Faculty Working on Latinx Issues at Harvard

Throughout Harvard’s multiple departments, faculty of various backgrounds specialize on issues related to Latin American and Latinx studies. They serve as points of contact in their fields.

STEM

Dr. Margarita Alegría

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief of Disparities Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Marcia Castro

Chair Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Mercedes Becerra

Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Gabriela Soto Laveaga

Professor of the History of Science
Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico

Dr. Michael Starnbach

Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Martha Cesena, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Part-time, Boston Children’s Hospital

Dr. Brian D. Farrell

Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America
Professor of Biology, Curator of Entomology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology

Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights

Dr. Elanor Craig

Administrative and Program Director
Lecturer

Dr. Américo Mendoza-Mori

Faculty Director, Latinx Studies Working Group
Lecturer in Latinx Studies
Harvard University

Dr. Mayra Rivera

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies, Harvard University

Dr. Caroline Light

Director of Undergraduate Studies; Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Romance Languages and Literature

Dr. María Luisa Parra-Velasco

Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures Harvard University

Dr. Raquel Vega-Durán

Faculty Chair of Ethnicity, Migration, Rights
Senior Lecturer in Peninsular and Transatlantic Film and Literature, Harvard University

Dr. Daniel Aguirre Oteiza

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Dr. Adriana Gutiérrez

Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) Harvard University

Dr. Jorge Sanchez Cruz

Visiting Assistant Professor (Spanish), Harvard University

Dr. Luis Girón Negrón

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Government

Dr. Steven Levitsky

Professor of Government, Director of David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Harvard University

Dr. Frances Hagopian

Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecture on Government Faculty Co-Chair of Harvard’s Brazil Studies Program
Harvard University

Dr. Alisha Holland

Associate Professor of Government Harvard University

History

Dr. Kirsten Weld

Professor of History, Harvard University

Dr. Alejandro de la Fuente

Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Harvard University

History and Literature

Dr. Jennifer Alpert

Lecturer on History & Literature
Harvard University

Dr. Thomas Conners

Lecturer on History & Literature
Harvard University

Anthropology

Dr. Davíd Carrasco

Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America
Joint appointment with Harvard Divinity School

Dr. Thomas B.F. Cummins

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art
Pre-Columbian and Latin American Art, Harvard University

Dr. William L. Fash

Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology

Architecture and Arts

Dr. Patricio del Real

Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Modern Architecture

Dr. Diane E Davis

Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Graduate School of Design

Dr. Gareth Doherty

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Graduate School of Design

Sociology

Dr. Jocelyn Viterna

Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Central American and the Caribbean committee in DRCLAS Harvard University

Dr. Mary C. Waters

John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology
PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences
Harvard University

Dr. Isabel Jijon

Harvard College Fellow, Harvard University

Graduate School of Education

Economics

Theater, Dance, and Media

Laura Rodríguez, MFA

Lecturer in Dance, Theater, Dance & Media
Harvard University

Tania Bruguera

Senior Lecturer in Media & Performance, Theater, Dance & Media
Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies