Jorge Rodriguez Beruff
Puerto Rican historian
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Dr. Jorge Rodriguez Beruff (born May 1, 1947) is a Puerto Rican historian who served as Dean of the College of General Studies of the Río Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR).[1] He previously chaired the Social Sciences Department in the same college. A graduate of York University in England, where he obtained his Ph.D. in political science, and UPR, where he obtained his B.A., also in political science,[2] Dr. Rodríguez Beruff has written and edited numerous books, the most recent of which is having edited the Spanish-language edition of Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell's book The Stricken Land, originally published in the 1950s.
Dr. Rodríguez Beruff, a professor at UPR, and a graduate of Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola in San Juan, has also been a visiting professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Rutgers University, 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