Awards

• 2022 – Mary-Jo Kline
• 2019 – Ann D. Gordon, editor of the Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and one of the significant historians of women, suffrage, and America in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her mastery of the craft of documentary editing, service to the profession, and engagement with a wider public established a model of excellence for us, representing the best of what documentary editors aspire to.
• 2016 – Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson, in recognition of their long landmark collaboration on the monumental Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Emerson editions, which changed the landscape of Emerson studies, enriched the scholarship on Transcendentalism, and demonstrated the value of editing in an academic environment where it has not always enjoyed a high status.
• 2013 – G. Thomas Tanselle, with the highest respect for his many distinguished achievements as a scholarly editor over the course of his long career and for his understanding of the principles that should guide editors regardless of academic discipline or area of study.
• 2010 – John P. Kaminski, editor/project director of the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, has been a member of the documentary editing community for forty years, an effective and eloquent advocate for the work that editors “do,” and a tireless communicator of early American history with other scholars, journalists, secondary and grade school teachers and their students, and the world-at-large.
• 2007 – Gary E. Moulton, editor of the Journals of Lewis and Clark. A former editor of the Papers of the Chief John Ross and the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, he also compiled an abridged, single-volume edition of the journals entitled The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (2003). He also has served as treasurer of the Association for Documentary Editing.
• 2004 – Barbara B. Oberg, a professor at Princeton University and general editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. A former editor of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin at Yale University, she is co-author, with Doron Ben-Atar, of Federalists Reconsidered (1998) and, with Harry S. Stout, of Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture (1993). The immediate past president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, she also served as president of the Association for Documentary Editing.
• 2001 – William W. Abbott, editor emeritus of the Papers of George Washington and a founding father of the ADE, for his prodigious and excellent work in editing The Papers of George Washington, ten-volume Colonial Series (1983-1995), six-volume Confederation Series (1992-1997); and the four-volume Retirement Series (1998-1999).
• 1998 – John Y. Simon, editor of the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, has shepherded over ten thousand documents into publication since 1967. His other publications include The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant and more than a hundred articles and essays in professional journals and published collections.
• 1995 – David R. Chesnutt, in recognition for his lifetime contribution to understanding the American past through documentary editing as teacher, mentor and scholar. He is the senior editor of The Papers of Henry Laurens and project director of the Model Editions Partnership.
• 1992 – Jo Ann Boydston, editor of the thirty-seven volume Collected Works of John Dewey and president of the ADE, 1984-85.
• 1989 – Louis R. Harlan, distinguished professor of history at the University of Maryland at College Park and co-editor of The Booker T. Washington Papers, Harlan also is a recipient of the Beveridge Award, the Bancroft Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for his biography, Booker T. Washington.
• 1986 – Fredson Bowers, Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia, Bowers began his career as a scholar of Renaissance and Restoration drama, then in 1955 published an edition of Walt Whitman’s manuscripts, successfully making the transition to American literature. He later edited editions of Stephen Crane and William James, and produced many essays on the principles and procedures of editing.
• 1983 – Harold C. Syrett, for his distinguished contribution to American history and culture through his editing of The Papers of Alexander Hamilton from the project’s inception in 1955 through its completion in 1979.
• 1981 – Arthur S. Link was editor and director of the Papers of Woodrow Wilson, his crowning scholarly achievement. He also published a multi-volume biography of Woodrow Wilson, and an article on the survival of Progressivism in the 1920s that forced a historical reconsideration of that decade.

