PhD Student Philip Reid Wins Paper Prize!
May 20th, 2015
PhD Student Philip Reid Wins Paper Prize!
MUN PhD student Philip Reid has won the Clark G. Reynolds Student Paper Award for best student paper presented to the annual North American Society for Oceanic History conference in the second week of May in Monterey, California, hosted by the Naval Postgraduate School. The title of the paper was "The Time Machine? Using Replica Analysis to Understand Merchant Ships, 1600-1800." It was a work-in-progress introduction to the ongoing replica-analysis phase of his thesis project, "Merchant Ship Technology and the Development of the British Atlantic Empire, 1600-1800."
The Reynolds award, named in honor of Clark G. Reynolds (1939-2005)—naval historian, museum curator, and the first executive officer of NASOH—consists of assistance in publishing the essay in The Northern Mariner (the journal co-sponsored by NASOH and the Canadian Nautical Research Society),society membership, and books.