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 Walter W. Woodward University of Connecticut PhD Candidate The Magic in Colonization: Religion, Science and the Occult in the Creation of New England Culture
1997-98 Nancy Newman Brown University PhD Candidate Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society in the United States, 1848-1854
1996-97 Paul Foos Yale University PhD Candidate Mexican Wars, 1835-1853: Manifest Destiny and American Society
1996-97 Megan Haley-Newman College of William and Mary PhD Candidate Pest Control Strategies and Their Social Implications in the Chesapeake Area, 1600-1800
1996-97 David W. Blight Amherst College Associate Professor Reunion and Race: The Civil War in American Memory, 1870-1915
1996-97 David Anthony University of Michigan, Ann Arbor PhD Candidate Scandalous Aesthetics: Masculine Emotion and the Birth of the Public Sphere in Antebellum America
1996-97 Sergei Zhuk Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine Associate Professor of History 'Brothers in Divorce': Quakers' Attitudes toward Sectarian Religious Groups of Early America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
1996-97 Gregory Maertz St John's University Associate Professor Goethe's Translators, Critics, and Readers in Nineteenth-Century New England
1996-97 Melissa J. Homestead University of Pennsylvania PhD Candidate Imperfect Title: Nineteenth-Century American Women Authors and Literary Property
1996-97 Rachel Wheeler Yale University PhD Candidate Forgotten Conversation: The Indian European Negotiation of Religion in the Eighteenth Century Northeast