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
2007-08 Valerie McKito Texas Tech University PhD Candidate In the Shadow of Victory: Loyalists in the Aftermath of the Revolution
2007-08 Nancy G. Isenberg University of Tulsa Associate Professor Dirty Politics in Early America
2007-08 Daniel Kilbride John Carroll University Associate Professor The Grand Tour: European Travelers and American National Identities, 1750-1870
2007-08 Lisa Tetrault Carnegie Mellon University Assistant Professor Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1895
2007-08 Amanda Bilby Johns Hopkins University PhD Candidate Letters, Recipes, and Gifts: Exploring Transatlantic Female Alliances within the Pollard and Salisbury Families
2007-08 Jonathan Gross DePaul University Professor Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks: Prose Clippings
2007-08 Paul Jones Ohio University Assistant Professor The Newgate Novel Comes to America: Antebellum Crime Fiction and the Anti-Gallows Movement
2007-08 Aaron Sachs Cornell University Assistant Professor Death and Life in the American Environment: Radical Arcadias of the Nineteenth Century
2007-08 Lily Santoro University of Delaware PhD Candidate The Science of God's Creation: Popular Science and Christianity in the Early Republic
2007-08 Sarah Purcell Grinnell College Associate Professor The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War