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
1997-98 Kevin Sheets University of Virginia PhD Candidate Latin America, the Dead Language, Schools, and the Culture of the Educated Man
1997-98 Phillip Troutman University of Virginia PhD Candidate Geographies of Family and Market: Enslaved Migration in Antebellum Virginia and Washington, DC
1997-98 Bret Carroll University of Texas, Arlington Visiting Assistant Professor Religion and Masculinity in Antebellum America
1997-98 Andrew Burstein University of Northern Iowa Assistant Professor Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America’s Romantic Self-Image
1997-98 Seth Cotlar Northwestern University PhD Candidate In Paine's Absence: The Europeanization of American Political Thought, 1787-1803
1997-98 Carolyn Eastman Johns Hopkins University PhD Candidate A Nation of Speechiers: Oratory, Print, and the Making of Gendered American Public, 1780-1850
1997-98 Nancy Newman Brown University PhD Candidate Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society in the United States, 1848-1854
1997-98 Joanne Passet University of Wisconsin, Madison PhD Candidate The American Debate on Marriage: Religion, Gender, and Social Radicalism, 1850-1900
1997-98 PhD Candidate North American Soundways, 1600-1800
1997-98 Susan Ryan University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill PhD Candidate Race and the Language Benevolence in Antebellum America