• 2023 – Noelle Baker, for her visionary leadership in the realm of digital editing, and for a career that models the aspiration toward greater inclusiveness within ADE and the broader documentary editing community.
• 2022 – Jennifer Stertzer, in recognition of her place at the vanguard of this discipine’s transition from print to digital, and myriad service to the field as educator, practitioner, leader, and friend.
• 2021 – David Sewell, manager of digital initiatives at the University of Virginia Press, in recognition of his creative and groundbreaking innovations in scholarly editing and documentary publication, which have made possible the widespread digital publication of scholarly editions.
• 2020 – The Dolley Madison Digital Edition, in recognition of the first comprehensive edition of a founding-era woman’s writings, the first primarily born-digital scholarly edition, and the first edition published by the Rotunda imprint of the University of Virginia Press. Holly C. Shulman and her colleagues, having developed key technologies and approaches for digital editing, now are putting the finishing touches on this pioneering edition.
• 2019 – Philander D. Chase, editor of the Papers of George Washington for thirty-five years and author of a guide for local organizers of ADE annual meetings that became a bible of sorts year after year, in recognition of his stature as “an outstanding figure in a generation of documentary editors that provided a foundation for new ventures in the twenty-first century.”
• 2018 – Raymond W. Smock, co-editor of the Booker T. Washington Papers, former historian of the U.S. House of Representatives, director emeritus of the Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education at Shepherd University, and until recently ADE representative on the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
• 2017 – The Princeton University Press, in recognition of its remarkable dedication as a publisher of documentary editions to a broad and deep presentation of important contributions to the study of literature, classicism, history, poetry, science, and music. The award is timely because it recognizes the distinguished leadership of Peter Dougherty, director of the Press for more than a decade, who is stepping down later this year.
• 2017 – Charlene Bangs Bickford, project director and co-editor of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789–1791, and in many ways the face of the ADE for many years, for her leadership in the organization, especially as it relates to her role in fighting off legislative efforts to abolish the NHPRC and in other advocacy efforts for the ADE.
• 2016 – Roger Bruns, one of the founders of the ADE and originator of the term “documentary editing,” in recognition of his service on the staff of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, which he formed into a remarkably responsive and supportive agency, and in appreciation of his sense of humor—“I’m from the federal government, and I’m here to help you. . . .”
• 2015 – Esther Katz, editor and director of the Margaret Sanger Papers Project, for enhancing historical understanding through superb editorial scholarship, “setting a foundation of historical accuracy and integrity in an area beset by myth and manipulation.”
• 2014 – Elaine Weber Pascu, for her eighteen years at the Papers of Thomas Jefferson during which time volumes 28 through 41 were published.
• 2013 – The Papers of George Catlett Marshall, in recognition of the project’s high editorial standards and the importance of its materials to the study of the United States in the twentieth century. This award is a tribute as well to two key editors of the Marshall Papers, Larry Bland and Sharon Ritenour Stevens (both now deceased), who were founding members of the ADE.
• 2012 – Michael Stevens, State Historic Preservation Officer of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, in recognition of his influence on both the field of documentary editing and the ADE, stemming from his own work as an editor, his volume Editing Historical Documents (which he wrote with Steven Burg), his directing Camp Edit for ten years, and his leading our organization through a series of important changes.
• 2011 – Beverly Wilson Palmer, in recognition of her almost incredible record of editorial productivity, having launched and completed projects on Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy, and Florence Kelley, energetically tackling each new project and bringing it to a timely conclusion, as a solo editor or with only a co-editor.
• 2010 – Helen R. Deese, in recognition of her achievements as a scholar who works on both sides of our putative divide, producing acclaimed editions of both literary and historical texts through two large and original enterprises: her massive Jones Very: The Complete Poems and her ongoing edition of the journals of Caroline Healey Dall.
• 2009 – Gregg L. Lint, series editor of the Papers of John Adams, in recognition of the quality of the scholarship displayed in the volumes he has edited, the vital role he has played within the walls of his project as a mentor to junior editors within his office and as a vital aide to the project’s directors, his service as a mentor to fledgling editors of other projects who have sought his help, and his participation in outreach programs for educators at all levels and scholarly conferences that publicize the work of editors to a broader audience.
