall Mexico-related activities atthe University.

The Mexican Studies CommitteeIn August 2002, the Center established a Mexican StudiesCommittee, which draws from Harvard-wide faculty experts onMexico from various academic fields, including the social sci-ences, the humanities and education. The Mexican StudiesCommittee meets twice a year to provide strategy and oversightto the coordination of the Mexican Studies Initiative.

FAR LEFT: Advisory Committeemember Antonio Madero andJorge I. Domínguez, Director,Weatherhead Center forInternational AffairsCENTER: Davíd Carrasco, Neil L.Rudenstine Professor for theStudy of Latin America


Harvard Collaborationwith Mexican InstitutionsHarvard has developed a dense web of collaborative relationswith Mexican institutions, some stretching back decades. TheHarvard School of Public Health, for example, first becameactive in Mexico in the late 1940s. Collaboration with theSecretaría de Salud and the Instituto Nacional de Salud Públicacontinues to develop through the new Harvard Initiative onGlobal Health, directed by Professor Christopher Murray. Morerecently, the Kennedy School of Government is working withthe Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores deMonterrey in the design and development of new programs inpublic policy and public administration in an effort led byProfessor Merilee Grindle (see details on page 7). At the Schoolof Education, Professor Fernando Reimers leads efforts toanalyze and enhance educational opportunities for disadvan-taged students in collaboration with educators and policymak-ers at both the national and state levels. Harvard’s Joint Centerfor Housing Studies published an influential report on Mexico’shousing needs in 2004. The Harvard Business School has pub-lished case studies of Mexican enterprises, non-profits, andpublic agencies in the past decade.

In 2005, DRCLAS initiated a collaborative publishing venturewith El Colegio de México. The following year, the DRCLASand El Colegio jointly published the Spanish edition of TheCuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century, editedby Jorge I. Domínguez, Omar Everleny Perez Villanueva andLorena Barberia. The Center and El Colegio also initiated dis-cussions aimed at developing a path-breaking North Americanstudent exchange program with the additional participation ofNotre Dame University, the Universidad de las Américas(UDLA) in Mexico, the Université de Montréal and Universityof British Colombia in Canada.

FACULTY TEACHINGAND INITIATIVES The DRCLAS Mexican Studies Initiative has supported 20 Harvardfaculty projects developed in partnership with individuals andinstitutions in Mexico, in diverse fields such as the arts andhumanities, business and economics, the environment, medicineand public health and public policy. Institutional collaborators alsoinclude 12 Mexican libraries and archives that received grants fromthe DRCLAS Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives toimprove preservation and accessibility of collections. Following arebrief descriptions of current faculty-led projects related to Mexico.

Harvard, CONACYT, and the FundaciónMéxico en Harvard Partnership In October, 2004, Harvard entered into an unprecedented part-nership agreement with Mexico when Harvard PresidentLawrence H. Summers and Dr. Jaime Parada, Director Generalof the National Council for Science and Technology(CONACYT) of Mexico signed an agreement to ensure full fel-lowship support, for up to six years, for any Mexican citizenadmitted to a doctoral program at Harvard. An essential part ofthis agreement involved the participation of the FundaciónMéxico en Harvard. This historic agreement now enablesHarvard to recruit the most accomplished Mexican students toits doctoral programs, while furthering CONACYT’s goal ofinsuring the highest-quality training for future leaders ofMexico. The CONACYT-Harvard agreement represents aninnovative model that combines the resources of Harvard,CONACYT, and the Fundación México en Harvard to attractthe top Mexican students to Harvard’s graduate programs andmeet the specific challenges of financing graduate education forinternational students.

ABOVE: President Lawrence H.Summers signs the CONACYTagreement alongside Jaime Parada,Director General of CONACYT, left,and Rodrigo Sánchez-MejoradaVelasco, right, Consul for theFundación México en HarvardRIGHT: Chapel in the outskirts ofSan Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato,Mexico


AnthropologyArchaeological Excavations in MexicoWhen anthropologist Davíd Carrasco joined the Harvardfaculty in September 2001, the Moses Mesoamerican Archive —of which he was Director — moved with him from PrincetonUniversity along with his twenty years of research work on theexcavations and archives associated with the sites ofTeotihuacán and Tenochtitlán. Together with Mexico’s NationalInstitute of History and Anthropology (INAH), Carrasco is cur-rently part of a multidisciplinary team working on significantarchaeological excavations in Mexico and the decipherment ofthe Maya code.Participating Harvard Faculty: Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professorof the Study of Latin America, Anthropology Department and HDS

*Collaborating Institution: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH)

The Origins of the Pristine State in the Americas:Investigations of the Royal Palace of TeotihuacánIn February 1999, Drs. Linda Manzanilla Naim of UniversidadNacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Leonardo LópezLuján (INAH) invited William and Barbara Fash to join theexcavation of the Xalla compound at the ruins of Teotihuacán— which is believed to have been the royal palace ofTeotihuacán. The project focuses on the identification andinvestigation of the Xalla Compound. This work has alreadyproduced very interesting findings, which were presented at theDRCLAS Fall 2003 Mexico Symposium. Future research prom-ises to reveal much about the origins of the pristine state atTeotihuacán, as well as its development and eventual demise.Participating Harvard Faculty: William Fash, Bowditch Professor of CentralAmerican and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology and Chair, Departmentof Anthropology; Barbara Fash, Research Associate, Peabody Museum ofArchaeology and Ethnology

Collaborating Institutions: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México(UNAM); Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH)

Arts and HumanitiesDecoding the Cuauhtinchlan Codex DRCLAS, in cooperation with the Moses MesoamericanArchive, the Peabody Museum, the Department ofAnthropology and the Divinity School, all at Harvard University,are working on a project designed to enhance understanding ofthe cultural meaning and significance of one of Mexico’s finestcolonial pictographic manuscript: the Mapa Cuauhtinchan #2.This beautifully painted map tells the story of the migration ofthe Cuauhtinchantlaca (the people of Cuauhtinchan) from theirpoint of origin to the founding of Cuauhtinchan. ProfessorDavíd Carrasco and a team of international scholars are workingto decipher the sixteenth-century codex Mapa de Cuauhtinchan(“Place of the Eagle”) that they hope will yield new and impor-tant discoveries for the field of Mesoamerican studies. Morespecifically, they hope that decoding this pictorial manuscriptwill lead to a much-needed deeper understanding of whatCarrasco calls “the Mesoamerican imagination and sacred geog-raphy.” Harvard’s project includes a number of scholars fromMexico who have been working on colonial pictorials includingthe Cuauhtinchan documents. The Mexican partners are led byKeiko Yoneda, from the Centro de Investigaciones y EstudiosSuperiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS). The map was digi-tally photographed and put on a CD-ROM so that detaileddigital images could be shared with colleagues.Participating Harvard Faculty: Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professorof the Study of Latin America, Anthropology Department and HDS

Collaborating Institutions: Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; UniversidadNacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); Instituto Nacional de Antropologíae Historia (INAH); Proyecto Templo Mayor; Centro de Investigaciones yEstudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS)

EducationPublic Policy Program, ITESMThe John F. Kennedy School of Government and the InstitutoTecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)are working together to develop and enhance ITESM’s mastersprograms in public policy though a four-year collaboration inareas of curriculum development, research and executive train-ing. Starting in 2004, an annual two-week Executive Program,Meeting the Challenge of Mexico’s Future: Leadership andPerformance Strategies, has brought a group of about 40 top-and mid-level Mexican government officials to Cambridge. Theprogram focuses on leadership for performance, trade andglobalization and relevant issues in policy development, includ-ing poverty. Joint research conferences have also been held onpoverty reduction strategies and government reform. KSG alsooffers a two-week summer course for ITESM public policy stu-dents and holds a seminar series throughout the year onMexico’s public policy challenges.Participating Harvard Faculty: Merilee Grindle, Edward S. Mason Professor ofInternational Development, KSG; Mary Hildebrand, Fellow in Development, KSG

Collaborating Institution: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores deMonterrey (ITESM)

LEFT: Sixteenth-century codex Mapa de CuauhtinchanTHIS PAGE CLOCKWISE: Merilee Grindle, Edward S. Mason Professor ofInternational Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government;William L. Fash, Bowditch Professor of Central American and MexicanArchaeology and Ethnology; Professor Davíd Carrasco with MarinaStraulino, Conservator of the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan

Economics and BusinessThe Cambridge Economic History of Latin AmericaThis project created an up-to-date, comprehensive, comparativeand analytically focused history of the Latin Americaneconomies since the Spanish conquest. The project involved theactive collaboration of 29 economists, historians, and othersocial scientists from Latin America, Europe and the UnitedStates. It resulted in the publication by Cambridge UniversityPress of an authoritative two-volume Cambridge EconomicHistory of Latin America. John Coatsworth co-edited this workwith Victor Bulmer-Thomas, now head of the Chatham House,and Roberto Cortés Conde of the Universidad de San Andrés inBuenos Aires.Participating Harvard Faculty: John Coatsworth, Monroe Gutman Professor ofLatin American Affairs and Director, David Rockefeller Center for LatinAmerican Studies; Fernando Reimers, Associate Professor of Education andDirector, Masters Program in International Education Policy, HGSE; JeffreyWilliamson, Laird Bell Professor of Economics, FAS

The Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN)The Harvard Business School and a group of leading LatinAmerican business schools formed SEKN in 2001, with supportfrom the AVINA Foundation, to address the need for generatingintellectual capital developed in the region itself. SEKN’s firstbook, Social Partnering in Latin America: Lessons Drawn fromCollaborations of Businesses and Civil Society Organizations,focused on cross-sector collaborations between companies andnon-profit organizations. The book is the 12th in the DavidRockefeller Center Book Series on Latin American Studies andhas been republished in Spanish by the InterAmericanDevelopment Bank. A second book, Effective Management ofSocial Enterprises: Lessons from Businesses and Civil SocietyOrganizations in Iberoamerica, is also in the process of beingpublished jointly by the DRCLAS and the Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank. This volume looks at critical success factorsin social enterprises implemented by either private companies ornon-profit organizations. HBS Professors James Austin andMichael Chu, and Senior Researcher Ezequiel Reficco, from theSocial Enterprise Initiative, as well as Gustavo Herrero, ExecutiveDirector of the Latin America Research Center form the HBSteam taking part in SEKN research activities.Collaborating Institution: Escuela de Graduados en Administración yDirección de Empresas (EGADE)

*For the purpose of this report only collaborating Mexican institutions ineach initiative are listed.


