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
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
1995-96 Catherine A. Allgor Yale University PhD Candidate Political Parties: Society and Politics in Washington City, 1800-1832
1995-96 Mary Beth Sievens Boston University PhD Candidate Stray Wives: Marital Expectations and Conflict in Vermont 1790-1830
1995-96 Jean Silver-Isenstadt University of Pennsylvania PhD Candidate Pure Pleasure: The Shared Life and Work of Mary S. Gove Nichols and Thomas Low Nichols in American Health Reform
1995-96 Jeffrey D. Groves Harvey Mudd College Associate Professor Ticknor and Fields: Literary Promotion and American Canon Formation, 1840-1865
1995-96 Karen Halttunen University of California, Davis Professor Jacob's Pillows: Natural History and Memory in the Making of New England
1995-96 Washington State University, Pullman Professor Anthony Burns, Fugitive Slave