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the Assistant Director of the Dominican National Archives (2011-2017). He also has a specialization in History
of the Caribbean from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (Flacso). His published books include:
Las ideas marxistas en la República Dominicana
(1985);
Vida y obra de Ercilia Pepín
(1987);
Historia de la primera biblioteca
universitaria de Santo Domingo
(1997);
Diccionario del folklore y la cultura dominicana
(2006);
Censos municipales del siglo XIX
y otras estadísticas de población
(2008);
El Paladión: de la ocupación militar norteamericana a la dictadura de Trujillo
(2010);
Mauricio Báez
(2012);
Bachata y son en la historia musical dominicana
(2017);
Los intelectuales y la intervención militar nor-
teamericana, 1916-1924
(2017); and
La Comisión Nacionalista y la ocupación americana de 1916
(2017).
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Sandro Parrinello
Parrinello is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University
of Pavia. He completed a doctorate degree in Representation and Relief Sciences Research and holds a doc-
torate degree in European Research. He has been a visiting professor since 2012 at Perm National Research
Polytechnic University (Russia), and in 2015 he received an honorary degree from the State Academy of Civil
Engineering and Architecture of Odessa (Ukraine). Since 2005 he has been a member of the UNESCO Forum
with the rank of expert; in 2011 he was appointed as an expert and voting member as the contact person for
Italy on the ICOFORT International Scientific Committee (ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on
Fortifications and Military Heritage). In 2016 he was a Visiting Professor at the Polytechnic University of
Krakow (Poland), and in 2017 he received his National Scientific Degree as a Full Professor. He is the Direc-
tor of the DADA Lab laboratory and the head of the collective “Landscape Survey & Design” laboratory at
the University of Pavia. He is responsible for numerous national and international research projects; he is a
member of the editorial boards of international scientific journals and series and has organized multiple inter-
national conferences on the documentation of patrimony.
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Esteban Prieto Vicioso
Prieto Vicioso holds a PhD in Architecture. He is an architect, researcher, and university professor, specializ-
ing in Architectonic Conservation at the International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restora-
tion of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in Rome. He received a master’s degree in Monuments Conservation
from Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU) and a PhD in Architecture in Mexico. He was
the Director of the Office of Cultural Patrimony from 1986 to 1996. He is currently the Coordinator and
Rector of Centro de Altos Estudios Humanísticos y del Idioma Español, the Director of the Office of Works
and Museums for the Cathedral of Santo Domingo, and a researcher for Universidad Nacional Pedro Hen-
ríquez Ureña (UNPHU). He is a founding member and honorable member of the Dominican Committee of
ICOMOS, where he was the president from 1986 to 1996 and the global vice president from 1993 to 1999. He
has restored multiple buildings in the Colonial City sector of Santo Domingo and has been an adviser for the
Organization of American States (OAS), the World Heritage Center of UNESCO, ICOMOS, and the Getty
Foundation, among other organizations. He has published works on topics related to: Indigenous architecture
in Hispaniola, vernacular and popular architecture, historical fortifications, the history of construction, and
the restoration of the Basilica Cathedral of Santo Domingo, among other subjects. He is a member of the Na-
tional Association of Researchers in Science, Technology and Innovation and a correspondent member of the
Dominican Academy of History.
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Milton Ray Guevara
Ray Guevara was born in Samaná Province. He holds a doctorate in Public Law,
magna cum laude
from the
University of Nice, France; a degree in Law,
summa cum laude
, from Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y
Maestra (PUCMM); an advanced studies degree in Comparative Law,
cum laude,
from the International School
of Comparative Law in Strasbourg, France; an advanced studies degree in Social Law from Paris-Sorbonne
University, France; a degree in Comparative Labor Law,
magna cum laude,
from the International School of
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