Nieve de los Ángeles Vázquez Lazo

Nieve de los Ángeles Vázquez is a full professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Bayamón campus. Since 2019, she has been the president of the Puerto Rico Civil Rights Commission. She has a Ph.D. in Caribbean History from the Center of Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, and a BA in the History of Fine Arts from the Universidad de Oriente in Cuba. She was a journalist and editor at the newspaper Primera Hora and has been a university professor since 2005. She is the author of the book Meretrices: la prostitución en Puerto Rico from 1876 to 1917 (2008), as well as the essays: “Los derechos de la las mujeres de Puerto Rico durante la Primera Guerra Mundial”; “Género, Estado y la construcción legal de la moralidad en Puerto Rico”; “Historia y narración: el mito en la muerte de José Martí”. Several outstanding opinión columns published in El Nuevo Día include: “1898-2022: El saqueo del fondo de pensiones de maestros”; “La lucha fratricida de los políticos en Puerto Rico”; “Populismo y corrupción: el futuro puede ser diferente”. In 2019, she created “Puerto Rico Indígena”, an online course aimed at democratizing the scientific knowledge about the indigenous people of the Antilles. Nieve de los Ángeles teaches young university students, always weaving critical thinking with evidence-based research.