Roberto Cassá Bernaldo de Quirós (born 12 September 1948) [1] is a Dominican historian, writer, and educator.
)[4] and his wife María Bernaldo de Quirós Villanueva (Madrid, 1923–Santo Domingo, 2013),[3][4] 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.
[3] He studied at the Colegio Santa Teresita; and graduated from the high school at the Lycée Manuel Rodríguez Objío.
In the year 1974 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 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.