Panel proposals should include the following:

• a c.v. for every person on the panel, including
• complete contact information,
• a short description of the panel,
• a 300-word abstract of each paper, and
• a draft of each paper, if possible.

Individual paper proposals should include the following:

• a c.v. for the author, including complete contact information,
• a 300-word abstract of the paper, and
• a draft of the paper, if possible.

The ASLH has some funds available to defray, in part, the costs of attendance at the meeting for graduate students and scholars outside of North America. If you are in need of such support, please make that fact known to the Committee after your proposal is accepted.

The deadline for proposals is February 6, 2009.

The Kathryn T. Preyer Memorial Committee of the ASLH invites submission for the Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars Competition. The competition is named in honor of the late Kitty Preyer, a distinguished historian of early America and beloved member of the Society. The two winners of the competition will be named Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars. Each will present the paper that he or she submitted to the competition at the Society’s annual meeting in Dallas in November, 2009. Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars will receive a $250 cash award and reimbursement of expenses of up to $750 for travel, hotels and meals.

Submissions are welcome on any legal, institutional and/or constitutional aspect of American history and the Atlantic World.

Graduate students, law students, and other early-career scholars who have presented no more than two papers at a national conference are eligible to apply. Papers submitted to the ASLH Program Committee, whether or not for an existing panel, and papers not submitted are all equally eligible for the competition.

Submissions should include a curriculum vitae of the author, contact information, and a complete draft of the paper to be presented. The draft may be longer than could be presented in the time available at the meeting (twenty minutes) and should contain supporting documentation, but one of the criteria for selection will be the suitability of the paper for reduction to a twenty-minute oral presentation. The deadline for submission this year is June 15, 2009.