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
2005-06 Nian-Sheng Huang California State University, Channel Islands Associate Professor The Poor in Early Massachusetts, 1630-1830
2005-06 Maria Bollettino University of Texas, Austin PhD Candidate Slaves and Slavery in the Seven Years' War
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 Matthew Wittmann University of Michigan PhD Candidate American Popular Culture and the Pacific World in the Nineteenth-Century
2004-05 Peter Leavenworth University of New Hampshire PhD Candidate "Confrontations of Taste: American vs. European Standards of Music Aesthetics in the Early Republic"
2004-05 David Gellman DePauw University Assistant Professor "Liberty's Legacy: The Jay Family and the Problems of American Freedom"
2004-05 Vicki Hsueh Western Washington University Assistant Professor Hybrid Constitutionalism: Negotiating Constitutions and Cultures in the Proprietary Colonies, 1625-1690
2004-05 Angela Pulley Hudson Yale University PhD Candidate Indians, Slaves, and Surveyors on the Federal Road, 1790s-1840s
2004-05 Phyllis Cole Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County Professor Feminist Writers and the Periodical Press in Antebellum America
2004-05 Christopher W. Phillips University of Cincinnati Associate Professor South of North: The Civil War on the Middle Border