CMH Dissertation Fellowships:
Past Recipients
The following individuals were awarded the CMH Dissertation Fellowships for:
2023–2024
Matthew J. Vajda
“Knowing Your Enemies: Raph Van Deman and the Origins of American Intelligence, 1882–1941”
(Kent State University)
Syrus Jin
“Militarized Modernity, Military Advisors, and the Global U.S. Security Architecture”
(University of Chicago)
2019–2020
Shane D. Makowicki
“‘Savage Warfare’: Soldiers, Sailors, Citizens, and Guerrillas in Eastern North Carolina, 1861–1863”
(Texas A&M University)
John J. Mortimer
“We Seek a Stable Structure: Détente, Human Rights, and National Security Policy, 1974–1981”
(University of Southern Mississippi)
Cecily N. Zander
“Agents of Empire: The US Army, the Civil War, and the Making of the American West, 1848–72”
(Pennsylvania State University)
2018–2019
(Texas Tech University)
“Northern Vietnamese in the Southern Republic: Political, Economic, and Social Development under Ngo Dinh Diem, 1954–63”
David Johnson
Wesley Hazzard
“Tropical Intervention: The U.S. Military in the IAPF”
(University of Southern Mississippi)
2017–2018
Allyson M. Gates
“Bickering Brass: Defense Unification, Interservice Rivalry, and the Pacific War”
(Florida State University)
Benjamin M. Schneider
“The Killing Spirit: American War Criminals and Military Justice, 1942–1945”
(George Mason University)