The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) laments the passing of Professor Otto T. Solbrig.  As interim DRCLAS Faculty Director in 2000, he brought the subject of ecology to the table long before it was popular, managing to bring 40 agronomists, economists and ecologists from Argentina, Chile, the United States and Europe for three days during a snowstorm to discuss Globalization and the Rural Environment.  Solbrig was Bussey Professor of Biology [Emeritus] at the Organismic and...

Three historians, two political scientists, an engineer, an anthropologist, an economist and a gender studies scholar make up the 2023-24 group of Visiting Scholars at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). The interdisciplinary cohort of nine scholars hail from universities in Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Peru and the United States.

The DRCLAS Visiting Scholars and Fellows Program seeks to strengthen ties between Harvard and other global institutions by hosting distinguished academics and...