Valentina Peguero
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Office: 466 CCC Phone: 346-2652 E-mail: vpeguero@uwsp.edu Title: Professor Education: Ph.D., Department of History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City Master of Philosophy, Department of History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City Master of Arts in Education, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana B.A.in Education, Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra, Santiago, Dominican Republic |
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Courses taught:
History 107 Early Modern European History
History 108 Modern Europe
History 253 Colonial Latin America
History 254 Latin American Issues
History 352/552 Modern Latin American History and Culture
History 353/553 Topics in Latin American History
History 381/581 Slavery in the Americans
History 490 Senior Seminar
Specialty:
Caribbean and Latin American modern history and culture in general. In particular race and ethnicity, Caribbean women's history, and Dominican political and military history.
Memberships:
Associates of America (AOA)
Caribbean Studies Association (CSA)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
North Central Council of Latin Americanists (NCCLA)
Dominican Academy of Science (DAS)
Publications:
Books:
Colonizacion y Politica: Los Japoneses y otros immigrantes en la Republica Dominicana (Santo Domingo: Banco de Reservas, 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.
Pena y Reynoso y Amantes de la Luz (Santiago: Amantes de la Luz Press, 1985).
Vision General de la Historia Dominicana with Danilo de los Santos (Santiago: Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra Press, 1978).
Book Chapters and Articles:
Review of Teresita Martinez-Vergne, Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916. American Historical Review, volume 111, no. 3 (June 2006), 881-882.
"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), 160-182.
"Las hermanas Mirabal: Lucha politica y la no-violencia contra las mujeres" in La Escritura de la Historia de las Mujeres en America Latina: El Retorno de las Diosas, ed. Sara Beatriz Guardia (Vienna: Foro de Estudios Culturales de Latinoamerica y CEMHAL: Lima, Peru, 2005): 425-445.
"Beats in the Moujtains" and "New Orleans" entries in Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons and Impact, ed. William Lawlor (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005): 241-242; 252-253.
Review of Daniel M. Masterson, with Sayaka Fumada-Classen, The Japanese in Latin America. University of Illinois, 2004, Wisconsin Magazine of History (Winter 2004-05):54.
"Mujeres dominicanas en la Trinchera Politica: La Laucha de Minerva Mirabel" in Historia de las Mujeres en America Latina, edited by Juan Andreo and Sara Beatriz Guardia, University of )Murcia, Spain: Universidad de Murcia, 2002): 307-322
"United States Military Intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965" in The Sixties in America, ed. Singleton, vol. I. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1999): 227-229.
"Teaching the Haitian Revolution: Its Place in Western and Modern World History." The History Teacher, 32:1 (1998): 33-41.
"Fluctuations in Policy Toward Sex, Race, and Color in Colonial Spanish America, 1492-1550." proceedings of the Second Biennial Conference on Culture, Society and Change in the Americas in Merida (Venezuela: University of South Florida and the Universidad de los Andes, 1995): 501-510.
"Japanese Settlement in the Dominican Republic: An Intercultural Exchange" in Caribbean Asians: Chinese, Indian and Japanese Experiences in Trinidad and the Dominican Republic, ed. Roger Sanjek (New York: Queens College, 1990): 96-110.
"The Participation of Women in Dominican History." Eme-Eme: Estudios Dominicanos, (1982): 10, 58: 21-49.
"Cultural Aspects of Hispaniola in the Sixteenth Century." Eme-Eme: Estudios Dominicanos, 5, 31 (1977): 32-54.
Presentations:
"Change and Globalization: Dominican Women and Grassroots Organizations" North Central Council of Latin Americanists Conference, UW-Eau Claire. October 13, 2007.
"Origins and Impact of Japanese Immigration in the Dominican Republic." Speech given at the Banco Reservas in Santo Domingo during the reception for the public presentation of Colonizacion y Politica: Los japoneses y ostros immigrantes en la Republica Dominicana. November 3, 2005.
"Global Connections." Keynote speech at 12th Commencement at Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, New York. August 5, 2005.
"Caribbean Women and Social Protest." The 5th Caribbean Scholars Association of New York at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York. April 15, 2005.
"The Tragedy of the Mirabal Sisters and the Origins of the International Day Against all Violence Towards Women." Poetry and Art Exhibition: Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women at UWSP. March 3, 2005.
Guest on STV "Let's Talk About It" a program hosted by Dean Gerry McKenna and Dr. Susan Brewer. The discussion centered on The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, From the Captains General to General Trujillo. February 21, 2005.
"Latin American Women in Politics: Mama Tingo." The Latin American Visions of Social Justice in a Global World. The North Central Council of Latin Americanists, Decorah, Iowa. October 22, 2004.
"The Beats in Mexico City." Beat Meets East: an International, Interdisciplinary Conference on the Age of Spontaneity, in Chengdu, China. June 4, 2004.
Talk on "Teaching Race and Ethnicity Across the Curriculum" at the Infusing Latin American Studies in the Post-Secondary Curriculum conference at Hefter Center, UW-Milwaukee. April 17, 2004.
"The Bridge: History of the Dominican-Haitian Interaction." The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference in Dallas, Texas. March 29, 2003.
Visiting Professor at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. "From the Maine to Fidel: One Hundred Years of United States-Cuban Relations." College of Foreign Languages and Culture, Sichuan University. June 15, 2001.
“From the Land of the Rising Sun to the Sol of the Caribbean: Japanese Immigration to the Dominican Republic.”. The Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison. April 9, 2001.
“Slavery in the America’s: A Comparative Analysis between the United States and Latin America” discussion on racial diversity, March 2001.
System Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW-Madison, Spring Semester 2001.
"Dominican Women in Political Struggle: The Fights of Minerva Mirabal." Second International Conference on Women in the History of Latin America, Lima, Peru. October 19, 2000.
Awards:
University Scholar Award, 2006
Contributing editor for the Handbook of Latin American Studies and library's consultant, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress, 2005.
The Eugene Katz Letters and Science Distinguished Faculty Award - 2005