SAN ANGELO, Texas — Angelo State University announced Wednesday Dr. William A. Taylor, an associate professor of global security studies was awarded the 2021 Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize from the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE).
According to an ASU press release, once university travel resumes, the award will fund research at Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library for Taylor's newest book, "The Advent of the All-Volunteer Force: Protecting Free Society."
The book will be published in New York and London by Routledge, a global publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Additionally, Taylor will present his research at the virtual ADE national meeting to be held in the summer.
The Sharon Ritenour Stevens prize is presented each year to an editor or a scholar with interests in women's history and military history to support work on a project already in progress that is heavily dependent on documentary editing and sources according to the release.
The prize was established in 2019 in memory of Sharon Ritenour Stevens, associate editor of "The Papers of George C. Marshall."
Taylor's book will be published as part of Routledge's "Critical Moments in American History” series. The book will be a complete narrative on the advent of the All-Volunteer Forces (AVF) and will be accompanied by relevant source documents, as well as examine the AVF in four essential parts: history, impacts, challenges and implications.
"The Advent of the All-Volunteer Force: Protecting Free Society” will be Taylor's fifth book to be published since 2014.
Taylor holds the ASU's Lee Drain Endowed University Professorship and is a previous chair of ASU's Department of Security Studies and Criminal Justice.
Taylor has won 18 national grants, fellowships and prizes to fund research for his books, which are housed in libraries across the United States and more than 45 countries.
