Via H-Law, we
have the following announcement regarding a summer workshop on several aspects
of the constitutional history of Anglo-American Empire
Interdisciplinary
Summer Workshop in Constitutional History
July 8-13, 2018
Stanford,
California
The
Constitutional History of Anglo-American Empire
Sponsored by the
Institute for Constitutional History with the Stanford Constitutional Law
Center
Description:
Building on the
literatures on constitutional development in the British Empire, the
constitutional origins of the American Revolution, and settler
constitutionalism, the seminar will focus on colonization and territorial expansion,
the law of slavery, and geopolitics from first settlement to the era of
“Manifest Destiny.”
Workshop
Leaders:
Annette
Gordon-Reed is the Charles Warren Professor of
American Legal History at Harvard Law School, a professor of history in the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and formerly the Harold
Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the Queen’s
College, University of Oxford (2014-2015). Gordon-Reed won the Pulitzer Prize
in History in 2009 for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W.
Norton, 2009), a subject she had previously written about in Thomas Jefferson
and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (University Press of Virginia,
1997). She is also the author of Andrew Johnson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2010).
Her most recently published book (with Peter S. Onuf) is “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”:
Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination (Liveright Publishing,
2016). Her honors include a fellowship from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim
Fellowship in the humanities, a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Humanities Medal,
the National Book Award, and the Woman of Power & Influence Award from the
National Organization for Women in New York City. Gordon-Reed was elected a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and is a member of
the Academy’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Corcoran
Department of History at the University of Virginia, Senior Research Fellow at
the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies (Monticello),
and Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence, American Antiquarian Society,
Worcester, Massachusetts, 2017-2018. Onuf’s work on Thomas Jefferson’s
political thought, culminating in Jefferson’s Empire: The Language of American
Nationhood (University Press of Virginia, 2000) and The Mind of Thomas Jefferson
(2007, also Virginia), grows out of earlier studies on the history of American
federalism, foreign policy, and political economy. He and co-author Annette
Gordon-Reed recently published Most Blessed of Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and
the Empire of the Imagination (Liveright, 2016); his Jefferson and the
Virginians: Democracy, Constitutions, and Empire is forthcoming (from Louisiana
State University Press). Stipends and Support: Participants will receive
accommodation at the Munger Graduate Residence on the campus of Stanford Law
School and a modest stipend for meals. Participants will also receive a travel reimbursement
up to $250. Workshop participants are expected to attend all sessions and
engage in all program activities.
Eligibility
and Application Procedure: The summer workshop is
designed for university instructors who now teach or plan to teach courses in
constitutional studies, including constitutional history, constitutional law, and
related subjects. Instructors who would like to devote a unit of a survey
course to constitutional history are also welcome to apply. All
university-level instructors are encouraged to apply, including adjuncts and
part-time faculty members, and post-doctoral fellows from any academic
discipline associated with constitutional studies (history, political science,
law, anthropology, sociology, literary criticism, etc.).
To apply, please
submit the following materials: a detailed résumé or curriculum vitae with
contact information; syllabi from any undergraduate course(s) in constitutional
studies you currently teach; a 500- word statement describing your interest in
both constitutional studies and this workshop; and a letter of recommendation
from your department chair or other professional reference (sent separately by
e-mail or post). The application statement should address your professional
background, any special perspectives or experiences you might bring to the workshop,
and how the workshop will enhance your teaching in constitutional studies.
The deadline
for applications is May 1, 2018. Applications
should be sent via electronic mail to
MMarcus@nyhistory.org. Successful applicants will be notified soon thereafter.
For Further
Information Please Contact:
Maeva Marcus
Director,
Institute for Constitutional History
New-York
Historical Society and
The George
Washington University Law School
(202) 994-6562
About ICH:
The Institute
for Constitutional History (ICH) is the nation’s premier institute dedicated to
ensuring that future generations of Americans understand the substance and
historical development of the U.S. Constitution. Located at the New York
Historical Society and the George Washington University Law School, the
Institute is co-sponsored by the American Historical Association, the
Organization of American Historians, and the American Political Science
Association. The Association of American Law Schools is a cooperating entity. ICH
prepares junior scholars and college instructors to convey to their readers and
students the important role the Constitution has played in shaping American
society. ICH also provides a national forum for the preparation and
dissemination of humanistic, interdisciplinary scholarship on American
constitutional history.
About the
Stanford Constitutional Law Center:
The Stanford
Constitutional Law Center grows out of the long and distinguished tradition of
constitutional law scholarship at Stanford Law School. It carries on this
tradition through a program of conferences, lectures, informal “Constitutional
Conversations,” and fellowships. The Center has no politics and takes no sides
on controversial cases—but it is committed to the rule of law and the idea that
the Constitution can be studied and interpreted objectively in light of its
text, history, and purposes. It advances this mission through events and
activities that foster scholarship, generate public discussion, and provide
opportunities for students and scholars to engage in analysis of the Constitution across the ideological spectrum.
(Source: H-Law)
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