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• Sociologist, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Former director of the Center for Social Research (1994-98), Graduate School of Business (2006-10), Institute of Caribbean Studies (2019-23), University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Recieved the award, “Este Caribe Nuestro”, Cátedra de Estudios del Caribe, University of Havana, Cuba (2022). Visiting Scientist at the Institute for Development and Decent Work, Universität Kassel, Germany (2014, 2016). Wilbur Marvin Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Visiting Lecturer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2010). Fullbright Scholar, (Dominica & St. Lucia),1987.