News & Announcements
November 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 Painter, “Women’s Defiance in Late Imperial China,” Ph.D. History University of Chicago, 2023, Assistant Professor of East Asian History, SUNY.
Ayse Polat, “Statelessness, Ottoman Empire 1850-1900,” Ph.D. History, University of Cambridge, 2023, Postdoctoral Fellow Cornell University (2024-26).
Alexander Williams, “Elite Corporate Lawyers’ Role in the Polical Economy of Capitalism since the late 19th century in India,” Ph.D. History candidate, Yale (expected 2027).
Cromwell Early Career Fellowship Recipients
Thalia Chrysanthis, Unexpected Soldiers: Civil War Militaries and Gender Multiplicity in the Ranks
Aaron Freedman, The Securities State: Washington and the Making of Modern Wall Street, 1979-1992
Hannah Hicks, In Her Defense: Women and the Criminal Courts in the Post-Civil War U.S. South
Madison Ogletree, A Peculiar Freedom: Law, Free People of Color, and the Making of the Old South, 1790-1860
Alex Reiss-Sorokin, Trust in Search: Credibility and Doubt in Legal Research Technologies
Hannah Reynolds, Gendering Settler Property: Women, Families, and the Political Economy of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Land Policy
Joseph Wrobleski, Wabanaki Legalities and the Making of Property on the Maritime Peninsula, 1620 – Present: Survivance, Sovereignty, and the Contest for Land
Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars
Tanner Allread, “‘This Series of Strong Laws’: Choctaw Governance and the Rise of Indigenous Constitutionalism, 1826-1830”
Will Holub-Moorman, “Policing Parenthood: Child Support Law and the Enforcement of Austerity in Late Twentieth-Century America.”