The Projects and Proposals Committee of the American Society for Legal History invites proposals for the funding of new initiatives in the study, presentation, and production of legal historical scholarship and in the communication of legal history to all its possible publics and audiences. It is the mission of the committee to find ways to bring talented new voices into our field, to promote novel forms of scholarly interchange, to support pedagogical experiments in legal history, and to seed new forms and venues for public history.
We welcome a broad range of proposals. We will consider providing support for conferences (including the costs of bringing together participants who could not otherwise afford to attend), scholarly publications, museum exhibits, pedagogical experiments, or any number of other collective pursuits. We encourage projects that seek to internationalize legal history by widening the study of legal history or by bringing a global array of scholars and students of legal history into conversation with one another. We also invite projects that promise to bring a younger generation of scholars and students into the field.
Most of the grants we have awarded have been less than $5000. Ordinarily, we would expect that projects would have other institutional collaborators and/or cosponsors (including home universities). Proposals may come from educational institutions or from informal groups or networks of individuals. In most cases, someone involved in the proposal will be a member of the Society, and we especially encourage proposals from members pursuing new endeavors or outreach in the field. Please note that we are not a funding source for ongoing and recurrent activities of the field or of the Society and will not recommend for funding projects that have already been funded at the recommendation of the committee three times. We do not support individual research projects.
Funds are usually expended in the calendar year following the award. However, in the event that a planned project must be postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions (or other unavoidable circumstances), allocated funds may be held over for future use for a reasonable period with approval of the Projects and Proposals Committee and in consultation with the ASLH Treasurer.
The deadline for receiving applications is [September 23, 2023]. The committee will then review the proposals and recommend a list to the Board of Directors of the Society in preparation for its meeting in November 2023.
The application form is available here.
Please direct any questions, as well as completed application forms, to Allison Tirres, Chair, at proposals@aslh.net.
Committee members after the jump.
Committee Members
Allison Tirres, chair
DePaul University College of Law
Barbara Welke
(ex officio, president-elect)
University of Minnesota
Andrew Wender Cohen
Syracuse University
Sarah Barringer Gordon
(ex officio, chair, Hurst Committee)
University of Pennsylvania
Sara L.H. Gronningsater
University of Pennsylvania
Malick Ghachem
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rayman L. Solomon
(ex officio, chair, Finance Committee)
Rutgers University, Camden
Trina Hogg
Oregon State University
Felicia Kornbluh
University of Vermont
Lauren Benton
(ex officio, immediate past President)
Yale University
