Assistance program
Dissertation Year Fellowship
$240,000 committed in FY2019–FY2026
- Agency
- Dept of the Army, Dept of Defense
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Including Individual Awards)
- CFDA number
- 12.440
- What it does
- 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.
- Who benefits
- N/A
- Who applies
- 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.
- Authorized by
- National Defense Authorization Act PL 115-230
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments