Dr. Mu-Kien Adriana Sang | |
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Chairperson of the Dominican Academy of History | |
Taking office July 2016 |
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Deputy | Adriano Miguel Tejada |
Succeeding | Bernardo Vega |
Vice-chairperson of the Dominican Academy of History | |
In office August 2013 – July 2016 |
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Preceded by | Bernardo Vega |
Succeeded by | Adriano Miguel Tejada |
Writing career | |
Native name | Mu-Kien Adriana Sang Ben |
Born |
Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic |
September 8, 1955
Occupation | Historian, essayist, analyst, politologist and academic |
Language | Spanish |
Nationality | Dominican |
Genre | History, Biographic |
Notable works | "Ulises Heureaux: Biografía de un Dictador"; "Buenaventura Báez: El Caudillo del Sur (1844-1878)"; "Una Utopía Inconclusa: Espaillat y el Liberalismo Dominicano del Siglo XIX"; "Historia Dominicana: Ayer y Hoy" |
Notable awards | Premio Nacional de Didáctica (2000); Premio Nacional de Historia (2001) |
Spouse | Rafael Toribio |
Website | |
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Mu-Kien Adriana Sang Ben (born Santiago de los Caballeros, 1955) is a historian, essayist, analyst, political scientist and academic from the Dominican Republic. Sang is Vice-Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University Mother and Teacher.
The daughter of a Cantonese immigrant man, and a Dominican-born woman whose father was a Chinese immigrant and her mother was Mulatto (of African and European descent). Sang has a degree in Teaching Summa Cum Laude in the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, where she has taught for more than two decades. She did her graduate degree in Adult Education in the Centro de Cooperación Regional para la Educación de Adultos de América Latina y el Caribe (CREFAL) in 1978, in Mexico City. In 1985 he achieved his PhD in History and Civilization at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. She translated from French to Spanish the work Correspondence of the Consul of France in Santo Domingo, published in two volumes under the sponsorship of the official Sesquicentennial Commission of National Independence. She has been a guest professor and public speaker at several universities in different nations.
In 2006, a street was named in her honor at the Plaza of Culture Juan Pablo Duarte, host of the International Book Fair of Santo Domingo.
Her husband, Rafael Toribio, has been rector of the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC).