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
2020-21 Yiyun Huang University of Tennessee, Knoxville PhD Candidate in History The Chinese Origins of Medicinal Tea: Global Cultural Transfer and a Vast Early America
2020-21 Anna Todd University of Pennsylvania PhD Candidate in History The Ties that Bind: Illegitimacy in Early America
2020-21 Jerrad Pacatte Rutgers University PhD Candidate in History Fit for Town and Country: African American Women, Labor, and the Pursuit of Freedom in New England, 1740-1850
2019-20 Lukas Etter University of Siegen Assistant Professor of English 'Word Problems’: Popular, Literary, and Educational Discourses on Mathematics in the Pre-Civil War United States
2019-20 Caylin Carbonell College of William and Mary PhD Candidate in History At Home in My Master’s House: Household, Labor, and Authority in Early New England
2019-20 Sean Griffin Lehman College PhD Candidate in History Labor, Land, and Freedom: Antebellum Labor Reform and the Rise of Antislavery Politics
2019-20 Katherine Bergren Trinity College Professor of English Ordinary Transatlanticism: Anonymous Parodies of Romantic Poetry from the Caribbean and U.S.
2019-20 Kimberly Takahata Columbia University PhD Candidate in English and Literature Skeletal Testimony: Bony Biopolitics in the Early Atlantic
2019-20 Lindsey Grubbs Emory University PhD Candidate in English Moral Disorders: The Diagnostic Logic of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
2019-20 Alex Leslie Rutgers University PhD Candidate in Literature Reading Regions: American Literature and Cultural Geography, 1865-1915