2016 awards and prizes

Recipients of the Society's awards, prizes and grants presented in 2016.

Samuel Eliot Morison Prize

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

  • Conrad C. Crane, Army Heritage and Education Center, United States Army War College

Distinguished Book Awards

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

  • David Preston

    Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of Monongahela and the Road to Revolution

  • Pierre Razoux

    The Iran-Iraq War

  • Paul Robinson

    Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich: Supreme Commander of the Russian Army

  • David T. Zabecki, editor

    Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History

The Vandervort Prizes

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

SMH-GCMF Prize for the Use of Digital Technology in Teaching Military History

Material for teaching military history that makes use of evolving digital technology.

Edward M. Coffman First Manuscript Prize

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

  • Jordan Hayworth, University of North Texas

    Conquering the Natural Frontier: French Revolutionary Expansion to the Rhine River, 1792-1797

    In the Journal: Jordan R. Hayworth

  • Honorable mentionBrian Drohan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Faculty at the United States Military Academy

    Human Rights at War: Activism, Counterinsurgency, and the End of the British Empire

Allan R. Millett Dissertation Research Grant

Research funding for a doctoral dissertation in any field of military history.

  • Mary Elizabeth Walters, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    Opportunism or Compassion? NATO's Humanitarianism and Albanian Responses during the 1999 Kosovo Refugee Crisis

Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grants

Travel support for graduate students presenting at the annual meeting.

  • Gregory Brew, Georgetown University

  • Dennis J. Cowles, University of Southern Mississippi

  • Christian Juergens, Florida State University

  • Julie Powell, The Ohio State University

    In the Journal: Julie M. Powell

  • Gary David Sellick, University of South Carolina

  • Robert Thompson, University of Southern Mississippi

ABC-CLIO Research Grants

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

Edwin H. Simmons Award

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

George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History

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