Curriculum Vitae

Above: "A Convoy," by the artist John Everett, 1918, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

Jason W. Smith

Curriculum vitae

https://navalgaze.blogspot.com/

https://southernct.academia.edu/JasonSmith

Southern Connecticut State University                                              EN C211C            

501 Crescent Street                                                                             (203) 392-5352

New Haven, Connecticut 06515                                                         smithj131@southernct.edu                                       

EDUCATION

Ph.D., History, Temple University, 2012

Dissertation: “Controlling the Great Common: Hydrography, the Marine

Environment, and the Culture of Nautical Charts in the United States Navy, 1838-1903”

Advisor: Gregory J.W. Urwin

Committee: Beth Bailey, Andrew Isenberg, John B. Hattendorf

B.A., History, Honors Program, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, 2005

EMPLOYMENT AND INTERNSHIPS

2016-Present               Assistant Professor of History, Southern Connecticut State University

2014-2016                   Class of 1957 Postdoctoral Fellow, United States Naval Academy

2012-2014                   Adjunct Instructor, Social Sciences Division, Howard Community College

2005-2008                   Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Temple University

2006                            Intern, Ships Histories Branch, Naval Warfare Division, Naval History and Heritage Command

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography

of Empire. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

           

Winner, 2019 John Lyman Award for the Best Book in Naval/Maritime Science and

Technology, North American Society for Oceanic History

Winner, 2019 John Gardner Maritime Research Award, Fellows of the G.W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport Museum

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

“Thou Uncracked Keel: The Many Voyages of the Whaleship Charles W. Morgan and the

Presence of the American Maritime Past,” The New England Quarterly 89 (September 2016): 421-456

“Matthew Fontaine Maury: Pathfinder,” The International Journal of Maritime History 28   (May 
            2016): 411-420

“’Twixt the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Hydrography, Sea Power, and the Marine

Environment, 1898-1901,” The Journal of Military History 78 (April 2014): 575-604

“The Bound[less] Sea: Wilderness and the United States Exploring Expedition in the Fiji

Islands,” Environmental History 18 (October 2013): 710-737

“Charles Wilkes,” Searchable Sea Literature, Williams-Mystic Program, Williams College and

Mystic Seaport, http://sites.williams.edu/searchablesealit/w/wilks-charles/

Under Review/In Progress:

“‘To Profit by the Lessons of History:’ Heritage, Modernity, and Rooseveltian Navalism, 1907-

1909” in Forging the Trident: Theodore Roosevelt and the U.S. Navy, William P. Leeman and John B. Hattendorf, eds. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2020.

(submitted and under contract)

“Navigation Acts: Seamanship, Nature, and Nationalism on an Oceanic Frontier”

(Journal of the Early Republic, under revision)

“‘In Gay Battle Array:’ The Mock Battleship Illinois and American Navalism in the Midwest”

(Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, in progress)

Other:

“War and Environment” in The Routledge History of Global War and Society, David J. Ulbrich

and Matthew S. Muehlbauer, eds. London: Routledge, 2018.

Book Review of Storm of the Sea: Indians and Empires in the Atlantic’s Age of Sail by Matthew

R. Bahar (New York: Oxford University Press) in Journal of American Studies (forthcoming)

Book Review of The U.S. Navy: A Concise History by Craig L. Symonds (New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2016) in the Naval Historical Foundation, Book Reviews. http://www.navyhistory.org/2018/01/book-review-the-u-s-navy-a-concise-history/

Book Review of Commerce Raiding: Historical Case Studies, 1755-2009 edited by Bruce A.

Elleman and S.C.M. Paine (Newport: Naval War College Press, 2013) in The International Journal of Naval History (January 2015).

Book Review of Warship under Sail: The USS Decatur in the Pacific West by Lorraine

McConaghy (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009) in The Northern Mariner 20 (October 2010).

HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

2019    John Gardner Maritime Research Award, Fellow of the G.W. Blunt White Library,

Mystic Seaport Museum for To Master the Boundless Sea

John Lyman Award, Naval/Maritime Science and Technology, North American Society for                  Ocean History for To Master the Boundless Sea

Faculty Creative Activity Research Grant (FCARG), Southern Connecticut State

University

2018    Joan Finn Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, Southern Connecticut State University

2014    38^th Voyager, 38^th Voyage of the whaleship Charles W. Morgan, Mystic Seaport Museum and The National Endowment for the Humanities, 18 June

2013    Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship, Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, Mystic Seaport Museum

2012    The Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies/National Endowment for

the Humanities Summer Seminar, “The American Maritime People,” Mystic Seaport Museum

2011    Edward S. Miller Research Fellowship in Naval History, Naval War College Foundation

Temple University College of Liberal Arts “Graduate Fund for Excellence” Research Grant

2010    Rear Admiral John D. Hayes Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Naval History, Naval History and Heritage Command

2006    Sergeant Major William F. Berger Endowed Fellowship in War and Society, Temple University

2005    Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Panels Organized

2019    The Sea Service, the State, and American Society: Social and Cultural Approaches to the Growth of American Sea Power, 1882-1923, Society for Military History, 9-12 May

2018    The U.S. Navy on Coastal and Inland Waters: Three Cases from the Nineteenth Century,

North American Society for Oceanic History, 20-23 May

2015    That Overbearing Power on the Sea: Naval Science and Technology, 1883-1922, North American Society for Oceanic History, 13-17 May

2014    Fish, Fathoms, and Fair Winds: Contextualizing Marine Science within Changing Scientific Institutions, Cultures, and Communities, 1840-1940, History of Science Society, 6-9 November

2012    In Monroe’s Waters: The Changing Role of the U.S. Navy in Latin America, 1850-1933, Society for Military History, 10-13 May

2010    New Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Naval History, Society for Military History,

20-23 May

Papers Presented

2019    “‘In Gay Battle Array:’ The Mock Battleship Illinois and American Navalism in the Midwest,” McMullen Naval History Symposium, 19-20 September

“‘Oughtn't We All Feel Proud:’ The Great White Fleet, the American People, and Rooseveltian Navalism, 1907-1909,” Society for Military History, 9-12 May

“‘To Profit by the Lessons of History:’ Heritage, Modernity, and Rooseveltian Navalism, 1907-1909,” Theodore Roosevelt and the U.S. Navy Conference, Naval War College and Salve Regina University, 26 January

2018    “Navigation Acts: Seamanship, Nature, and American Nationalism in the Antarctic,”

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 21-23 June

“‘In Gay Battle Array:’ The Mock Battleship Illinois and American Navalism in the Midwest,” North American Society for Oceanic History, 20-23 May

2017    “Vessel of Memory: The Many Voyages of the Whaleship Charles W. Morgan,” North American Society for Oceanic History, 15-17 May

2016    “Savage Coasts: Hydrographic Illusions and the Boundaries of the U.S. Navy’s ‘Empire of Science and Commerce,’ 1838-1842,” Society for Military History, 14-17 April

2015    “Matthew Fontaine Maury: Pathfinder,” McMullen Naval History Symposium, 17-18 September

“Nautical Charts and the Hydrography of American Empire, 1898-1901,” North American Society for Oceanic History, 13-17 May

“Controlling the Great Common: The United States Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Hydrography of Empire, 1898-1903,” American Society for Environmental History, 18-22 March

2014    “The Common Highway: Matthew Fontaine Maury, Naval Science, and the American Maritime World,” History of Science Society, 6-9 November

2013    “Surveying Sea Power: Hydrography, the Marine Environment, and the Naval Base Debate, 1898-1903,” McMullen Naval History Symposium, 19-20 September

            “Territorializing the Sea: Hydrography, the Bounds of American Empire, and the Appropriations Bills of 1901,” Society for History in the Federal Government, 4-5 April

2012    “‘Twixt the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Navigating the Blockade of Cuba, January-August 1898,” Society for Military History, 10-13 May

2011    “Killed, Eaten, or Wrecked: Sea Wilderness and the United States Exploring Expedition in the Fiji Islands,” North American Society for Oceanic History, 12-15 May

2010    “Charting Sea Space: Hydrography and the U.S. Navy in the Nineteenth Century,” Society for Military History, 20-23 May

Panel Chair/Commentator

2019    “The US Navy and Public Memory in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond,” McMullen Naval History Symposium, 19 September

2017    “The RN and USN in the Nineteenth Century,” McMullen Naval History Symposium, 15 September

