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Hi, I'm Jason. I'm a historian, academic librarian, and design technologist at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. I serve as the Digital Engagement Librarian, where I partner with community collaborators to create digital humanities projects. I am currently writing my first book, which explores post-World War II Silicon Valley by complicating the familiar story of suburbanization's rapid transformation. I explain how grass roots activists linked social and environmental issues to create a new form of environmental politics, which elevates current debates over urban sustainability and places these changes into a deeper historical context.

I am the Research Director for the American Indian Digital History Project and an affiliate scholar with Stanford University's Humanities + Design.

I'm also an urban planning and transportation nerd. I work on bicycle advocacy in Omaha, Nebraska with amazing partners like ModeShift Omaha. I also promote sustainable practices at our academic library, where we're dedicated to building a community that is economically sound, environmentally responsible, and socially just.

If you're after my full curriculum vitae, you can find it at my website.

Books
Suburban by Nature: Silicon Valley and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, forthcoming 2020.

Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy. Co-editor with Rebecca Wingo and Paul Schaudenwald. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press, forthcoming, 2019.

Journal Articles
"Teaching Data Literacy for Civic Engagement: Resources for Data Capture and Organization," co-author with Brandon Locke, KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies (forthcoming, Fall 2018).

"Green Dreams, Toxic Legacies: Toward a Digital Political Ecology of Silicon Valley," International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing vol. 11, no. 1 (March 2017): 68--85. DOI: 10.3366/ijhac.2017.0179

"Crowdsourcing Public Digital History," co-author with Gabriel Wolfenstein, The American Historian, March 2015.

"A Call to Redefine Historical Scholarship in the Digital Turn," co-author with Alex Galarza and Douglas Seefeldt, Journal of Digital Humanities, December 2012.

Book Chapters
"Humanistic Approaches to Data Visualization," in *The Companion to Digital History*, ed. David Staley. Hoboken: Wiley and Sons, forthcoming.

"A National Monument," co-author with Douglas Seefeldt, in The Companion to Custer and the Little Big Horn, edited by Brad Lookingbill. Hoboken: Wiley and Sons, 2015.

"The American Indian Movement and South Dakota Politics," in The Plains Political Tradition, edited by Jon Lauck, John E. Miller, and Donald Simmons. Pierre, SD: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2011, 267--287.

Other Writing (essays, op-eds, whitepapers)
"Advocacy, Training, and Awareness Through Endangered Data Week," co-author with Brandon Locke, Sarah Melton, and Rachel Mattson, Parameters, SSRC, February 26, 2018.

"How Silicon Valley Industry Polluted the Sylvan California Dream," essay, The Conversation, November 15, 2017.

"Arguing with Digital History," working group white paper, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, November 13, 2017.

Electronic Books
The Rubyist Historian: Ruby Fundamentals for Humanities Scholars. doi: 10.5281/zendo.9987.

Digital
Machines in the Valley: Growth, Conflict, and Environmental Politics in Silicon Valley, digital history, 2015--present.

Technical Director, American Indian Digital History Project, 2017--present.

Member, Advisory Board, American Indian Digital History Project, 2014--present.

Project Manager, William F. Cody Archive, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2011--2013.

"Self-sustaining and a good citizen": William F. Cody and the Progressive Wild West, digital history, Cody Studies, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2012.

Project Developer and Contributor, The Buffalo Bill Project, Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2011--2013 (retired and superseded by Cody Studies).

Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the Progressive Image of American Indians, digital history, 2010--2011 (retired and superseded by William F. Cody and the Progressive Wild West).

Graduate Digital Editor, The Papers of William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 2009--2010.

Framing Red Power: The Trail of Broken Treaties, the American Indian Movement, and the Politics of Media, digital history, 2008--2009.