ABOUT

Hannah Peckham is a historian of 20th century U.S. political and diplomatic history. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Notre Dame in 2024. Her research project, American Outposts, a history of the growth and transformation of American colleges and universities in Asia and the Middle East, won the John Highbarger Memorial Award for best dissertation from the Notre Dame Department of History. She is currently revising her dissertation into a book, as well as developing an additional book-length project on the life and career of Anson Phelps Stokes, Yale administrator, Episcopal priest, and head of the Phelps-Stokes Fund.

Her research has been supported by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts’s Graduate Research Opportunity Program (GROP), the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame, the Presbyterian Historical Society, the Boston Athenaeum and the American Congregational Association, among others.

Hannah also holds an AB from Duke University, where she graduated with honors in history, and a MAR in American religious history from Yale University’s divinity school. While at Yale, she received the Mary Cady Tew Prize for exceptional ability in the first year of study, and was a junior fellow at the MacMillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Society.

In addition to her academic pursuits, Hannah is an experienced higher education professional, with a background in fellowships advising and research administration. She currently serves as a Pre-Award Program Manager at Notre Dame Research. Previously, while completing her PhD, Hannah was a Fellowships Consultant for the Office of Grants and Fellowships at Notre Dame’s graduate school. She was a member of the internal selection committee for the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship, served on the committee for the Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) National Fellowship Program in 2020, and was a member of the Graduate Student Career Student Advisory Team at the Meruelo Family Center for Career Development. Before Notre Dame, she worked at Yale School of Medicine and taught history and literature at a prep school in Arizona.

She lives in the New York metro area with her family.