Student Awards
Chad Smith Student Travel Grants are awarded to assist students in funding travel to its annual meeting to deliver a paper at the meeting. The award is named in honor of Philip Chadwick Foster Smith, maritime museum curator, maritime historian, and an early member of NASOH.
Students, in your paper submission, please indicate that you are interested in the student conference grant and award opportunities.
The Clark G. Reynolds Student Paper Award is provided each year to the author of the best paper by a student or students delivered at the society's annual conference. The prize will consist of assistance in publishing the essay in The Northern Mariner (the journal co-sponsored by NASOH and the Canadian Nautical Research Society), a membership in NASOH, and a certificate.
Clark G. Reynolds was the first executive officer of NASOH and an accomplished scholar in the field of maritime strategy and naval history. A native of southern California, Reynolds was born in 1939 and studied history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and earned a PhD in History from Duke University in 1968. Among his most significant works were The Fast Carriers: The Forging of an Air Navy (1968), Command of the Sea: The History and Strategy of Maritime Empires (1974) and Admiral John H. Towers: The Struggle for Air Supremacy (1991). In 1978, Dr. Reynolds left academia for several years to help establish the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum aboard the retired World War II aircraft carrier Yorktown. Over the course of his career, he was a professor of history at the U.S. Naval Academy, the University of Maine, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, and the College of Charleston. For many years, he commanded the former primary flight control of the Yorktown and broadcast a Jazz show called “Swingtime” on local public radio. Dr. Reynolds passed in 2005.
The prize will be awarded to a student, or students, whose written version of a conference paper is judged superior in the areas of originality, research merit, clarity of presentation, professionalism, and of potential relevance to a considerable segment of the maritime historical and/or archaeological community. The winner will be announced at the annual NASOH conference.
Submission deadline is May 1.
Criteria:
1. All authors must be registered for the 2025 annual conference, whether through NASOH or any co-hosting society or organization.
2. Submissions must be made electronically (MS Word or PDF) to Dr. Michael Verney at NASOHReynoldsAward@gmail.com . If entrants have any questions about the award or problems with an electronic submission, please contact Dr. Verney at the email address above.
3. The paper must be presented by one of the student authors at the annual meeting. There may be a maximum of three authors on the paper. All authors must be students at the time of submission.
4. The length of the paper submitted should be in line with what can reasonably be presented in a standard conference format (15-20 minutes). Format and style should follow appropriate disciplinary guidelines. Tables/Figures/Images are welcome.
