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
1987-88 Wendy Greenhouse Yale University PhD Candidate Tudors and Stuarts in Antebellum America
1987-88 Karl Kroeger University of Colorado, Boulder Music Librarian The Complete Works of William Billings
1987-88 Jean M. O'Brien University of Chicago PhD Candidate Community Dynamics in the Indian-English Town of Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790
1987-88 Bradley Dean University of Connecticut PhD Candidate Thoreau as Lecturer
1987-88 Catherine E. Kelly University of Rochester PhD Candidate Mothers and Daughters: Intergenerational Conflict and Continuity, 1820-39
1987-88 Paula Backscheider University of Rochester Associate Professor A Biography of Daniel Defoe
1987-88 Karen Halttunen Northwestern University Associate Professor Murder and the Gothic Imagination in American Culture
1987-88 William Ward Professor Emeritus An International History of the Great Awakening
1987-88 Julie Winch University of Massachusetts, Boston Assistant Professor American Free Black and Emigration to Haiti in the 1820's
1986-87 Curtis Hinsley Colgate University Associate Professor Anthropology in Boston, 1860-20