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 Molly Farrell Ohio State University Associate Professor of English New World Calculation: The Making of Numbers in Colonial America
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 Alexandra Finley University of Pittsburgh Assistant Professor of History Forced to Work for Her Own Support: Financial Panic in the Household Economy
2022-23 Eva Landsberg Yale University PhD Candidate The Politics of Sugar in the 18th-Century British Atlantic
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 Michael Schoeppner University of Maine, Farmington Associate Professor of History The First Illegal Immigrants
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 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
2020-21 Timothy Fosbury University of California, Los Angeles PhD Candidate in English Persistent Futures of Bermudas Past
2020-21 Lindsay Keiter Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Assistant Professor of History Uniting Interests: Love, Money, and the Law in American Marriage, 1750-1860