Jason is a writer, historian, hacker-scholar, geek, and technologist.
He is a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he focuses on the twentieth century North American West and digital history. See his curriculum vitae for more academic information.
He works as the project manager for the William F. Cody Archive at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, where he's been since early 2011.
He is currently researching his dissertation, an examination of the nexus between the military-industrial-academic complex as it formed around the burgeoning computer industry in the American West during the Cold War.
He is the author of History in the Digital and authored The Rubyist Historian, an introduction to Ruby programming for humanists.
Jason is a newcomer to daily Vipassana meditation and a follower of the paleolithic diet.
Jason lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with his wife and their two dogs.