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
Decolonizing Global Citizenship: Peripheral Perspectives
I write these words as someone who teaches, researches and resists in the global periphery.
From European Union to the Dominican Republic: A Case for Humanizing Environmental Policy in Latin America
I read these words as I gaze from a car window, looking out at colorful, animated drawings of smiling elephants, toucans, and parrots, outside of a school building in San Francisco de Macorís, the Dominican Republic’s primary cocoa-producing region.
A Call to Action for the U.S.-Mexico Binational Community
When I think about Mexico, my family’s home country, I think about Jalpa, Zacatecas, where my family migrated from so many years ago.
A Brazilian Summer: Contrasts and Blends
As I boarded a flight from São Paulo to Brasília at 6 a.m. on a Tuesday, full speed toward the Brazilian Congress, I reflected on my past few weeks spent in Brazil.
Cayo: Meaning and the Monkey Island
The image begins in my mind with the Old Man, sitting, legs crossed, eyes shut and his head bowed to his chest. The way he sat most mornings (and how he could be found most other times of the day).
De aquí y de allá: A View of Los Angeles in San Antonio
You never know what to expect from a Frank Romero exhibit.
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”.
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Panama
Peru
Venezuela
