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
1993-94 Janice Simon University of Georgia Assistant Professor The Forest Interior in American Painting, 1840-00
1993-94 Barbara Wojtusik Eastern High School, Bristol, CT Teacher The Somers Mutiny
1993-94 Russell Handsman Litchfield, CT Independent Scholar Challenging the Silences in New England History: John Milton Earle and the Indian People of Massachusetts
1993-94 Katherine Chavigny University of Chicago PhD Candidate American Confessions: The Formation of Antebellum Addiction Narratives
1993-94 Molly Berger Case Western Reserve University PhD Candidate Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829–1929
1993-94 Martha Burns Brown University PhD Candidate A Piano in the Parlor: Music and Gentility in America 1790-1860
1993-94 Kenneth Haltman Bryn Mawr College Postdoctoral Fellow The Invention of Ethnographic Portraiture
1993-94 Jill M. Lepore Yale University PhD Candidate Commemorating Cruelty: Writing and Remembering King Philip's War, 1675-76
1993-94 Scott A. Sandage Rutgers University PhD Candidate Deadbeats, Drunkards, and Dreamers: The Problem of Failure in Nineteenth Century America
1992-93 Michael Bellesiles Emory University Assistant Professor The Origins of American Gun Culture, 1760-1840