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Faculty: Wasserspring . Renjilian-Burgy . Oles . Levitt . Roses Professor Wasserspring became interested in Latin America as an undergraduate when she went to Honduras to teach literacy to adults in a project sponsored by her undergraduate institution, Cornell University. After Cornell, she went to Princeton for graduate study (where she was the first woman admitted to study political science there) She chose Mexico as the subject of her thesis research and spent 3 years in Mexico (in Oaxaca, Morelos and Mexico City) doing research on the subject of attitudes towards authority in Mexico. She has continued her interest in Mexico throughout the years. She has been a visiting professor at El Colegio de Mexico and has also been a local consultant in the social sciences for the Ford Foundation. She more recent research projects have focused on gender issues in Latin America. She currently has two projects-one on artisan women in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca and the second on the impact of the Cuban Revolution on Cuban women's lives. She travels frequently to both Mexico and Cuba. In 1999, Professor Wasserspring became faculty director of the Wellesley in Costa Rica Internship Program. Her most recent work with Oaxacan artisans has just been published: Oaxacan Ceramics: Traditional Folk Art by Oaxacan Women.
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