Projects and Proposals Funding

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. The committee aims to bring talented new voices into the field, promote novel forms of scholarly interchange, support pedagogical experiments in legal history, and seed new forms and venues for public history. The program welcomes a broad range of proposals including support for conferences, scholarly publications, museum exhibits, pedagogical experiments, or other collective pursuits. The committee particularly encourages projects that seek to internationalize legal history by widening the study of legal history or by bringing a global array of scholars and students into conversation with one another. Projects that promise to bring a younger generation of scholars and students into the field are especially welcome. Most grants awarded are less than $5,000, with amounts typically ranging from $4,000 to $6,000. Proposals may come from educational institutions or from informal groups or networks of individuals. The committee expects that projects would have other institutional collaborators and/or cosponsors, including home universities. Funds are usually expended in the calendar year following the award. This funding does not support ongoing and recurrent activities, projects that have already been funded three times by the committee, individual research projects, or ASLH pre-conference organizers. In most cases, someone involved in the proposal will be a member of the Society.