Hillsdale College Assistant Professor of History Jason Gehrke has been awarded a $30,000 Chairman’s Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support his research on an upcoming book, “Just War: A Military History.”
Gehrke’s project aims to examine how military leaders and policymakers have justified their actions throughout history, focusing on practical applications of moral reasoning about war. Gehrke said, “There has been a lot of scholarship on the history of moral reasoning about war, but less on how those ideas have played out in an operational context.”
The grant will fund travel, research, and archive work for his second book. His first publication was “Roman Virtue in the Early Christian Thought of Lactantius,” part of the Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.
Gehrke, who is also associate director of Hillsdale’s Center for Military History and Strategy, noted that his new book expands on themes from his previous work.