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June 12, 2021

2021 Hurst Institute

The ASLH announces the early career scholars selected to participate in the 2021 J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History:

Lauren Catterson (Hendrik Hartog/Princeton University Fellow), PhD candidate, University of Toronto
Jon Connolly (Morton Horwitz Fellow), Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
Hardeep Dhillon (Harry Scheiber Fellow), ABF-NSF Post-Doctoral Fellow in Law and Inequality
Zachary Herz (Charles McCurdy/University of Virginia Law School Fellow), Assistant Professor, University of Colorado.
Naama Maor (Mary Frances Berry Fellow), Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Ángela Pérez-Villa (Rebecca Scott Fellow), Assistant Professor, Western Michigan University
Sarath Pillai (Hurst Alumni Fellow), PhD candidate, University of Chicago
Jake Subryan Richards (David Seipp Fellow in English Legal History), Assistant Professor, London School of Economics
Geneva Smith (Robert Gordon Fellow), PhD candidate, Princeton
Lila Teeters (William Nelson Fellow), PhD candidate, University of New Hampshire
Lauren MacIvor Thompson (Reva Siegel Fellow), lecturer, Perimeter College
Kent Weber (Barbara Welke Fellow), post-doctoral fellow, Dartmouth

The Hurst Institute will be co-directed this year by Lauren Benton, Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law at Yale University, and Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

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