Scholars Get Funds from Rockefeller Center

Eleven scholars have received 1996 Faculty Research Grants from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. The grants support research by Harvard faculty in all fields related to Latin America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Latin American "diaspora" in the United States.

The grantees are:

Deborah Anker, Law School, Research Title: Human Rights, Women Refugees, and the United Nations' Refugee Convention; Alberto Ascherio, School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition, Research Title: The Development of the Master's in Public Health Program at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil; Bruno Bosteels, Department of Romance Languages and Literature, Research Title: Cartographies of Modernity in Latin America: Argentina's Case from the Avant-Garde to the Postmodern; Felton Earls, School of Public Health, Research Title: Study of the Implementation and Evaluation of Child Rights in Brazil; Brad Epps, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Research Title: Disenchantment in Contemporary Spanish Narrative; Michael Jones-Correa, Department of Government, Research Title: Political Incorporation of Latin American Immigrants in Four Major U.S. Urban Areas; Peggy Levitt, Department of Sociology, Research Title: Transnationalism Unbundled: Explorations among Peruvians and Brazilians in Boston; Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, JFK School of Government, Research Title: What Does Privatization Accomplish? Post-Performance and Restructuring of Privatized Enterprises in Mexico; Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, School of Public Health, Department of Population and International Health, Research Title: An Exploratory Study of Menopause in Mexico; John Spengler, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Research Title: Exposure Assessment of Volatile Organic Compounds in Mexico City; and John Womack Jr., Department of History, Research Title: The Oil Refinery at Minatitlan, Veracruz 1908-48.