LASPAU/ ITESM Fellowship ProgramHarvard-affiliated LASPAU, Academic and ProfessionalPrograms for the Americas, and the Instituto Tecnológico y deEstudios Superiores de Monterrey have developed a fellowshipprogram for professors and senior administrators from theITESM to spend up to two years at LASPAU to develop the fol-lowing areas of cooperation: create opportunities for facultydevelopment for ITESM professors and those of other Mexicaninstitutions; provide study abroad activities and internships forHarvard graduate and undergraduate students; facilitate jointresearch projects between Harvard and ITESM professors andstudents; and develop institutional relations between ITESMand universities in the Northeast of the United States. LASPAUand ITESM also collaborate on the development and distribu-tion of a graduate admissions test for Spanish speaking coun-tries in Latin America.Participating Harvard Staff: Patricia Pavón, ITESM Representative atLASPAU; Ned Strong, Director, LASPAU

Collaborating Institutions: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores deMonterrey

LASPAU — Fulbright Faculty Development ProgramLASPAU has collaborated with the Fulbright Program since1975 in the administration of the Faculty DevelopmentProgram, benefiting more than 3,000 educators from LatinAmerica and the Caribbean to the United States. The ComisiónMéxico-Estados Unidos para el Intercambio Educativo yCultural (COMEXUS) and LASPAU have collaborated tofinance grants for over 100 Mexican faculty members since1990. A majority of the grantees study at the master’s level;however, doctoral and non-degree study is also supported.Faculty are selected for their potential to contribute to theirdisciplines as well as to their academic institutions. After theirstudies in the United States, grantees resume teaching, research,and, in some cases, administrative positions at their home insti-tutions, sharing the benefits of their educational experience.Participating Harvard Staff: Ned Strong, Director, LASPAU

Collaborating Institutions: Comisión México-Estados Unidos para elIntercambio Educativo y Cultural (COMEXUS)

EnvironmentBiodiversity of Mexican AmphibiansFor the last 25 years, James Hanken has been conducting field-and laboratory-based studies of the systematic and evolutionarybiology of Mexican amphibians, especially salamanders.Southern Mexico is arguably the center of biological diversityfor salamanders in the entire New World tropics; the number ofnamed species is huge and many more unnamed species awaitformal description, or even initial discovery. Together with col-laborators from UNAM and the University of California atBerkeley, Professor Hanken visits southern Mexico frequently tocollect specimens for molecular and morphological analysis. Inaddition to this basic inventory function, these specimens haveformed the bases for numerous studies of evolutionary biology,including species formation, community ecology, functionalanatomy and developmental biology. Finally, much of therecent work has been devoted to assessing the status and“health” of natural populations of Mexican amphibians, espe-cially those in close proximity to human population centers(e.g., Mexico City, Oaxaca City, Veracruz, and Orizaba) in lightof the widespread and well-documented decline of amphibianpopulations worldwide.Participating Harvard Faculty: James Hanken, Alexander Agassiz Professorof Zoology and Curator in Herpetology, Harvard University’s Museum ofComparative Zoology

Collaborator: Dr. Mario García-Paris from the Museum of Natural Sciences,Madrid, Spain.

Collaborating Institutions: Instituto de Biología, Universidad NacionalAutónoma de México (UNAM); Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University ofCalifornia at Berkeley

Project for the Design of an Integrated Strategy for AirQuality Management in the Mexico City Valley and HealthExposure and Risk Assessment for Air Pollution in MexicoCity (Phase I and II)Harvard University is now involved in this interdisciplinary andinter-university project, begun at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT) by Nobel laureate Mario Molina in early2000. The Harvard School of Public Health and the HarvardCenter for Risk Analysis assessed risks posed by current andanticipated levels of air pollution in Mexico City and estimatedthe economic benefits of the improvements in health likely toresult from cost-effective cleaning of Mexico City’s air quality.The research team collaborates with the Comisión AmbientalMetropolitana (Metropolitan Environmental Commission, anorgan of Mexico City’s local government) and the EnvironmentalTrust Fund of Mexico City to develop a ten-year plan forimproving air quality in the region.Participating Harvard Faculty: John S. Evans, Senior Lecturer inEnvironmental Health and Co-Director, Program in Environmental Scienceand Risk Management, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School ofPublic Health.

Collaborating Institutions: Comisión Ambiental Metropolitana; MIT(Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; IntegratedProgram on Urban, Regional and Global Air Pollution); Environmental TrustFund of Mexico City

Library ExchangesProgram for Latin American Libraries and Archives,MexicoThrough a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,DRCLAS provides small grants to Mexican archives andlibraries whose research collections are in poor condition orrequire additions to holdings. The program is particularly con-cerned with preserving and improving access to scarce, uniqueor endangered materials.Participating Harvard Faculty and Staff: John Coatsworth, Monroe GutmanProfessor of Latin American Affairs and Director, David Rockefeller Centerfor Latin American Studies; Dan Hazen, Associate Librarian of HarvardCollege for Library Development

Collaborating Institutions: Archivo Parroquial, Campeche, Mexico; ArchivoFotográfico “Pedro Guerra,” Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico;Archivo General del Estado de Yucatán, Mexico; Archivo General del PoderEjecutivo del Estado de Oaxaca, Mexico; Biblioteca "Francisco de Burgoa,"Oaxaca, Mexico; Museo Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Mexicanos, Puebla,Mexico; Archivo del Estado de Veracruz, Xalapa, Mexico; Biblioteca“Eusebio F. Kino,” Coyoacán, Mexico; Biblioteca Daniel Cosio Villegas, ElColegio de Mexico; Biblioteca Mauricio Magdaleno/Red Estatal deBibliotecas, Zacatecas, Mexico; Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis deOaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico; Biblioteca Pública Universitaria, UniversidadMichoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico

Public HealthPopulation Health Metrics and Priority SettingHarvard’s Initiative for Global Health (HIGH) is collaboratingwith the Mexican Ministry of Health and the Instituto Nacionalde Salud Pública (INSP), the primary institution for healthresearch in Mexico, to examine the impact and managerialperformance of Mexico’s new System of Social Protection forHealth (SSHP), commonly known as “Seguro Popular.” Amultidisciplinary team of faculty and researchers from Harvardis working closely with representatives from the Mexicangovernment and the INSP to exchange intellectual capital onpopulation health metrics and to provide valuable evidence-based insights into the challenges affecting public health inMexico. The project has three components: Evaluation of theSSHP, Health Systems, and Priority Setting. The results of theproject will generate the necessary information to enableongoing adjustments and redesign of the dynamic system as wellas to support a culture of accountability in health care policy.More information on the project components can be found at:http://www.globalhealth.harvard.edu/pop_health_metrics3.htmlParticipating Harvard Faculty: Christopher Murray, Director, HIGH, RichardSaltonstall Professor of Public Policy, Harvard School of Public Health; GaryKing, David Florence Professor of Government; Director of the Center forBasic Research in the Social Sciences; Majid Ezzati, Assistant Professor ofInternational Health in the Faculty of Public Health; Sue Goldie, AssociateProfessor of Health Decision Science in the Faculty of Public Health; andJoshua Salomon, Assistant Professor of International Health in the Faculty ofPublic Health.

Collaborating Institutions: Mexican Ministry of Health, Instituto Nacional deSalud Pública (INSP) (this collaboration includes the personal involvementof Dr. Julio Frenk, Minister of Health and Human Development in Mexico).

Lead Toxicity and Reproductive Health in Mexico CityResearchers at the Harvard School of Medicine and the Schoolof Public Health’s Channing Laboratory are conducting a 13year-old project that addresses the threat posed to fetal devel-opment by the mobilization of lead stored in the skeletons ofwomen. The project utilizes several novel methods developedby the research group, including special instrumentation formaking rapid and safe measurements of lead in bone, genetictests to assess for susceptible individuals and special methodsfor measuring ultra-trace levels of lead in plasma. Work for thisproject won the National Institute of Environmental HealthSciences 1999 Scientific Advance of the Year award.Participating Harvard Faculty: Howard Hu, Professor of Occupational andEnvironmental Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health

Collaborating Institutions: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Mexico; U.S.National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences; University of California,Santa Cruz; Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston

Randomized Trial of Calcium to Prevent Bone LeadMobilization, MexicoThis project is part of the Harvard Superfund Program Projectand is an outgrowth of parallel research demonstrating thatmobilization of bone lead stores during pregnancy poses amajor threat to fetal development.Participating Harvard Faculty: Howard Hu, Associate Professor ofOccupational and Environmental Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health

Collaborating Institution: U.S. National Institute for Environmental HealthSciences; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

FAR LEFT: New species of arborealsalamander (Caudata: Plethodontidae:Pseudoeurycea) from the mountainsof Oaxaca, MexicoBELOW: Lucía Alonzo and Moisés Rojas


Global Working Families, MexicoThis project was founded to address the impact of working andsocial conditions on the health and welfare of families globally.The Global Working Families project looks at global trends overthe past four decades, incorporating ethnographic studies,household survey data and public policy frameworks toexamine the effects of globalization on care giving, workforceparticipation, increased urbanization, migration patterns andpoverty indexes of transnational families in Mexico andHonduras.Participating Harvard Faculty: Jody Heymann, Associate Professor of SocialMedicine, HSPH

Collaborating Institutions: Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS);Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales para los Trabajadores del Estado(ISSTE)

Impact of Vitamin A and Zinc on Diarrheal Disease,MexicoThe goal of this project is to characterize the differential impactof vitamin A and zinc on health outcomes associated with spe-cific pathogen infections and determine if the regulation ofTh1-Th2 response is the biological mechanism mediating thisimpact.Participating Harvard Faculty: Kurt Long, Department of Nutrition, HSPH

Collaborating Institutions: National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & KidneyDiseases of the National Institutes of Health; Hospital Infantil de México“Federico Gomez”; Universidad de Querétero, Querétero, Mexico;CINVESTAV, IPN, Mexico; Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca,Mexico; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; University of Texas Schoolof Public Health, Houston

Ethical Issues in International Health ResearchThis program explores differences between and within coun-tries with regard to health research ethics and conducts trainingworkshops. The purpose is to address current issues, anticipatepotential future problems, and facilitate productive communi-

cation that draws from the talent of leaders from both develop-ing and industrialized countries. Some of the topics covered inthe workshops include informed consent, confidentiality,conflict of interest, investigator responsibilities to the studypopulation, research in resource-poor environments and thedevelopment of ethical review committees.Participating Harvard Faculty: Richard Cash, Senior Lecturer on InternationalHealth, Harvard School of Public Health

Collaborating Institution: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseasesof the National Institutes of Health

