On November 14, 2018, Daniel Montaño Ferreira, defended his thesis titled Música, colonialismo, identidad: José Figueroa Sanabia y la sociedad puertorriqueña, 1925-1952, a translation from German into Spanish of Musik – Kolonialismus – Identität: José Figueroa Sanabia und die puertoricanische Gesellschaft 1925-1952 by Omar Ruiz Vega.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Tinna Stoyanova, Ph. D., Carlos Fortea Gil, Ph. D., and Víctor R. Castro his thesis advisor, awarded his thesis the grade sobresaliente.