Allan R. Millett

Allan R. Millett is the Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and Ambrose Professor of History, University of New Orleans and the Maj. Gen. Raymond E. Mason, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Military History, The Ohio State University, where he served thirty-seven years as a faculty member and Mershon Center associate and oversaw.  The author of seven books and co-author or contributor to many more, he is a specialist in the history of America’s military policy, twentieth century wars, and military institutions.

The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation awarded Millett the Gen. Wallace M. Greene Prize in 1994 for the best original book in Marine Corps history and the Gen. O. P. Smith Prize in 2005 for a best edited work in Marine Corps history.  In the past decade, Millett has become a specialist of international stature on the history of the Korean War.  He began his work on the war as a Fulbright Distinguished Professor, Korean National Defense University in 1991, and a fellow of the Korea Foundation, 1996.  Professor Millett has already published twenty-seven essays, articles, encyclopedia entries and commentaries on the Korean War, and he was instrumental in the Department of Defense’s revision of the American deaths statistics in the war from 54,246 to 36,940.

Millett has lectured at colleges and academies across the country and abroad.  He was recently appointed as an advisor to the National Museum of American History and The National World War II Museum.

A colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Millett retired from the Ready Reserve in July, 1990.  For his military service, he received the Legion of Merit in 1989.  He received graduate degrees from The Ohio State University (1963 and 1966) after graduating from DePauw University in 1959. 

Millett is married to Martha Ellen Farley-Millett, a former Ohio State graduate student in French history and a high school librarian and research specialist.  They have one daughter, Eve.  Professor Millett has two sons by a former marriage and four grandsons.