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
2010-11 Sarah Keyes University of Southern California PhD Candidate Circling Back: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of America, 1820-1900
2010-11 University of Michigan PhD Candidate Women and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Culture Industry
2010-11 Christopher Pastore University of New Hampshire PhD Candidate From Sweetwater to Seawater; An Environmental and Atlantic History of Narragansett Bay, 1636-1836
2010-11 Aaron Marrs U.S. Department of State Historian Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution
2010-11 Elizabeth Pryor Smith College Assistant Professor The United States Itinerancy of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, 1812-1840
2010-11 Sara E. Lampert University of Michigan PhD Candidate Women and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Culture Industry
2010-11 University of Mississippi Assistant Professor A Cultural History of Afflictions and Consolation in Early New England
2009-10 Jennifer Wilson CUNY Graduate Center PhD Candidate Performing Frenchness in Nineteenth-Century New York and New Orleans: Francois Boieldieu's 'La Dame Blanche'; Daniel Auber's 'La Muette de Portici'; and Giacomo Meyerbeer's 'Robert le Diable' and 'Les Huguenots'
2009-10 Jeffrey Malanson Boston College PhD Candidate Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852
2009-10 Wendy Roberts Northwestern University PhD Candidate Revival Poetry and the Formation of the Evangelical Ear in Eighteenth-Century America