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
2000-01 JoAnne Thomas Western Michigan University PhD Candidate 'Good Bye, Old Arm': Songs of the Civil War
2000-01 Krystyn Moon Johns Hopkins University PhD Candidate From 'John Chinaman' to 'Japanese Sandman': China and Japan in American Music, 1850-1920
2000-01 Benjamin Irvin Brandeis University PhD Candidate Representative Men: A Cultural History of the Continental Congress
2000-01 William van Arragon Indiana University PhD Candidate Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory, 1728-1892
2000-01 Udo J. Hebel University of Regensburg Chair Forefathers' Day Orations and Celebrations between the American Revolution and the Civil War
1999-00 Cindy Lobel CUNY Graduate Center PhD Candidate Consuming Classes: Food, Eating, and Images of Consumption in the United States, 1790-1860
1999-00 Christopher Grasso College of William and Mary Associate Professor Skepticism and American Faith: The Early Nineteenth Century
1999-00 Rafia M. Zafar Washington University in St. Louis Associate Professor of History 'And Called it Macaroni': Eating, Writing, Becoming American
1999-00 Laura Schiavo George Washington University PhD Candidate A Collection of Endless Extent and Beauty: Stereographs, Perception, Taste, and the American Middle Class
1999-00 Kate Haulman Cornell University PhD Candidate The Empire's New Clothes: The Politics of Dress in America, 1765-1820