2019 awards and prizes

Samuel Eliot Morison Prize

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

Williamson Murray and Brian Holden Reid, Ohio State University; King's College London

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

A. Wilson Greene
A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater · Civil War America series, UNC Press, 2018
Peter Guardino
The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War · Harvard University Press, 2018
Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia
Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution · UNC Press, 2018
Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller, J.R. McNeill, and Martin Schmid, eds
Environmental Histories of the First World War · Cambridge University Press, 2018

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

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

Tanya L. Roth, Mary Institute & St. Louis Country Day School, St. Peters, MO
Flirting with Equality: American Women in the Cold War Military
Honorable mentionGarrett Gatzemeyer, U.S. Military Academy
Bodies for Battle: Systematic Training in the U.S. Army's Physical Culture, 1885-1958
Honorable mentionAndrew William Fialka, Middle Tennessee State University
Of Methods and Madness: A Spatial History Approach to the Civil War's Guerrilla Violence

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

Michael Morris, Texas A&M University
Waging War in I Corps: III Marine Amphibious Force Headquarters in Vietnam, 1965-1971

Travel support for graduate students presenting at the annual meeting.

Douglas Bell, Texas A&M University
Hunting American Style: Debates over American Hunting in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949
Tim Clarke, University of Waterloo
’Our Public Constructive Work’: The East African Women’s League and Remembrance Practices in Kenya, 1923-1939
Hailey Hasik, University of Southern Mississippi
From Combat to Cultural Icon: Unraveling the Legacy of the Helicopter in the Vietnam War
Ruth Lawlor, Cambridge University
’Too Hard to Think About’: A Transnational History of Rape in the European Theatre of Operations, World War II
Ariel Natalo-Lifton, Temple University
The War Stories We Tell: World War II and the Vietnam War in Myth and Memory
Sarah Patterson, Florida State University
’The Marines Have Landed and Have the Situation Well in Hand’: Marine Corps Bodies and Masculinity in World War I
In the Journal: Sarah E. Patterson

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

Akos Foris, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
’The Sacrificed Army’: The Hungarian 2nd Army Between History and Memory

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

Heather Haley, Auburn University
The Port Chicago Mutiny of 1944
In the Journal: Heather M. Haley
Laura Oviedo, Texas A&M University
Forsaken Bodies, For Sake of Nation: Latinas and the Politics of Militarization, Labor/s, and Belonging in Texas and Puerto Rico during World War II

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

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

Fredrik Logevall
How Should We Think About the Vietnam War
American Historical Association annual meeting