Superfund Toxic Substances: Exposure and DiseaseThis project evaluates the potential health effects of exposure tolead, arsenic or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The long-term goal is to determine whether exposure to these chemicalsat ambient levels in the environment has an adverse effect onhealth.Participating Harvard Faculty: Howard Hu, Professor of Occupational andEnvironmental Medicine, HSPH

Collaborating Institution: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciencesof the National Institutes of Health

Policy Evaluation on Reforming the Health SectorThomas Bossert’s research on political processes of healthpolicy reform has involved directing a comparative study of thepolicy process of reform in Chile, Colombia and Mexico. Thisresearch applied stakeholder and institutional approaches anddeveloped the innovative concept of “change teams” of politi-cally astute technocrats from several key ministries who drivethe reforms forward. Research on the policy process of healthreform in Poland concluded that usual stakeholder analysis isinadequate because many of the stakeholders do not consis-tently pursue policy objectives.Participating Harvard Faculty: Thomas Bossert, Lecturer on InternationalHealth Policy, HSPH

Collaborating Institutions: Fundación Mexicana para la Salud (FUNSALUD)

THIS PAGE: Julio Frenk, Ministerof Health, Mexico, and Lisa F.Berkman, Thomas D. CabotProfessor of Public Policy,Harvard School of PublicHealth, during a symposium atthe Harvard School of PublicHealth.RIGHT, ABOVE: John McKee,Senior External RelationsOfficer, Harvard BusinessSchool, and Fernando Reimers,Ford Foundation Professor ofInternational EducationRIGHT, BELOW: Porfirio ThierryMuñoz Ledo, Consul of Mexicoin Boston, and Merilee Grindle,Edward S. Mason Professor ofInternational Development

Public Policy and Government United States-Latin American Relations:A Collaborative Book SeriesJorge I. Domínguez and Rafael Fernández de Castro co-direct acollaborative project of twenty scholars that will produce tenbooks on U.S.-Latin American relations. Eight of the ten booksfocus on U.S. relations with a specific Latin American country(e.g., U.S.-Mexico); one book will discuss U.S. relations withCentral American countries and another, U.S. relations withCaribbean countries. Each book has one author from the perti-nent Latin American country or mini-region and a second fromthe United States.

Seven of these books have been published, the eighth is inproduction, and two remain to be published.Participating Harvard Faculty: Jorge I. Domínguez, Clarence Dillon Professorof International Affairs and Director, Weatherhead Center for InternationalAffairs.

Collaborating Institutions: Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM);Ford and MacArthur Foundations

Faculty Research and CurriculumDevelopment Grants Since 1994, the Center has supported the work of Harvardfaculty on Mexico and the development of courses and confer-ences focused on that country, by providing financial supportin the form of Faculty and Curriculum Development Grants.To date, at least 35 such grants have been awarded to facultysince the Center’s founding.

2001-2002Davíd Carrasco, FAS, HDSMigration Stories/MigratingStories: Collecting andInterpreting the Myths ofAztlán

William Fash, FASThe Origins of the RulingClass and the State atTeotihuacán, Mexico

James Hanken, OEB, FASSalamanders of Mexico:Diversity and EvolutionaryRelationships

2003-2004Fernando Reimers, GSELiteracy of Adolescents in N.A.

Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, RLLPhilosophical Inquiries forLatin America

Davíd Carrasco, FAS, HDSHomanaje al Profesor EduardoMatos Moctezuma

2004-2005Gary Orfield, GSEMexico-U.S. Immigration:Educational Challenges

Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, RLLLatin American Studies Courseon Mexico, Guatemala andBolivia

Nancy Krieger and LisaBerkman, HSPHHealth Disparities and theBody Politic: Policy, Research,Data and GovernmentResponsibility

Merilee Grindle, KSGGoing Local: Decentralization,Democratization, and thePromise of Good Governance

Carl Steinitz, GSDCollaboration withUniversidad AutónomaMetropolitana, Mexico City ona Study of Alternative Futuresof Tepotzotlan, Mexico

2005-2006 Aldo Musacchio, HBSDebt Collection and theDevelopment of CreditMarkets in Mexico

Edna Viruel-Fuentes and DoloresAcevedo-García, HSPHBinational Perspectives onMexican Immigration andHealth: Lessons, Challengesand Opportunities

12 13Mexican Studies at Harvard

The Center has hosted VisitingScholars and Fellows fromMexico, or with expertise onthat country, since its creation.In 1998, Advisory CommitteeAntonio Madero, then presi-dent of the Fundación Méxicoen Harvard, generously estab-lished the AntonioMadero/Fundación México enHarvard Visiting Scholar Fund,to support Mexican scholarsapplying to the Program. Sinceits establishment, the Fund hassupported a number of distin-guished scholars from Mexico,whose work on a variety ofacademic topics have greatlyexpanded Harvard’s institu-tional, research and commu-nity outreach networks relatedto Mexico.

VISITING SCHOLARSAND PROFESSORS

The Center’s Visiting Scholars and Fellows Program strengthens tiesbetween Harvard University and other institutions by hostingdistinguished academics and professionals, many from Latin America,who are selected through a competitive process by Harvard faculty.While in residence, Visiting Scholars and Fellows work on their ownresearch, interact with Harvard faculty and students, gain access toHarvard’s vast resources on Latin America and participate in theCenter’s conferences and seminars.

2001-2002Alejandro Tortolero VillaseñorFundación México enHarvard/Antonio MaderoVisiting ScholarTo an Agrarian History ofMexico: Land, Society andEcology in Mexico’s Economy(1780-1940)

2002-2003 Jeffrey DavidowFormer U.S. Ambassador toMexicoU.S.-Mexico Relations

Barbara Driscoll de AlvaradoFundación México enHarvard/Antonio MaderoVisiting ScholarFrom Wartime LaborAgreement to InternationalLawsuit: The Bracero Programof WWII

The Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professorship in Latin AmericanStudies was created at Harvard University in 1986 through a gen-erous gift from Edmond Safra and the Republic of New YorkCorporation. DRCLAS administers the Professorship program,which enables Harvard to regularly invite eminent LatinAmericans from any field to teach at the University, typically forone semester. Since 2000, the Center has welcomed four distin-guished RFK Visiting Professors from Mexico.

Enrique DusselHarvard Divinity School, Fall 2000Enrique Dussel, a leader in the study of philosophy and theology,particularly in Latin American liberation theology, spent the Fall2000 semester teaching at the Harvard Divinity School. Currentlybased at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico, hehas taught at many institutions in the United States, includingDuke University, Vanderbilt University and the University ofNotre Dame. His academic background includes training in phi-losophy and theology, with a doctorate in both philosophy fromUniversidad Central Complutense in Madrid and in history fromLa Sorbonne in Paris. Courses he taught during his stay atHarvard included World History and Christian Ethics and ACritique of Political Reason and Will.

Carlos Muñoz-IzquierdoHarvard Graduate School of Education, Fall 2000Carlos Muñoz-Izquierdo, a specialist on issues of education andequity in Latin America, taught at the Graduate School ofEducation during the Fall of 2000. Professor Muñoz-Izquierdo ison the faculty of the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.He earned an economics degree in Mexico and completed a doc-torate in education at Stanford University. Professor Muñoz-Izquierdo studies the determinants of educational inequality.

Gerardo Lozano-FernándezFundación México enHarvard/Antonio MaderoVisiting ScholarDevelopment of IntellectualCapital on Latin AmericanSocial Enterprise

2003-2004 Soledad LoaezaFundación México enHarvard/Antonio MaderoVisiting ScholarMexican Presidency in the XXthCentury: The Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz Administration

Orlandina de OlivieraFundación México enHarvard/Antonio MaderoVisiting ScholarTransition to Adulthood andGender Relations in UrbanAreas of Mexico and Brazil

His publications include several books on the relationshipbetween education and social inequality and education policy andplanning. At Harvard, he taught the course Research Paradigms:Analyzing Educational Inequalities in Latin America and a seminaron educational reforms, Lessons from the Mexican Experience.

Rodolfo StavenhagenDepartment of Anthropology, Fall 2000Rodolfo Stavenhagen is a scholar of ethnicity and culture, agrar-ian social organization and social movements, the social dimen-sions of economic change and development and human rights.Professor Stavenhagen is based at El Colegio de México and holdsan MA in anthropology from the National School ofAnthropology and History in Mexico and a Ph.D. in sociologyfrom the University of Paris. He has taught at academic institu-tions in Mexico, the United States, France, Switzerland and manyother international venues. He taught two courses at Harvard,Peasants, Indians and Activists in Latin America, and EthnicConflicts, Nation States and the Politics of Identity.

Alejandro PoiréJohn F. Kennedy School of Government, Fall 2005Alejandro Poiré has been a professor and department chair at theInstituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in MexicoCity. A leading scholar on the Mexican electoral process, he haspublished several academic pieces analyzing public opinion, politi-cal culture, campaign dynamics and voting behavior in Mexico. Hehas also been Senior Researcher of the Mexico 2000 and 2006 panelstudies and principal co-investigator of the 2002 Mexico panel. As apolitical analyst, he conducted a radio commentary weekly for threeyears in Mexico City, and his opinions and editorials have appearedin Letras Libres, Nexos, Hoja por Hoja, Cambio, Reforma, El Norte,Milenio and Milenio Semanal, among other periodicals.Piñata in San Miguel de Allende,

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2004-2005Ernesto Torres-LópezFundación México enHarvard/Antonio MaderoVisiting ScholarImplementation of AdvancedViral Diagnosis Techniques inMexico

2005-2006Robert ByeFundación México enHarvard/Antonio MaderoVisiting ScholarBridging a Mexican ScientificGap to Strengthen itsBiodiversity Programs:Ethnobotanical Continuitybetween Colonial Explorationsand National ScientificInstitutions

Visiting Scholars and Fellows

Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professorship in Latin American Studies


PUBLICATIONSAND RESEARCH

The Center prides itself in the large production of publicationson Mexico it has supported throughout the years. Scholarlyarticles, working papers and books are central to thedissemination of academic knowledge of Mexico in LatinAmerica, the United States and the rest of the world.

Faculty Publicationson MexicoCore and related faculty atHarvard have publishedextensively on Mexico. Belowfollows a sample of recentbooks and articles on Mexicoby Harvard faculty.

Alberto Ascherio“Detection of pulmonarytuberculosis in Chiapas,Mexico,” with Sánchez-Pérez,H.J.; Hernan, M.A.;Hernández-Díaz, S.; JansaHalperin, D. Ann Epidemiol,2002; 12(3): 166-72.

