Dissertation Year Fellowship

The U.S. Army Center of Military History Dissertation Year Fellowship program is designed to support scholarly research and writing among qualified civilian graduate students preparing dissertations in the history of land warfare. The area of study is broadly defined, and includes military campaigns, biography, military organization and administration, policy, strategy, tactics, weaponry, technology, training, logistics, and the evolution of civil-military relations. Topics focusing on the history of the U.S. Army are preferred but not required.

Applicants must be civilian U.S. citizens pursuing a doctoral degree in history. They must be unaffiliated with the federal government. Military personnel, civilian federal service employees, and contractors with the U.S. government are ineligible. Awards will be issued to individual (natural person) recipients vice to institutions that an individual is attending for their doctoral degree.

Upon selection for the award, fellows must sign a statement formally accepting the fellowship and agreeing to its terms. Paperwork is then submitted by CMH and the fellow to the Army Contracting Command which issues payment in the form of a lump-sum grant (fixed amount award).