• 2008 – Mary-Jo Kline, a veteran editor of documentary editions known for her work on John Jay, John Adams, Aaron Burr, and Alexander Hamilton, in recognition of “her unstinting work on behalf of the ADE and documentary editing in general in seeing three editions of the Guide to Documentary Editing through press.”
• 2007 – Beth Luey, director of the Scholarly Publishing Program at Arizona State University, in recognition of a long history of involvement with the Association for Documentary Editing, during which she has been an enthusiastic advocate for the profession and “perhaps more than any other member of the ADE, has most profoundly influenced a generation of younger scholars to think seriously about editing.”
• 2006 – Mary Hackett, Associate Editor of the Papers of James Madison, for her eighteen years of dedicated service and scholarly understanding in the editing and publishing of four volumes in the Secretary of State Series of the Madison Papers.
• 2005 – no award made.
• 2004 – Ken Bowling for the recent publication of three volumes of the Papers of the First Federal Congress. He has also served the field of scholarly editing through his work on Washington History, the Journal of the Early Republic and numerous ADE Committees.
• 2003 – Ron Bosco, for his scholarly editing in the field of Colonial and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. He is also regarded as the leading editor of the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• 2002 – C. James Taylor, currently editor in chief of the Adams Papers, for his over twenty years at the Henry Laurens Papers which completed its final volume in 2002 and his five years as editor of Documentary Editing.
• 2001 – Margot Backus for her twenty years of dedicated service to scholarly editors on behalf of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
• 2000 – Elaine Forman Crane for her landmark edition of the Elizabeth Drinker diary, celebrated for intellectual depth, scholarly impact, and educational value. These volumes will stand the test of time and are already a testimony to the lasting legacy and impact of volumes well edited and a project well run.
• 1999 – Mary Gallagher and Betty Nuxoll for the completion of the Robert Morris Papers.
• 1998 – Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., of the Centennial Edition of the Writings of Frank Norris, in recognition of his achievements in textual and bibliographic studies and editing and his generosity in service to the profession.
• 1997 – Massachusetts Historical Society, which, since 1792, has published historical documents in order to preserve and circulate them for the benefit of researchers. In 1990 the Society completed its edition in sixty-five volumes of the Journals of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1715-1779, and its ambitious plan, launched in 1954, to edit the Adams Papers has resulted in thirty-six volumes to date.
• 1996 – Ann Gordon, editor of the Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony at Rutgers University, for bringing a public profile to documentary editing, lending her expertise to events commemorating the anniversary of Women’s Suffrage.
• 1995 – Joel Myerson, an English professor at the University of South Carolina and editor of Studies in the American Renaissance, was the first literary editor to win the award.
• 1994 – Eugene R. Sheridan, for his work with the Letters of Delegates to Congress project and as senior associate editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. He also edited Congress at Princeton: Being the Letters of Charles Thomson to Hannah Thomson, June-October 1783.
• 1993 – Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, for setting an example of excellence in editing.
• 1992 – Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, edited by Robert A. Hill and Barbara J. Bair and published by the University of California Press.
• 1991 – Yale University Press, in recognition of the Press’s long and distinguished record of publishing editions such as the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, the Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the Papers of Charles Willson Peale, and the Frederick Douglass Papers.
• 1990 – David R. Chesnutt, editor of the Papers of Henry Laurens at the University of South Carolina, for his selfless service to the profession and to the ADE as president-elect.
• 1989 – Sharon Ritenour Stevens, associate editor of the George C. Marshall Papers and editor of Documentary Editing from 1983 to 1989, guiding the expansion and development of the journal from its early incarnation as the ADE’s newsletter.
• 1988 – Paul H. Smith, editor of the Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, for his early devotion to the defining and funding of the Letters project and to the outstanding editorial leadership he provided.
• 1987 – David W. Hirst, senior associate editor of The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, to which he has given over 30 years of service, helping to edit over 60 volumes.
• 1986 – The Papers of George Washington, for its exemplary role in the publication of outstanding volumes in a timely fashion.
• 1985 – Johns Hopkins University Press, in recognition of its commitment to the publication of documentary editions and for the support that the press has given to the six editions under its wing.

