News & Announcements

June 30, 2017

2017 ACLS Fellowship Recipients from the American Society for Legal History

We are very pleased to announce the 2017 cohort of ACLS fellowship recipients from among the members of the ASLH.

 

Chazkel, Amy – ACLS Fellowship Program Associate Professor, History, City University of New York, Queens College

Urban Chiaroscuro: Rio de Janeiro and the Politics of Nightfall

 

Gross, Ariela J. – ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship Professor, Law and History, University of Southern California

Comparing Law, Slavery, Race and Freedom in the Americas: Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia, 1500-1868

 

Nolan, Rachel – Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Doctoral Candidate, History, New York University

“Children for Export”: A History of International Adoption from Guatemala

 

Schmitt, Casey – Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Doctoral Candidate, History, College of William & Mary

Bound among Nations: Labor Coercion in the Early Seventeenth-Century Caribbean

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