DRCLAS awards record number of internships, research grants

“Opening doors for undergraduate and graduate students to visit the region, through Harvard-supported research and internship opportunities, is one of the top priorities of our center,” points out Center Director John H. Coatsworth, the Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs.

DRCLAS awarded research travel grants to 30 undergraduates for honors thesis research and to 30 graduate students for preliminary dissertation research in Latin America.

This year, the center expanded its internship program to include Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru, while coordinating new programs with sponsors in Mexico and Venezuela. In each country, students work for organizations that are in line with their service or career interests. The center arranges host family-stays and once-a-week seminars or lectures. A total of 52 Harvard undergraduate and graduate students will take part in the internship program coordinated by the DRCLAS Chile Regional Office, with 30 going to Chile, nine to Argentina, four to Bolivia, five to Peru, and four to Venezuela. Overall, DRCLAS has provided grants to 78 undergraduate and 13 graduate and professional school students for internships in Latin America.

Undergraduates traveling to Brazil benefited from a gift from Jorge Paulo Lemann ’61 that supports research, internships, and study in Brazil. One undergraduate will carry out honors thesis research while two will have summer internships and five will enroll in the Harvard Summer School course in Portuguese and Brazilian culture in Rio de Janeiro.

DRCLAS will award Mellon Summer Field Research Travel Grants to three students in the History Department specializing in the study of the region.

Finally, the center also will award six summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships to students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), the Graduate School of Education (GSE), and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) for intensive summer language training in Latin America or at other U.S. universities.

Undergraduate student research grant recipients

Candice Balmori, government, Washington, D.C., Miami, and Spain

Patrick Baur, environmental science and public policy, Chile

Jessica Bloom, Near Eastern languages and civilizations, Chile

Jennifer Diana Chang, social studies, Venezuela

Rebecca Chase, history and literature, Mexico

Nathan Dern, anthropology, Argentina

Mathieu Desruisseaux, government, Chile

Devery Doran, anthropology and Romance languages and literatures, Brazil

Joseph Florez, history, Chile

Lauren Foote, Romance languages and literatures, Chile

Kathryn Funderburk, anthropology, Honduras

Olivia Gage, Romance languages and literatures, Guatemala

Nathalie Galindo, social studies, Colombia

Joshua Gottlieb, economics, Argentina

Mark Hoadley, history, Mexico

Victoria Ilyinsky, Romance languages and literatures, Chile

Sarah Kinsella, anthropology, Mexico

Rose Leonard, government, Peru

Elizabeth Linos, government, Honduras

Casey Lurtz, history and literature, Mexico

Daniel Mejia, government, Ecuador

Danielle Mirabal, anthropology, Honduras

Sarah Rea, anthropology, Chile

Andrea Spillmann, history of science, Chile

David Toniatti, economics, Argentina

Nicole Urken, social studies, Chile

Gabriel Velez, history and literature, Argentina

Kaya Williams, anthropology, Peru

Fang Yuan, social studies, Argentina

Arie Zakaryan, literature, Argentina

Graduate student research grant recipients

Linda Abarbanell, GSE, Mexico

Andrea Allen, GSAS, anthropology, Brazil

Chad Alvarez, GSAS, history of art and architecture, Mexico

Sasha Appleton, HSPH, Peru

Andrea Bachner, GSAS, comparative literature, Chile

Peter Benson, GSAS, anthropology, North Carolina (Latino immigrants)

