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
Dominican Spanish and Standard Spanish: How Dominicans Think about the Differences
English + Español
What’s the relationship between Dominican Spanish and Standard Spanish? This summer, I traveled to the Dominican Republic with a DRCLAS grant to conduct research for my thesis: a sociolinguistic study of Dominican Spanish and Standard Spanish through the perceptions Dominicans have about their language use.
A breeze of politics
I was an international observer to the Organization of American States (OAS) Electoral Observation Mission in the Honduran general elections in 2021 as a student at the School of International Affairs at Columbia University. What I witnessed taught me to appreciate how the nuts and bolts of democratic development might be noisy and messy, but successful nonetheless.
The Territory of Memory from a Land of Sugar: Cas-cal, Cas-cal
English + Español
At my grandmother’s house in the rural town of El Santo, Villa Clara, I was in limbo. It was nearing noon, and I was anxiously awaiting a call from the head of Cuban security to obtain clearance.
Culture and Test Development: On the Other Side of the Exam Booklet
English + Português
Like several students now happily marching through college campuses across the United States, I’ve found myself at many a testing center anxiously chewing at my Number 2 pencil and pulling my hair out before a test booklet.
English, a Troublous Affair
English + Português
When I moved to the United States, I might have overestimated my capacity to communicate in English—and my patience for doing so.
Born in Argentina: To Live and Be Argentine
English + Español
It is hard for me to start and simply talk about Argentina, being Argentine and having always lived here.
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”.