• 2011 – Sharon Ritenour Stevens, a dedicated editor, an exceptional mentor, and an active member of ADE from 1980.
• 2009 – Richard Leffler, for his long service to the Association and the profession. (award announcement)
• 2007 – John P. Kaminski, for almost forty years of distinguished scholarship as well as dedicated service to the ADE since 1979. (award announcement)
• 2004 – Charlene Bickford, the award’s first recipient, for repeated, significant contributions to the Association and the field. (award announcement)

• 2016 – Mary Hackettfor her many years of service as chair of the Meetings Committee.
• 2016 – Martha J. King, for her service as list manager of the Scholarly Editing Forum (SEDIT-L) from 2004 to 2016.
• 2013 – Stanley N. Katz, in recognition of his dedicated support of documentary editions as the representative of the American Historical Association on the National Historical Publications and Records Commission from 2005 to 2012.
• 2013 – Jennifer E. Stertzer,< for her long, dedicated, and invaluable service in many roles, including ADE secretary, Camp Edit faculty member, and webmaster.
• 2012 – Penelope Kaiserlian, in recognition of the very active role that she has played in the ADE over the previous decade.
• 2007 – Philander D. Chase for his long service to the ADE, including serving as Treasurer (1994-97), his “Guide to Planning the Annual Meeting,” his report on “Institutional Relationships and Support of Documentary Editing Projects,” and his dedication to lobbying Congress for sufficient funding of the NEH and NHPRC.
• 2005 – Martha J. King, Associate Editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, for serving as chair of the publications committee, moderator of SEDIT-L, and chair of the travel funds committee.
• 2003 – Cathy Moran Hajo for her exceptional service as chair of the Technology and Electronic Standards Committee, and her work in establishing the ADE’s Electronic Standard.
• 2002 – Beth Luey her years as editor of Documentary Editing.
• 2001 – Mark Mastromarino for serving as author/compiler of the Recent Editions feature of Documentary Editing.
• 2000 – Ann Gordon, editor of the Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and Associate Research Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for chairing last year’s meetings and arranging for a presidential address and providing leadership through this year’s NEH proposed policy changes, local arrangements and hotel challenges for the 2000 annual meeting.
• 1999 – Frank E. Grizzard, Jr., Associate Editor of the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia, for serving as the ADE webmaster since its inception in 1995 and for serving as a filter for various Councils and committees regarding electronic initiatives within the ADE.
• 1998 – Kevin Hayes, of the University of Central Oklahoma, in recognition of his dedicated service to the ADE as its bibliography editor for over six years.
• Joyce Appleby, Charlene Bickford, Theresa Collins, Charles T. Cullen, Linda Kerber, Page Putnam Miller, Leslie Rowland, Ray Smock, for their leadership, commitment, and fortitude during a year of struggle over federal policy.
• 1997 – Jim Taylor, for his four years service as editor of Documentary Editing.
• 1995 – Dick Sheldon, for twenty years of dedicated service to the profession. He also supervised Camp Edit from 1979 through 1995.
• 1994 – Roger Bruns, for the guidance on matters having to do with the theory and practice of documentary editing that he has unstintingly provided to numerous editorial projects.
• 1993 – Dorothy Porter Wesley, a pioneer in the preservation of African-American history sources. She served on the NHPRC‘s Special Advisory Committee on the Publications of the Papers of Blacks as well as the District of Columbia Historical Records Advisory Board.
• 1991 – Mary A. Giunta, director and editor of the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1781-1790, a documentary editing project administered by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
• 1990 – John P. Kaminski, co-editor of the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at the University of Wisconsin. He served as secretary-treasurer from 1982 to 1985 and as president, 1986-1987, of the ADE.
• 1989 – Elizabeth S. Hughes, senior associate editor of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower at the Johns Hopkins University, Hughes served as secretary-treasurer of the ADE from 1985 to 1988.
• 1988 – Frank G. Burke, professor of library science at the University of Maryland, was former director of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and was influential in the founding of the ADE.
• 1987 – Mary-Jo Kline, a vice-president of Sotheby Parke-Bernet, specializing in early American manuscripts. Author of A Guide to Documentary Editing, Kline also edited The Political Correspondence and Public Papers of Aaron Burr, and was an editor on the John Jay Papers and the Adams Papers projects.
• 1986 – Sharon R. Ritenour, for her work as assistant editor of the George C. Marshall Papers and three years as editor of Documentary Editing.
• Joel Myerson, Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, for his work in obtaining affiliated status for the ADE with the Modern Language Association, and for his committee work within the ADE since its inception.
• Raymond W. Smock, historian of the Office of the Bicentennial of the U.S. House of Representatives, and one of the ADE’s founding fathers, for his continued service and leadership on the Council.
• 1985 – Charles T. Cullen & David R. Chesnutt, to acknowledge the assistance that they provided to other editors making the transition to new computer/ word processing technology.
• 1983 – John Y. Simon, former president of the ADE and editor of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant at the University of Southern Illinois in Carbondale, for his efforts to promote the cause of documentary editing not only through his work but in testimony before Congress.
• 1981 – Charlene Bickford & Michael Richman, co-chairs of the Coalition to Save Our Documentary Heritage, for their outstanding efforts to keep members informed about federal actions affecting documentary editing.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, former executive director of NHPC, in recognition of his fostering interest in documentary editing.

