The Society for Military History

Announcements and Events

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The National WWII Museum Faculty Seminar in World War II History
June 15-21, 2025
The Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy

The EXTENDED deadline for applications is January 10, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. (CT).
All applicants will be informed of their status by January 20, 2025.

The National WWII Museum invites applications for the Faculty Seminar in World War II History to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from June 15-21, 2025.

This weeklong intensive study is designed for any college-level instructors or professors who desire a stronger historical background in the American experience in World War II. Particularly, we encourage applicants from under-resourced and smaller colleges and seek to enhance the faculty at Minority Served Institutions (MSIs) and Historically Black Colleges (HBCUs). In addition, the program is available for Professional Military Education (PME) institutions and Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) instructors.

This seminar is intended to develop the knowledge and understanding of World War II for active college or university faculty who wish to teach, advocate, or design history courses and content regarding this significant conflict.

The program consists of a series of content and pedagogical seminars led by the Museum’s expert faculty covering the war’s major themes, campaigns, outcomes, and legacies. Lodging for six nights, select meals, and course materials are provided. Travel costs to and from New Orleans are the responsibility of the attendee or their institution.

A limited number of travel grants will be available on a case-by-case basis. If you are unable to obtain financial assistance from your institution and would like to be considered for a travel grant, limited funds may be available. Further information on such requests will be made available upon acceptance.

Applicants will be selected based upon their potential contributions to the teaching of WWII history and the impact they can make on their institutions. The program is open to all college-level faculty, PME, and ROTC instructors who expect to teach or study military history or American history focused on World War II. A selection committee will consider each applicant’s packet on its own merits.

Interested applicants should submit:

• A completed application form
• Curriculum Vitae
• One letter of recommendation that addresses the applicant’s teaching abilities and skills

DISSERTATION GRANT
John A. Adams ’71 Center for Military History & Strategic Analysis

The John A. Adams ’71 Center for Military History & Strategic Analysis at the Virginia Military Institute will award a $5,000 grant to a graduate student in history or a related field working on a doctoral dissertation in Cold War military history, broadly defined. The award promotes innovative scholarship on Cold War topics (for a list of past recipients/projects, see below). The Adams Center invites proposals in all subject areas—including international security affairs, military history, and strategic analysis. All periods of Cold War history are welcome. The prize is made possible through the generous support of John A. Adams and George J. Collins, Jr.

To be considered, graduate students must submit a brief proposal (prospectus) describing their doctoral research, a project timeline, and a curriculum vitae with a list of references. Applications should be delivered, electronically, to the Adams Center at adamscenter@vmi.edu by 4:00 p.m. Eastern, Friday, March 14, 2025.

Deadline for submissions: March 14, 2025

Send submissions to: adamscenter@vmi.edu

Questions? Contact:
Joel C. Christenson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, John A. Adams ’71 Center for Military History & Strategic Analysis
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington, VA 24450
christensonjc@vmi.edu
540-464-7689

TEMPLER MEDAL/CHAPPLE PRIZE
Entries are welcomed for the 2024/25 competition for the best book and best first book on British military history (broadly defined) published in the calendar year 1 January to 31 December 2024.

Jointly sponsored by the Society for Army Historical Research and the National Army Museum, the Templer Medal (named for FM Sir Gerald Templer) and £2,000 will be awarded to the best book on British military history with the runner up receiving £1,000 and the second runner up £200. The Chapple First Book Prize (named for FM Sir John Chapple) of an engraved Dartington Crystal and £1,000 will be awarded to the best first book on British military history with the first and runners up receiving £200.

In the first instance publishers or authors are requested to send one copy of the submitted book to a designated panel member. Publishers will be invited to send further copies to remaining members of the panel if a title is shortlisted in January. Closing date for receipt of submissions is 31 December. Awards will be announced in March and prizes presented at the Society’s AGM in April.

Criteria are set out fully on the Society’s website at www.sahr.org.uk/templer-medal-rules

In the first instance contact should be made with the panel chairman, Professor Ian Beckett at templermedal@sahr.org.uk.

SAVE THE DATE!

CALL FOR WRITERS
The Edwin Mellen Press We are looking to increase our current pool of authors at The Edwin Mellen Press in the discipline of Military related studies. We are a non-subsidy academic publisher of scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences. Our sole criterion for publication is that a manuscript makes a contribution to scholarship. We publish monographs, critical editions, collections, translations, revisionist studies, constructive essays, bibliographies, dictionaries, reference guides and dissertations.

Mellen Press has published over 10,000 works in numerous disciplines, including military subjects of a scholarly nature. We publish 300 scholarly works a year. We offer recognition awards (for superior scholarship), royalties, authors maintain copyright, peer reviews and we have a world wide distribution network of libraries and direct sales. For submissions we are looking for scholarly works on a wide variety of Military issues and topics.
Please tell us about your work by emailing us at editor@mellenpress.com. Including your phone number will also be helpful. We will get back to you in 7 business days or less. For more information, please contact: Edwin. Mellen Press Philip Viverito/ Editor/Direct editor@mellenpress.com
www.mellpress.com

SEEKING TRANSCRIBERS
Project CHECO: The Air Force Experience in Vietnam" (https://airforcehistory.net) seeks to textually digitize a semi-curated collection of documents held at the Air Force archive. It also supports research into the correlation between demographics and crowdsourcing effectiveness.

The Air Force created Project CHECO (Contemporary Historical Examination of Current Operations) in 1962 to analyze issues of immediate concern to various echelons of the service. Over the course of fifteen years, authors completed more than 250 reports on topics that included special operations, conventional air operations, rules of engagement, training, air base defense, and many others. Arguably, the Project CHECO reports represent the single-most comprehensive collection of Air Force-produced documents detailing its activities in the Vietnam War. The vast majority of these have been declassified and approved for public release, and only the publicly-available studies are being used for this project.

For the volunteer, this is a trifecta of opportunities: A chance to learn about U.S. Air Force history in Southeast Asia from the perspective of the service itself; contribute to digital history through the textual digitization of a portion of the USAF archive (similar to efforts by NARA, LOC, and the Smithsonian); and, last but not least, help me gather data for my dissertation!

The process is simple:
1. Fill out a demographic form (individual identities will not be associated with performance)
2. Review some directions for the site.
3. Correct or transcribe a document from the Air Force archive.
4. Take a survey.

THAT'S IT! If you have any questions, please contact me at dabyrd4@gmail.com. Thanks, Dave

SUBMISSIONS SOUGHT
Joint Force Quarterly seeks history submissions for its “Recall” Section
 
Joint Force Quarterly, published by the National Defense University Press, is looking for articles of 2,500 - 5,000 words or less for its Recall section.  Recall focuses on historical issues often of contemporary relevance to the joint force.   JFQ is the Chairman's joint military and security studies journal designed to inform and educate national security professionals on joint and integrated operations; whole of government contributions to national security policy and strategy; homeland security; and developments in training and joint military education to better equip America's military and security apparatus to meet tomorrow's challenges while protecting freedom today.  Instructions for submission of articles is at: http://ndupress.ndu.edu/SubmitaManuscript.aspx.  Any questions can be sent to JFQ1@ndu.edu.