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
2022-23 Jean Franzino Boston College Visiting Assistant Professor of English Dis-Union: Disability, Narrative, and the American Civil War
2022-23 Molly Farrell Ohio State University Associate Professor of English New World Calculation: The Making of Numbers in Colonial America
2022-23 Alexandra Finley University of Pittsburgh Assistant Professor of History Forced to Work for Her Own Support: Financial Panic in the Household Economy
2022-23 Paul Polgar University of Mississippi Associate Professor of History An Abolition Peace: Black Rights, the Union Cause, and the Rise of Radical Reconstruction
2022-23 Edu Levati The American School of São Paulo High School Teacher of Historia Social Hemispheric Negotiations: The United States Recognition of Brazilian Independence
2022-23 Travis Foster` Villanova University Associate Professor of English & Gender and Women's Studies Womanish: Variant Femininities Before Gay and Trans
2020-21 Anna Todd University of Pennsylvania PhD Candidate in History The Ties that Bind: Illegitimacy in Early America
2020-21 Yiyun Huang University of Tennessee, Knoxville PhD Candidate in History The Chinese Origins of Medicinal Tea: Global Cultural Transfer and a Vast Early America
2020-21 Holly Gruntner College of William and Mary PhD Candidate in History 'some people of skil and curiosity': Knowledge and Labor in Early American Gardens, 1650-1820
2020-21 Jerrad Pacatte Rutgers University PhD Candidate in History Fit for Town and Country: African American Women, Labor, and the Pursuit of Freedom in New England, 1740-1850