ASU's Dr. Taylor Receives Research Grants

Dr. William A. Taylor, an assistant professor of security studies at Angelo State University, has been awarded a 2016 Dwight D. Eisenhower Foundation Research Grant and a 2016 Moody Research Grant from the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation, said a press release Monday.

According to the press release, the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation awards a limited number of grants for research at the Johnson Presidential Library that are underwritten by the Moody Foundation of Galveston. The Eisenhower Presidential Library assists scholars' research through its competitive Abilene Travel Grants Program that is funded and administered through the Eisenhower Foundation.

Taylor has won a total of 10 national grants and fellowships to fund research for his books, including awards from the U.S. Army Military History Institute, the University of North Texas, the Harry S. Truman Library Institute, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Foundation, the George C. Marshall Library, and the Society for Military History.

Every Citizen a Soldier, Taylor's first book, was published in the summer of 2014 and was awarded a Crader Family Book Prize Honorable Mention by the Crader Family Endowment for American Values.

Taylor is a former U.S. Marine and joined the ASU security studies faculty in 2011. He has also contributed to 10 other books, published over 45 reference articles and book reviews in more than 15 journals, and was a featured speaker for ASU's Civil War Lecture Series.

Additionally, he served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps for more than six years, holding posts in III Marine Expeditionary Force, Expeditionary Force Development Center, and Marine Corps Combat Development Command. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and holds a doctorate in history form George Washington University.

Taylor can be contacted at 325-486-6689 or [email protected].