On January 14, 2014, Tanisha Hanible, defended her thesis titled The Black Population in Mexico, a translation from Spanish into English of La población negra de México by Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán.
The Thesis Committee, formed by H. Jane Ramírez, M.A., Marcial Ocasio, Ph.D., and thesis advisor M. Charlotte Ward, Ph.D., awarded her thesis the grade notable.