On Friday, December 13, 2019, Christine Muñoz Príncipe, defended her thesis titled Under the Shadow of Racism: A Case Study of Puerto Rican Racial Identity, a translation from Spanish into English of Bajo la sombra del racismo: una mirada reflexiva de la identidad racial puertorriqueña by Héctor Javier Reyes Baerga.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Prof. H. Jane Barnes Slown, Alma Simounet Bey, Ph. D., and thesis advisor David Auerbach, Ph. D., awarded her thesis the grade sobresaliente.