On Friday, May 17, 2019, Sarah Yates Gibson , defended her thesis titled Glimmers of Blackness: Caribbean Research, a translation from Spanish into English of Destellos de la negritud: investigaciones caribeñas by Marie Ramos Rosado.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Aurora Lauzardo Ugarte, Ph.D., Alejandro Álvarez Nieves, Ph.D., and thesis advisor David Auerbach, Ph.D., awarded her thesis the grade sobresaliente con recomendación para publicar.