Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grants
Travel support for graduate students presenting at the annual meeting.
$1,000 eachClosed for 2026125 recipients
About the grant
The Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grants, established to honor one of the great American military historians of the twentieth century, are annual awards of $1,000 given to outstanding graduate students to support travel associated with presenting a paper or participating in a roundtable at the annual meeting of the Society for Military History.
Recipients are recognized at the Society’s awards dinner and receive a complimentary ticket to the event.
Eligibility
Students must be enrolled in an accredited graduate degree program. They may apply before notification of inclusion in the conference program, but eligibility for an award requires formal acceptance of their paper or roundtable proposal.
Graduate students enrolled in programs outside North America may also apply for the Jeffrey Grey Memorial Travel Grant. Applicants are considered for both awards but may receive only one in a given year.
How to apply
The 2026 competition closed on January 5, 2026. The next call will be posted here.
Decisions early February 2026.
Seth Givens, Chair, Travel Grant Committee · seth.givens@usmcu.edu
Email the following to the chair of the travel grant committee as a single document:
- a one-page cover letter;
- a current curriculum vitae, not to exceed three pages;
- a copy of the proposed paper or roundtable proposal.
In addition, the applicant’s primary academic advisor must send a letter of recommendation to the chair separately.
How the committee decides
The committee evaluates applications on the quality, originality, and potential contribution of the proposed work to the field of military history.
Recipients
Awarded since 2005.
2026
Lauren Cain, University of Maryland-College Park
’A souvenir from France’: How the US Military Mitigated War Bride Marriage, 1918-1923
Eleanor Lenoe-Williams, Rutgers University
Militarized Boyhood: Japanese Child Army Followers in the Allied Occupation and the Korean War
Grad Talks roundtable about dissertation topics
Marlon Londoño, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The ’Silly War’ That Wasn’t: Colombian Military History and the Untold Story of the Panama Canal
Srijita C. Pal, University of Southern California
The War within the War: the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on the Western Front of the First World War
Brian Washam, University of Southern Mississippi
The Battle over National Reconciliation: Gerald Ford’s Efforts to Heal the Wounds of the Nation through Clemency after the Vietnam War
Ariel Wilks, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A Colonial Tradition: Discourse of Privateering Before and During the American Revolution
2025
Cody J. Billock, Ohio University
The Viêt Công’s Total War: Communist Mass Mobilization in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War
Tristan P. Krause, Texas A&M
Trading Our Dead for the Living: American Remains Recovery Operations in Soviet-Occupied Territory
In the Journal: Tristan Krause
Kaylie M. McCarthy, Tulane University
Tattoos and Traitors: The US Military and German Tattoos During the Great War
James E. Schroeder, Washington State University
CIA Agent Michael Korzhan: Ukrainian Nationalist, Orthodox Priest, and Cold War Spy
In the Journal: James Evan Schroeder
Christian C. Singletary, University of Southern Mississippi
The Pennsylvania National Guard in World War I: Experience, Masculinity, and Culture
Anthony L. Zacchino, Kent State University
Lorenzo Thomas in the Mississippi River Valley: A New Perspective on Emancipation
2024
Elizabeth Gardner, King’s College, London
Revisiting Indigenous Contributions: The Libyan Arab Force
Holly Harris, Southern Methodist University
The Song of Stalag 1A: Music, Remembrance, and Cultural Memory of French Prisoners of War 1941-1945
Sarafina Pagnotta, Carleton University, Ottawa
From ’Somewhere in France’ to Somewhere in the Collections: Recovering Soldier Art at the Canadian War Museum
Thomas Stephens, Indiana University, Bloomington
’I Ain’t No Fighting Bloke’: Gender and Regimental Culture in the British Army Service Corps, 1914-1918
In the Journal: Thomas P. Stephens
Danielle Wirsansky, Florida State University
’Women do not make good spies’: A Gendered Analysis of the Recruitment of Spies for the Special Operations Executive’s F Section During WWII
James Witkoski, University of Southern Mississippi
