Hi, I'm Jason. I am a historian of the environment and capitalism in the twentieth century North American West and Great Plains. I am the senior developer-scholar at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and a member of the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and a member of the Environmental History Action Collaborative.
Latest Book
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Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy
University of Cincinnati Press, 2020
Edited with Rebecca Wingo and Paul Schadewald, our volume brings together cutting-edge campus-community partnerships with a focus on digital projects. Through a series of case studies authored by academics and their community partners, we explore models for digital community engagement that leverages new media through reciprocal partnerships. The contributions to the volume stand at the crossroads of digital humanities, public history, and community engagement, drawing ideas, methods, and practices from various disciplines to inform our public partnerships. By highlighting these projects we hope to provide other institutions, cultural heritage organizations, universities, and communities models for successful engagement.
Winner of the 2021 National Council on Public History (NCPH) Book Award.
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Digital Scholarship
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Machines in the Valley: Growth, Conflict, and Environmental Politics in Silicon Valley A spatial history and digital narrative of Silicon Valley.
U.S. Federal Lands Mapping the federal lands of the U.S.
Wars of the United States Visualizing the wars of the United States.
Collaborative Digital History
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Death by Numbers Transcribing and publishing the London Bills of Mortality in a dataset suitable for computational analysis.
Apiary A data API for data-driven research at RRCHNM.
Religious Ecologies Creating new datasets and visualizations so that we can better understand the history of American religion.
Public History
Find more of my work on my digital and public history page.
Pandemic Religion Documenting American religion in a time of pandemic.
American Indian Digital History Project Digitizing Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival materials across Native North America.
Nebraska Historical Curating histories of Nebraska and the Northern Plains.
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