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
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 Christine Croxall University of Delaware PhD Candidate Holy Waters: Lived Religion, Identity, and Loyalty along the Mississippi River, 1780-1830
2011-12 Christine M. DeLucia Yale University PhD Candidate Making Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip's War (1675-78)
2011-12 Temple University Postdoctoral Fellow Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery
2011-12 Kara French University of Michigan, Ann Arbor PhD Candidate The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America, 1780-1850
2011-12 Claire Gherini Johns Hopkins University PhD Candidate 'That Great Experiment': Plantation America and the Remaking of Medicine in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800
2011-12 Hannah Farber University of California, Berkeley PhD Candidate The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic
2011-12 Susan Branson Syracuse University Associate Professor Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860
2011-12 Britt M. Rusert Temple University Postdoctoral Fellow Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery