Honor Sachs, the UW Law School's J. Willard Hurst Legal History Fellow from 2002-2004, has accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of History at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

Sachs’s doctoral dissertation, "The Best Poor Woman's Country: Women, Gender, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Kentucky," explores women's relationships to the emerging institutions of legal, social, and political authority in the backcountry during and after the American Revolution.

J. Willard Hurst Legal History Fellows are selected from an international pool of applicants with advanced degrees in history, law, or both. At the beginning of their career, they take up residence at the Law School for a one-year or two-year period, to prepare their research for publication and to take advantage of the expertise of the UW Law School’s interdisciplinary faculty.

The 2005-06 Hurst Legal History Fellow is Gwen Hoerr Jordan (J.D., University of Denver; Ph.D., History, University of Illinois-Chicago), who is researching women law reformers in late nineteenth-century Chicago.

Recent fellows include Andrea McDowell, Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall, who has published her Wisconsin work in Law & Social Inquiry and the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, and Andrew Wender Cohen, who was recently awarded tenure by the Syracuse University Department of History.

Submitted by on March 10, 2006

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