CSIS Graduate Student Prize in Applied Military History
The Society for Military History and the CSIS Project on Military and Diplomatic History are pleased to announce the CSIS Graduate Student Prize in Applied Military History. The prize will be awarded to the author of the best essay of 5,000 to 8,000 words that uses military history to inform current international security problems.
This prize was reactivated for the 2026 awards cycle. The submission process for the CSIS Graduate Student Prize in Applied Military History can be found here.
2021 Prize:
Winner: Heather Haley, Auburn University
"Suppressing the 'Homosexual Menace': Harvey Milk, Vernon 'Copy' Berg, and the Navy's Lavender Scare."
Honorable Mention: Kristofer Seibt, Columbia University
"'My Heart Bled': Sustained Destruction and the Economics of Coercion in German Cameroon."
"Suppressing the 'Homosexual Menace': Harvey Milk, Vernon 'Copy' Berg, and the Navy's Lavender Scare."
Honorable Mention: Kristofer Seibt, Columbia University
"'My Heart Bled': Sustained Destruction and the Economics of Coercion in German Cameroon."
2018 Prize:
James Torrence, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
"Cyber Defense and the Strategic Defense Initiative"
"Cyber Defense and the Strategic Defense Initiative"
2017 Prize:
Thomas Jamison, Harvard University
“The Baltimore Incident of 1891 and Modern Conflict Resolution”
“The Baltimore Incident of 1891 and Modern Conflict Resolution”
