Center Directors
Michael Grossberg
Professor Michael Grossberg is a faculty member at Indiana University in both history
and law and the author of numerous articles and three books, including Governing the
Hearth: Law and Family in Nineteenth Century America, which won the Littleton-Griswold
Prize in History of Law and American Society from the American Historical Association.
Grossberg is a legal historian who has focused often on the law's
treatment of family, marriage, and children. He serves as the editor of the
American Historical Review, and his teaching in both law and history has been
recognized as outstanding.
Ajay Mehrotra
At Indiana Law, Professor Ajay Mehrotra teaches Introduction to Income Tax, Taxation of
Business Entities, Tax Policy, and American Legal History. He is a recent recipient of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching
Award, and his research and scholarship have been supported by grants and fellowships
from the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, the American Historical Association,
and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. During the 2006-2007 academic
year, Professor Mehrotra held a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship,
and he was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge, Mass.