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.

Email the committee chair

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

2017

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

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

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