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
2018-19 Jamie Bolker Fordham University PhD Candidate in English Lost and Found: Wayfinding in Early American Literature and Culture
2017-18 Kevin Butterfield University of Oklahoma Associate Professor The Great Excitement
2017-18 Hannah Anderson University of Pennsylvania PhD Candidate Lived Botany: Domesticity, Settler Colonialism, and Ecological Adaption in Early British North America
2017-18 Kristen Beales College of William and Mary PhD Candidate Religion and Commerce in Eighteenth-Century America
2017-18 Patrick O'Connor University of Montana PhD Candidate The Health of the State: Tobacco and the Paradox of Public Power, 1862-1933
2017-18 Kathleen Hilliard Iowa State University Associate Professor Bonds Burst Asunder: The Revolutionary Politics of Getting By in Civil War and Emancipation, 1860-1867
2017-18 Todd Thompson Indiana University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor Savage Laughter: Nineteenth-Century Humor and the South Seas
2017-18 Nancy J. Siegel Towson University Professor Political Appetites: Revolution, Taste, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic
2017-18 Dexter Gabriel University of Connecticut Assistant Professor Performing Freedom in the Mighty Experiment
2017-18 Abby Goode Plymouth State University Assistant Professor Democratic Demographics: a Literary Genealogy of American Sustainability