History graduate students win fellowships

Emily Margolis and Samanthis Smalls, are winners this year of the prestigious William Cromwell Foundation Fellowships for the study of legal history.

This foundation recognizes especially promising scholars in legal history at the early stages of their careers with grants intended to help them in their research.  

Both students are working with Laura Edwards. Emily's thesis is entitled "'Punishment They So Richly Deserved’: Women, Property, and Patriarchy in the Early Antebellum South" and Sam's dissertation is entitled "Slaves, Jails, and the Question of Ownership."  

For more information on these fellowships and the press release from the Cromwell Foundation, please see https://networks.h-net.org/node/16794/discussions/51954/award-notices-as...