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Cathy Cabrera-Figueroa, the Miranda Fellow, began her first semester as a doctoral student in the Department of History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in 2018. It was the first time a fellowship had been specifically awarded for the study of Puerto Rico at the doctoral level at CUNY.