• 2021 – Maria Benauer for her essay “At the Intersection of Sciences, Humanities and Technologies — A Review of the Edition Humboldt Digital” in RIDE 13 (2022)
• 2021 – Christopher Ohge for his essay “Melville Incomplete” in American Literary History 31, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 139-150.
• 2018 – Nicole Gray and Kenneth M. Price for their essay “The Letters in the Litter: Messy Boundaries and Other Conundrums in Editing Walt Whitman’s Correspondence,” Scholarly Editing 37 (2016), http://scholarlyediting.org/2016/essays/essay.grayprice.html.
• 2016 – Ann Gordon for her review essay “Getting History’s Words Right: Diaries of Emilie Davis” in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 139 (2015): 197-216.
• 2014 – Alison Chapman for “Revolutionizing Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Review of The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning” in Victorian Literature and Culture 39 [2011], 605-611.
• 2012 – Michael Dirda for his review essay “Messing About with ‘The Wind in the Willows,’” review of The Annotated Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, edited by Annie Gauger, and The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition, by Kenneth Grahame, edited by Seth Lerer, New York Review of Books 56.13 (13 August 2009), https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/08/13/messing-about-with-the-wind-in-the-willows/.
• 2009 – Ronald Broude for his article, “The Gilbert & Sullivan Critical Edition and the Full Scores that Never Were,” TEXTUAL CULTURES 3.2 (2008)
• 2007 – Raymond Stephanson for his essay, “Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope and the Curious Case of Modern Scholarship and the Vanishing Text,” Eighteenth-Century Life 31.1 (Winter 2007).
• 2005 – Tim William Machan, “The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 1: Corpus Christie College Oxford MS 201 (F), ed. Robert Adams, Hoyt N. Duggan, Eric Eliason, Ralph Hanna III, John Price-Wilkin, and Thorlac Turville-Petre; The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 2: Cambridge Trinity College MSB.15.17 (W), ed. Thorlac Turville-Petre and Hoyt Duggan. SEENET, University of Michigan Press, 1999 and 2000,” TEXT 16 (2006): 400-405
• 2005 – Paul Eggert, “These Post-Philological Days…. D.C. Greetham. Theories of the Text. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999,” TEXT 15 (2003): 323-336.
• 2003 – Dayton W. Haskin for “No Edition Is an Island: The Place of Nineteenth-Century American Editions within the History of Editing Donne’s Poems,” TEXT 14 (2002): 169-207.
• 2001 – Peter Shillingsburg for the review of various works published in The Academy Editions of Australian Literature series and the Colonial Texts Series, which appeared in TEXT 12 (1999): 264-273; and Marta Werner, for her review of The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by R. W. Franklin, Variorum Edition, 3 vols., Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998, which appeared in TEXT 12 (1999): 255-263.
• 1999 – Ronald A Bosco, Distinguished Service Professor of English and American Literature at the University at Albany and an editor of the Emerson Papers at the Houghton Library of Harvard University, for his review “The Expanding Textual Circle of New England Transcendentalism” in volume 11 of Text.
• 1997 – Dale Kramer, for “The Compositor as Copy-Text,” a review of George Eliot’s Romola, edited by Andrew Brown. The review appeared in volume 9 of Text.
• 1995 – George Geckle, Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, for his review of three editions of Dr. Faustus in volume 7 of Text.

The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) invites applications for its annual prize to documentary editors and students at midpoint of a project heavily dependent on documentary editing and document sources. Preference is given to persons working on women in uniformed military service or in various military support services (such as the USO) or on the home front during wartime. Advanced students, scholars (including independent scholars), and editors may apply.  

The two-part prize of $1500 seeks to facilitate the use of documentary sources for a project or doctoral dissertation at its research stage. It consists of $1,000 toward travel to collections, reproduction of sources, or other costs associated with utilization of documents in research, along with $500 to support the prizewinner’s participation in the annual meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing. Winners are required to report on their work in person or virtually at our scholarly conference. The prize also includes a year’s membership in ADE.

The prize was established in 2019 to honor the life and work of Sharon Ritenour Stevens (1950-2013), Associate Editor of the Papers of George C. Marshall at the George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Virginia. On her own time and money, she also labored on a biography of Lt. Col. Susanna P. Turner, a protégé of George C. Marshall and a member of the first Officers Candidate School for the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) in 1942, as well as one of ten women selected for Command and General Staff School. Unfortunately, this biographical project never reached fulfillment. The Ritenour Stevens prize is established to aid other scholars and editors working in fields allied with her interests but for whom institutional support such as sabbaticals and release-time or research funds is not available.

 Specifically, those interests were:

– Uniformed women’s roles in military conflict, declared or undeclared

            – Women’s history

            – Military history.

