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
1997-98 Bret Carroll University of Texas, Arlington Visiting Assistant Professor Religion and Masculinity in Antebellum America
1997-98 Elaine Jackson-Retondo University of California, Berkeley PhD Candidate The Penitentiary as an Artifact of the Cultural Landscape: A Comparative Analysis, 1780-1860
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 Susan Ryan University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill PhD Candidate Race and the Language Benevolence in Antebellum America
1997-98 Seth Cotlar Northwestern University PhD Candidate In Paine's Absence: The Europeanization of American Political Thought, 1787-1803
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 Carolyn Eastman Johns Hopkins University PhD Candidate A Nation of Speechiers: Oratory, Print, and the Making of Gendered American Public, 1780-1850
1997-98 Richard Rath Brandeis University PhD Candidate North American Soundways, 1600-1800