Natalie Brumblay, GSAS, anthropology, Peru

Monique-Adelle Callahan, GSAS, comparative literature, Brazil and Cuba

Corinna Campbell, GSAS, music, Suriname

Molly Franke, HSPH, Peru

Lyndon Gill, GSAS, African and African-American studies, Trinidad and Tobago

Sharif Kahatt, Graduate School of Design (GSD), Peru

David Landau, GSAS, government, Mexico

Megween Loveless, GSAS, social anthropology, Brazil

Sarah MacCarthy, HSPH, Brazil

Clara Masnatta, GSAS, comparative literature, Brazil

Katherine McAllen, GSAS/HAA, Mexico

Diego Miranda, GSAS, government, Brazil

Meghan Morris, Harvard Law School (HLS), Cuba and India

Sabina Neugebauer, GSE, Peru

Maria Ospina, GSAS, Romance languages and literature, Colombia

Linda Peia, Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Brazil

Ithan Peltan, Harvard Medical School (HMS), Guatemala

Monica Ricketts, GSAS, history, Spain

Julia Sarreal, GSAS, history, Argentina and Brazil

Adam Sawyer, GSE, Mexico

Graziella Silva, GSAS, sociology, Brazil

Kedron Thomas, GSAS, anthropology, Guatemala

Juan Vargas Moreno, GSD, Costa Rica

Sebastian Velez, GSAS, organismic and evolutionary biology, Santo Domingo

Undergraduate student internship grant recipients

Raphael Barcham, social studies, Argentina *

Kristijonas Bartkus, economics, Argentina

Cavalcante de Lima Larissa, computer science, Argentina *

Victoria Clark, biochemistry, Argentina

Joshua Kobza, economics, Argentina *

Carolina Lescano, government and economics, Argentina *

Rachel Moore, biology, Argentina *

Aadhithi Padmanabhan, comparative study of religion, Argentina *

Evgenia Peeva, social studies, Argentina *

Jeremy Steinemann, Romance languages and literatures, Argentina *

Margaret Tiedemann, sociology, Argentina *

Stephen Amrock, Romance languages and literatures, Bolivia*

Denise Delaney, social anthropology, Bolivia *

Hannah Sarah Faich, special concentration, Bolivia *

David García, government, Bolivia *

Andrea Gonzalez, anthropology, Bolivia

Katherine Plotnick, literature, Bolivia

Paul Jeffrey Ramirez-Leopanto, anthropology, Bolivia

Denise Tai, English and American literature, Bolivia

Julia Mario, psychology, Brazil

Odeviz Soto, history, Brazil

Monali Agarwal, economics and sociology, Chile *

Ercan Aksu, economics, Chile *

Stephen Barchick, social studies, Chile *

Andrea Blankmeyer, economics, Chile *

Leah Boch, Latin American studies, Chile *

Emily Burnor, English, Chile *

Neel Butala, economics, Chile *

Michael Codini, government, Chile *

Darryl Cooper, biomedical engineering, Chile *

Sherelle Ferguson, social studies, Chile *

Filip Filipov, government, Chile *

Christian Franco, biology, Chile *

Stephanie Garlow, history, Chile *

Andrew Gordon, social studies, Chile *

Jamie Greenman, social anthropology, Chile *

Anika Grubbs, government, Chile *

Erika Helgen, Romance languages and literatures, Chile

Elizabeth Hochberg, Romance languages and literatures, Chile

Skyler Johnson, economics, Chile *

Marianne Kaletzky, English and American literatures and languages, Chile *

Anna Kendrick, history and literature, Chile *

Janaki Kibe, economics, Chile *

Jennifer Lim, biology, Chile *

Louisa Malkin, Spanish or government, Chile *

Winter Mead, economics, Chile *

Awara Mendy, government, Chile *

Brighton Mudzingwa, economics and government, Chile *

Jonathan Rosa, government, Chile *

Rachel Sheketoff, anthropology, Chile *

Vasudev Vadlamudi, economics, Chile *

Bing (Joy) Xi, social studies, Chile *

Nan Zhu, biology, Chile *

Lewis Bollard, social studies, Costa Rica +

Zachary Carpenter, government, Costa Rica +

Tracy Li, economics and anthropology, Costa Rica +

Angela Mayorga, Romance languages and literatures, Costa Rica

Aidan Tait, Latin American studies, Costa Rica +

Jessica Walter, Romance languages and literatures, Costa Rica

Peter Ganong, social studies, Ecuador +

Daniel Hemel, social studies, Ecuador +

Jennifer Jordan, English and American literatures and languages, Ecuador +

Justin Monticello, psychology and economics, Ecuador +

Nneka Eze, economics, Mexico

Mark Hoadley, history, Mexico –

Bieta Andemarian, English, Peru *

Juan Sebastián Arias, social studies, Peru *

Santiago Dañino, social studies or economics, Peru *

Jorge Escobedo, social anthropology, Peru

Rose Leonard, government, Peru *

Karol Malik, biological anthropology, Peru

Samuel Shapiro, history and literature, Peru *

Nina Vizcarrondo, Romance languages and literatures, Peru

Lauren Walker, economics, Peru

Paayal Gupta, economics, Venezuela *

Daniel Littlejohn, social studies, Venezuela *

Alexis Pacheco, economics, Venezuela *

Keny Zurita, social studies, Venezuela *

+ students participating in WorldTeach

– internship coordinated by DRCLAS and Fundacion Mexico

Graduate student internship grant recipients

Gaelle Brachet, KSG, Mexico *

Oana Cheta, KSG, Colombia

Dashiell Flynn, KSG, El Salvador

Juan Pablo Giraldo-Gomez, organismic and evolutionary biology, Brazil

Sarah Lewis, HSPH, Mexico

Brian Milder, Harvard Business School, Guatemala

Nelly Nieblas, KSG, Mexico *

Mark Richards, KSG, Colombia

Rainer Schultz, history, Brazil

Shannon Shaper, GSE, Bolivia

Kristen Shealy, GSE, Bolivia

Holger Siebrecht, KSG, Peru

Christa Thiel, GSE, Bolivia

* internship coordinated by DRCLAS and Fundacion Mexico

DRCLAS Lemann Fellowships for Study and Internships in Brazil (undergraduate and graduate)

Devery Doran, College, anthropology and Romance languages and literatures, Brazil

Andrea Allen, GSAS, anthropology, Brazil

Monique-Adelle Callahan, GSAS, comparative literature, Brazil and Cuba

Megween Loveless, GSAS, social anthropology, Brazil

Sarah MacCarthy, HSPH, Brazil

Clara Masnatta, GSAS, comparative literature, Brazil

Diego Miranda, GSAS government, Brazil

Linda Peia, KSG, Brazil

Julia Sarreal, GSAS, history, Argentina and Brazil

Graziella Silva, GSAS, sociology, Brazil

Summer internship travel grant recipients

Julia Mario, College, psychology, Brazil

Odeviz Soto, College, history, Brazil

Juan Pablo Giraldo-Gomez, GSAS, organismic and evolutionary biology, Brazil

Rainer Schultz, GSAS, history, Brazil

Summer study abroad program in Rio participants

Jennifer Arias, government, Brazil

Erin Gums, social anthropology, Brazil

Miles Johnson, social studies, Brazil

Amanda Martin, history and science, Brazil

Gregory Scruggs, literature, Brazil

DRCLAS Mellon Summer Field Research Travel Grant recipients

Ingrid Bleynat, history, Mexico

Miles Rodriguez, history, Mexico

Julia Sarreal, history, Paraguay

The names of six DRCLAS Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship recipients were unavailable at the time of publication.