Nguyen awarded Marilyn B. Young Dissertation Completion Fellowship

History Department Ph.D. student An Nguyen has been awarded the Marilyn B. Young Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). 

This highly competitive fellowship funds one doctoral candidate each year. Nguyen, who is working with professors Ngo Vinh Long and Elizabeth McKillen, will use the significant support to finish her work on “Third Force: South Vietnamese Urban Opposition to the Nixon Doctrine in Asia, 1969–1975.”  Nguyen also was recently awarded a Chase Distinguished Research Assistantship at UMaine.