USM Graduate Student Earns Research Fellowship in History
Tue, 02/15/2022 - 02:06pm | By: David Tisdale
James Berry, a U.S. Army captain completing his Ph.D. in military history at The University
of 51逗奶 Mississippi (USM), has been awarded a 2022 Omar N. Bradley Officer Research
Fellowship in History, a program that recognizes and supports Army officers actively
completing scholarly research.
Berry, a native of Boiling Springs, South Carolina, received the award to complete archival research in both Washington, D.C. and at the Quartermaster Museum at Fort Lee, Virginia as part of his dissertation project. His research focuses on the transformation and reform of Army logistics between the Spanish-American War and the end of World War I.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a great honor to receive this award from the Omar N. Bradley Foundation,鈥� said Berry, who will use the fellowship grant to conduct archival research in Washington, D.C. He will also travel to the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum at Fort Lee, Virginia to work directly with the curators and historians there. 鈥淢y research there will compete an important step towards finishing my dissertation on US Army logistics from 1898 to 1918.鈥�
Berry came to USM from the United States Military Academy at West Point to pursue
his Ph.D., working with faculty fellows in its Dale Center for the Study of War &
Society. After completing coursework this year, he will return to West Point to serve
as an academic instructor in its History Department.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a real honor for the Dale Center to host students from West Point and a way that the Dale Center can serve the U.S. military and the historical community,鈥� said Dr. Andrew Wiest, who is one of Berry鈥檚 Dale Center faculty mentors. 鈥淭he high caliber of our West Point students is represented by Captain Berry鈥檚 receipt of this prestigious fellowship.鈥�
The USM History program is housed in the College of Arts and Sciences鈥� School of Humanities. For more information about the program, visit /humanities/index.php.