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
1989-90 Mason Lowance Jr. University of Massachusetts, Amherst Professor Uncle Tom's Cabin and the New England Sermon Tradition
1989-90 Franciszek Lyra Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Senior Lecturer Revising the Canon of the First Two Centuries of American Literature
1989-90 Philip F. Gura University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill William S. Newman Distinguished Professor The Reverend Nathan Fiske and the Cultural Transformation of Central Massachusetts
1989-90 University of Texas, Austin Editor Publishers Trade Sales in the Nineteeth Century United States
1989-90 Robert Friedel University of Maryland Associate Professor Documenting Changes in Household Materials, 1800-87
1988-89 David Jaffee CUNY Assistant Professor People of the Wachusett: Town Founders and Village Historians of New England, 1630-1860
1988-89 Burton Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Associate Professor A Language Event: The Middle Classes in American History, 1828-19
1988-89 John Wolffe York College Lecturer Aspects of Anti Catholicism in the United States, 1830-60
1988-89 Ohio State University Assistant Professor Sectarianism in Colonial Massachusetts
1988-89 Karen Hansen University of California, Berkeley PhD Candidate The Social Dimension of Laborers' Lives, 1810-60