Valentina Peguero, emeritus professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, received her Ph.D and Master's degree from Columbia University, as well a Master's degree from Ball State University, and Bachelor's degree from Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra, Dominican Republic. During her teaching career, she taught courses on Caribbean and Latin American history and culture. In particular, Peguero taught classes on race and ethnicity, immigration, slavery, and Caribbean women's history. She has published six books: Mujeres pioneras dominicanas: Datos biográficos y bibliográficos. (Santo Domingo: Editora Búho, 2015); Immigration and Politics in the Caribbean: Japanese and Other immigrants in the Dominican Republic (Coconut Creek, Fl: Caribbean Studies Press 2008). Colonizacion y Political Los Japoneses y otros inmigrantes en la Republica Dominicana (Santo Domingo: Alfa y Omega, 2005); The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic: From the Captains General to General Trujillo (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004); Peña y Reynoso y Amantes de la Luz (Santiago: Amantes de la Luz Press, 1985); with Danilo de los Santos, Visión General de la Historia Dominicana (Santiago: UCMM Press, 1977).
Peguero is also the author of numerous scholarly articles. Among others are: Inmigración Japonesa a la República Dominicana. Translated by Milagros Tsukayama. This essay can be read in English, Japanese, and Portuguese. http://www.discovernikkei.org/es/journal/2015/11/13/dominican-republic/
"Caribbean Women's Grassroots Organizations: Real and Imagined Female Figures in the Dominican Republic" in Caribbean Societies and Globalization, edited by Franklin W. Knight and Teresita Martinez Vergne (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005); "Las hermanas Mirabal: Lucha política y la no-violencia contra las mujeres" in La Escritura de la Historia de las Mujeres en America Latina: El Retorno de las Diosas, Sara Beatriz Guardia, editor (Vienna and Peru: CEMHAL, 2005); "Beats in the Mountains" and "New Orleans" entries in Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons and Impact, William Lawlor, ed. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005). Review of The Japanese in Latin America by Daniel M. Masterson, with Sayaka Fumada-Classen (Urbana: University of Illinois, 2004) appeared in Wisconsin Magazine of History (Winter-2004-2005). Locally, nationally, and internationally, Peguero has been a presenter and keynote speaker in conferences, commencements, and symposia.
Her scholarly works have been recognized with different awards and honors. The latter was a display of her books, highlighting Dominican Pioneer Women. Biographical and Bibliographical Data. The exhibition was held in the Library of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, from March to August, 2016. Throughout the years, the Committee for Development of Personal of the University of Wisconsin in Stevens Point granted her several fellowships to investigate at the National Archive, collections and libraries in the Dominican Republic. In 2008 she was awarded a grant to research documents on slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean at the National Archives of the United Kingdom, England. She received grants for research purposes from the University of Florida, Gainesville, the Center for Latin American Studies and the Caribbean at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and from the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the 2007, she was selected as writer in residence of Ledig House International Writers' Colony. Ghent, New York. Peguero was a recipient of the 2006 University Scholar Award at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; in 2005 she was the guest speaker at 12th Commencement at Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, New York; in 2005 she was honored with the Eugene Katz Distinguished Scholar Award from the Letters and Science Academy, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. In 2005 she became a contributing editor for the Handbook of Latin American Studies and library's consultant, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress.
She received a fellowship to research Japanese immigration in the Caribbean from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the academic year 2000-2001. The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point distinguished her with the University Teaching Excellence Award in 1995. One her first recognition was a grant, awarded by the Institute of International Education (IIE), to carry post graduate studies at Ball State University, United States, in 1973.
Peguero is also the author of numerous scholarly articles. Among others are: Inmigración Japonesa a la República Dominicana. Translated by Milagros Tsukayama. This essay can be read in English, Japanese, and Portuguese. http://www.discovernikkei.org/es/journal/2015/11/13/dominican-republic/
"Caribbean Women's Grassroots Organizations: Real and Imagined Female Figures in the Dominican Republic" in Caribbean Societies and Globalization, edited by Franklin W. Knight and Teresita Martinez Vergne (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005); "Las hermanas Mirabal: Lucha política y la no-violencia contra las mujeres" in La Escritura de la Historia de las Mujeres en America Latina: El Retorno de las Diosas, Sara Beatriz Guardia, editor (Vienna and Peru: CEMHAL, 2005); "Beats in the Mountains" and "New Orleans" entries in Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons and Impact, William Lawlor, ed. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005). Review of The Japanese in Latin America by Daniel M. Masterson, with Sayaka Fumada-Classen (Urbana: University of Illinois, 2004) appeared in Wisconsin Magazine of History (Winter-2004-2005). Locally, nationally, and internationally, Peguero has been a presenter and keynote speaker in conferences, commencements, and symposia.
Her scholarly works have been recognized with different awards and honors. The latter was a display of her books, highlighting Dominican Pioneer Women. Biographical and Bibliographical Data. The exhibition was held in the Library of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, from March to August, 2016. Throughout the years, the Committee for Development of Personal of the University of Wisconsin in Stevens Point granted her several fellowships to investigate at the National Archive, collections and libraries in the Dominican Republic. In 2008 she was awarded a grant to research documents on slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean at the National Archives of the United Kingdom, England. She received grants for research purposes from the University of Florida, Gainesville, the Center for Latin American Studies and the Caribbean at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and from the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the 2007, she was selected as writer in residence of Ledig House International Writers' Colony. Ghent, New York. Peguero was a recipient of the 2006 University Scholar Award at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; in 2005 she was the guest speaker at 12th Commencement at Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, New York; in 2005 she was honored with the Eugene Katz Distinguished Scholar Award from the Letters and Science Academy, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. In 2005 she became a contributing editor for the Handbook of Latin American Studies and library's consultant, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress.
She received a fellowship to research Japanese immigration in the Caribbean from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the academic year 2000-2001. The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point distinguished her with the University Teaching Excellence Award in 1995. One her first recognition was a grant, awarded by the Institute of International Education (IIE), to carry post graduate studies at Ball State University, United States, in 1973.