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
1988-89 Lydia Schurman Northern Virginia Community College Professor Publishers, Publications, and Purveyors: The Dime Novel Publishing World, 1860-15
1988-89 John Wolffe York College Lecturer Aspects of Anti Catholicism in the United States, 1830-60
1988-89 Karen Hansen University of California, Berkeley PhD Candidate The Social Dimension of Laborers' Lives, 1810-60
1988-89 Burton Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Associate Professor A Language Event: The Middle Classes in American History, 1828-19
1988-89 Faye Dudden Union College Assistant Professor Gender in Performance: Women in the American Theater, 1790-1870
1988-89 David Jaffee CUNY Assistant Professor People of the Wachusett: Town Founders and Village Historians of New England, 1630-1860
1988-89 Rosalind Remer University of California, Los Angeles PhD Candidate Philadelphia Publishers in the New Republic
1988-89 Joseph S. Wood George Mason University Associate Professor The Literary Origins of New England Village Symobolism
1988-89 Carla G. Pestana Ohio State University Assistant Professor Sectarianism in Colonial Massachusetts
1987-88 Mary Rhinelander McCarl Boston University PhD Candidate More Confessions of Thomas Shepard's Cambridge Parishioners, 1648-49