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NSU Alumni Spotlight: CAHSS Alumnus Receives Puerto Rico Bar Association 2015 Juridical Book of the Year Award
Mark Anthony Bimbela President of the Puerto Rican Bar Association, Jaqueline Font- Guzman, J.D., Ph.D., and Luis Munoz Arguelles, Selection Committee President
Jacqueline Font-Guzman, J.D., Ph.D., doctoral graduate of NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS), has received the Puerto Rico Bar Association 2015 Juridical Book of the Year Award in the category “Essay Promoting Critical Thinking and Analysis of Juridical and Social Issues.” Her book, Experiencing Puerto Rican Citizenship and Cultural Nationalism,, based on her dissertation research, was published by Palgrave Macmillan and explores how some Puerto Ricans construct and experience their citizenship and national identity while at the margins of the United States. Font-Guzman, who received her doctoral degree in conflict analysis and resolution, is a tenured professor at the Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the School of Law at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She received a Fulbright Fellowship and served as a senior lecturer at the Carlos III University Law School in Madrid in the spring in 2012. In addition to her doctoral degree from NSU, she holds a J.D. degree from the Interamericana University of Puerto Rico, and a Master of Health Administration (M.H.A.) from Saint Louis University.