On Friday, April 21, 2023, Emili N. Rivera Osorio defended her thesis titled "The Gay Political City”, a translation from Spanish into English of “La ciudad política gay” by Javier E. Laureano.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Prof. H. Jane Barnes Slown, Luis A. García Nevares, Ph. D., and thesis advisor David Auerbach, Ph. D., awarded her thesis the grade sobresaliente.