ASLH
Cromwell Fellowships: DEADLINE EXTENDED to JULY 20
In
2018, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation will make available a number of
$5,000 fellowship awards to support research and writing in American legal
history by early-career scholars. Early career generally includes those
researching or writing a PhD dissertation (or equivalent project) and recent
recipients of a graduate degree working on their first major monograph or
research project. The number of awards made is at the discretion of the
Foundation. In the past several years, the trustees of the Foundation have made
five to nine awards.
Application
Process for 2018
The
Committee for Research Fellowships and Awards of the American Society for Legal
History (ASLH) reviews the applications and makes recommendations to the
Foundation. (The Cromwell Foundation was established in 1930 to promote and
encourage scholarship in legal history, particularly in the colonial and early
national periods of the United States. The Foundation has supported the
publication of legal records as well as historical monographs.)
Applicants
should submit a description of their proposed project (double-spaced, maximum 6
pages including notes; include a working title), a budget, a timeline, and a
short c.v. (no longer than 3 pages). The budget and timeline can be part of the
Project Description or separate. (There is no application form.) Two letters of
recommendation from academic referees should be sent directly to the Selection
Committee via email attachment, preferably as .pdf files. Applications must be
submitted electronically (preferably in one .pdf file) no later than
midnight July 20, 2018.
Please
send all materials to the Selection Committee at <email>.
§ Your application
should make clear the relevance of law to your project. The most successful
applicants demonstrate how law (broadly construed) is at the center of their
projects, and how their research will tell us something new about law.
§ Your
proposal should engage with relevant scholarship in the field. While this
discussion can be brief, the most successful applicants explain how their
projects tell us something new.
§ Your
application should have a clear budget that is specific about how and where you
plan to spend research funds.
§ You will
receive a confirmation email within a few days of submitting your application;
if you do not receive such an email, please follow up.
Successful
applicants will be notified by early November. An announcement of the awards
will also be made at the annual meeting of the American Society of Legal
History.
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