JASON W. SMITH is associate professor of History at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut. Trained as a military history and a historian of war and society, he teaches courses in social and cultural military history as well as an introductory course in American maritime history at the graduate level. From 2014-2016, he served as the Class of 1957 Post-Doctoral Fellow in Naval History at the United States Naval Academy. Smith's first book was an award-winning environmental and cartographic history of nineteenth-century naval science, and he has published maritime and naval history widely across a number of academic journals in various fields. He is currently at work on a book tentatively-titled Sea Power and Spectacle: A Cultural History of Navalism and the Ordinary Origins of American Global Power under contract with UNC Press. He has also published chapter-length studies of the subfield of military environmental history and of Mystic Seaport's historic whaleship Charles W. Morgan in public memory and commemoration.
HOMEPORT: New Haven, Connecticut
AREAS OF EXPERTISE: American maritime and naval history, nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries; war and American society; environmental history; cultural history; history of science and cartography