The Allan R. Millett Dissertation Research Grant
The Society for Military History is pleased to offer the Allan R. Millett Dissertation Research Grant. The grant honors Professor Allan R. Millett, a former President of the Society and an eminent, prolific scholar who directed over fifty dissertations in his long career. The winner receives an award of $1200.00 for doctoral dissertation research on a topic in any field of military history.
The submission process for the 2026 Millett Dissertation Research Grant can be found here.
2025 Millett Grant
Cody J. Billock, Ohio University
“Cold War Citadel: Huế & the Global Vietnamese Civil War, 1945–1975”
Runner-Up
Srijita C. Pal, University of Southern California
“The War within the War: the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on the Western Front”
2024 Millett Grant
Joseph Bienko, Penn State
“Warfare and the Environment in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World and Caribbean”
2023 Millett Grant
Ayelet Marron, Rutgers University
“Bargaining for Freedom in World War II: The Laws of the Market in American-Occupied French North Africa”
Blake McGready, The Graduate Center CUNY
“Making Nature’s Nation: The Revolutionary War and Environmental Interdependence in New York, 1775-1783”
2022 Millett Grant
Christopher Goodwin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Broken Supermen: Disabled Veterans and Soldiers in Nazi Germany, 1939-1949.”
Runner Up
Thomas P. Stephens, Indiana University, Bloomington
“All the Work Without the Excitement of War: Gender and Race in the Royal Army Service Corps, 1888-1945.”
2021 Millett Grant
Sofya Anisimova, University of St. Andrews
"Russia's Military Strategy and the Entente, 1914-1917"
Runner Up
Uyen H. Nguyen, Texas Tech University
"MAT Teams in a Mad War: The U.S. Army's Advisory Efforts Waging Peace in the Vietnam War"
2020 Millett Grant
Nathan Grau, Harvard University
“France’s Forgotten Soldiers: Local Paramilitaries on the frontlines of Decolonization, 1945-1962”
Runner Up
Marjorie Galelli, University of Kansas
“Two Sides of the Same COIN”
2019 Millett Grant
Michael Morris, Texas A&M University
"Waging War in I Corps: III Marine Amphibious Force Headquarters in Vietnam, 1965-1971"
2018 Millett Grant
Katelyn Tietzen, Kansas State University
"Iraq in the Cold War and beyond the fall of the Soviet Union, 1968-2003"
2017 Millett Grant
Cameron Zinsou, Mississippi State University
Dissertation Title: “Occupied: The Civilian Experience in Montélimar, 1939-1946"
2016 Millett Grant
Mary Elizabeth Walters, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: “Opportunism or Compassion? NATO's Humanitarianism and Albanian Responses during the 1999 Kosovo Refugee Crisis."
2015 Millett Grant
Sofia Zepeda, University of Arizona
Dissertation Title: “Fighting Men, Enduring Women: Sailors and their Families in the United Kingdom, 1770-1820”
