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
2008-09 Ellen Gruber Garvey New Jersey City University Associate Professor Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake American Print Culture.
2008-09 April Masten State University of New York, Stony Brook Associate Professor The Challenge Dance: Transatlantic Exchange in Early American Popular Culture
2008-09 Monique Patenaude University of Rochester PhD Candidate Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY, 1840-1870
2008-09 Derrick R. Spires Vanderbilt University PhD Candidate Reimagining a 'Beautiful but Baneful Object': Black Writers' Theories of Citizenship and Nation in the Antebellum U.S.
2008-09 Jane Merritt Old Dominion University Associate Professor The Trouble with Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy
2008-09 Brian Carroll University of Connecticut PhD Candidate "Military Masculinities in New England: Anglo-American and Native-American Soldiers, 1689-1763."
2008-09 Sari Edelstein Brandeis University PhD Candidate The Novel & the News: Women and the Politics of U.S. Print Culture before 1900.
2008-09 Nicole Eustace New York University Assistant Professor War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812
2007-08 Richard Bell University of Maryland Assistant Professor The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade
2007-08 Daniel Kilbride John Carroll University Associate Professor The Grand Tour: European Travelers and American National Identities, 1750-1870