On January 13, 2015, Liznelia Carrasquillo Reyes, defended her thesis titled El bloqueo naval alemán y la economía de guerra. Vieques: de una estructura social de frontera a una estructura social de plantación, a translation from English into Spanish of The German Naval Blockade and the War Economy/Vieques: from Frontier to Plantation Economy by César Ayala and José L. Bolívar.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Alejandro Álvarez Nieves, Ph. D., José M. Reyes, M.A., and thesis advisor María C. Hernández, Ph. D., awarded her thesis the grade .