2016    “Understanding the Natural World in the United States,” New England Historical Association, 22 October

2015    “Controlling Ocean Spaces and Marine Resources: Navies and Nations in a Broader Maritime World,” McMullen Naval History Symposium, 17-18 September

INVITED TALKS

2019    “To Master the Boundless Sea: The US Exploring Expedition and the Roots of American Maritime Empire,” Shoreline Sailing Club, Westbrook, CT, 20 June

“Shallow Thinking: Science, Violence, and Imperializing Along the Littoral,” Coastal Perspectives Lecture Series, University of Connecticut, 9 April

2018    “Savage Coasts: The U.S. Exploring Expedition and the Making of Maritime Manifest Destiny,” Duncaster Lecture, President’s College, University of Hartford, 4 December

“To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire,” Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, Temple University, 15 November

2017    “Vessel of Memory: Mystic Seaport Museum, the Whaleship Charles W. Morgan, and the Presence of the American Maritime Past,” First Thursdays Humanities and Social Sciences Scholarship Forum, Southern Connecticut State University, 6 April

2016    “Putting the Sea in Sea Power: The Marine Environment and the Hydrography of American Empire, 1898-1903,” International Security Studies Brady-Johnson Colloquium in Grand Strategy and International History, Yale University, 27 September

2015    “Putting the Sea in Sea Power: Naval Science, the Marine Environment, and the Hydrography of American Empire,” Shifley Lecture Series, Naval Academy Museum, United States Naval Academy, 21 January

2013    “‘Wilderness of Water:’ Folklore and American Naval Science in the Age of Sail,” Brown Bag Seminar Series, Schuyler Otis Bland Memorial Library, United States Merchant Marine Academy, 18 September

“Forty-Five Years under the Flag: Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley’s Voyage from Frederick to the World,” Historical Society of Frederick County, 11 June

2012    “Navigating the Blockade of Cuba, or a Case for Putting the Sea in Naval History,” National Museum of the United States Navy, Washington, D.C., 23 February

DIGITAL MEDIA

2018    “Crowd-Sourcing for the Nineteenth Century: Creating Matthew Fontaine Maury’s Wind and Current Charts,” Guest Post, UNC Press Blog (https://uncpressblog.com/2018/05/14/

jason-w-smith-creating-matthew-fontaine-maurys- wind-and-current-charts/)

            “Episode 51: Science and Exploration in the U.S. Navy,” Time to Eat the Dogs: A Podcast About Science, History, and Exploration https://timetoeatthedogs.com/ 2018/09/26/episode-51-science-and-exploration-in-the-u-s-navy/)

TEACHING

Courses Taught:

2016-Present   Assistant Professor, Southern Connecticut State University

                        HIS110: Introduction to US History I (10x)

                        HIS150: Critical Thinking Through Historical Biography (6x)

                        HIS259: Digital New Haven (2x)

                        HIS298: The Machine in America (2x)

                        HIS352: Early Republic (1x)

                        HIS353: Civil War and Reconstruction Era (1x)

                        HIS485: Senior Research Seminar (1x)

                        HIS497: History Internship (5x)

                        HIS499: Independent Study (3x)

HIS594: History Thesis Seminar (3x)

2014-2016       Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Naval Academy

HH104: American Naval History (4x)

2013                Adjunct Instructor, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

HI100: History of Sea Power (3x)

2012-2014       Adjunct Instructor, Howard Community College

HIS111: American History to 1877, classroom and online (15x)

2005-2008       Teaching Assistant, Temple University

Graduate Masters Theses Advised:

2017                “Steamboats and States’ Rights: The Marshall Court and the Commerce Clause” by Kyle Richard

SERVICE

2019 – Present            Member, NECHE 2021 Accreditation Committee, Planning and Evaluation Sub-Committee

2018 – Present            Member, University Curriculum Forum (UCF) and University-Wide Impact Committee (UWIC), SCSU

2017 – Present            AAUP CSU Grants Committee, SCSU

2017 – Present            Member, Faculty Strategic Planning Committee (FASP), SCSU

2017 – 2018                NASOH 2018 Conference Program Director

2016 – Present             Advisor, History Club, SCSU

Member, Department Curriculum Committee, Southern Connecticut State University

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (CAAS)

North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH)

Society for Military History (SMH)