News & Announcements

November 15, 2026

Early Career Fellowships & Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars 2026

William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Fellowships

Arvind Abraham

Kasha Appleton

Courtney Bither

Alexander Cors

Christein Hammock Jones

Emily Martin

Gabriel Panucu-Mercado

Peper Rivers

Magdalene Zier

Early Career Global Legal History Research Fellowships

Becca Aponte

Julia Burke

Xincheng Hou

Olusegun Olatunji

Ka Shing So

Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars

Iqra Saleem Khan

Maia R. Silber

Recent News

November 15, 2026
ASLH Dissertation Prize Winners 2026
William Nelson Cromwell Dissertation Prize Sarah Rose Meiners, “Asylum Archipelago: Migration in the Borders of Empire in the Pacific and the Caribbean,” (Cornell). Meiners’ “Asylum Archipelago” analyzes how the United States government used extraterritorial U.S. jurisdictions to develop, implement, and enforce migration laws and policies from the 1970s to the… Keep Reading
November 15, 2026
ASLH Article Prize Winners 2026
The William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize Joe Borsato, “‘To Rule by Customes’: Powhatan Assertions of Territorial Possessions against the Virginia Company, 1607–1624,” Ethnohistory 72, no. 3 (2025): 277-312. Joe Borsato’s “‘To Rule by Customes’” traces the assertion and recognition of Powhatan territorial possession claims against seventeenth century English colonists… Keep Reading
November 15, 2026
ASLH Book Prize Winners – 2026
The Peter Gonville Stein Book Award Omar Cheta, How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Stanford University Press). Omar Cheta has marked out a remarkable terrain at the intersection of law and economic life in nineteenth-century Egypt. In How Commerce Became Legal, Cheta draws on… Keep Reading