Cromwell Fellowships

The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation makes available a number of $5,000 fellowships to support research and writing in American legal history by early-career scholars. Early-career generally 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 for Research Fellowships and Awards of the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) reviews the applications and makes recommendations to the Foundation. The number of awards made, however, is at the discretion of the Foundation. In the past several years, the trustees of the Foundation have made five to nine awards. Applications should demonstrate how law (broadly construed) is at the center of their projects and how their research will tell us something new about law. The Cromwell Foundation was established in 1930 to promote and encourage scholarship in legal history, particularly in the colonial and early national periods of the United States.