News & Announcements

June 10, 2013

Awards for 2012

At the 2012 annual meeting, the president announced the following awards: Rebecca Scott (University of Michigan) had been awarded the Surrency Prize; James Oldham (Georgetown University), the Sutherland Prize; Daniel J. Sharfstein (Vanderbilt University), the Cromwell Book Prize; Laura M. Weinrib (Princeton University), the Cromwell Dissertation Prize; David Freeman Engstrom (Stanford University), the Cromwell Article Prize; and Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Harvard University), the Reid Book Award.

Sam Lebovic (Rutgers University) received a Paul L. Murphy Award.

Cromwell Fellowships were awarded to: James Allison (University of Virginia), Anne Fleming (University of Pennsylvania), Hidetaka Hirota (Boston College), Ryan Johnson (University of Minnesota), and Suzanne Kahn (Columbia University).

Sarah Levine-Gronningsater (University of Chicago) and Taisu Zhang (Yale University) were designated Preyer Scholars.

Chris Waldrep received the Craig Joyce Medal.

Recent News

  • 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 Reading
  • 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… Keep Reading
  • November 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