2018 awards and prizes
Recipients of the Society's awards, prizes and grants presented in 2018.
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize
For a body of contributions to military history over a career.
Sir Hew Strachan, Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews
Distinguished Book Awards
The best book-length publications in English on military history, in four categories.
The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border · New York: Oxford University Press, 2016
Motivation in War: The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe · Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017
Steven L. Ossad
Omar Nelson Bradley: America’s GI General · Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2017
Paul R. Bartrop and Michael Dickerman
The Holocaust (4 vols.): An Encyclopedia and Document Collection · Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2017
The Vandervort Prizes
Outstanding journal articles in military history, in the Journal and beyond it.
Fight or Flight: Desertion, Defection, and Draft-Dodging in Occupied Slovenia, 1941–1945 · The Journal of Military History Vol. 81, No. 1, January 2017
The School of Experience: George W. Goethals and the U.S. Army, 1876–1907 · The Journal of Military History Vol. 81, No. 2, April 2017
Holy War and Just War in Early New England, 1630–1655 · The Journal of Military History Vol. 81, No. 3, July 2017
Coco Solo Submarines: Protecting the Panama Canal, 1941–1942 · The Journal of Military History Vol. 81, No. 4, October 2017
Edward M. Coffman First Manuscript Prize
The best dissertation in military history, defended in the previous calendar year.
Zachery A. Fry, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Lincoln’s Divided Legion: Loyalty and the Political Culture of the Army of the Potomac
Honorable mentionAaron Hiltner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Friendly Invasions: Civilians and Servicemen on the World War II American Home Front
Honorable mentionEmily L. Swafford, American Historical Association
Democracy’s Proving Ground: U.S. Military Families in West Germany, 1946-1961
Allan R. Millett Dissertation Research Grant
Research funding for a doctoral dissertation in any field of military history.
Katelyn Tietzen, Kansas State University
Iraq in the Cold War and beyond the fall of the Soviet Union, 1968-2003
Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grants
Travel support for graduate students presenting at the annual meeting.
Ryan Booth, Washington State University
In the Journal: Ryan W. Booth
Zoe Buonaiuto, Princeton University
Christopher Goodwin, University of Illinois
In the Journal: Christopher Thomas Goodwin
Hyeok Hweon Kang, Harvard University
David Krueger, Harvard University
Jennifer Zoebelein, Kansas State University
Jeffrey Grey Memorial Travel Grant
Travel support for a graduate student from outside North America presenting at the annual meeting.
Krysten Blackstone, University of Edinburgh
CSIS Graduate Student Prize in Applied Military History
The best graduate essay using military history to inform a current international security problem.
James Torrence, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Cyber Defense and the Strategic Defense Initiative
ABC-CLIO Research Grants
Research funding for advanced graduate students and early-career historians without a doctorate.
Heather Salazar, Ohio University
Katelyn Tietzen, Kansas State University
Edwin H. Simmons Award
For long, distinguished or particularly outstanding service to the Society.
Joseph C. Fitzharris, Professor Emeritus of History, University of St. Thomas
George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History
An annual lecture at the American Historical Association meeting, printed in the Journal.
Isabel V. Hull
The Armistice of 1918: A Study in Defeat and Victory
American Historical Association annual meeting