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
2024-25 Damien Rousseliere Institut Agro Professor Accounting, Remuneration and Labor Conflicts in 19th American Utopian Communities: A comparison between Northampton Association of Education and Industry and other Communes
2024-25 Mindy L. Buchanan-King University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature (Un)Veiling Disease: Women’s Breast Cancer and Concealed Diagnoses
2024-25 Abby Clayton Indiana University, Bloomington PhD Candidate in English Narrating Abolition: Scissors-and-Paste Reform in the Emerging Anglosphere
2024-25 Hunter Davis Moskowitz Northeastern University PhD Candidate in World History Labor and Race in the Global Textile Industry: Lowell, Concord and Monterrey in the Early 19th Century
2024-25 Amy Earhart Texas A&M University Associate Professor of English The Millican Massacre: Newspaper Transmission and Extension of Reconstruction Racial Violence
2024-25 Wyatt Erchak Carnegie Mellon University PhD Candidate in History Private Wrongs: A Hidden History of the American Civil War’s First Black Union Regiment
2024-25 Li-hsin Hsu National Chengchi University Professor Racial and Ecological Intimacies in the Mid-nineteenth-century Atlantic Silk Imagination
2024-25 Jennifer W. Reiss University of Pennsylvania PhD Candidate in History Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America
2023-24 Kathryn Angelica University of Connecticut PhD Candidate in History An Uneasy Alliance: Cooperation and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Black and White Women's Activism
2023-24 Samantha Plasencia Colby College Assistant Professor of English Signifying Against Anti-Blackness: Black Rhetorical Communities in Early America 1760-1830