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January 21, 2021

Call for Applications: Student Research Colloquium

The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) will host a Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, November 3, and Thursday, November 4, 2021, in New Orleans, Louisiana.  The SRC annually brings eight graduate students to the site of the ASLH annual meeting to discuss their in-progress dissertations and articles, under the guidance of distinguished, ASLH-affiliated scholars.

Target applicants include early-post-coursework Ph.D. students and historically minded law students.  Students working in all chronological periods, including ancient, medieval, and early-modern history, and all geographical fields, including non-Western ones, are encouraged to apply.  Applicants who have not yet had an opportunity to interact with the ASLH are welcome, as are those who have not yet received any formal training in legal history.  A student may be on the program for the annual meeting and participate in the SRC in the same year.

Each participating student will pre-circulate a twenty-page, double-spaced, footnoted paper to the entire group.  Led by faculty directors, the group will discuss these papers at the colloquium.

The ASLH will provide at least partial and, in most cases, total reimbursement for travel, hotel, and conference-registration costs.

If you are interested, please electronically submit the following items to John Wertheimer at: srcproposals@aslh.net:

• a cover letter, describing, among other things, how far along you are and how many years remain in your course of study;
• an up-to-date CV; and
• a two-page, single-spaced research statement that begins with a title and proceeds to describe the in-progress research project that you propose to present at the colloquium.

Application deadline: June 1, 2021.