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...apply for multiple grants. Applicants had to submit proposals as early as February in hopes of securing funding. Some centers fund not only senior thesis research but summer internships as well, which are available to all students, not just juniors. The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), in addition to awarding grants for students who organize independent internships, also runs its own internship program, placing students with organizations in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Mexico. DRCLAS Student Services Coordinator Sebastian J. Sanchez ’04 said that the Office of Career Services has provided additional funds...
Baldomero Alejos, whose photographic documents of life in the Ayacucho region of Peru currently hang in the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) building, considered himself a tradesman, not an artist. But considering his unusual talent for composition, dynamism, and detail as displayed in the exhibit, it seems that he sorely underestimated himself...
...DRCLAS and the Center for Latino Arts (CLA) in Boston are jointly exhibiting “Retouched: The Photographs of Baldomero Alejos.” The majority of Alejos’ work was studio portraiture, on display at CLA. In his time away from his studio, however, Alejos created a vast photographic archive of the events and people of rural Ayacucho, of which 41 prints will be on view at DRCLAS for the rest of the semester...
...wide range of Alejos’ photographs is immediately apparent upon visiting the DRCLAS exhibit. He was, one might say, an equal-opportunity photographer, making pictures of clergy, military men, public officials, the wealthy, the working class, and the poor, establishing many points of comparison among his subjects along...
...paid enough attention [to Brazil] in the past nor has Harvard,” wrote Kenneth R. Maxwell, a senior fellow at DRCLAS and a visiting history professor, in an e-mail...