Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship

Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowships are for research on any topic supported by the collections. Stipends derive from the income on an endowment provided by the late Hall J. Peterson and his wife, Kate B. Peterson. This fellowship is awarded to individuals engaged in scholarly research and writing - - including doctoral dissertations - - in any field of American history and culture through 1876.

Application Deadline

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2013-14 Lincoln Mullen Brandeis University PhD Candidate Varieties of Religious Conversion
2013-14 Sean Trainor Pennsylvania State University PhD Candidate Men's Grooming Advertisements and the Making of the White Male Body
2013-14 Ryan Carr Yale University PhD Candidate Arts and Sciences of American Expression: 1820-1890
2012-13 Gloria Whiting Harvard University PhD Candidate 'Endearing Ties': Black Family Life in Early New England
2012-13 Richard Bell University of Maryland Assistant Professor The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade
2012-13 Patrick Luck Johns Hopkins University PhD Candidate The Creation of a Deep South: Making the Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1790-1825
2012-13 Christopher Apap Oakland University Special Lecturer The Genius of the Place
2012-13 Christina Snyder Indiana University, Bloomington Assistant Professor The Indian Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America
2012-13 Mikki Smith University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign PhD Candidate Even a Boy's Press Has a 'Power': Amateur Journalism and Youth Information Culture, 1867-1890
2012-13 Mark Thompson University of Groningen Assistant Professor Surveyors and the Production of Empire in British North America