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
2017-18 Abby Goode Plymouth State University Assistant Professor Democratic Demographics: a Literary Genealogy of American Sustainability
2016-17 James Dupey Arizona State University PhD Candidate Editor as Clergy: The Power of Print in the Stone-Campbell Movement
2016-17 Mary Draper University of Virginia PhD Candidate The Urban World of the Early Modern British Caribbean
2016-17 Natalie Joy Northern Illinois University Assistant Professor of History Abolitionists and Indians in the Antebellum Era
2016-17 Jessica Farrell University of Minnesota PhD Candidate (Re)Capturing Empire: A Reconsideration of Liberia’s Precarious Sovereignty and American Empire as Exception in the Nineteenth Century
2016-17 Kirsten Fischer University of Minnesota Associate Professor of History Vitalism in America: Elihu Palmer’s Radical Religion in the Early Republic
2016-17 Sophie Heather Jones University of Liverpool PhD Candidate From Anglicization to Loyalism: New York, 1691-1783
2016-17 Jonathon Booth Harvard University PhD Candidate Criminal Law and Post-Emancipation Society in the Atlantic World
2016-17 Todd Carmody Harvard University Lecturer Racial Handicap: Uplift and Rehabilitation in Postbellum America
2016-17 Sonia Di Loreto University of Torino Associate Professor Margaret Fuller’s Transnational Archive