Frances Hiatt Fellowships were awarded from 1980-93. The fellowship was open to graduate students at work on doctoral dissertations. The funds for these fellowships derived from a gift made by Jacob Hiatt (1905-2001) of Worcester, Massachusetts, in memory of his wife Frances (d. 1980)
Fellows
| Date | Name | Affiliation | Position | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-84 | Andrea J. Tucher | New York University | PhD Candidate | Froth and Scum: Murder, News, and Murder News in the New York Penny Press, 1833-1860 | |
| 1983-84 | Harlow Sheidley | University of Connecticut | PhD Candidate | Sectional Nationalism: Massachusetts Conservatives and the Epic of New England, 1815-1836 | |
| 1982-83 | Nym Cooke | Eagle Hill School | Lives of the Psalmodists | ||
| 1982-83 | Louis P. Masur | Princeton University | PhD Candidate | The Culture of Executions in America, 1776-1860 | |
| 1981-82 | David Jaffee | Harvard University | Teaching Fellow | The Formation of a Yankee Culture | |
| 1980-81 | Beverly Held | University of Michigan | PhD Candidate | American Festivals--The Early Republican |