On Thursday, May 23, 2019, Josefina Rohena Álvarez, defended her thesis titled Capítulo 3: Cuatro compositores puertorriqueños del siglo XIX: Felipe Gutiérrez y Espinosa, Manuel Gregorio Tavárez, Juan Morel Campos y José Ignacio Quintón del Rosario (selección de los últimos tres compositores), a translation from English into Spanish of A Study of Selected Nineteenth Century Puerto Rican Composers and Their Musical Output by Nélida Muñoz de Frontera.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Prof. Amarilis Pagán-Vila, Prof. Yvette Torres Rivera, and thesis advisor Luis A. García Nevares, Ph. D., awarded her thesis the grade notable.