Santa Barbara, Calif.   —   2012-06-07   —  

Professor Gerhard L. Weinberg has been named the recipient of the Spencer Tucker Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Military History. Concurrently, Michael Geheran and Emily Swafford have been awarded research grants. The Spencer Tucker Award and the research grants are sponsored by ABC-CLIO to advance the discipline of military history.

Professor Weinberg is an internationally recognized authority on Nazi Germany and the origins and course of World War II. A retired Kenan professor of history, he is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on 20th-century European and world history. Formerly the president of the German Studies Association, he has held numerous other offices in such professional organizations as the American Historical Association and the Southern Historical Association. Weinberg has also served on U.S. government advisory committees.

The Spencer Tucker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Military History was presented to Professor Weinberg by Spencer Tucker, ABC-CLIO Senior Fellow of Military History, on May 11 during the Society for Military History Annual Conference in Arlington, Virginia. A Fulbright scholar, Spencer Tucker taught history at Texas Christian University and served as an intelligence analyst and desk officer at the Pentagon during the Vietnam War. He held the John Biggs Chair of Military History at the Virginia Military Institute until his retirement from teaching in 2003.

That same day, during the SMH Awards Luncheon, it was announced that Michael Geheran, a PhD candidate in history at Clark University, and Emily Swafford, a PhD candidate in 20^th-century U.S. history at the University of Chicago, each had been awarded an ABC-CLIO/Society for Military History Research Grant. The $500 grants support scholarly research in the field of military history. Both recipients were chosen for the innovation of their research projects, as well as for clearly defining how their efforts will benefit from the grant funding. 

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About the Society for Military History (SMH)
Established in 1933 as the American Military History Foundation, renamed in 1939 the American Military Institute, and renamed again in 1990 the Society for Military History; SMH is devoted to stimulating and advancing the study of military history. Its membership has included many of the nation's most prominent scholars, soldiers, and citizens interested in military history.