Prominent Dominican Sociologist Dr. Rosario Espinal Presents at DANR National Conference in Walt Disney World

The DANR Board honored her with the National Guanin Social Sciences Educator Award

Dr. Rosario Espinal, a Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA, will present at the DANR 12th National Conference scheduled, which took place at the Coronado Springs Resort in Walt Disney World in Florida from Friday, December 4th to Sunday, December 6th, 2009.

“Praised as one of the most prominent political analysts and a distinguished social science scholar of Dominican descent in the United States, Dr. Espinal will participate as a panelist on Saturday, December 5th at both conference workshop sessions: Education: The Key to Success, and Women: Challenges and Rewards,” said Nestor Montilla, President of the DANR. “The DANR Board will honor her with the National Guanin Social Sciences Educator Award at the DANR 12th Annual Awards Ceremony on Saturday, December 5th at 7 pm at the Convention Center of the Coronado Springs Resort

“I studied sociology because I believe in the power of ideas to change the world we live in,” says Dr. Espinal in her website at http://isc.temple.edu/espinal/ where she has available her biography and information about her research studies.

She earned a Ph.D. in 1985 and an M.A. in 1981 from the Department of Sociology, Washington University, St. Louis.
 In 1978, she earned an M.S.W. from the School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis, and, in 1976, a Licenciatura (B.A.), Department of Sociology and Social Work from Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Dominican Republic.

Dr. Espinal has published extensively on democratization in Latin America, with an emphasis on the case of the Dominican Republic. She is the author of Authoritarismo y Democracia en la Política Dominicana (1987, 1994), co-editor of La República Dominicana en el Umbral del Siglo XXI: Cultura, Política y Cambio Social (1999), and the author of over 50 articles published in academic journals and books in English, Spanish and French.

She has been a research fellow at the Swedish Institute for Social Research at the University of Stockholm, a faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and a teaching fellow at the Latin American Studies Center at Oxford University in England.

She has been a Fulbright Fellow to Argentina, Brazil and Peru, and she is currently an elected member of the Executive Council of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Her complete curriculum vitae is available at #mce_temp_url#

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