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has written about genealogy in
Boletín del Archivo General de la Nación,
the review for the Dominican Academy
of History, the press, and national and international journals. He is the president of the Board of Trustees for
the Dominican National Archives.
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Myrna Guerrero Villalona
Guerrero Villalona was born in Santo Domingo in 1951. She is a historian, art critic, visual artist, consultant,
cultural promoter, professor, and curator. She holds degrees from the School of Art at Universidad Acción
Pro-Educación y Cultura; the University of Provence in Aix-en-Provence, France; Fundación Getulio Vargas
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Centro Latinoamericano y del Caribe para el Desarrollo Cultural in Caracas, Ven-
ezuela. Since 2012 she has been the director and curator at the Museo Bellapart. From 1999-2004 she was part
of the team that designed and implemented the project for the Eduardo León Jimenes Cultural Center. She
has been a professor of Art History at Instituto Superior Pedro Francisco Bonó since 2010, and she has taught
at Pontificia Universidad Madre y Maestra for 15 years. She has also held multiple administrative positions at
this institution. She is an active member of the Asociación Internacional de Críticos de Arte (AICA) and its
national chapter (ADCA). She has published books including
El Palacio de Bellas Artes 1956-2008; Aquiles Azar,
pasión y fidelidad a la expresión en el dibujo;
and
Espacios de luz de Amaya Salazar
. She is the coauthor of the pub-
lications
Historia de la Bienal/La Bienal en la historia (1942-2015); Arte contemporáneo del Caribe. Mitos, creencias,
religiones e imaginarios; Basílica Catedral de Santo Domingo; Trascendencia y esplendor. Colección permanente de arte
de la Cámara de Diputados de la República Dominicana;
and
Arte Dominicano Joven: Márgenes, género, interacciones y
nuevos territorios,
among other works.
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Michael R. Hall
Michael R. Hall is Professor of Latin American History and U.S. Foreign Relations at Georgia Southern Uni-
versity in Savannah, Georgia. He earned a BA in History from Gettysburg College in 1983, an MA in Interna-
tional Studies from Ohio University in 1989, and a PhD in History from Ohio University in 1996. Prior to that,
he served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the Dominican Republic from 1984 to 1987. He was a visiting
professor at the Instituto Technológico de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic in 2001. Hall participat-
ed in a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Development Seminar in Brazil in 2002 and has been the director of more than
a dozen study abroad programs in Latin America. He is a past president of the Association of Global South
Studies (AGSS) and currently serves on that organization’s Executive Council. In addition, he is the associate
editor in charge of book reviews for the association’s Journal of Global South Studies (JGSS). He served on
the Editorial Advisory Board of ABC-CLIO’s multivolume Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philip-
pine-American Wars (2009). Hall is the author of
Sugar and Power in the Dominican Republic: Eisenhower, Kenne-
dy, and the Trujillos
(2000) and
Historical Dictionary of Haiti
(2012).
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Michael Kryzanek
Michael Kryzanek is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and currently Special Assistant to the President
of Bridgewater State University for Global Engagement and University Priorities. He received his PhD from
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. From 2016-2019 Dr. Kryzanek was the Academic Director in the
Public Management Institute for the U.S. State Department’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) that
brought 25 Fellows to the campus as Mandela Fellows. Dr. Kryzanek is formerly the Executive Director of
the Minnock Center for International Engagement at Bridgewater State, where he led the university’s pro-
grams to expand global ties and international understanding. Dr. Kryzanek is currently involved in filming a
series of presentations on the 2020 national elections in the United States. He is the author of eight books on
U.S. foreign policy, American government, and comparative politics, including two books on the Dominican
Republic. His latest book, written with his daughter Dr. Ann Karreth, is
25 Issues That Shape American Politics:
Debates, Differences and Divisions
.