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May 6, 2025

New Fellowship: Early Career Global Legal History Research Fellowships

NEW!

Early Career Global Legal History Research Fellowships

This new initiative is intended to provide funding for early career scholars, publishing in English, who are working on projects in legal history relating to non-U. S. history topics.  Non-U.S. history topics refers to research that does not qualify for the fellowships awarded by the Cromwell Foundation in coordination with the ASLH. Early career scholars includes those researching or writing a PhD dissertation (or equivalent project) and recent recipients of a graduate degree working on their first major monograph or research project. The Committee will make up to five awards.

Criteria: Early career scholars, publishing in English, researching in non-U. S. fields of legal history.

Amount: $2,000

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Elements of Application:

• Project Proposal (maximum 750 words including notes). The proposal should include (in this order): your name and contact information; name and contact information for the reference you have asked to write for you; and project title and description;
• Budget & Timeline (1 page);
• Curriculum Vitae (1 page). It should include your name, contact information, education and degree dates, current appointment (if any), publications and conference papers, and professional society affiliations; and
• 1 Letter of Recommendation.

Applicants should submit items 1-3 in a single pdf and arrange to have the letter of recommendation submitted directly. Both the application and reference must be received by the deadline of June 30, 2025. Only complete applications will be considered.

Applications should make clear the relevance of law to the project and how the research will tell us something new about law.  Applications should engage with relevant scholarship in the field. Finally, applications should have a clear budget that is specific about how and where you plan to spend research funds.

Submit Application and Recommendation to: global@aslh.net

Awards will be formally announced at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History in Detroit.

Questions? Please email Barbara Welke (welke004@umn.edu)