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
2019-20 Gerard Holmes University of Maryland PhD Candidate in English 'Discretion in the Interval': Emily Dickinson’s Musical Performances
2018-19 Rachael Pasierowska Rice University PhD Candidate in History Beasts, Birds, and Bondsmen: Animal and Slave Interactions in Atlantic World Slavery
2018-19 Camden Burd University of Rochester PhD Candidate in History The Ornament of Empire: Nurserymen and the Making of the American Landscape
2018-19 Kate McIntyre Columbia University PhD Candidate in English Fugitive Circulations: The Political Ecology of Poetry in Early African-American Newspapers
2018-19 Justin Tackett Stanford University PhD Candidate in English Investigating the Poetics of American Stethoscopy and Telegraphy
2018-19 Jamie Bolker Fordham University PhD Candidate in English Lost and Found: Wayfinding in Early American Literature and Culture
2018-19 Peter Jaros Franklin & Marshall College Associate Professor of English Incorporate Things: A Literary Genealogy of Corporate Personhood in Antebellum America
2018-19 Madeline Kearin Ryan Brown University PhD Candidate in Anthropology The Sensory Ecology of the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane
2018-19 Trent MacNamara Texas A&M University Assistant Professor of History Big Sky: Popular Ideas about the Heavens in America
2018-19 Nikki Hessell Victoria University of Wellington Associate Professor of English Sensitive Negotiations: Romantic Literature and Indigenous Diplomacy, 1820-1950