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 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
1998-99 Louis P. Masur City College of New York Professor The American Republic in 1831
1998-99 James Rixey Ruffin University of Delaware PhD Candidate William Bentley and the Politics of Rational Religion, 1783-1800
1998-99 Steven B. Stoll Yale University Assistant Professor Larding the Lean Earth: Agriculture and the Environment in America, 1800-1850
1998-99 W Lhamon Florida State University George M. Harper Professor Jump Jim Crow: Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture
1997-98 Alan Ruffman Geomarine Associates Ltd. President Historic Meterology and the 1775 Hurricane
1997-98 Harvey Green Northeastern University Professor Myth and History in American Literary and Material Culture, 1850-10
1997-98 Michael Joseph Rutgers University Librarian McLoughlin Bros, 1858-1878