2022 awards and prizes

Samuel Eliot Morison Prize

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

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

U.S.Thomas A. Guglielmo
Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military · Oxford University Press
Non-U.S.Wendy Goldman & Donald Filtzer
Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II · Oxford University Press
First BookIan Ona Johnson
Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War · Oxford University Press
Trade PressMichael Nieberg
When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance · Harvard University Press
Biography and MemoirRuth Scurr
Napoleon, A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows · Penguin Random House
ReferenceKaren Hagemann, Stefan Dudink, Sonya O. Rose, eds.
Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World Since 1600 · Oxford University Press

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

Sarah Caputo
Treating, Preventing, Feigning, Concealing: Sickness, Agency and the Medical Culture of the British Naval Seaman at the End of the Long Eighteenth Century · Social History of Medicine
David Fitzgerald
Warriors Who Don’t Fight: The Post–Cold War United States Army and Debates over Peacekeeping Operations · The Journal of Military History Vol. 85, No. 1, January 2021
Lucian Staiano-Daniels
Masters in the Things of War: Rethinking Military Justice during the Thirty Years War · German History
In the Journal: Lucian E. Staiano-Daniels
Brian Walsh
’This Degrading Slavery’: MacArthur’s General Headquarters and Prostitution Policy during the Occupation of Japan · The Journal of Military History Vol. 85, No. 3, July 2021

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

Roger Bailey
’The Great Question’: Slavery, Sectionalism, and the U.S. Naval Officer Corps, 1820-1861
In the Journal: Roger A. Bailey
Honorable mentionSneha Reddy
North African and Indian Soldiers in the First World War in Palestine and Syria, 1917–23

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

Christopher Goodwin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Broken Supermen: Disabled Veterans and Soldiers in Nazi Germany, 1939-1949
In the Journal: Christopher Thomas Goodwin
Runner-upThomas P. Stephens, Indiana University, Bloomington
All the Work Without the Excitement of War: Gender and Race in the Royal Army Service Corps, 1888-1945

Travel support for graduate students presenting at the annual meeting.

Zhongtian Han, George Washington University
Signal Intelligence and the Rise of Mao in the Long March, 1934–36
Lindsey Peterson, University of Southern Mississippi
19th Century U.S. Governors' Papers: Studying the Impact of Union Military Forces on the Process of Emancipation
In the Journal: Lindsey R. Peterson
Roundtable participant
Bonnie Cherry, University of California
Sacrifice and Security: The Case of the Modoc War
Ann Tran, University of Southern California
The Elusive Home Front and Its Place in Military History
Roundtable participant
Robert Williams, Ohio State University
Freed From the Tyranny of Terrain: The Cold War Reincarnation of U.S. Cavalry, 1954–1965
In the Journal: Robert F. Williams
Ryan Reynolds, Mississippi State University
’My Dungeon Shook’: James Baldwin, Literature, and American Insurgency

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

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