Davíd CarrascoMesoamerica’s ClassicHeritage: From Teotihuacan tothe Aztecs. Edited withLindsay Jones and ScottSessions. University Press ofColorado, January 2000.

Mesoamerican Worlds.General Editor of Series withEduardo Matos Moctezuma,published by the UniversityPress of Colorado.1) Eating Landscape by PhilArnold;2) Aztec CeremonialLandscapes edited by DavídCarrasco with an introductionby William Fash;3) Twin City Tales byLindsay Jones;4) Tamoanchan/Tlalocan:Places of Mist by AlfredoLópez Austin;5) The Offerings of the GreatTemple of Tenochtitlan byLeonardo López Luján;6) Life and Death in theTemplo Mayor by EduardoMatos Moctezuma;7) Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: TheOnce and Future Lord of theToltecs by H.B. Nicholson;

8) Utopia and History inMexico: The First Chronicles ofMexican Civilization, 1520-1569, by Georges Baudot;9) Empires of Time: Calendars,Clocks and Cultures byAnthony Aveni;10) Ancient Tollan: Tula andthe Toltec Heartland, by AlbaGuadalupe Mastache, RobertH. Cobean, Dan M. Healan.

The Future is Mestizo.General editorship and anintroductory essay withVirgilio Elizondo, UniversityPress of Colorado, March2000.

Oxford Encyclopedia ofMesoamerican Cultures.Editor in Chief, 3 vols.Oxford University Press,2001.

Araceli Castro“Contracepting at Childbirth:The Integration ofReproductive Health andPopulation Policies inMexico,” in A. Castro and M.Singer (eds.), UnhealthyHealth Policy: A CriticalAnthropological Examination.Walnut Creek, CA: AltamiraPress, 2004, pp. 133-144.

Jorge I. DomínguezMexico’s Pivotal DemocraticElection: Candidates, Voters,and the Presidential Campaignof 2000. Co-editor, with C.Lawson; chapter author.Stanford University Press,2004.

The United States and Mexico:Between Partnership andConflict. Jorge I. Domínguezand Rafael Fernández deCastro. Routledge Press, 2001.

“The Scholarly Study ofMexican Politics,” MexicanStudies, vol. 20, no. 2.Summer 2004, pp. 377-410.

David Rockefeller Centerfor Latin AmericanStudies Book SeriesThe following books, part ofthe DRCLAS Book Series,either focus entirely onMexico or include chapters— usually several — devotedto Mexico:

Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco,ed., Crossings: MexicanImmigration inInterdisciplinary Perspectives.1998.

Victor Bulmer-Thomas andJames Dunkerley, eds., TheUnited States and LatinAmerica: The New Agenda.1999.

John H. Coatsworth and AlanM. Taylor, eds., Latin Americaand the World Economy Since1800. 1999.

Fernando Reimers, ed.,Unequal Schools, UnequalChances: The Challenges toEqual Opportunity in theAmericas. 2001.

David Maybury-Lewis, ed.,The Politics of Ethnicity:Indigenous Peoples in LatinAmerican States. 2003.

Cynthia Sanborn and FelipePortocarrero, eds.,Philanthropy and SocialChange in Latin America.2005.

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico


Institutions and Long-RunEconomic Performance inMexico and Spain, 1800-2000.John H. Coatsworth andGabriel Tortella Casares ,No. 02/03-1.

Iatrogenic Epidemic: HowHealth Care ProfessionalsContribute to the HighProportion of CesareanSections in Mexico. ArachuCastro, Angela Heimburger,and Ana Langer, No. 02/03-3.

Mexico’s Market Reforms inHistorical Perspective. JuanCarlos Moreno Brid andJaime Ros, No. 04/05-1.

The Problem of Money inElectoral Politics: A LatinAmerican Perspective.Alejandro Poiré, No. 05/06-1.

ReVista: The HarvardReview of Latin America Published two to three timesyearly, ReVista, previouslyDRCLASNews, focuses on dif-ferent themes related to LatinAmerica, Latinos/as, and theIberian Peninsula. The maga-zine-length publicationbrings together differentvoices on each theme, high-lighting the work of Harvardfaculty, students, alumni andVisiting Scholars. Since itsestablishment, ReVista hashighlighted topics related toMexico through various aca-demic and scholarly articlesand featured an entire issueon that country in the fall2001. Below follows a samplelist of articles published:

The Age of Illusions: Mexicanand Mexican American Girlsat Fifteen, by Anna Levine.Fall 1997.

Democracy and Difference:Midwives and Market Vendorsin Juchitán, Mexico, by JeffreyW. Rubin. Spring 1998.

DRCLAS Working Paperson Latin AmericaWidening Scholarly Horizons:Theoretical Approaches for theStudy of the U.S.-MexicanRelations. Jorge I.Domínguez, No. 96/97-1.

A Strained Alliance:Continuity and Change inMexican Labor Politics.M. Victoria Murillo, No.96/97-3.

Mexico’s New Foreign Policy:States, Societies andInstitutions. Jorge I.Domínguez, No. 96/97-5.

Democratization and theGhost of Zapata: Mexico from1959 to 1991. David L. Leal,No. 96/97-9.

Virtual Legality: The Use andReform of Military Justice inBrazil, the Southern Cone, andMexico. Anthony W. Pereira,No. 99/00-2.

The Role of Restructuring inRecovering from Crises:Mexico 1995-98. AnneKreuger and Aaron Tornell,No. 00/01-1.

Merilee Grindle“Strengthening Philanthropyand Civil Society ThroughPolicy Reform: FromProposals to Action.”Philanthropy and SocialChange in Latin America. Ed.Cynthia Sanborn and FelipePortocarrero. HarvardUniversity Press, 2006.

“Interests, Institutions, andReformers: The Politics ofEducation Decentralization inMexico.” Crucial Needs, WeakIncentives: Social SectorReform, Democratization, andGlobalization in LatinAmerica. Ed. Robert Kaufmanand Joan M. Nelson. JohnsHopkins University Press,2004.

“Interests, Institutions, andReformers: The Politics ofEducation Decentralization inMexico” in Robert Kaufmanand Joan M. Nelson, eds., ThePolitics of Social Sector Reformin Latin America.Forthcoming.

Going Local: Decentralization,Democratization and thePromise of Good Governance.Princeton University Press,2007.

James Hanken“Two new species ofPseudoeurycea (Caudata:Plethodontidae) from themountains of northernOaxaca, Mexico.” Parra-Olea,G., M. García-París, J.Hanken, and D. B. Wake.2005. Copeia 2005(3).In press.

Steven Letvitsky“Explaining Populist PartyAdaptation in Latin America:Environmental andOrganizational Determinantsof Party Change in Argentina,Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.”With Katrina Burgess.Comparative Political Studies36, No. 8, October, 2003, pp.859-880.

Noel Maurer“When the State isUntrustworthy: PublicFinance and Private Bankingin Porfirian Mexico.” Maurer,Noel, and Andrei Gomberg.Journal of Economic History.December 2004, pp. 1087-1107.

The Politics of Property Rights:Political Instability, CredibleCommitments, and EconomicGrowth in Mexico, 1876-1929.Haber, Stephen, Noel Maurer,and Armando Razo. PoliticalEconomy of Institutions andDecisions. CambridgeUniversity Press, 2003.

“The Internal Consequencesof External Credibility:Banking Regulation andBanking Performance inPorfirian Mexico.” Chap. 3 inThe Mexican Economy, 1870-1930, edited by Jeffrey Bortzand Stephen Haber, 50-92.Social Science History.Stanford University Press,2002.

“NAFTA and Property Rightsin Mexico.” HBS WorkingPaper.

“Related Lending andEconomic Performance:Evidence From Mexico.”Maurer, Noel, and StephenHaber. Under review.

Jose Antonio Mazzotti“Un nuevo índice de preciospara México, 1886-1929,”With Aurora Gomez-Galvarriato, in El TrimestreEconomico 265, January-March 2000.

“La Reforma Monetaria de1905: Un estudio de lascondiciones internacionalesque contribuyeron a laadopción del patrón oro enMéxico.” Revista Secuencia(Mexico), 52, January-April,2002.

Barbara J. MerzNew Patterns for Mexico:Observations on Remittances,Philanthropic Giving, andEquitable Development. Ed.Global Equity Initiative,Harvard University Press,2005.

Diana Sorensen“Tlatelolco 1968: Paz andPoniatowska on Law andViolence,” forthcoming inMexican Studies/EstudiosMexicanos, Summer 2002.

Decentralization of Educationand Institutional Change, byGustavo Merino Juárez.Spring 1999.

The Mexican Intellectual:Science and Treason, by JuanEnríquez. Fall 2001.

In Search of Mexico’s NationalCuisine: Que vivan los tamales(y tortillas)! by Jeffrey Pilcher.Spring 2001.

Musical Tourism: AHarmonious Experience, byLindajoy Fenley. Winter 2002.

Mexico Transitions: Strugglingtoward Democracy, by MerileeS. Grindle. Fall 2002.

I Came, I Saw, IPhotographed: TouristPhotography’s FictionalConquest, by Robon Kelsey.Winter 2002.

Philanthropy in Mexico:Challenges and Opportunities,by Manuel Arango. Spring2002.

STUDENT RESEARCH,INTERNSHIPS ANDACCOMPLISHMENTS In its first decade, the Center has encouraged student work onMexico by supporting travel for research, language learning, fieldstudy, fellowships and internships. To date, DRCLAS has awarded223 Mexico-related grants in total, including 162 field researchgrants to graduate and undergraduate students, 40 summerinternship grants, 18 Mellon History travel grants, and 13 MellonFellowships. These grants were made possible through thegenerosity of the Antonio Madero, Garza Medina and AzcárragaAndrade Endowments at DRCLAS, as well as the TinkerFoundation, Fundación México en Harvard and the NOMOSProgram of the Center for International Affairs.


