Student Views

Student Views help showcase the cultural and academic experiences of students who have spent time in Latin America or have engaged with Latin American communities in the U.S. Entries can take a variety of forms, from narrative stories of personal adventure to academic descriptions of research findings, and everything in between!

If you are interested in submitting an entry, email jerlick@fas.harvard.edu! Click below for more information.

Student Views Submissions

Welcome to Student Views! We invite Harvard and other students—undergraduate, graduate and recent alumni—to submit 1,500-word articles, published weekly.

We are looking for four types of articles:

—Write about your experience in a Latin American country or a Latinx neighborhood. DRCLAS internships preferred, but not necessary.  

—Tell us about your academic research, your work on your thesis or a special project in language that people who are not in your field will understand. Anecdotes are encouraged. How did you get interested in the topic? What do you want to learn going forward?

 —Write about personal issues of identity that reflect the diversity of the Latin American or Latinx experience.

 —Reviews of plays, movies, art, music about Latin America or Latinx themes.

 If you are interested in submitting an entry, email jerlick@fas.harvard.edu!

Recent Articles

What Your Naked Bodies Told Me

What Your Naked Bodies Told Me

Twelve actors were seated on a game board, staring intently at us. I entered and took a seat in a chair in the corner. Spectators were scattered across the board, clustered in small groups of five or six around each actor. In front of me on the floor sat actor Daniel Tonsig, who looked deep into our eyes for long, silent seconds.

Bridging Worlds: Learning, Culture and Connection in Chile

Bridging Worlds: Learning, Culture and Connection in Chile

My first morning in Santiago, Chile, the city greeted me with a kaleidoscope of life. The Andes rose sharply in the distance, their peaks dusted with snow in the early Chilean winter. Street vendors sold fresh empanadas and pastel de choclo, their aromas blending with the crisp mountain air. That morning, I also met my host family, who would become my home away from home for the summer (Boston’s summer is Chile’s winter).

Contacto y probando

Contacto y probando

The young girls led me through tall wet grass along a muddy footpath to a clearing behind their house. I had recently asked to film them as part of a year-long Sensory Ethnography production course at Harvard, and I had not expected such swift acceptance into their group. The

The Past as the Future

The Past as the Future

“The past is in front of us and the future is behind us.”

This phrase, repeated by DRCLAS Mexico Student Coordinator Lorena Rodas many times across the two months I spent in Mexico, transcends time

Eena Mi Saal

Eena Mi Saal

What does it mean to be eena dem saal?
I asked my mother who referred me to my grandmother who referred me to my great grandmother.
“Eena dem saal?… Mi neva hear dat one before,” my great grandmother told me.

Student Views Archive

In this repository you can find all of the student views categorized by country. You can find student views which do not focus on a country in the “General Considerations”.

aerial view of the Amazon river

Argentina

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Bolivia

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Brazil

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Chile

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Colombia

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Cuba

aerial view of the Amazon river

Dominican Republic

aerial view of the Amazon river

Guatemala

aerial view of the Amazon river

Honduras

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Mexico

aerial view of the Amazon river

Panama

aerial view of the Amazon river

Peru

aerial view of the Amazon river

Venezuela

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General Considerations

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