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
1985-86 Elizabeth Bethel Lander University Associate Professor Afro-American Responses to the First Emancipation
1985-86 Jean Friedman University of Georgia Associate Professor Families at War: Northern and Southern Communities in the Civil War
1985-86 Katherine Preston CUNY PhD Candidate Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States, 1830-65
1984-85 Robert A. Gross Amherst College Associate Professor The Ideology of Print: The Book and Social Change in America
1984-85 Michigan State University Associate Professor The Origins of American Fiction
1984-85 Richard Schwarzlose Northwestern University Associate Professor The Origins of the Newspaper Press
1984-85 Mary Beth Norton Cornell University Professor Gender in Seventeenth-Century America
1984-85 Cathy N. Davidson Michigan State University Associate Professor The Origins of American Fiction
1983-84 Richard Gildrie Austin Peay State Professor New England Clerics and Popular Civility, 1679-1740
1979-80 Cynthia Hamilton Manchester Metropolitan University Senior Lecturer Representations of the Freedmen 1861-76