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 Philippa Koch University of Chicago Divinity School PhD Candidate Persistent Providence: Religion and Epidemics in Eighteenth-Century America
2013-14 Marco Marin University of Trieste Postdoctoral Fellow The Political Catechisms for Schools and Children in the United State, 1790-1850
2013-14 Greta LaFleur University of Hawai'I, Manoa Assistant Professor American Insides: Popular Narrative and the Historiography of Sexuality, 1674-1815
2012-13 Randi Lewis University of Virginia PhD Candidate To 'the most distant parts of the Globe': Trade, Politics, and the Maritime Frontier in the Early Republic, 1763-1819
2012-13 Christopher Apap Oakland University Special Lecturer The Genius of the Place
2012-13 Christine Croxall University of Delaware PhD Candidate Holy Waters: Lived Religion, Identity, and Loyalty along the Mississippi River, 1780-1830
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 Christina Snyder Indiana University, Bloomington Assistant Professor The Indian Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America
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 Mark Thompson University of Groningen Assistant Professor Surveyors and the Production of Empire in British North America