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.

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Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
1998-99 Jonathan Cook Portland, OR Independent Scholar The Apocalyptic Imagination in the American Renaissance
1998-99 Heather S. Nathans Tufts University PhD Candidate Avoiding Party Matters: The Boston Theatre Rivalries of the 1790's
1998-99 Betsy Homsher University of California, Santa Barbara PhD Candidate The Diaries of Sally Ripley Stearns
1998-99 Colin McCoy University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign PhD Candidate Partisans and Pamphleteers: The Literature of Persuasion in Jacksonian America, 1820-1845
1998-99 Paul J. Erickson University of Texas, Austin PhD Candidate Welcome to Sodom: The Cultural Work of the American City-Mysteries Novel, 1840-1860
1998-99 Philip F. Gura University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill William S. Newman Distinguished Professor America's Instrument: The 19th Century Banjo
1998-99 Candy Brown Harvard University PhD Candidate Salt to the World: A Cultural History of Evangelical Reading, Writing, and Publishing Practices in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America
1998-99 Leslie Butler Reed College Visiting Assistant Professor James Russell Lowell and the Cultural Politics of Antebellum American Nationalism
1998-99 Scott E. Casper University of Nevada, Reno Associate Professor First Families: Presidents at Home in the American Imagination, 1789-20
1998-99 Konstantin Dierks Brown University PhD Candidate Letter Writing, Gender, and the Middling Sort in America, 1750-1800