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
1994-95 Katherine Grant Yale University PhD Candidate The Lyceum Movement in America, 1826-1890
1994-95 Martin Burke University College, Galway Lecturer Signs of the Cross: Protestants, Catholics, and the Construction of Religious Identities in America, 1700-1800
1994-95 Pamela Schirmeister New York University Assistant Professor A Cultural Biography of James Fenimore Cooper
1994-95 Sally Hadden University of Toledo Associate Professor Slave Patrols of the Old South and Newspapers as Disseminators of Legal Information
1994-95 Elise Lemire Rutgers University PhD Candidate Discourses of Miscegenation in United States, 1800-1865
1994-95 Stephen Middleton North Carolina State University Associate Professor The Black Laws of Ohio
1994-95 James R. Raven Magdalene College, Cambridge University Director The Importation of Books to North America in the Eighteenth Century
1994-95 Rebecca Tannenbaum Yale University PhD Candidate A Woman's Calling: Women's Medical Practice in Early New England
1994-95 Marla R. Miller University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill PhD Candidate `My Daily Bread Depends Upon My Labor': Gender and Artisanry in Early America
1993-94 Russell Duncan John Carroll University Assistant Professor Joshua Fights the Civil War: James Montgomery, 'Bleeding Kansas,' and Black Equality