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 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
2011-12 Susan Branson Syracuse University Associate Professor Animal Magnetism: Science and Pseudo-science in American Society, 1800-1860
2011-12 Benjamin Cooper Lecturer Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience
2011-12 John Leary Wayne State University Assistant Professor A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination
2011-12 Hannah Farber University of California, Berkeley PhD Candidate The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic
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 Britt M. Rusert Temple University Postdoctoral Fellow Experiments in Freedom: Black Popular Science and the Struggle against Slavery
2011-12 Julien Mauduit Université du Québec à Montréal PhD Candidate 'Locofocoism' and the Canadian Revolution (1837-1842): from a selection of pamphlets, newspapers, and other printed materials
2011-12 Jonathan Nash State University of New York, Albany PhD Candidate 'Not the best company': Children and Incarceration in the Early United States, 1787-1850