The United States Marine Corps offers a number of $3,500 Master's Thesis Fellowships each academic year to qualified graduate students working on topics pertinent to Marine Corps history. Topics in U.S. military and naval history, and history-based studies in the social and behavioral sciences, with a direct relationship to the U.S. Marine Corps will be considered. Applicants must be actively enrolled in an accredited master's degree program which requires a master's thesis. Since the purposes of these fellowships include the desire to expose fellows to research in the main Federal archival centers, and to encourage the use of Marine Corps historical archives and museum collections, fellowship recipients are encouraged to do part of their research in the Quantico, Virginia-Washington, D.C., area.