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.

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Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2006-07 Gabriel Loiacono Brandeis University PhD Candidate The People and the Poor: Experiences and Ideas of Poverty in Rhode Island, 1780-1888
2006-07 Nicholas Wrightson Jesus College, Oxford University PhD Candidate Locating Philadelphia in the Print Culture of the British Atlantic World, c. 1730-65
2006-07 James Lundberg Yale University PhD Candidate Reading Horace Greeley's America, 1834-1872
2006-07 Ruma Chopra University of California, Davis PhD Candidate Loyalist Persuasions: New York City, 1776-1783
2006-07 Eric Stoykovich University of Virginia PhD Candidate Live Stock Nation: How Farm Animals Domesticated the Northern United States during the Early Republic, 1794-1876
2006-07 Margaret Nash University of California, Riverside Assistant Professor Higher Education for Women and the Formation of Gender, Class, and Race Identity in the United States, 1840-1875
2006-07 Polly Ha Cambridge University PhD Candidate The Decalogue and Formation of Denomination
2006-07 Martha Schoolman Miami University Assistant Professor American Abolitionist Geographies
2006-07 Eleanor McConnell Brandeis University PhD Candidate A Scarce Plenty: Economics, Citizenship, and Opportunity in Revolutionary New Jersey, 1760-1820
2006-07 Catherine Thompson University of Connecticut PhD Candidate From Autonomy to Dependency?: Patient-Physician Relations, 1750-1850