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
2015-16 Kabria Baumgartner College of Wooster Assistant Professor The Work of Time and Love: African American Women and Educational Activism in Early America
2014-15 Linford Fisher Harvard University PhD Candidate "The Politics of Conversion: Indian Agency, Religious Change, and Race in Southern New England, 1736-1775"
2014-15 Christopher Florio Princeton University PhD Candidate in History The Poor Always with You: Poverty in an Age of Emancipation, 1833-1877
2014-15 Joanne Wegner University of Minnesota PhD Candidate in History Captive Economies: Commodified Bodies in Colonial New England, 1630-1763
2014-15 Daniel Radus Cornell University PhD Candidate in English The Eulogy on Tour: Kinship and the Transnational History of Native New England
2014-15 Brown University PhD Candidate in History Manufacturing Advantage: The Federal Government, Diplomacy, and the Origins of American Industrialization, 1790-1840
2014-15 Drew Lopenzina Old Dominion University Assistant Professor of English Cultural Biography of William Apess
2014-15 Max Mishler New York University PhD Candidate in History Boundaries of Freedom: Abolition, Punishment, and the Atlantic Origins of Mass Incarceration
2014-15 Kelly Wisecup University of North Texas Assistant Professor of English Objects of Encounter
2014-15 Lindsay Regele Brown University PhD Candidate in History Manufacturing Advantage: The Federal Government, Diplomacy, and the Origins of American Industrialization, 1790-1840