Megan Grannan’09 is studying Applied Mathematics but is pursuing citations in Spanish and Portuguese.  Earlier this year, she attended Harvard’s summer program at the Pontifica Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro.

Felipe Fregni completed his MD and PhD at University of São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil) and then went to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for a post-doctoral fellowship in neurology. Subsequently he attended the Scholars in Clinical Science Program – a two-year post-graduate program from Harvard Medical School. He was recently awarded the Jorge Paulo Lemann fellowship for a MPH (master in public health) at the Harvard School of Public Health. His main area of research interest is on international clinical trials in Neurology. He currently is performing clinical trials in collaboration with some universities in São Paulo.

James Pautz '06 studied Romance Languages and Literatures, Brazilian studies track, and earned a Certificate in Latin American Studies.  After a summer in Middlebury College's Portuguese immersion program, he spent the fall of his junior year at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro.  At Harvard, his coursework focused on women's writing, translation studies, and contemporary Brazilian poetry.  In preparation for his senior thesis, "Translating the Sonnets of Paulo Henriques Britto and Glauco Mattoso," James returned to Rio de Janeiro and interviewed local translators and authors.

 Elissa Poorman '06 was a History and Science and premedical concentrator at Harvard. She spent spring semester of her junior year at Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro. As a History and Science concentrator, she focused on how science was used by European powers to promote cultural imperialism. During her semester abroad and the summer that followed, she worked with a lepers' rights organization to determine the origin of and justification for the large network of leper colonies in Brazil. Her thesis "'The Hope of Redemption': Science, Coercion, and the Leper Colonies of Brazil," won the Kenneth Maxwell Thesis Prize for best undergraduate thesis on Brazil. She plans to continue to work with leprosy patients in Brazil in the spring.

Gabriel Rocha '08 is a Literature Concentrator specializing in Portuguese. As a freshman, he was an intern in the Brazil Studies Program, where he assisted with the Brazil Semester at DRCLAS. He spent a summer at the Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, in Rio de Janeiro, researching Rui Barbosa's role at the International Hague Conference of 1907. Gabriel is a member of the Harvard Brazilian Organization. Currently, he is a Mellon/Mays Scholar, and works as a Research Assistant for the Brazil Program.

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Erin Goodman
Brazil Studies Program/Student and Area Programs
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
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