Field ResearchGrants to Studentsand Faculty

Summer 2001Isaac Campos-Costero, HistoryThe Rise of ProhibitionistIdeas about Drugs

Amilcar Challú, HistoryStudy of economic instability,standards of living and socialwelfare, 1800-1900

Elena C. Chavez, Social StudiesThe commercialization ofchocolate processing inOaxaca and how this affectswomen’s roles

Brian Delay, HistoryThe Influence of Indiansupon U.S.-Mexican relations,1836-1854

Francisco Flores, Social StudiesThe links between theregional disparities ineconomic development anddemocratization

Mary Gates, AnthropologyThe changing socialexperience and position ofwomen due to tourism

Daniel Gutiérrez, HistoryAutonomy and Power —States’ rights in 19th centuryMexico: Zacatecas, 1821-1857

Magda Hinojosa, GovernmentThe percentile variation inMexican women mayors

Halbert Jones, History Mexico’s involvement inWorld War II

Min Katrina Lieskovsky,Biological SciencesPre-thesis research inethnobotany

Aaron Navarro, History The demilitarization ofMexican politics and politicalopposition: 1938-1954

Shannon O’Neil, Government Effects of economic reformson popular organization

Kevin O’Neill, Divinity SchoolIllegality: A sociallyconstructed obstacle

Paul Ramirez, Study ofReligionEthnographic research inMexico to study Miztecreligious syncretism in theirfestivals for patron saints

Payson Schwin, Social StudiesWhy environmentally-concerned citizens have notshaped policy

Laura Serna, History Cultural history of the borderregion from 1915-1945

Kerri Sherlock, Law SchoolA series of discussion groupsin Chiapas with NGO andcommunity representativesabout human rights advocacy

Summer 2002Nava Ashraf, GSAS EconomicsEvaluation of impact of corntrade liberalization underNAFTA on rural poverty inMexico

Andre Byers, KSGPolicy recommendationsregarding Oxfam America’sinterest in increasing thepresence of fair trade coffeein the American market

Taryn Carter, KSGDeveloped comprehensiveeconomic plan for the SantaRosa Community definingrole the Centro IntegralComunitario should play

Amílcar Challú, HistoryStudy the political economyof biological wellbeing inMexico from the 1780s to the1870s

Cristina de la Torre, HSPHFactors that contribute tohigh levels of unwantedpregnancies

Carlos Garza, GovernmentA comparison study of theborder communities of SanDiego/Tijuana andBrownsville/Matamoros crossborder governmentalinteractions

Daniel Gutiérrez, HistoryPolitical conflicts in 19th-century Mexico, especially therelationship betweenZacatecas and the nationalgovernment

Magda Hinojosa, GovernmentEffects the party candidateselection processes have onwomen’s politicalrepresentation

Alejandro Mares, Social StudiesLabor organization,international trade lineage,and prospects for Mexico’sdemocratic transition

Aaron Navarro, HistoryPolitical Intelligence:Opposition, Parties, and theMilitary in Mexico, 1938-1954

Shannon O’Neil Trowbridge,GovernmentThe impact of social securityreforms on socialorganization andparticipation in LatinAmerica

Silvia Romero Contreras, GSE How low socioeconomicstatus Mexican-Spanish-speaking families supportearly literacy development

William Suárez-Potts, HistoryResearch on Supreme Courtarchives of significant laborcases between 1870-1934

Allison Tirres, HistoryResearching source materialfor dissertation on the legalhistory of the border region

Alexandra Vega Merino, GSASStudy of contemporaryMexican metacinemadelineating competing viewsof the relationship of filmand state

Chafen Watkins, GovernmentGauging how informal sectororganization impacts politicalparticipation among Mexicanwomen

Summer 2003Anthony Arnold, FASThe influence of racial andeconomic inequality on thedevelopment of democracy inMexico

Ingrid Bleynat, GSASLabor markets and workers’behaviors in the early 20th c.Mexican textile industry

Isaac Campos-Costero, HistoryThe history of marijuana inMexico

Rebecca Cantu, FASStudy of voting in Mexico asa tool to ensureaccountability of electedofficials

Amílcar Challú, HistoryThe institutionalunderpinnings of grainmarkets and their impact onmalnutrition

Paul Dexter, FASLinguistic field research withspeakers of WesternHuastecan Nahuatl in Mexico

Daniel Gutiérrez, HistoryResearch at the ArchivoGeneral in Mexico

Maribel Hernández, HistoryComparative study of CiudadJuárez and Puebla to assessNAFTA’s impact on Mexico’smaquiladoras

Sarah Mercer, FASSocial mobilization in Mexicoafter the 1985 earthquake andhow it affected nationalpolitical change

Monarch butterfly migration inAngangueo, Michoacán, Mexico


Aaron Navarro, HistoryResearch in National Archives

Santiago Ramírez, GSASThe evolutionary significanceof the chemical specificity onfragrances gathered by maleeuglossine bees

Francisco Ramírez Santacruz,GSASThe obscure years in thebiography of novelist MateoAlemán

Allison Tirres, HistoryLegal history of theUS/Mexico borderlines from1848-1930

Benjamin Wells, History,LiteratureAgrarian reform in Hidalgoduring and after the MexicanRevolution

Summer 2004Shalini Ananthanarayanan,Social StudiesThe liberization of abortionlaw in Mexico City

Ingrid Bleynat, HistoryThe history of informalworkers from “La Merced”Market in Mexico City

Amilcar Challú, HistoryWage and price informationto understand real earningsand market integration

Uriyoán Colón-Ramos,Department of NutritionThe glycemic index ofmanually crafted tortillasversus industry-processedtortillas in Cuernavaca

Melissa Dell, EconomicsHow globalization hasaffected the female laborforce in Veracruz

Andrea Flores, SocialAnthropologyContemporary Mexican filmand the formation of nationalidentity in changing politicaleconomy in Mexico City

Rocio Garza, RLLThe narratives created byparties collaborating ineducational non-profits inMexico City

Daniel Gutiérrez, HistoryData collection on municipalelections, state budgets, thefederal army and federal taxcollectors in Mexico City

Aaron Navarro, History Research at the ForeignRelations archive inMexico City

Alberto Ribas-Casasayas,Comparative LiteratureHistorical fiction and thetemporal narrative structureof postmodern fiction

Miles Rodríguez, HistoryThe Cold War in Mexico

Alvaro Santos, HLSThe impact of internationaleconomic law on domesticlegal regimes regulating thelabor market

Erin Sprague, HistoryThe impact of U.S.imperialism on Mexicanwomen in the AmericanSouthwest and Mexico

Allison Tirres, HistoryLegal history and the borderat the archives of the ForeignMinistry in Mexico City

Ernesto Treviño, GSEData on academicacheivement and indigenousschools in Mexico

Germán Treviño, GSEEducational inequalities inMexico City

Summer 2005 Isaac Campos-Costero, HistoryPatient records of Mexico’snational hospital for drugaddicts from the 1930s inMexico City

Alfinio Flores, Social StudiesThesis research on migrantremittance useage andtransfer

Joseph Florez, HistoryThe growth of Mormonismin modern Latin America

Doris Huang, Government The relationship between U.S.foreign policy and pro- andanti-Americanism in Mexicoand Argentina

Jason Lakin, Government andSocial PolicyThe origins of Mexico’s newhealth insurance program

Ernesto Martinez,Anthropology The Chinese diaspora nearthe U.S.-Mexican border

Katherine Moore, History ofArt and ArchitectureArt produced by the Jesuitorder at the mission of Parras

Laura Pickard, Women,Gender and SexualityCauses and lack ofgovernment response toviolence against women inCiudad Júarez, whileinterning at AlternativasPacíficas

Laura Serna, History ofAmerican Civilization The consumption of NorthAmerican film in NorthernMexico and Southern Texasduring the 1920s

Sergio Silva-Castañeda,HistoryThe Mexican resistance tofree trade in the late 1950sand early 1960s

Summer InternshipGrants

Summer 2002Jacob Bor, Social StudiesInternship with Partners inHealth in Chiapas

Edward Couch, GovernmentInternship at El Universalnewspaper

Anna Evans, HistoryInternship at a growth anddevelopment non-profitorganization

Rocío Garza, RLLInternship at the Ministry ofEconomic Development inPuebla

Erin Hasselberg, HSPHEvaluation of the Gente JovenProgram in five Mexicanstates through MexFamorganization in Mexico City

Jenny Jacobs, GSETechnical support andresearch regardingdevelopment of neweducational programs forindigenous migrants

Tiffany McNair, History ofScienceInternship at the Centro paraLos Adolescentes de SanMiguel de Allende (CASA)

Samantha Piper, NeurobiologyInternship at CentroEcológico Akumal to protectthe Grant and Loggerhead seaturtles, as well as their nestingbeaches

Elizabeth Quinn, English andAmerican LiteratureInternship at the Centro paraLos Adolescentes de SanMiguel de Allende (CASA)

Kendrinna Rodríguez, KSGDevelopment and evaluationof projects aimed atimproving social developmentin areas such as education,health and nutrition at theComunidad A.C.

Ernesto Treviño, GSEResearch on educationalinnovations and policies inLatin America for UNESCO

Germán Treviño, GSEAssociate staff of theOrganization of AmericanStates, conducting researchon the Latin Americaneducational system andenhancing horizontalrelationships with memberstates

Summer 2003Peter Banwarth, FASInternship at theCoordinación General deDesarrollo EconómicoRegional department todevelop and implementeconomic strategies fordifferent regions in Puebla

Emily Blumberg, FASInternship at MexFam(Fundación Mexicana para laPlaneación Familiar) onprograms for women andyouth in a rural clinic

Maria Teresa Cavero Gómez,KSGInternship at the Office forPublic Policies of theExecutive Office of thePresident of Mexico

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, FASMinistry of EconomicDevelopment in Puebla, agovernmental institution tohelp poor Pueblans secureopportunities for economicdevelopment

Carol da Silva, GSEInternship at theCoordinación General deEducación InterculturalBilingüe, assisting in dataanalysis of current status ofindigenous education

Zachary Ferreira, HLSInternship at BarreraSiqueiros Torres Landa, aMexico City commercial lawfirm

Rocío Garza, RLLInternship at UNETE (Uniónde Empresarios para laTecnología en la Educación,A.C.) in Mexico City, toincrease internet access andimprove pre-collegiateeducation in public schools

Jess Maki, FASBHUMI CASAS Internship inSan Miguel de Allende

Alicia Menéndez, FASInternship at the Oficina delGobernador de Tamaulipas inNuevo León, and theConsejero Económico inMonterrey, on economicdevelopment through largeand small-scale volunteerefforts

Priscilla Orta, FASInternship at the Casa de losAmigos, A.C., a non-profitorganization in Mexico City

Cristian Quijada Torres, GSASInternship at the CorporaciónInternacional Hidalgo tostudy interaction betweengovernment and privatesector, modernization anddiversification of localeconomy, industrial policy

Silvia Romero-Contreras, GSEInternship at Salud IntegralPara la Mujer to exploreMexican health services andwomen’s education as theyrelate to women’s health care

Julia Sheketoff, FASInternship at Comunidad,A.C. in Cuernavaca, workingon a nutrition project forchildren in four elementaryschools

Ondrej Staviscak Diaz, FASInternship at El Universalnewspaper in Mexico City

Summer 2004Rebekah Lynn, KSGInternship at the Secretary ofthe Interior in Mexico

Juliana Rodríguez, KSGInternship at the Secretaría deHacienda y Crédito Públicoin Mexico City

