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 Aaron Marrs U.S. Department of State Historian Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution
2009-10 Yvette Piggush Florida International University Assistant Professor We Have No Ruins: Antiquarianism, Archives, and National Identity in the United States, 1790-1840
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 Hélène Quanquin Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris Associate Professor 'With feebler voices?' Men and the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890
2009-10 John Huffman Harvard University PhD Candidate Documents of Identity in the Early Republic
2009-10 Wendy Roberts Northwestern University PhD Candidate Revival Poetry and the Formation of the Evangelical Ear in Eighteenth-Century America
2009-10 James Snead George Mason University Associate Professor The 'Kentucky Mummy': Encounters with Antiquity in the Early Nineteenth-Century America
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 Joseph Bonica Middle Tennessee State University Visiting Assistant Professor Open Secrets: The Cultural Politics of Secrecy and the Formation of the Early American Republic