Congratulations!
Prof. Stacy Douglas has won the 2014 Julien Mezey Dissertation Award from the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (ASLCH). She will formally receive the award in March at the 17th Annual ASLCH Conference at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, VA.
Her Ph.D. dissertation entitled, “Curating Community: Museums, Constitutionalism, and the Taming of the Political”, was completed at the Kent Law School, UK.
About The Julien Mezey Dissertation Award
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an annual prize awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture and the humanities. The Association seeks the submission of outstanding work from a wide variety of perspectives, including but not limited to law and cultural studies, legal hermeneutics and rhetoric, law and literature, law and psychoanalysis, law and visual studies, legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence. Scholars completing humanities-oriented dissertations in SJD and related programs, as well as those earning PhDs, are encouraged to submit their work. Applicants eligible for the 2014 award must have defended their dissertations successfully between September 1, 2012 and August 31, 2013.