ANN: Society for Military History Prizes

SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY
2022-2023 PRIZES AND AWARDS

THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON PRIZE
Brian McAllister Linn

THE EDWIN H. SIMMONS MEMORIAL SERVICE AWARD
The Society for Military History Operations Staff: Vicki Turner, Ashley Kumbier, Maysan Haydar, Kurt Hackemer, Hal Friedman, C.C. Felker

DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARDS 

• American Military History: Carter Malkasian, The American War in Afghanistan: A History (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021)
• Non-American Military History: Douglas Porch, Defeat and Division: France at War, 1939-1942 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)
• First Book: Luke Reynolds, Who Owned Waterloo?: Battle, Memory, & Myth in British History, 1815-1852 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)
• Biography and Memoirs: Alexander Mikaberidze, Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022)
• Trade Press: Richard Overy, Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945 (New York, NY: Viking, 2022)
• Reference Work: Jonathan Abel [Translated and Annotated], Guibert’s General Essay on Tactics (Leiden: Brill, 2022)

EDWARD M. COFFMAN FIRST MANUSCRIPT PRIZE

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

VANDERVORT PRIZES

• Baihu Duan and Rebekah Clemens, “Fighting for Forests: Protection and Exploitation of K?je 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)
• Phillip Kemmerly, “Logistics of U. S. Grant's 1863 Mississippi Campaign: From the Amphibious Landing at Bruinsburg to the Siege of Vicksburg”, Journal of Military History, 86:3 (July 2022)
• Dukhee Yun, “The “Push of Pike” in Seventeenth-Century English Infantry Combat, Journal of Military History”, 86:4 (October 2022)

ALLAN R. MILLETT DISSERTATION RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AWARD

• 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 Independence in New York, 1775-1783”

RUSSELL F. WEIGLEY GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT AWARDS        

• 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"
• 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"

JEFFREY GREY MEMORIAL TRAVEL GRANT AWARD 

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