2023 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.Carter Malkasian
The American War in Afghanistan: A History · New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021
Non-U.S.Douglas Porch
Defeat and Division: France at War, 1939-1942 · Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022
First BookLuke Reynolds
Who Owned Waterloo?: Battle, Memory, & Myth in British History, 1815-1852 · Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022
Trade PressRichard Overy
Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945 · New York, NY: Viking, 2022
Biography and MemoirAlexander Mikaberidze
Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace · New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022
ReferenceJonathan Abel [Translated and Annotated]
Guibert’s General Essay on Tactics · Leiden: Brill, 2022

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

Baihui Duan and Rebekah Clements
Fighting for Forests: Protection and Exploitation of Kŏje Island Timber during the East Asian War of 1592–1598 · Environmental History, 27:3 (July 2022)
John Kuehn
Zumwalt, Holloway, and the Soviet Navy Threat Leadership in a Time of Strategic, Social, and Cultural Change · Journal of Advanced Military Studies, 13:2 (2022)
In the Journal: John T. Kuehn
Phillip Kemmerly
Logistics of U. S. Grant’s 1863 Mississippi Campaign: From the Amphibious Landing at Bruinsburg to the Siege of Vicksburg · The Journal of Military History Vol. 86, No. 3, July 2022
In the Journal: Phillip R. Kemmerly
Dukhee Yun
The ’Push of Pike’ in Seventeenth-Century English Infantry Combat · The Journal of Military History Vol. 86, No. 4, October 2022

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

Yoav Hamdani
The Slaveholding Army: Enslaved Servitude in the United States Military, 1797-1861
Honorable mentionAndrew L. Hargroder
'A Powerful Auxiliary’: The U.S. Army and Slave Revolts in the American South, 1803-1835
2nd Place
Honorable mentionZack White
Pragmatism & Discretion: Discipline in the British Army, 1808-1818
3rd Place

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

Ayelet Marron, Rutgers University
Bargaining for Freedom in World War II: The Laws of the Market in American-Occupied French North Africa
Blake McGready, The Graduate Center CUNY
Making Nature’s Nation: The Revolutionary War and Environmental Interdependence in New York, 1775-1783

Travel support for graduate students presenting at the annual meeting.

Annie Boniface, Harvard University
Morale over Matter: The U.S. Military and Changing Psychiatric Practices in World War II
Michael Fitzpatrick, Ohio University
Late-Cold War Land Doctrines in a Transatlantic Perspective: The United States Army and West German Heer, 1973-1982
Brittany Huner, University of North Texas
'The WAC is a Soldier Too': Recruiting the Women's Military Corps During the Second World War
Susan Long, University of Delaware
Prisoner of War Management in Revolutionary New York
In the Journal: Susan Brynne Long
Jessica Luepke, University of North Texas
M*A*S*H*: Radar O’Reilly and Portraying the Image of American Innocence in War
Jorden Pitt, Texas Christian University
Psychology, Policy, and Culture: The U.S. Air Force's Regulation of Psychological Illnesses During the Korean War
Benjamin Remillard, University of New Hampshire
'We are not a conquered People but allies from the start': Military Service, Memory, and Race after the American Revolution
In the Journal: Benjamin D. Remillard

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

Patrick John F. Mansujeto, University of the Philippines-Diliman
The Legacy Ships of the Philippine Navy, Strategic Lesson and Memorialization

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

The Society for Military History Operations Staff: Vicki Turner, Ashley Kumbier, Maysan Haydar, Kurt Hackemer, Hal Friedman, C.C. Felker

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