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
2014-15 Ben Bascom University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign PhD Candidate in English State Affects and Republican Properties: Feeling Wrongly in the Early United States
2014-15 Carol Faulkner Syracuse University Associate Professor of History The End of Marriage: Adultery in Nineteenth-Century America
2014-15 RJ Boutelle Vanderbilt University PhD Candidate in English Transamerican Visions of Freedom and the Circuits of U.S. Abolitionism
2013-14 Emahunn Campbell University of Massachusetts, Amherst PhD Candidate The Construction of the Black Criminal
2013-14 Philippa Koch University of Chicago Divinity School PhD Candidate Persistent Providence: Religion and Epidemics in Eighteenth-Century America
2013-14 Marco Marin University of Trieste Postdoctoral Fellow The Political Catechisms for Schools and Children in the United State, 1790-1850
2013-14 Greta LaFleur University of Hawai'I, Manoa Assistant Professor American Insides: Popular Narrative and the Historiography of Sexuality, 1674-1815
2013-14 Nicholas Guyatt Assistant Professor The Scale of Beings and the Prehistory of 'separate but equal'
2013-14 Andrew Fagal Binghamton University PhD Candidate The Political Economy of War in the Early American Republic
2013-14 Ryan Carr Yale University PhD Candidate Arts and Sciences of American Expression: 1820-1890