Frank Bonilla | |
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Born | New York City, New York | February 3, 1925
Died | December 28, 2010 | (aged 85)
Service | United States Army |
Unit | 290th Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry |
Battles / wars | World War II - Battle of the Bulge |
Awards | Bronze Star |
Other work | Professor |
Frank Bonilla (February 3)[1] was an American academic of Puerto Rican descent who became a leading figure in Puerto Rican Studies. After earning his doctorate from Harvard University, where his dissertation was supervised by Talcott Parsons, he had held faculty positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the City University of New York. He is a key figure in the establishment of the Puerto Rican Hispanic Leadership Forum and the Center for Puerto Rico Studies at the City University of New York.[2]