Dominican Historian Roberto Cassá joins the Triumph To Tragedy Project
Dominican historian, writer, and educator
The Triumph To Tragedy Team welcomes Roberto Cassá to the project as its Dominican historian, joining Jean-Bernard Bayard as the Haitian historian.
“I am so delighted, honored, and grateful to Señor Cassá for taking the time and effort needed to be part of this very important project,” stated Triumph To Tragedy Author Daniel J.D. Bayard. Señor Cassá brings a wealth of knowledge and understanding of the rich and complex history of the Dominican Republic to the project, which will provide accurate historical guidance and integrity to the overall work.
Bayard felt compelled to seek a major historical resource to assure that Triumph To Tragedy Book Five - Unification and Dissolution of Hispaniola - The Dominican Revolution was the most accurate historical novel of our generation. The story is set between 1820 - 1843. The book is currently in production and historical review. It is due to be released on bookshelves this fall.
About Roberto Cassá:
Roberto Cassá Bernaldo de Quirós is a Dominican historian, writer, and educator. He serves as the president of the Dominican Academy of History and is a member of both the Academy of Sciences of the Dominican Republic and the Association of Historians of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Cassá was born on September, 12 1948, the son of the Dominican lawyer José Cassá Logroño and his wife María Bernaldo de Quirós Villanueva, a Spaniard who migrated with her family in 1940 after the end of the Spanish Civil War to the Dominican Republic and whose parents and siblings, dissatisfied with Trujillo’s regime, moved to Mexico in 1947. He studied at the Colegio Santa Teresita; and graduated from the high school at the Lycée Manuel Rodríguez Objío.
In the year 1974 he obtained his BA in History at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo; in 1988 obtained a master's degree in Latin American studies History and a PhD in Sociology, both at the Autonomous University of Mexico. He was Professor of Social History and Social History Dominican Universal Tegnologico Institute in Santo Domingo from 1975 to 1985.
From 1987 he was employed as a professor of the Center for Economic Research and Teaching in Mexico, where he taught Economic History. He was also a professor of history at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences from 1986 to 1989. Was also a professor at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo for over two decades.
He has participated in numerous projects of historical, sociological and economic research sponsored by private, state and academic institutions, he is also president of the Academy of the Dominican History and member of the Academy of Sciences of the Dominican Republic and the Association of Historians of American America and the Caribbean.
