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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-80 | Cynthia Hamilton | Manchester Metropolitan University | Senior Lecturer | Representations of the Freedmen 1861-76 | |
| Assistant Professor | Ethnology and Empire: John Russell Bartlett and the U.S./Mexico Borderlands | ||||
| University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | William S. Newman Distinguished Professor | Guitars for all America: C.F. Martin (1796-1873) and the 19th Century Music Trade | |||
| Ohio University | Assistant Professor | The Newgate Novel Comes to America: Antebellum Crime Fiction and the Anti-Gallows Movement | |||
| Grinnell College | Associate Professor | The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War | |||
| Vanderbilt University | PhD Candidate | "Reimagining a 'Beautiful but Baneful Object': Black Writers' Theories of Citizenship and Nation in the Antebellum U.S." | |||
| Yale University | PhD Candidate | African Slavery in New England, 1638-1700 |