2021 awards and prizes
Recipients of the Society's awards, prizes and grants presented in 2021.
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize
For a body of contributions to military history over a career.
Robert M. Citino, National World War II Museum
Distinguished Book Awards
The best book-length publications in English on military history, in four categories.
U.S.Donald F. Johnson
Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution · University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021
Non-U.S.Alexander Mikaberidze
The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History · Oxford University Press, 2020
Biography and MemoirDaniel Whittingham
Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare · Cambridge University Press, 2021
ReferenceAaron Sheehan-Dean, ed.
The Cambridge History of the American Civil War · Cambridge University Press, 2019
First BookMeighen McCrae
Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War · Cambridge University Press, 2019
Trade PressAlexander Watson
The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands · Basic Books, 2020
The Vandervort Prizes
Outstanding journal articles in military history, in the Journal and beyond it.
Stefanie Rauch
Good Bets, Bad Bets, and Dark Horses: Allied Intelligence Officers’ Encounters with German Civilians, 1944 – 1945 · Central European History 53:1 (March 2020): 120-145
James Turner
Tortilla, Pepper, Chocolate, and Mezcal: A Food History of the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846–1848 · Journal of the Southwest 62 (Spring 2020): 145-176
The Survival of Auftragstaktik during the Soviet Counterattack in the Battle for Moscow, December 1941 to January 1942 · The Journal of Military History Vol. 84, No. 1, January 2020
Failing to Speak the Same Language: The Roots of ’Jointness’ in the United States, 1919–1941 · The Journal of Military History Vol. 84, No. 4, October 2020
Edward M. Coffman First Manuscript Prize
The best dissertation in military history, defended in the previous calendar year.
Thomas Mead Jamison, Harvard University
Pacific Wars: Peripheral Conflict and the Making of the US "New Navy," 1865-1897
Honorable mentionMT Howard, University of Oxford
Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army, 1956-1981: The Loyalties of Professionals
In the Journal: M. T. Howard
Allan R. Millett Dissertation Research Grant
Research funding for a doctoral dissertation in any field of military history.
Sofya Anisimova, University of St. Andrews
Russia's Military Strategy and the Entente, 1914-1917
Runner-upUyen H. Nguyen, Texas Tech University
MAT Teams in a Mad War: The U.S. Army's Advisory Efforts Waging Peace in the Vietnam War
In the Journal: Uyen H. “Carie” Nguyen
Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grants
Travel support for graduate students presenting at the annual meeting.
Hannah Lipsey, University of South Florida
The Emergence of the Army Veterinary Corps: Keeping the War Horse Fighting during the First World War
CSIS Graduate Student Prize in Applied Military History
The best graduate essay using military history to inform a current international security problem.
Heather Haley, Auburn University
Suppressing the 'Homosexual Menace': Harvey Milk, Vernon 'Copy' Berg, and the Navy's Lavender Scare
In the Journal: Heather M. Haley
Honorable mentionKristofer Seibt, Columbia University
'My Heart Bled': Sustained Destruction and the Economics of Coercion in German Cameroon
Edwin H. Simmons Award
For long, distinguished or particularly outstanding service to the Society.