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
1993-94 Rutgers University PhD Candidate Deadbeats, Drunkards, and Dreamers: The Problem of Failure in Nineteenth Century America
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
1992-93 Ellen Westbrook Southern Mississippi University Assistant Professor Cultural Captives: Euro Amer Indian Literary Landscapes
1992-93 Michael Clapper Northwestern University PhD Candidate The 'Popular' and 'Elite' Disjunction in Art in the United States after the Civil War
1992-93 Sally Griffith Villanova University Associate Professor Boosterism in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers
1992-93 Russell L. Martin III University of Virginia PhD Candidate Almanacs of the Southern States, 1732-1860
1992-93 Ann Bowden University of Texas, Austin Ransom Scholar A Descriptive and Historical Bibliography of Sir Walter Scott, 1792-1836
1992-93 Marcus Daniel Princeton University PhD Candidate Ribaldry and Billingsgate: Popular Journalism and Political Culture in the Early Republic
1992-93 College of William and Mary PhD Candidate Ship of Wealth: New England Merchants, Colonial Capitalism, and the Rhetoric of Money