On Thursday, August 11, 2022, Mara Ruiz López, defended her thesis titled In a Woman's Key: The Construction of Female Subjectivity in the Caribbean, a translation from Spanish into English of En clave de mujer: la construcción de la subjetividad femenina en el Caribe by Doralba Linda Pérez Ibáñez.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Alejandro Álvarez Nieves, Ph. D., Prof. H. Jane Barnes Slown, and thesis advisor David Auerbach, Ph. D., awarded her thesis the grade notable.