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Virginia Sánchez Korrol

Virginia Sánchez Korrol is an American historian and foundational figure in the field of Puerto Rican studies. She is a professor emerita at Brooklyn College and CUNY.

Throughout her career, Sánchez Korrol has also worked with the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn's Hispanic Communities Oral History Project, and as one of three U.S. scholars on the international program committee of the Fifth International Congress on Hispanic Cultures in the United States, which was held in Madrid, Spain, in 1992. She consulted on the 2021 West Side Story adaptation by director Steven Spielberg and, in conjunction with María Pérez y González, created "West Side Story: The Brooklyn Connection," an online lecture series featuring appearances by Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner, and others. Provided by Wikipedia