Amalia D. Kessler (MA ’96, PHD ’01), associate professor of law and, by courtesy, of history, has been awarded a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies. The fellowship, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supports two semesters of research leave for advanced assistant professors in the humanities and related social sciences. Kessler was one of 12 fellows selected from 184 applications. Her research will focus on equity law and procedures—the history and tradition of which Kessler says is largely forgotten—and “how American culture came to be imbued with the sense that due process and adversarial process are synonymous.”