SCHS's Henry J. Abraham Early Career Research Grant

 [We have the following announcement.  H/t: H-Law.  DRE]

The Supreme Court Historical Society invites applicants for the Henry J. Abraham Early Career Research Grant for research on the history of the United States Supreme Court. The award is named for the distinguished University of Virginia scholar whose numerous works on constitutional law and the judicial process have had an enduring impact on the field of Supreme Court history.

Awarded on a competitive basis in June of each year, the $1,000 grant supports the research of those who are pursuing academic careers in legal history, including graduate students, law students, and those who are no more than five years from completion of either the Ph.D. or J.D. The award will be given on the basis of the applicant’s potential for producing publishable work in the field of Supreme Court history, and the grant recipient will be expected to produce an article for submission to the Journal of Supreme Court History.

A completed application consists of a c.v., the name and contact information of a faculty reference, and a 750-1,000-word proposal, which should include a general description of the project and a plan for research.

Applicants should submit all materials to Clare Cushman, Executive Editor of the Journal of Supreme Court History, by May 1, 2025. The award winner will be notified by June 3, 2025.

Henry J. Abraham Early Career Research Grant

[We have the following announcement.  DRE]

As of 2023, the Supreme Court Historical Society awards the Henry J. Abraham Early Career Research Grant for research on the history of the United States Supreme Court. The award is named for the distinguished scholar whose numerous works on constitutional law and the judicial process have had an enduring impact on the field of Supreme Court history.

Awarded on a competitive basis by a jury panel in June of each year, the $1,000 grant supports the research of those who are pursuing academic careers in legal history, including graduate students, law students, and those who are no more than five years from completion of either the Ph.D. or J.D. The award is given on the basis of the applicant's potential for producing publishable work in the field of Supreme Court history, and the grant recipient will be expected to produce an article for submission to the Journal of Supreme Court History.

A completed application consists of:

1. c.v.;
2. the name and contact information of a faculty reference; and
3. 750-1,000-word proposal (which should include a general description of the project and a plan for research)

Applicants should submit all materials to Clare Cushman, Executive Editor of the Journal of Supreme Court History, by May 1, 2025. The award winner will be notified by: June 1, 2025.

Past Henry J. Abraham Early Career Research Grant  Awardees: 

2023.  M. Henry Ishitani, JD Yale Law School 2023, completing his PhD with the Yale University Department of History.

RFP: ASLH Projects and Proposals

[We have previously posted the following announcement from the Projects and Proposals Committee of the American Society of Legal History but are moving it up because the deadline has been extended to September 23.  DRE.]

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.

Weekend Roundup

• The American Historical Association has established $500 emergency grants to "assist un/underemployed historians who have been financially affected by the COVID-19 outbreak."
  

• Princeton Ph.D. candidate Teal Acardi asked Twitter for reading recommendations on state building and infrastructure. He turned the results into a crowd-sourced #InfrastructureSyllabus. It includes lots of legal history.
  

• Over at the Legal History Miscellany: Sara M. Butler on botched executions in medieval England and Ohio today; and Gwen Seabourne on runaway nuns.
  

• Harvard Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen's New Yorker piece on the latest comfort women controversy ignited by her colleague J. Mark Ramseyer.
  

• Duke Law’s H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr., interviewed in conjunction with his 2021 Rights and the Humanities lecture, delivered on Tuesday, February 23, Martin, the Movement, and the World of Comparative Law.
  

• Randall Kennedy, Martha Minow and Cass Sunstein have founded the American Journal of Law and Equality (Harvard Law Today).
  

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Gavin Benke (Boston University) on energy deregulation and the Texas crisis; A. K. Sandoval-Strausz (Pennsylvania State University) on why "a path to citizenship for 11 million immigrants is a no-brainer"; and more.
  

• ICYMI: Honoring Macon Bolling (Queens Daily Eagle). Remembering Georgia's "original 33" Black state legislators (WTOC).  Slavery in Southern Illinois (WSILTV) and Connecticut (MetroWestDailyNews).   Ending segregation in Oak Ridge, Tenn. (NET).  The Library of Congress Acquires 200 Sketches of the Rodney King Police Brutality Trials (Fine Books & Collections).  Raymond Pace Alexander and Sadie Tanner Alexander (Philadelphia Tribune).  

Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.