Cromwell Fellowships
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Cromwell Fellowships support early-career scholars’ dissertations, first major monographs, and research projects in American legal history to advance historical inquiry and new knowledge about law.
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Funder: American Society for Legal History
Due Dates (Anticipated): June 2027 (Application and recommendations)
Funding Amounts: $5,000 per fellowship
Summary: Supports early-career scholars researching and writing dissertations, first major monographs, and research projects in American legal history.
Key Information: Applicants must be early-career scholars, generally doctoral researchers or recent graduate-degree recipients pursuing their first major project.
Description
The Cromwell Fellowships support research and writing in American legal history by early-career scholars. The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation funds the fellowships, while the American Society for Legal History’s Committee for Research Fellowships and Awards reviews applications and recommends awards. Supported work includes PhD dissertations or equivalent projects, first major monographs, and research projects by recent graduate-degree recipients.
The program emphasizes work that places law, broadly construed, at the center of historical inquiry. Proposals should explain the relevance of law to the project, engage with relevant scholarship, and show how the research will contribute new knowledge about law. The Foundation was established in 1930 to encourage legal-history scholarship, particularly concerning the colonial and early national periods of the United States.