Fang Yuan, Social StudiesInternship at LearningEnterprises in Mexico

Summer 2005Egle Cekanaviciute, Biology Internship at the UniversidadNacional Autónoma deMexico (UNAM) in MexicoCity

Ohnmar Khin, Social StudiesInternship at English throughLearning Enterprises, inCuliacán

Sarah Kinsella, BiochemicalSciences Internship at Child FamilyHealth International, inOaxaca

Mary Margaret Mooney, Historyand Literature Internship at Salud Integralpara la Mujer (SIPAM), inMexico City

Laura Pickard, Women,Gender and Sexuality Internship at AlternativasPacíficas

Eloise Quintanilla, FASInternship at the ChristianScience Monitor in MexicoCity

Almudena Suárez-Fernández,KSG Internship at the Secretaría deEducación Pública, in MexicoCity

Trayan Trayanov, Social StudiesInternship at the BulgarianEmbassy in Mexico City

Mariachi Veritas, Harvard College performing group


2003-2004Amilcar ChallúThe Poor, the Rich and theChaparro: Regional andSocial Inequalities of PhysicalWellbeing in Mexico, 1740-1840

2004-2005Ingrid BleynatThe social and institutionalhistory of the La Mercedmarket in Mexico City

Amilcar Challú Dissertaion research onMexican food supplies tounderstand the politicaleconomy of hunger, in Pueblaand Mexico City

Halbert Jones Follow-up archival work onMexico during World War II

Robert Karl The effects of 1960s US policyin Colombia and Mexico

Mellon Fellowships inLatin AmericanHistory awarded tospecialists inMexican history

2000-2001Daniel GutiérrezState’s Rights in 19th-CenturyMexico: Zacatecas, 1821-1848

Aaron NavarroPolitical Intelligence:Opposition, Parties, and theMilitary in Mexico 1938-1954

2001-2002Isaac Campos CosteroMarijuana, Modernity, andUS-Mexican CulturalReflectives

Amílcar ChallúThe Political Economy ofHunger in Mexico, 1750-1835

Daniel GutiérrezState’s Rights in 19th-CenturyMexico: Zacatecas, 1821-1848

Aaron NavarroThe Role of the Military inOpposition Politics in Mexicofrom 1938-1954

2002-2003 Isaac Campos-CosteroMarijuana, Modernity, andUS-Mexican CulturalReflectives

Amilcar ChallúThe Political Economy ofHunger in Mexico, 1750-1835

2003-2004Amilcar ChallúThe Political Economy ofHunger in Mexico, 1750-1835

Isaac Campos-CosteroMarijuana, Modernity, andUS-Mexican CulturalReflectives

Halbert Jones Political Impact of MexicanParticipation in World War II

Sergio Silva-CastañedaBetween Markets and Society:The Role of Institutions inEconomic Development inMexico and Spain

2004-2005Ingrid BleynatSocial and InstitucionalHistory of La Merced marketin Mexico City

Isaac Campos-CosteroMarijuana, Modernity, andUS-Mexican CulturalReflectives

Halbert Jones Political Impact of MexicanParticipation in World War II

Sergio Silva-Castañeda Between Markets and Society:The Role of Institutions inEconomic Development inMexico and Spain

2005-2006Ingrid BleynatSocial and InstitucionalHistory of La Merced marketin Mexico City

Halbert JonesPolitical Impact of MexicanParticipation in World War II

Miles RodríguezWorkers and Work in theMexican Railroad Industry1900-1950

Sergio Silva-CastañedaBetween Markets and Society:The Role of Institutions inEconomic Development inMexico and Spain

Doctorates Awardedto StudentsSpecializing onMexico

2001-2002Norma Jiménez, HumanDevelopment and PsychologyQuién va a sobresalir? (Whowill Come Out Ahead?):Exploring AcademicAchievement Among Low-Income Adolescents of MexicanDescent Across DifferentGenerations

Graciela Márquez Colín,HistoryThe Political Economy ofMexican Protectionism,1868-1911

Adolfo Olea-Franco, History ofScienceCentury of Higher AgriculturalEducation and Research inMexico (1850s–1960s), with aPreliminary Survey on theSame Subjects in the UnitedStates

Laura C. O’Rourke,AnthropologyLas Galeras de San Lorenzo: AComparative Study of TwoEarly Formative Communitiesin Southern Veracruz, Mexico

2002-2003Susan Norris, AnthropologyPolitical Economy of the AztecEmpire: A Regional Analysis ofObsidian Craft Production inthe Provinces of Huaxtepecand Cuauhnahuac, Morelos,Mexico

Alejandro Poiré Romero,Political ScienceBounded Ambitions: PartyNominations, Discipline adDefection: Mexico’s PRI inComparative Perspective

2003-2004Brian DeLay, HistoryThe War of a ThousandDeserts: Indian Politics in theEra of the U.S.-Mexican War

Paulina I. Serrano, PublicHealthAssessment of HumanExposure and Cancer Risk ofVolatile Organic Compoundsin Mexico City

2004-2005Magda Hinojosa, PoliticalScienceSex and the Cities: CandidateSelection and Women’sRepresentation in MunicipalPolitics in Chile and Mexico

Sarah Jackson, AnthropologyDeciphering Classic MayaPolitical Hierarchy:Epigraphic, Archaeological andEthnohistoric Perspectives onthe Courtly Elite

Tomás Jiménez, SociologyReplenished Identity: MexicanAmericans, MexicanImmigrants and EthnicIdentity

Aaron Navarro, HistoryPolitical Intelligence:Opposition, Parties and theMilitary in Mexico, 1938-1954

Carlos Ponzio de León,EconomicsEssays on the History ofEconomic Growth in Mexico

Mellon Conferenceand Research TravelGrants in History

2000-2001Brian DeLayTaking the Desert: IndianPower and the Contest forNorthern Mexico, 1835 -1854

Daniel GutiérrezSocial Class, Stratification,Conflict, and Popular Politicsin Post-Independence Mexico

Halbert JonesMexico’s Involvement in theSecond World War

2001-2002Isaac Campos-CosteroThe Local and InternationalOrigins of Drug Prohibitionin Mexico

Daniel GutiérrezPolitical conflicts in 19th-century Mexico, especially therelationship betweenZacatecas and the nationalgovernment

2002-2003Ingrid BleynatMicroeconomic Analysis of aTextile Mill in Veracruz,Mexico

Isaac Campos-CosteroThe History of Marijuana inMexico

Amilcar Challú Famine and Malnutrition inMexico, 1750–1850

Daniel Gutiérrez Regional Conflicts in 19th-Century Mexico: Zacatecas,1821–1848

ABOVE: Doctoral students HalbertJones III and Amilcar Challú inZacatecas, MexicoRIGHT: “Día de los Muertos: TheDay of the Dead” exhibit at thePeabody Museum, HarvardUniversity, featuring an altar builtwith objects from the Alice MelvinMexican Folk Art Collection andcontributions from over 30regional artists


MEXICO EVENTSAT HARVARD

The Center has sponsored more that 55 events related to Mexico since2001. Themes have ranged from economic and institutional change tofilm and literature, and from Mexico-U.S. relations to history. The2001 series of public talks, Conversations, focused on Mexico andfeatured presentations such as Mexico’s New Film Scene: Culture,Icons and Trends, and Misunderstanding Mexico: Tensions,Controversies and Realpolitik.

Certificates in LatinAmerican Studies Harvard’s Committee onLatin American and IberianStudies awards each year theDRCLAS-administered cer-tificate in Latin AmericanStudies to students graduat-ing from Harvard Collegewho have fulfilled courserequirements, demonstratedproficiency in Spanish orPortuguese and presented anhonors thesis on a topicrelated to Latin America.Since 1994, 34 honors theseshave been written on Mexico:

2000-2001Francisca Marie Geyer,EconomicsThe NAFTA Effect: Assessingthe Determinations of theWage Inequality in Mexico,1990 -1998

Jennifer Lin Liu, Social StudiesFilm Industry Politics inMexico

José Alejandro Longoria,EconomicsMexico’s Agrarian Reform:Effectiveness of the 1992Privatization on Ejido SectorProductivity

2001-2002Benton B. Bodamer, ArcheologyToad Trip: ShamanicTransformation, RainDivination, and the Role ofToads in Precolumbian andModern Mesoamerican Ritual

Elena C. Chávez, Social StudiesGlobal and Local: AnEthnographic Study of theRelationship betweenTradition and Globalization inthe Mexican ChocolateArtesanal Chain

Olivia L. Cowley, LiteratureMoney Habla, Dinero Talks:Reading Currency in the Artand Literature of theMexico/U.S. Border Region

Mary K. Gates, SocialAnthropologyThe Tourist Gaze: GenderedExperiences of Tourism inCozumel, Mexico

Magda C. Guillén, GovernmentPRONASOL and the PRI: TheLimits of Corporatism in theMexican Welfare State

2002-2003Adam Joseph Cohon,GovernmentPatrocinar al puebloorganizado: Clientelist Politicsand Communal Organizationsin Peru and Mexico

Carlos Arturo Garza, Jr.,GovernmentPolitical Integration in SisterCities: A Thesis Addressing theWorking Relationships ofGovernment Officials in theCities along the U.S.-MexicoBorder

Emily Ludmir, History andLiteratureNetzahalcóyotl Rosenberg andLa Raza Cósmica: The Jew as“Other” in the Formation ofMexican National Identity

Alejandro Cuauhtemoc Mares,Social StudiesWorkers After the Revolution:Evolving Structures of Controlover Labor in Mexico

2003-2004Anthony Arnold, Social StudiesInequality and the Quality ofDemocracy in Mexico

Rachel Bloomekatz, SocialStudiesDe México to Morristown: Astudy of local healthorganizations mediatingimmigrant incorporation inMorristown, Tennessee

Rebecca Cantú, GovernmentMeet the New Boss, Same asthe Old Boss: LegislativeRepresentation in Post-Transition Mexico

Mexican Students at HarvardThe University has benefited from a growing number ofMexican graduate and undergraduate students. In the 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 academic years, students from Mexicototaled 71 and 74 respectively. There are currently 78 Mexicanstudents at Harvard for the 2005-2006 academic year.Disciplines and schools represented among the Mexicanstudent community include the College, Business, Design,Education, Extension, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,Government, Law and Medicine.

