In 2009 Valentina Peguero was named Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. In 2008 she received a grant from the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point to study documents about slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean at the National Archives of the United Kingdom, in London. In 2007 the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies of the University of Florida, in Gainesville offered her a travel grant to study documents relevant to Dominican women. In 2006 she was recognized as outstanding faculty and received the Scholar Award for her research and publications. From the year 2005 to the year 2011 she was a contributing editor of the Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) and a consultant for references at Hispanic Division, of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. In 2001, the University Personnel Development Committee at UWSP honored her with a grant to do research on Japanese immigration to the Dominican Republic. In addition, she received a grant to research and write an article on Dominican women’s grassroots organizations”. Others awards include a fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for the academic year 2000-2001; a Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at Ledig House International Writer's Colony, in Ghent, New York, 1997; and the Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 1995.
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