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October 22, 2023
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November 29, 2025
ASLH Article Prize Winners 2025
The William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize Aaron Hall, “Bad Roads: Building and Using a Carceral Landscape in the Plantation South,” Journal of American History 111, no. 3 (2024): 469-96. Aaron Hall’s “Bad Roads” traces the making, significance, and effects of ordinary public ways that ran through the South in the… Keep ReadingNovember 29, 2025
Early Career Fellowships & Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars 2025
Early Career Global Legal History Research Fellowship Recipients Shachar Gannot, “Defending the Indefensible: Nazi Defense Attorneys in the Post-War Era,” Ph.D. History candidate Princeton (expected 2028). Aden Knapp, “Judging Empires: International Court of Justice and Decolonization 1945-71,” Ph.D. History, Harvard, 2023, Postdoctoral Fellow Yale University (2024-26). Stephanie… Keep ReadingNovember 24, 2025
ASLH Book Prize Winners – 2025
The Peter Gonville Stein Book Award Matthew Sommer, The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press, 2024) Looking back at a lifelong engagement with Chinese legal history in the Ming and Qing dynasties, with a special focus on gender and sexuality,… Keep Reading