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
January 15, 2025 - 12:00pm
Date
Name
Affiliation
Position
2003-04
Renée Sentilles Case Western Reserve University
Assistant Professor
Tomboys and Other Nineteenth-Century Girls
2002-03
Michael Vorenberg Brown University
Assistant Professor
Reconstructing the People: The Invention of Citizenship During the American Civil War
2002-03
Thomas Coens Harvard University
PhD Candidate
The Formation of the Jackson Party, 1822 - 1829
2002-03
Rachel Chernos Lin Brown University
PhD Candidate
The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807
2002-03
Joycelyn K. Moody Hamilton College
Chair, Women's Studies
Silent Language: Enslaved Women and the Production of Literature without Literacy
2002-03
Brandon Johnson University of Chicago
PhD Candidate
Spirits on the Stage: Public Mediums, Spiritualist Theater, and American Culture, 1848-1893
2002-03
Sargent Bush Jr. University of Wisconsin, Madison
Professor
The Type of the Good Hearer in Puritan Theory and Practice
2002-03
Carola Wessel Georg August University of Göttingen
Research Librarian
Bibliography and Editions of German Language Broadsides Printed in North America, 1700-1830
2002-03
Philip F. Gura University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
William S. Newman Distinguished Professor
Guitars for all America: C.F. Martin (1796-1873) and the 19th Century Music Trade
2002-03
Honor Sachs University of Wisconsin, Madison
PhD Candidate
The Best Poor Woman's Country: Women, Gender, and Politics in the Eighteenth-century Kentucky Backcountry