On August 26, 2014, Eric R. Vázquez Sánchez, defended his thesis titled Las narrativas compartidas de la modernidad: estado de derecho , violencia y cuerpo and Las dimensiones del género en la resistencia cotidiana urbana, a translation from English into Spanish of a selection from Rituals of Violence in Ninetteenth-Century Puerto Rico: Individual Conflict, Gender, and the Law by Astrid Cubano Iguina.
The Thesis Committee, formed by María M. Carrión, Ph.D., Rafael Bernabe, Ph.D., and thesis advisor Aurora Lauzardo Ugarte, Ph. D., awarded his thesis the grade sobresaliente.