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Student Awards & Accomplishments doctorates awarded to students specializing in latin american or latino studies doctors of education Sergio Cárdenas-Denham, Administration, Planning and Social Policy Is the Class Schedule the Only Difference Between Morning and Afternoon Shift Schools in Mexico? Ana Patricia Elvir, Administration, Planning and Social Policy Classroom Pedagogy in Spanish Language Arts: What and How Students are Taught in the Nicaraguan Public School Context or the Paradoxes of Realistic Pedagogical Models. Jeannette Mancilla-Martínez, Language and Literacy Laying Out the Landscape: Spanish- Speaking Language Minority Learners’ Socio-demographics, Language and Reading Development. doctors of philosophy Bruno Martins Carvalho, Romance Languages and Literatures New City in a New World: Literary Spaces of an Afro-Jewish Brazilian Neighborhood. 16 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Sergio Silva Catañeda, History Forking Paths: Authoritarianism, Population Growth and Economic Performance in Mexico and Spain, 1934–2000. Christian Claesson, Romance Languages and Literatures The Role of the Author in Juan Carlos Onetti and Juan José Saer. Daniel Jacob Epstein, Political Science Tipping the Scales for Parties: Executive- Legislative Balance and Party System Institutionalization at the Sub-National Level in Russia and Brazil. Richard Mora, Sociology and Social Policy Masculine Aspirations: Latino Adolescent Boys & Collective Hegemonic Masculinity. María Ospina, Romance Languages and Literatures Envocar y Convocar: Violencia y Representación en la Narrativa Colombiana de Fines de Siglo XX (1994–2008). Julia Jane Stock Sarreal, History Globalization and the Guaraní: From Missions to Modernization in the Eighteenth Century. Lindsay Adams Smith, Anthropology Subversive Genes: Re(con)stituting Identity, Family and Human Rights in Argentina. Harvard College students prepare to depart for a semester abroad in La Havana, Cuba Joaquín Sebastián Terrones, Romance Languages and Literatures American Baroques: the Ethics of Excess in Borges, Stevens, Lezama Lima, Gorostiza and Drummond de Andrade (1935–1940). DRCLAS graduate student associates Harvard’s graduate students are an integral part of the Center’s scholarly community. The DRCLAS Graduate Student Associate Program formalizes this connection and facilitates doctoral students’ research on Latin America by providing affiliation and research support to approximately 7–10 graduate students each year, with several working in shared office space at the Center. Graduate Student Associates are selected through a competitive process that includes all professional schools and academic departments. The 2008–09 Graduate Student Associates were: Linda Abarbanell, HGSE Leticia J. Braga, HGSE Martín L. Gaspar, GSAS, Romance Languages and Literature Erin McCloskey, HGSE Manolo Núñez-Negrón, GSAS, Romance Languages and Literature Ana Pulido Rull, GSAS, History of Art and Architecture Amie Shei, GSAS, Health Policy Parker Van Valkenburgh, GSAS, Anthropology certificate in latin american studies The DRCLAS-administered Certificate in Latin American Studies is awarded each year by Harvard’s Committee on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) to students graduating from Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who have fulfilled specific course requirements, demonstrated proficiency in Portuguese and Spanish and presented an honors thesis or dissertation on a topic related to Latin America. This year, 17 graduating College seniors and two graduating GSAS doctoral students received certificates.
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