Kim Welch is an associate professor of History and Law at Vanderbilt University and a scholar of slavery, race, and law in the early U.S. South and Atlantic World. Her first book, Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South (University of North Carolina Press, 2018) received prizes from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic; the American Society for Legal History; the Law and Society Association; the Langum Charitable Trust; and Vanderbilt University. She is also a 2022 laurate of the Dan David Prize, the world’s largest prize for practitioners studying the human past. Her research has been supported by a multi-year National Science Foundation grant and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Newberry Library, the American Bar Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, among others. Her current book project follows the lives of two free people of color (Eulalie Mandeville and Bernard Soulié) in New Orleans, Santiago de Cuba, and Paris and sheds light on the effects of discriminatory estate and marriage laws on intergenerational wealth transmission amongst Black Americans.
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