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ABC-CLIO Announces Winners of Spencer Tucker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Military History, and Society for Military History Research Grants
Santa Barbara, CA — May 2008 — ABC-CLIO, in support of advancing the discipline of military history at the middle and high school level, is proud to announce that Dr. Linda Karen Miller is the recipient of the Spencer Tucker Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Military History. Dr. Miller is Nevada's state coordinator for the National Council of History Education, for which she conducted a state conference on Teaching the Atomic Age at the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas. She has an extensive background in promoting military history to high school and college students as well as the general public.
The award was announced by Spencer Tucker, ABC-CLIO Senior Fellow of Military History, on Thursday, April 17, at the Society for Military History Annual Conference in Ogden, UT. A Fulbright scholar, Spencer Tucker was a professor of 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.
"We are proud to recognize individuals who contribute to the professional development of secondary educators and military history curriculum," stated Becky Snyder, President of ABC-CLIO. "Dr. Miller's partnerships between secondary schools and museums, historical societies, and non-profit organizations, as well as her consistent written contributions, exemplify the type of achievement and innovation we support at ABC-CLIO."
ABC-CLIO is also pleased to announce that Katherine C. Epstein and Waitman Beorn have each been awarded an ABC-CLIO/Society for Military History Research Grant. The $500 grants are designed to support research in the area of military history and preference is given to applicants with specific research needs, such as the completion of a project or completion of a discrete segment thereof.
Katherine C. Epstein is a Ph.D. candidate at Ohio State University. Her research focuses on torpedo development in the United States and Britain between 1866 and 1914, and how their use in both World Wars has affected technology, finance, bureaucracy, and strategy in modern warfare.
Waitman Beorn is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on small units of Wehrmacht soldiers on the Eastern Front during World War II, especially their attitudes toward and participation in atrocities.
The research grants were presented on Friday, April 18, at the awards luncheon during the Society for Military History's Annual Conference in Ogden, UT.
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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 (today more than 2,300) has included many of the nation's most prominent scholars, soldiers, and citizens interested in military history.