General Omar N. Bradley Awards in Military History
Each year, the General Omar N. Bradley Foundation normally provides research awards of $2,000 to up to ten U.S. Army officers engaged in research related to military history.
Opportunities
Travel grants for graduate students presenting at SMH 2027
Applications are open for the Russell F. Weigley and Jeffrey Grey Memorial travel grants, which support graduate students presenting a paper or joining a roundtable at the annual meeting in New Orleans. Deadline January 4, 2027.
Research fellowship at the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation
The Foundation will host one or two research fellows at its library in New Market, Virginia, with $1,250 per one-week session for travel and expenses. Open to graduate students, academics, teachers, museum professionals and independent scholars. Apply by December 1, 2026.
Call for papers: RAF Museum Lecture Series 2027-28
The Royal Air Force Museum seeks lecture and panel proposals from postgraduate students and researchers on how air forces have evolved since the late twentieth century. Abstracts of up to 300 words by January 22, 2027.
Call for papers: Mercenaries Through the Ages
The Many Faces of War XII, a hybrid interdisciplinary conference in Sioux Falls on March 3 to 5, 2027, invites papers on mercenaries in every period, and on any aspect of military history. Abstracts of 300 words before December 1, 2026.
Call for papers: Military History Consortium conference, Stellenbosch, June 2027
The Military History Consortium's fourth annual conference, at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study on June 16 to 18, 2027, invites panels and papers on any aspect of military history from antiquity to the present. Submissions by November 30, 2026.
The International Conference on World War II, November 19 to 21 in New Orleans
The National WWII Museum hosts its 19th annual International Conference on World War II at the museum in New Orleans, November 19 to 21, 2026. Registration is open at ww2conference.com.
Symposium: Airborne forces in World War II, February 26 to 27, 2027
The National WWII Museum hosts a symposium titled "Like a Thunderbolt from the Skies", on airborne forces in World War II, at the museum in New Orleans on February 26 and 27, 2027.
Revolutionary War conference: Winning Independence, February 19 to 20, 2027, Staunton
The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District holds its 2027 Revolutionary War Conference, "Winning Independence: The Final Years of the Revolutionary War", in Staunton, Virginia on February 19 and 20, 2027.
The Costs of War: TCU's Schmidt Symposium, April 15, 2027
The 10th annual LCpl Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium on War, Conflict, and Society at Texas Christian University features William I. Hitchcock of the University of Virginia on April 15, 2027.