The Harvard University MexicanAssociationThe Harvard University Mexican Association’s (HUMA) mainobjective is to strengthen the relationships among the studentsand professionals at Harvard concerned with Mexican affairsand to promote a better understanding of Mexico among theHarvard community. HUMA creates networks among individu-als at Harvard interested in Mexico and facilitates contactsbetween the Harvard community and the Mexican organiza-tions at other colleges and universities. Every year, HUMAorganizes social and academic events to advance its mission.

Sarah Mercer, Social StudiesThe Unique Politics of AndrésManuel López Obrador: Whythe Mayor of Mexico City is SoPopular and How He isHelping to ConsolidateDemocracy in Mexico

Benjamin Wells, History andLiteraturePancho Villa and the AmericanLeft: a House Divided

2004-2005Shalini Ananthanarayanan,Social StudiesEffective Abortion Rights forVictims of Rape in MexicoCity: A Case Study of PolicyImplementation

Martha Isabel Casillas, SocialStudiesLa Virgen Xicana: How aTraditional Image Reflects andAffects the Re-Newed MestizaConsiousness

Melissa Dell, EconomicsWidening the Border: TheImpact of Nafta on FemaleLabor Force Participation inMexico

Diana Fridberg,Anthropology/ArcheaologyThe Role of Peccaries inAncient Maya Economy,Ideology and Iconography

Claudia García, RLLNew Latin American CulturalAgents of Modernity: The Caseof Mexico’s Musical StarmakerReality Television Show, LaAcademia

Rocío Garza, RomanceLanguages and LiteraturesIntricate Routes and Networks:Women artists transcendingboundaries in ContemporaryMexico

Henry Michael Rosenberg,Social StudiesDreams, Denim, and Destiny.Competitive Responses in theBlue Jeans Maquiladoras ofMexico's La Laguna Region

Street food market in the Plaza Menor,Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico


Faculty Seminar with Dr. ErnestoZedillo Ponce de León, formerPresident of Mexico

Talk by Gerónimo Gutierrez,Undersecretary of ForeignAffairs, Ministry of ForeignAffairs

Rule of Law and EconomicDevelopment in MexicoOlga Sánchez Cordero,Mexico’s Supreme CourtJustice; Adolfo O. AragónMendía, Councilor of theFederal Judiciary Council;Fernando Serrano Migallón,Dean of the UniversidadNacional Autónoma deMéxico (UNAM) Law School

The Little Republic of Opichénand the Red Battalion ofKanasin: Folk Socialism inRevolutionary Yucatán,1917-1933Ben Fallow, AssistantProfessor of History, ColbyCollege

Mexico City InterventionsFelipe Leal, Dean of theSchool of Architecture,National University of Mexico

The Challenges of UrbanGovernance in Mexico CityDiane Davis, AssociateProfessor of Urban Studiesand Planning, MIT

Transportation Systems inMexico CityAlejandro Villegas, VisitingResearch Scientist, IntegratedProgram on Regional andGlobal Air Pollution; PabloAllard, Graduate StudentAssociate at DRCLAS

Civil Society in a ChangingMexicoAlberto Olvera, Director,Institute for Historical-SocialResearch, UniversidadVeracruzana

2002-2003Corruption in Mexico: ADifferent LandscapeMexican Art Lecture byAdriana Zavala, Departmentof Art and Art History, TuftsUniversity

Migration and CommunityFederico Besserer, UAM-Ixtapalapa and MichaelKearny, UC Riverside

Mexican TransitionsJuan Ramón de la Fuente,Rector, UNAM; CarlosFuentes, Brown University

Propaganda y Guerra Fría: laCampaña Anticomunista en laPrensa Mexicana del MedioSigloElisa Servin, Professor,Instituto Nacional deAntropología e Historia

Braceros’ Savings Accounts ofthe 1940s: Past Grievances,Present PossibilitiesBarbara Driscoll de Alvarado,Visiting Scholar, DavidRockefeller Center for LatinAmerican Studies

Misunderstanding Mexico:Tensions, Controversies andRealpolitikJeffrey Davidow, former U.S.Ambassador to Mexico

2003-2004Homenaje al Professor EduardoMatos MoctezumaMuseo Nacional deAntropología, Mexico; DavídCarrasco Department ofAnthropology and HarvardDivinity School

Visit of Secretaries of Educationof MexicoJosé Gabriel Posada Gallego,Secretario de Educación yBienestar Social del Estado deBaja California; ProfessorVíctor Manuel Castro Cosío,Secretario de EducaciónPública del Estado de BajaCalifornia Sur; MinisterMaría de los Ángeles ErrisúrizAlarcón, Secretaria deEducación Pública del Estadode Coahuila

Public Address by ErnestoDerbez, Foreign Minister ofMexico

Women’s Extra Domestic Workand Gender Relations in UrbanMexicoOrlandina de OliveiraBarbosa, Fundación Méxicoen Harvard/Antonio MaderoVisiting Scholar

Looking In, Looking Out:Mexico’s Peasantry before theRevolutionPeter Guardino, IndianaUniversity

Opening Mexico: The Making ofa DemocracyJulia Preston, The New YorkTimes

Mexico City: From Aztec Empireto Epicenter of Contemporary ArtMary Schneider Enriquez, ArtCurator

Mexican Natural Gas in a NorthAmerican Context Adrian Lajous, former CEOof PEMEX

2000-2001Mexico in Transition: What DoesIt Mean? Where Is It Going?Year-long series. Presentersincluded José Woldenberg,President of the MexicanFederal Election Institute;former U.S. Ambassador toMexico, Jeffrey Davidow; andformer Minister of ForeignRelations of Mexico, JorgeCastañeda

The Changing Agenda of U.S.-Mexico RelationsWilliam Richardson, FormerU.S. Ambassador to theUnited Nations and U.S.Secretary of Energy; RobertPastor, Professor of PoliticalScience, Emory University;Adrián Lajous, former CEOof PEMEX

Social Policy in MexicoPanelists included CarlosElizondo, Director, Centrode Investigación y DocenciaEconómica (CIDE); ClaraJudisman, former Secretaryfor Social Development ofMexico

Three Perspectives on theFuture of MexicoPresentations by MexicanRFK Visiting ProfessorsRodolfo Stavenhagen,Enrique Dussell, and CarlosMuñoz-Izquierdo

Revisiting the Conflict inChiapasSamuel Ruíz García, formerBishop of San Cristóbal de lasCasas, Chiapas, Mexico

Fox in the Hen House: TheMexican TraditionCarlos Tello Díaz, DRCLASVisiting Scholar

An Encounter with CarlosFuentesCarlos Fuentes, essayist,diplomat and literaryhistorian

El Proceso Electoral de México2000José Woldenberg, ConsejeroPresidente ante el ConsejoGeneral del Instituto FederalElectoral, Mexico

Allegories of Conflict: MexicanArt and the Second World WarJames Oles, Art Department,Wellesley College

The War Against Oblivion: ALearning ExperienceJohn Ross, author of The WarAgainst Oblivion – ZapatistaChronicles 1994-2000

Tuesday Seminar: CourtingDemocracy in Mexico: PartyStrategies, Electoral Institutionsand Political OpeningTodd Eisenstadt, AssistantProfessor of Political Science,University of NewHampshire; Visiting Scholar,David Rockefeller Center forLatin American Studies

Big Business, The State, andFree Trade in Mexico Strom Thacker, AssistantProfessor of InternationalRelations, Boston University

The Romance of Democracy:Compliant Defiance inContemporary MexicoMatthew Gutmann, Stanley J.Bernstein Assistant Professorof Social Science,International Affairs, BrownUniversity

Contested Spaces: Immigrationand Foreign PolicyJeffrey Davidow, former U.S.Ambassador to Mexico.

Old Actors in a New Play;Political Parties and DemocraticGovernance in MexicoJorge I. Domínguez, Director,Weatherhead Center forInternational Affairs; SteveLevitsky, John L. LoebAssociate Professor of theSocial Sciences; RosarioRobles, Former Mexico CityMayor; Jaime SánchezSusarrey, Professor atUniversidad de Guadalajara;Demetrio Sodi, Senator forMexico City

Candidate Selection in Mexico’sPRI. 1989-2000Alejandro Poiré. Professor ofPolitical Science, InstitutoTecnológico Autónomo deMéxico

2001-2002Tuesday Seminar: The PAN inMexico: The Challenges ofGoverningYemile Mizrahi, Visiting pro-fessor, Wilson Center,Georgetown University

Ghetto Librettos! Documentary film screeningand symposium on Mexicancomic books. Greg Grandsen,author of the Historietas doc-umentary; Ana Merino,Assistant Professor of Foreignlanguages, Appalachian StateUniversity; Ernesto Priego,Mexican writer, and DanRaeburn, editor of The IMP.

The Role of Dispute Settlementfor Managing Mexico-US Tradeand Investment RelationsGustavo Vega, VisitingProfessor, Watson Institutefor International Studies andCenter for Latin AmericanStudies, Brown University

Microfinance in Chiapas and theRole of the State Beatriz Armendáriz, Lecturerin Economics, HarvardUniversity

Talk by former Mexicanpresident, Carlos Salinas deGortari On the release of his book,Mexico, The Policy and Politicsof Modernization (2002)

A major event that took place during the spring of 2003 wasthe annual seminar organized by HUMA with the support ofDRCLAS. That year’s theme Corruption in Mexico: A DifferentLandscape? gathered Harvard faculty, prestigious scholars andMexican political and academic protagonists to discuss themany faces and challenges that corruption entails to Mexico’sgovernance agenda and economic development.

Every week, Mexican events at Harvard and the Center areattended by a score of students, faculty and the general public.Below follows a sample of topics covered through public semi-nars, conferences, film series and other events.

LEFT: Ernesto Zedillo, formerPresident of MexicoABOVE: John H. Coatsworth,DRCLAS Director, and FranciscoGil Díaz, Mexico’s Minister ofFinance and Public Credit, at theCenter’s Fall 2005 CorporatePartners Seminar

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MEXICAN ADVISORSAND ALUMNI The accomplishments recounted in this report would not have beenpossible without the generous support and advice from Mexicanalumni and friends. DRCLAS continues to benefit from the generosityof alumni and friends whose gifts provide ongoing support for theCenter’s activities and programs. Since their establishment, theFundación México en Harvard, as well as the following endowmentfunds have provided critical support to the Center’s programs andactivities related to Mexico.

