Dr. Jorge Rodriguez Beruff (born May 1, 1947) is a Puerto Rican

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who served as

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of the College of General Studies of the

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campus of the

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(UPR). He previously chaired the Social Sciences Department in the same college. A graduate of

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, where he obtained his

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in political science, and UPR, where he obtained his B.A., also in political science,http://www.resdal.org/expertos/puertorico.html Dr. Rodríguez Beruff has written and edited numerous books, the most recent of which is having edited the Spanish-language edition of

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's book ''The Stricken Land'', originally published in the 1950s. Dr. Rodríguez Beruff, a professor at UPR, and a graduate of

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in San Juan, has also been a visiting professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and

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, among others.

Selected publications

* ''The Stricken Land'', by Rexford Guy Tugwell, Spanish-language translation, editor, 2010 * ''Strategy and Politics, Puerto Rico on the Eve of the Second World War'', 2008 * ''Trujillo y Muñoz, una pugna caribeña'', an essay published in Revista del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2003 * ''Las memorias de Leahy'', editor, 2002

References

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