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Officers receive no compensation from Society dues or the publication of the Society journal.</p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Current Society Officers</span> (as of 2025)</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>President</strong>:David Bachrach, <i>University of New Hampshire</i></li> <li><strong>Executive Secretary: </strong>Kelly DeVries, <em>Loyola University, Maryland</em></li> <li><strong>Treasurer</strong>: Daniel Franke, <em>Richard Bland College of William & Mary</em></li> <li><strong>Program Chair</strong>: Valerie Eads,聽<em>School of Visual Arts (New York City)</em></li> <li><strong>Webmaster</strong>: Peter Konieczny, <em>Medievalists.net</em></li> <li><strong>Book Review Editor</strong>: Craig M Nakashian, <em>Texas A&M University- Texarkana</em></li> <li><strong>Chairman of the Prize Committees and Membership Secretary</strong>: 聽L.J. Andrew Villalon,聽<em>University of Cincinnati (emeritus)</em></li> <li><strong>Editors of the <em>Journal of Medieval Military History</em></strong><em>: </em>Clifford Rogers (<em>United States Military Academy at West Point</em>), Kelly DeVries (<em>Loyola College, Maryland)</em>, John France (<em>University of Swansea, emeritus</em>)</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Past Officers</strong></span></p> <ul> <li><strong>President</strong>:</li> <li>Ilana Krug (<em>York College of Pennsylvania</em>), John D. Hosler (<em>Command and General Staff College</em>)<em>,聽</em>L.J. Andrew Villalon (<em>University of Cincinnati, emeritus</em>), Stephen Morillo (<em>Wabash College</em>)</li> <li><strong>Secretary/Treasurer</strong>: Jay Roberts (<em>Olathe North High School</em>), Carroll Gillmor (<em>Independent Scholar</em>)</li> <li><strong>Book Review Editor</strong>: Steven Walton (<em>Michigan Technological University</em>)</li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Members of the Prize Committees</span> (as of 2020)</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Verbruggen Prize</strong>: John France (Chair), Nicolas Prouteau (<em>Universit茅 de Poitiers</em>), John D. Hosler, Craig M Nakashian</li> <li><strong>Gillingham prize</strong>: Editors of the <em>Journal of Medieval Military History</em></li> <li><strong>Bernard Bachrach Prize</strong>: Kelly DeVries, Helen Nicholson (<em>Cardiff</em> <em>University</em>), Valerie Eads, Stephen Morillo</li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Editorial Board</span> of the <em>Journal of Medieval Military History</em></strong></p> <ul> <li>David Bachrach (<em>University of New Hampshire</em>)</li> <li>Valerie Eads</li> <li>Daniel Franke</li> <li>John Gillingham (<em>London School of Economics, emeritus</em>)</li> <li>Carroll Gillmor</li> <li>Steven Isaac (<em>Longwood University</em>)</li> <li>Ilana Krug (<em>York College of Pennsylvania</em>)</li> <li>Helen Nicholson</li> <li>Leif Inge Ree Petersen (<em>Norwegian University of Science and Technology</em>)</li> <li>Theresa Vann (<em>University of Minnesota, Twin Cities</em>)</li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Founding Editors</span> of the <em>Journal of Medieval Military History </em></strong></p> <ul> <li>Bernard S. 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