2017 awards and prizes

Recipients of the Society's awards, prizes and grants presented in 2017.

Samuel Eliot Morison Prize

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

  • John A. Lynn II, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Distinguished Book Awards

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

  • Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone

    Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle · Campaign and Commanders Series, No. 54. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016

  • Tonio Andrade

    The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History · Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016

  • Laila Parsons

    The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence, 1914-1948 · New York: Hill and Wang, 2016

  • Michael Livingston and Kelly DeVries, eds.

    The Battle of Crécy: A Casebook · Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015

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.

  • Zach S. Fredman, Boston University

    From Allies to Occupiers: Living with the U.S. Military in Wartime China

    In the Journal: Zach Fredman

  • Honorable mentionDavid A. Harrisville, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Unrighteous Cause: The Moral World of the German Soldier and the Wartime Origins of the Wehrmacht Myth, 1941-1944

  • Honorable mentionCourtney A. Short, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    ’The Most Vital Question’: Race and Identity in Occupation Policy Construction and Practice, Okinawa, 1945-1946

Allan R. Millett Dissertation Research Grant

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

  • Cameron Zinsou, Mississippi State University

    Occupied: The Civilian Experience in Montélimar, 1939-1946

Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grants

Travel support for graduate students presenting at the annual meeting.

Jeffrey Grey Memorial Travel Grant

Travel support for a graduate student from outside North America presenting at the annual meeting.

  • Michael Gisick, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University

CSIS Graduate Student Prize in Applied Military History

The best graduate essay using military history to inform a current international security problem.

  • Thomas Jamison, Harvard University

    The Baltimore Incident of 1891 and Modern Conflict Resolution

ABC-CLIO Research Grants

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

  • Allyson Gates, Florida State University

  • Thomas Jamison, Harvard University

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.