William Westmoreland and Press Tour of November 1967: Talking Points Versus the Reality of the Vietnam War
2023
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
2022
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
2021
Hannah Lipsey, University of South Florida
The Emergence of the Army Veterinary Corps: Keeping the War Horse Fighting during the First World War
2020
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
2019
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
2018
Ryan Booth, Washington State University
In the Journal: Ryan W. Booth
Zoe Buonaiuto, Princeton University
Christopher Goodwin, University of Illinois
In the Journal: Christopher Thomas Goodwin
Hyeok Hweon Kang, Harvard University
David Krueger, Harvard University
Jennifer Zoebelein, Kansas State University
2017
Amer Batura, Texas Tech University
Avram Lytton, Kings College, London
Uyen (Carie) Nguyen, Texas Tech University
In the Journal: Uyen H. “Carie” Nguyen
Mihai Poliec, Clark University
Natalie Shibley, University of Pennsylvania
Kate Tietzen, Kansas State University
2010s · 39 awards
2016
Gregory Brew, Georgetown University
Dennis J. Cowles, University of Southern Mississippi
Christian Juergens, Florida State University
Julie Powell, The Ohio State University
In the Journal: Julie M. Powell
Gary David Sellick, University of South Carolina
Robert Thompson, University of Southern Mississippi
2015
Olivier Burtin, Princeton University
Daniel Fitzgerald Giblin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
In the Journal: Daniel F. Giblin
David A. Harrisville, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Alexander Nordlund, University of Georgia, Athens
Lindsey R. Peterson, University of South Dakota
Tyler D. Sperrazza, Pennsylvania State University
2014
Tyler Bamford, Temple University
In the Journal: Tyler R. Bamford
Kyle Bracken, Florida State University
Jerome Devitt, Trinity College, Dublin
Ian Johnson, The Ohio State University
In the Journal: Ian Ona Johnson
Mary Elizabeth Walters, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2013
Caroline D’Amours, University of Ottawa
Margaret Hutchison, Australian National University
Theresa L. Monserrat, University of Southern Mississippi
Emily L. Swafford, University of Chicago
2012
W. Mikkel Dack, University of Calgary
Matthew N. Bucholtz, University of Calgary
Christine E. Leppard, University of Calgary
Thomas Daniel Sheppard, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
In the Journal: Thomas Sheppard
Christina C. Welsch, Princeton University
In the Journal: Christina Welsch
Gavin J. Wiens, University of Toronto
In the Journal: Gavin Wiens
2011
Daniel Bessner, Duke University
Martin Clemis, Temple University
In the Journal: Martin G. Clemis
Kimberly Lamay, University at Albany, State University of New York
Paul Ramsey, University of Calgary
Lon Strauss, University of Kansas
Corbin Williamson, Texas Tech University
2010
Joshua Wolf, Temple University
John Southard, Texas Tech University
Alexander Herd, University of Calgary
In the Journal: Alexander W.G. Herd
Michael Geheran, Clark University
Joel Christenson, West Virginia University
In the Journal: Joel C. Christenson
Rob Shafer, Penn State University
2000s · 30 awards
2009
Timothy Orr, Pennsylvania State University
In the Journal: Timothy J. Orr
Robyn Rodriguez, The Ohio State University
Shawn Fisher, University of Memphis
Triet Nguyen, University of Ottawa
Timothy Balzer, University of Victoria
John Mitcham, University of Alabama
In the Journal: John C. Mitcham
2008
Mathew Ford, King’s College, London
Andrew Hargreaves, King’s College, London
Lori Ann Henning, Texas A&M University
Eric Klinek, Temple University
Patrick J. Rose, King’s College, London
Jacqueline E. Whitt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2007
Barton A. Myers, University of Georgia
John R. Maass, Ohio State University
Jody Perrun, University of Manitoba
Angela Zombek, University of Florida
Jim Flook, University of Florida
Thomas Nester, Texas A&M University
In the Journal: Thomas G. Nester
2006
L. Michael Allsep, University of North Carolina
Alexander Heard, University of Calgary
Heather P. Marshall, Duke University
Brian Neumann, Texas A&M University
J. Adam Rogers, Penn State University
Stephen I. Schwab, University of Alabama
In the Journal: Stephen Irving Max Schwab
2005
Robert C. Blackstone, University of Kansas
John D. Hosler, University of Delaware
Kevin Levin, University of Richmond
John Maass, Ohio State University
In the Journal: John R. Maass
Matthew S. Muehlbauer, Temple University
R. Boyd Murphree, Florida State University
