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
1995-96 Catherine A. Allgor Yale University PhD Candidate Political Parties: Society and Politics in Washington City, 1800-1832
1995-96 Meredith L. McGill Harvard University Assistant Professor American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting Rewriting Romanticism Fashioning the Marketplace
1995-96 Stephen Rice Yale University PhD Candidate Incorporating the Machine: Labor, Fatigue, and the Problem of Self-Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Industrial America
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 Washington State University, Pullman Professor Anthony Burns, Fugitive Slave
1995-96 Assistant Attorney General Bibliography of American Masonic and Antimasonic Imprints, 1734-1850
1995-96 Albert J. von Frank Washington State University, Pullman Professor Anthony Burns, Fugitive Slave
1995-96 Kent Walgren Salt Lake City, UT Assistant Attorney General Bibliography of American Masonic and Antimasonic Imprints, 1734-1850
1994-95 April Alliston Princeton University Assistant Professor A Cultural Biography of James Fenimore Cooper