Nancy O. Gallman, Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded a prestigious Graves Award! This well-deserved recognition comes with $12,953 in funding that will support Professor Gallman in completing her groundbreaking manuscript, Law’s Borderlands: Life, Liberty, and Property in an Old American South.
Law’s Borderlands is a significant scholarly work that closely examines the intricate interactions of diverse peoples – Indigenous peoples, Spaniards, African Americans, and Anglo Americans – living in shared spaces in the late 18th and early 19th century American South. Professor Gallman’s research uniquely highlights how each of these groups contributed to a “cosmopolitan legal order.” Her interdisciplinary approach, drawing on her PhD in History and JD, promises a fresh and insightful perspective on the cross-cultural legal history of the late colonial Florida borderlands.
Professor Gallman’s work is remarkable for bringing into conversation the experiences of a broad range of historical actors and for expanding the very parameters of what is considered “US History.” Her dedication to both scholarship and teaching has made an immediate and significant impact on our history curriculum and the broader intellectual life of Lewis & Clark. More about Professor Gallman’s teaching and scholarship is available here.
Administered by Pomona College and under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Arnold L. Graves and Lois S. Graves Awards reward “outstanding accomplishment in actual teaching in the humanities among early-career faculty.” This competitive award, offered biennially, recognizes excellence in teaching; the funding that accompanies it supports research-related expenses. Gallman’s award continues a string of Graves Award successes by the Lewis & Clark faculty. In the last 20 years this includes Maria Hristova (2021), Magali Rabasa (2020), Bryan Sebok (2018), Kristin Fujie (2014), Rachel Cole (2012), Joel Martinez (2010), Karen Gross (2008), and David Campion (2006).
