2020 awards and prizes

Recipients of the Society's awards, prizes and grants presented in 2020.

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.

  • Monica Kim, NYU

    The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History · Princeton University Press, 2019

  • Geoffrey Robinson, UCLA

    The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 · Princeton University Press, 2018

  • Stephen Brumwell

    Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty · Yale University Press, 2018

  • Kelly DeVries and Michael Livingston, eds., Loyola University; The Citadel

    Medieval Warfare: A Reader · University of Toronto Press, 2019

  • Thomas Dodman, Columbia University

    What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion · University of Chicago Press, 2019

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.

  • Mary Elizabeth Walters, University of North Carolina

    Unexpected Humanitarians: Albania, the U.S. Military, and Aid Organizations during the 1999 Kosovo Refugee Crisis

  • Honorable mentionSusan Grunewald, Carnegie Mellon University

    German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union: Life, Law, Memory, 1941-1956

Allan R. Millett Dissertation Research Grant

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

  • Nathan Grau, Harvard University

    France’s Forgotten Soldiers: Local Paramilitaries on the frontlines of Decolonization, 1945-1962

  • Runner-upMarjorie Galelli, University of Kansas

    Two Sides of the Same COIN

Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grants

Travel support for graduate students presenting at the annual meeting.

  • Marjorie Galelli, University of Kansas

    Culture and Counterinsurgency: How the War in Iraq Reshaped Military Education

  • Thomas Jamison, Harvard University

    PEACE PEARL: An Ephemeral History of Sino-U.S. Military Cooperation

  • Pedro Panera Martínez, Mellado University Institute

    Prospective of a Conflict (1913-1923): Visions of the Spanish Military and Naval Attachés on War between Japan and the USA

  • Colin McConarty, Boston College University

    The Rise of the New Navy and the Fall of Reconstruction

  • Margaret Montgomery, University of Alabama

    The War Was In the Barracks: Black Wacs, Protest, and Response from the Women’s Army Corps, 1971

  • Hosub Shim, University of Kansas

    ’Politics by Other Means’: The Republic of Korea Forces’ Conduct in the Vietnam War

Jeffrey Grey Memorial Travel Grant

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

  • Neil Richardson, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

    War and Rebellion as a Policy towards Irish Independence

ABC-CLIO Research Grants

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

  • Nathan Grau, Harvard University

    France’s Forgotten Soldiers

  • Ariel Natalo-Lifton, Temple University

    From Lady Soldiers to Brothers in Arms: Women in the United States Armed Forces, 1972 to 1992

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.