CMH Dissertation Fellowships:
Past Recipients

The following individuals were awarded the CMH Dissertation Fellowships during previous academic years.

2023–2024

Matthew J. Vajda

Dissertation

“Knowing Your Enemies: Raph Van Deman and the Origins of American Intelligence, 1882–1941”

Kent State University

Syrus Jin

Dissertation

“Militarized Modernity, Military Advisors, and the Global U.S. Security Architecture”

University of Chicago

2019–2020

Shane D. Makowicki

Dissertation

“‘Savage Warfare’: Soldiers, Sailors, Citizens, and Guerrillas in Eastern North Carolina, 1861–1863”

Texas A&M University

John J. Mortimer

Dissertation

“We Seek a Stable Structure: Détente, Human Rights, and National Security Policy, 1974–1981”

University of Southern Mississippi

Cecily N. Zander

Dissertation

“Agents of Empire: The US Army, the Civil War, and the Making of the American West, 1848–72”

Pennsylvania State University

2018–2019

David Johnson

Dissertation

“Northern Vietnamese in the Southern Republic: Political, Economic, and Social Development under Ngo Dinh Diem, 1954–63”

Texas Tech University

Wesley Hazzard

Dissertation

“Tropical Intervention: The U.S. Military in the IAPF”

University of Southern Mississippi

2017–2018

Allyson M. Gates

Dissertation

“Bickering Brass: Defense Unification, Interservice Rivalry, and the Pacific War”

Florida State University

Benjamin M. Schneider

Dissertation

“The Killing Spirit: American War Criminals and Military Justice, 1942–1945”

George Mason University