On May 12, 2015, Sasha Dávila Brugman, defended her thesis titled Praise for the Fonda, a translation from Spanish into English of Elogio de la fonda by Eduardo Rodríguez Juliá.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Aurora Lauzardo, Ph.D., Robert Dupey, Ph.D., and thesis advisor M. Charlotte Ward, Ph.D., awarded her thesis the grade bueno.