Economic Restructuring,Political Liberalization, andShifting Patterns of PopularProtest in Mexico, 1964-2000Takeshi Wada, WeatherheadCenter for InternationalAffairs

Mexican Featherwork onDisplay: From Aztec Ceremoniesto the Twenty-first CenturyDiana Fane, Art CuratorEmeritus, Brooklyn Museum

Migrant Philanthropy and LocalGovernance in Mexico and ElSalvadorKatrina Burgess, AssistantProfessor of InternationalPolitical Economy, TheFletcher School, TuftsUniversity

Split Ticket Voting in MexicoGretchen Helmke, AcademyScholar, Harvard Academy forInternational and AreaStudies; Assistant Professor,Department of PoliticalScience, University ofRochester

Public Funding of Parties inMexico: What does it Achieve?Alejandro Poiré, Robert F.Kennedy Visiting Professor ofLatin American Studies,David Rockefeller Center forLatin American Studies

The Stamp Tax in Mexico,Continuity and Change, the Caseof Alcoholic Beverages,1880-1925Graciela Márquez, Profesora-Investigadora, Centro deEstudios Históricos, ElColegio de México

International Wars, Mexico,and US HegemonyFriedrich Katz, Morton D.Hull Distinguished ServiceProfessor Emeritus of LatinAmerican History; Co-Director, Mexican StudiesProgram, University ofChicago

The Mexican Economy: RecentDevelopments and PerspectivesFrancisco Gil-Díaz, FinanceMinister of Mexico.

Education in Mexico2000-2005Reyes Támez Guerra,Mexican Minister ofEducation

Welfare Policy and SocialChange in MexicoNoel Maurer, AssistantProfessor of Government andInternational Economy,Harvard University

Nightmares Avoided: ErnestoZedillo and Mexico’s PeacefulTransitionMark Williams, AssociateProfessor of Political Science,Middlebury College

The Mexican Presidency in theTwentieth Century: A HypothesisSoledad Loaeza, El Colegio deMéxico

TOP: David Rockefeller and JaimeSepúlveda, Director of Mexico’sNational Institute of HealthBOTTOM: John H. Coatsworth andJuan Carlos Moreno Brid

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Miguel Aleman EndowmentThe Miguel Aleman Endowment was established in 1999 byGovernor Miguel Aleman of Veracruz, to support key program-matic initiatives and publications. Funds from the Endowmenthave helped to underwrite the Center’s thematic magazine,ReVista, the inaugural issue of which DRCLAS devoted toMexico, and a variety of student and faculty publications.

Azcárraga Andrade EndowmentThe Azcárraga Andrade Endowment, established in 1999 with agift from Advisory Committee member Gastón Azcárraga, sup-ports Center programs, publications, and research with priorityfor efforts related to social development in Mexico. This year,the Endowment has been critical in the Center’s ability to offergrants to Harvard students for research and internships inMexico during the summer.

Ángeles Espinosa Yglesias FundThe Ángeles Espinosa Yglesias Fund created in 1999 by CenterAdvisory Committee member Ángeles Espinosa Yglesias,strengthens Latin American Art at Harvard University. TheFund has provided support for several faculty- and student-ledinitiatives in the arts, including an internship grant to HarvardCollege student Miranda Lash for her work at the LatinAmerican Contemporary Museum of Art West in Los Angeles.This Endowment has also supported a scholarly project tostudy the Cuauhtinchan Codex, a key to understanding thehistory and mythology of Mesoamerican traditions. TheCodex is a beautifully painted map that tells the story of theCuauhtinchantlaca migration from their point of origin to thefounding of Cuauhtinchan. Under the direction of Neil L.Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America DavídCarrasco, the project has brought together leading Mexican andNorth American scholars of Mexican pictographic manuscriptsand of the larger Mesoamerican cultural context to explicate,contextualize and analyze the Mapa Cuauhtinchan and developa new multi-disciplinary understanding of both the map’suniqueness and its relation to wider cartographic and culturaltradition.

Garza Medina EndowmentThe Garza Medina Endowment, established in 1997 by AdvisoryCommittee member Dionisio Garza Medina, supports a varietyof the Center’s programs and activities related to Mexico.Funding from the Garza Medina Endowment helped to under-write the spring 2002 Mexico Series, Entornos Urbanos (UrbanEnvirons): Public Health, Urban Design and the Environment inMexico City, a semester-long series of interdisciplinary discus-sions designed to address and analyze the complex problemsfaced by large metropolitan areas in Mexico. In addition, theGarza Medina Endowment provides support for many of thestudent research and internship travel grants for summer workin Mexico each year.

Fundación México en HarvardA committee of Harvard alumni in Mexico, led by AntonioMadero founded, in 1989, the Fundación México en Harvard,AC, a philanthropic organization of Harvard alumni in Mexico.Antonio Madero served as its first president, and is now presi-dent emeritus. The Board of the Fundación includes distin-guished Harvard alumni, among them current presidentAlfredo Elias Ayub and vice presidents Dionisio Garza Medina,a member of the DRCLAS Advisory Committee, Felipe OrtizMonasterio, and Rodrigo Sánchez Mejorada.

The Fundación’s main goals are to guarantee that allMexicans admitted to graduate and post-graduate degree pro-grams at Harvard receive the financial support they need toattend; to encourage an increasing number of Mexican studentsand scholars to apply for admission to Harvard by assuringthem the economic means to pursue this education; to financethe greatest possible number of candidates to HarvardUniversity; and to complement the financial support offered bythe Mexican Government to students pursuing graduate studiesin specific fields.

Between 1989 and 2006, the Fundación provided support to521 graduate and professional students, who will contribute toMexico’s brighter future for decades to come. The Fundaciónoffice in Mexico, led by executive director Barbara RandolphRodríguez, manages the loan and fellowship programs andadvises Mexican students on applying to Harvard.

In addition, the Fundación provides support for Harvardfaculty and student research on Mexico and collaborates withDRCLAS on the creation of summer internship opportunitiesfor Harvard students. To date, 37 Harvard graduate and under-graduate students have interned in Mexican institutions such asthe Secretaría de Desarrollo Social and a variety of communitydevelopment organizations and NGOs. The Fundación alsoenables the Center to attract leading Visiting Scholars fromMexico to spend up to two semesters at Harvard through theAntonio Madero Fundación México Fellowship for visitingscholars from Mexico. Since its creation, 20 visiting scholarsfrom Mexico, hosted by the David Rockefeller Center, havespent a semester or more at Harvard.

The Antonio Madero EndowmentThe Center’s efforts would not have succeeded had it not beenfor the generosity of Harvard alumni in Mexico, led by AntonioMadero. Madero was the first member of the newly createdDRCLAS Advisory Committee to respond to the efforts ofDavid Rockefeller and Neil Rudenstine to make Harvard amajor center for research and teaching on Latin America.Madero served as president of the Fundación México enHarvard from its inception to 2002. He has been a major con-tributor to the success of the Harvard Alumni Club in Mexicoand served as the principal host of the Harvard AlumniAssociation’s (HAA) Global Series, Harvard Comes to Mexico,that brought together 430 alumni and guests from Mexico, theUnited States, and other Latin American countries to MexicoCity in March 2005.

The Antonio Madero Professorship of Latin AmericanPolitics and Economics was created in 1996. The MaderoEndowment gift that will support the professorship once it isfilled has in the meantime supported an extraordinary range ofMexico-related activities at Harvard, from assistant professorsin Economics to student and faculty research. The DRCLASMexican Studies Initiative, described on page 3, would havebeen impossible without support of the Madero Endowment.The Madero Endowment has also provided crucial support forCenter publications, including books on Mexican immigrationto the United States and several volumes on Latin Americaneconomic affairs in which Mexico figures prominently.

At the banquet hosted by Antonio Madero during the HAAGlobal Series meeting in Mexico City, DRCLAS directorannounced that the current Dillon Professor of Government,Jorge I. Domínguez, would become the first Antonio MaderoProfessor on the expiration of his term as director of Harvard’sWeatherhead Center for International Development in 2006.

THIS PAGE: Claudia Madrazo, PatriciaPhelps de Cisneros and AntonioMadero at the Spring 2004 AdvisoryCommittee weekend in CambridgeRIGHT, CLOCKWISE: David Rockefellergreets Manuel and Marie ThereseArango at the Advisory Comitteemeeting in New York City, in theFall of 2005; Advisory Committeemember Dionisio Garza Medina;Advisory Committee memberAlejandro Bailleres; AdvisoryCommittee member ÁngelesEspinosa Yglesias

Corporate PartnersThe Center’s Corporate Partners Program offers companiesinterested in Latin America a chance to harness Harvard’sunparalleled resources on the region. Corporate Partners areinvited to participate in executive-level seminars on business inLatin America, directed by eminent scholars and cutting-edgeindustry leaders. These events address compelling economic,political and social trends in Latin America, and offer membersa chance to interact in an informal setting with a group ofleading experts from academia and industry.

Corporate Partners help create the opportunities for educa-tion and innovative scholarship that lie at the heart of theCenter’s mission. Funding from the Program supports Harvardfaculty members’ research on topics important to the future ofbusiness in the region, including free trade and corporate socialresponsibility. The Program also enables the Center to awardgrants to Harvard students and support students pursuing vol-unteer internships in Latin American education, health andsocial service organizations.

Since its creation in 1997, the Center has welcomed fourMexican companies to its prestigious roster:Alfa CorporativoCinemexGrupo AltexVitro, S.A. de C.V.

Harvard, DRCLAS and MexicoThe spring 2005 meeting of the Center’s Advisory Committee,held in Mexico City, on the occasion of the Harvard AlumniAssociation (HAA) Global Series, Harvard Comes to Mexico,provided an opportunity to reflect on the many ties that havedeveloped between Harvard University and Mexico. The Centertakes pride in its role as the catalyst for institutional and indi-vidual relationships that benefit both Mexico and Harvard.

As Harvard transforms itself “from a U.S university with aninternational reputation into a truly global university,” asHarvard President Larry Summers has urged, the presence ofMexico in Harvard, and Harvard’s presence in Mexico willexpand and deepen. The logical complement to the develop-ment of Mexican Studies in Cambridge would be the develop-ment of a permanent presence in Mexico, perhaps along thelines of DRCLAS’s pioneering and highly successful RegionalOffice in Santiago, Chile the and new office in São Paulo, Brazil.

The support and commitment of DRCLAS AdvisoryCommittee members and the Center’s many friends andCorporate Partners, together with the Fundación México enHarvard and other friends, will be vital to maintaining thedynamism that has characterized the Center’s past five years.

TOP TO BOTTOM: Lawrence Summers withEugenio Madero; Advisory Committeemember Gastón Azcárraga, with wifeMercedes; David Rockefeller withCorporate Partner Alvaro RodríguezArregui; Advisory Committee membersLorenzo Weisman, with wife Danielle,and Francisco Soler at a Harvard AlumniAssociation event in Mexico City

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