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
2006-07 Natasha Lightfoot New York University PhD Candidate Race, Class, and Resistance: The Aftermath of Emancipation in Antigua, 1831-1858
2005-06 Matthew Wittmann University of Michigan PhD Candidate American Popular Culture and the Pacific World in the Nineteenth-Century
2005-06 Wendy A. Woloson Library Company of Philadelphia Curator Underground Economies: People, Markets, and Used Goods in 18th- and 19th-Century America
2005-06 Maria Bollettino University of Texas, Austin PhD Candidate Slaves and Slavery in the Seven Years' War
2005-06 Nian-Sheng Huang California State University, Channel Islands Associate Professor The Poor in Early Massachusetts, 1630-1830
2005-06 Daniel Wewers Harvard University PhD Candidate Divisible Under God: American Religion, Politics, and the Idea of Secession, 1783-1833
2005-06 Anthony Szczesiul University of Massachusetts, Lowell Associate Professor Reconstructing 'Southern Hospitality': Print Culture and the Invention of a Cultural Fiction
2005-06 Wendy A. Warren Yale University PhD Candidate African Slavery in New England, 1638-1700
2005-06 Marina Moskowitz University of Glasgow Assistant Professor Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in 19th-Century America
2005-06 Timothy Helwig University of Maryland PhD Candidate Race, Nativism, and the Making of Class in Antebellum City-Mysteries