Submitted electronically, an application packet will comprise, as Word documents: 

– One-page application letter describing the project’s significance, the applicant’s status (Student? Independent scholar? Contingent/contract faculty? Retired?) and a summary of the planned use of documents in the project.

– Two-page statement about the research and documents under consideration.

– Three-page (maximum) curriculum vitae 

– Letter of recommendation from a primary doctoral advisor or other person involved in project oversight or its publication.

All documents should be double-spaced, except for the letter, which may be single-spaced. The deadline for submissions is 1 November 2024. A committee of five members of the Association for Documentary Editing will judge the submissions. The prizewinner will be announced in mid-January 2025 and introduced to the organization at its annual meeting. Queries may be sent to CDBL@Brown.edu.

At the conclusion of the award period, recipients should provide a one-page (250 words) report to the ADE Council on their use of the prize. A version of this report may be considered for publication in the association newsletter and on the ADE website.

• 2020 – Kristen Lee Griffin, a former Army medic and an instructor of history in the University of Georgia system, is starting a Ph.D. program in women’s studies and military history. Griffin works at the intersection of military, women’s, and documentary history with a research focus on the admittance of women to the U.S. military academies in the 1970s. She is now a member of the prize committee.
• 2021 (two prizes) — Manaswini Ramkumar, a PhD student in International Relations at American University’s School of International Service, does elite interviews with retired and active officers of the Indian military and consults resources in archives in India to explore how the Indian military service protected democratic institutions/protocols during Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency” regime. Manu is examining internal correspondence among senior military leaders, military memoirs, training and doctrine manuals and newspaper reports about the 1975-1977 Emergency in three major archives in India. The resulting dissertation will be entitled “Call of Duty: Military Responses to Undemocratic Leadership.
• — William A. Taylor, a professor of Global Security Studies at Angelo State University, Texas, studies the development of the All-Volunteer Army Force (AVF) in 1973. The planning for that contingency created a space for more women to serve in all the services, including, eventually, in combat, he posits. His project, a published volume documenting the creation of the AVF along with presentation of narrative sources, is an important addition to undergraduate teaching sources in military history. The resulting book appeared in 2023 as The Advent of the All-Volunteer Force: Protecting Free Society as part of Routledge’s “Critical Moments in American History” series in 2023.
• 2022 — Kelley Fincher, a fourth-year graduate student in history at George Mason University, is researching women’s unpaid “domestic labor” in the US military for a dissertation entitled “‘All Personnel Profit’?: Domestic Labor of Military Families in the Post War and Cold War Eras.” Her work explores daily life and household burdens of American military families in the conscription era following the Second World War. She works with military base archives, military base newspapers and newsletters (often edited by military spouses), as well as informal documents such as scrapbooks created by spouses.
• 2023 — Riley Sutherland, a recent M.A. graduate in history from the University of South Carolina and staff member of the Pinckney Papers at that institution, uses official pension records to reconstruct how women served, formally or informally, during the Revolutionary War. As a beginning PhD student in history at Harvard, she is continuing to use pension files to study Revolutionary War veterans’ and widows’ experiences of disability and care work.
• 2024 — Marie Robin, a fourth-year graduate student in history at Columbia University. Ms. Robin researches the complex interplay between violence, sex, and warfare during the wars for independence in Vietnam (1946-54) and Algeria (1954-62). Uniquely bilingual in English and French and competent in Arabic and Vietnamese, she is accessing new documentary sources in Algeria, Vietnam, and France for an analysis of the Bordel Militaire de Campagne (Mobile Field Brothels, BMC), the French system of military prostitution.

• 2021 – Carol DeBoer-Langworthy
• 2015 – David R. Chesnutt
• 2014 – Ray Smock
• 2013 – Timothy Connelly
• 2013 – The Journal of American History
• 2012 – The University of Virginia Press
• 1999 – The Model Editions Partnership Project Director, David Chesnutt, Co-Coordinators Susan Hockey and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, and the Partnership Steering Committee
• 1999 – The American Historical Association
• 1997 – The Organization of American Historians
• 1996 – Charles Cullen
• 1995 – Reese Jenkins
• 1992 – Matthew Hodgson
• 1990 – Representative Lindy Boggs
• 1983 – Certain Members of the U.S. Congress
• 1980 – Charles Hobson and John Y. Simon
• 1979 – Julian Boyd