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has taught as a professor at UNIBE and UCE, and served as the general coordinator of the School of Architec-
ture and Urban Planning at Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU). She has held public ad-
ministration positions such as Territorial Analyst II at the General Directorate for Land Use and Development
at the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development. She is a local consultant for the Plazas de Bolsillo
project in Ciudad Juan Bosch and Barrio Nuevo Renacer in Santo Domingo Este for the Inter-American De-
velopment Bank, the Ministry of the Presidency, the Ayuntamiento Municipal de Santo Domingo Este, and
Ciudad de Bolsillo. She is a fellow from the CELFI graduate program of the Ministry of Science, Technology,
and Productive Innovation of the Argentine Government.
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Frank Moya Pons
Moya Pons received his doctorate in Latin American History and Economic Development at Columbia Uni-
versity in New York. He was President of the Dominican Academy of History from 2010 to 2013. He has taught
as a professor of Latin American History at Columbia University; History of the Caribbean at the University
of Florida; Dominican History at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra; and served as Director of
Research at the Institute of Dominican Studies at The City College of New York (CUNY). His published books
include:
La Española en el siglo xvi
, 1971;
La dominación haitiana
, 1972;
Historia colonial de Santo Domingo
, 1973;
Manual de historia dominicana,
1977;
El pasado dominicano
, 1986;
Pioneros de la banca dominicana,
1989;
Políticas de
industrialización y sustitución de importaciones en la República Dominicana,
1992;
Mapa en relieve de cobertura y uso
del suelo de la República Dominicana,
2001;
Breve historia contemporánea de la República Dominicana,
2001;
Doctrina
y políticas de medio ambiente y recursos naturales,
2004;
Atlas de los recursos naturales de la República Dominicana,
2004;
La otra historia dominicana,
2008;
Historia del Caribe,
2008;
Historia de la República Dominicana
, 2010;
El Oro
en la historia Dominicana
(2016);
Otras miradas a la historia dominicana
(2017);
Rica. 50 años de historia
(2018);
Infraestructuras
(2019); and
Geografía histórica dominicana
(2019).
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Francisco Ozoria Acosta
In 2016, Pope Francis appointed Ozoria Acosta as the Metropolitan Archbishop of Santo Domingo.
He studied philosophy at Pontificia Universidad Madre y Maestra in Santiago de los Caballeros. He completed
his theology studies at Pontificio Seminario Mayor Santo Tomás de Aquino seminary in Santo Domingo.
He was ordained a priest on September 2, 1978, and was assigned to work in the Vocations Ministry of San
Francisco de Macorís; he served as Director of the Diocesan Work of Priestly Vocations, and Vice-rector and
Trainer of the Minor Seminary Holy Cure of Ars, La Vega (1978-1981). He was appointed as priest for the
María Madre de la Iglesia parish, in San Francisco de Macorís (1981-1988), and Vicar of Pastoral. He was also
pastor of San José la Bomba de Cenoví, San Juan Bautista de Pimentel, and Santa Ana Cathedral.
In 1988, Msgr. Ozoria Acosta was sent to Rome to complete a specialization in Pastoral Theology at Pontifical
Lateran University. Upon his return from Rome (1990) he worked at the Pontificio Seminario Mayor Santo
Tomás de Aquino seminary as a trainer and professor of Pastoral Theology. Since 1992, he has served as the
priest for the parishes of Santísima Trinidad (Nagua), San Francisco de Asís in El Factor (Nagua), and Santiago
Apóstol de Arroyo al Medio.
On February 1, 1997, upon the creation of the Diocese of San Pedro de Macorís, he was appointed as its first
bishop by Pope John Paul II. He received his Episcopal ordination on March 15 of that same year, and during
the celebration of his appointment he took canonical possession of his diocese.
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Alejandro Paulino Ramos
Ramos was born in San Francisco de Macorís on May 15, 1951. He holds a bachelor’s degree in History from
the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, where he also received a master’s degree. He is a specialist
in librarianship, and for 30 years he ran the Dominican Section of the Central Library of the Autonomous
University of Santo Domingo. He is a correspondent member of the Dominican Academy of History. He was