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• Libia M. González López, is a historian, documentalist and Professor of the Department of Humanities, College of General Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

  She holds a Ph.D. in history and a diploma in Foreign Affairs from the University of Paris I-Sorbonne, France.

  Part of her work as a historian has focused on research on History and Memory and History and Images. As part of these approaches, she has worked on topics on the history of documentary photography and the historical memory of agriculture and rural society in the mountainous coffee region in PR. She has published on the intellectual constructions of national identity in Puerto Rico; migration in and to the Caribbean during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the links between image and history; the uses of photography in the circulation of the "subject/image" and the rural landscape in postcolonial literature, among others.