2013 awards and prizes

Recipients of the Society's awards, prizes and grants presented in 2013.

Samuel Eliot Morison Prize

For a body of contributions to military history over a career.

Distinguished Book Awards

The best book-length publications in English on military history, in four categories.

The Vandervort Prizes

Outstanding journal articles in military history, in the Journal and beyond it.

Edward M. Coffman First Manuscript Prize

The best dissertation in military history, defended in the previous calendar year.

  • Brian K. Feltman, Georgia Southern University

    Confronting the Stigma of Surrender: German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the Great War & Beyond

    Over the course of the Great War, approximately nine million soldiers endured captivity at enemy hands, yet their experience has only recently attracted serious scholarly attention. Focusing on the experiences of the more than 132,000 German military prisoners held in the United Kingdom during the First World War, Brian K. Feltman convincingly argues that understanding the emasculating stigma of surrender is essential to understanding captivity, as well as former prisoners’ attempts to reintegrate following repatriation. By drawing attention to the stigma of surrender, his manuscript at once deepens our understanding of the German captivity experience in the UK and presents innovative perspectives on the ways that popular notions of manhood affected how soldiers experienced the Great War and life in enemy hands. “Confronting the Stigma of Surrender,” the first study of its kind, offers new insight into not only what it meant to become a prisoner of war, but also what it meant to be a man at war.

Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grants

Travel support for graduate students presenting at the annual meeting.

  • Caroline D’Amours, University of Ottawa

  • Margaret Hutchison, Australian National University

  • Theresa L. Monserrat, University of Southern Mississippi

  • Emily L. Swafford, University of Chicago

ABC-CLIO Research Grants

Research funding for advanced graduate students and early-career historians without a doctorate.

  • Jordan R. Hayworth, University of North Texas

  • Christopher J. Levesque, University of Alabama

Edwin H. Simmons Award

For long, distinguished or particularly outstanding service to the Society.

  • Joseph T. Glatthaar

George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History

An annual lecture at the American Historical Association meeting, printed in the Journal.