Events

Jorge Domínguez is the Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico in the Department of Government of Harvard University. Prof. Domínguez earned his B.A. at Yale and his Ph.D. at Harvard. He is Chair of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He has also served Harvard as the university’s first Vice Provost for International Affairs (2006-2015), Senior Advisor for International Studies to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and he was director of Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (1995-2006). Professor Domínguez’s research encompasses U.S.-Latin American relations, U.S.-Mexican relations, public opinion and elections in Mexico, and the assessment of democracy in Latin America. Apart from being one of the country’s leading experts on Mexico, Professor Domínguez is a top scholar of Cuba. Foreign Affairs once dubbed him “the dean of U.S. Cubanologists.” He has published more than twenty books on Mexico, Cuba, Central America and U.S.-Latin American foreign relations. His most recent book is Mexico’s Evolving Democracy: A Comparative Study of the 2012 Elections (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015).

Prof. Domínguez’s Wynia lecture, titled “Cuba’s Economic and Social Development Policy Trajectory and Choices,” provides a thorough overview of his recent work in collaboration with Cuban scholars on two edited books concerning economic and social policy in Cuba.