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
January 15, 2025 - 12:00pm
Date
Name
Affiliation
Position
2020-21
Zachary Turpin
University of Idaho
Assistant Professor of English
A Targeted Archival Search for Walt Whitman’s Missing Novels
2020-21
Timothy Fosbury
University of California, Los Angeles
PhD Candidate in English
Persistent Futures of Bermudas Past
2020-21
Lindsay Keiter
Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
Assistant Professor of History
Uniting Interests: Love, Money, and the Law in American Marriage, 1750-1860
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
Kimberly Takahata
Columbia University
PhD Candidate in English and Literature
Skeletal Testimony: Bony Biopolitics in the Early Atlantic
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
Alex Leslie
Rutgers University
PhD Candidate in Literature
Reading Regions: American Literature and Cultural Geography, 1865-1915
2019-20
Katherine Bergren
Trinity College
Professor of English
Ordinary Transatlanticism: Anonymous Parodies of Romantic Poetry from the Caribbean and U.S.
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
Lindsey Grubbs
Emory University
PhD Candidate in English
Moral Disorders: The Diagnostic Logic of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine