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Hi! 👋
I'm Jason Heppler, a developer, historian, and educator working at the intersection of history, computation, data visualization, and public history. I am currently the developer-scholar / senior web developer at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (@CHNM) at George Mason University. I also serve as the Research Director for the American Indian Digital History Project.
In my work, I've collaborated with several different groups of researchers and practitioners including the Spatial History Project, Humanities+Design, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, the Mozilla Foundation, the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, the American Historical Association, the Western History Association, and others at George Mason University, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Stanford University, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Among my work with data, I was the co-founder of Endangered Data Week intended to promote care for endangered collections, open government, community data privacy, and data ethics.
I volunteer my time with the Environmental History Action Collaborative and History Rebellion.
In my own research, I'm an environmental and urban historian and examine landscape change and the ways that people enact (and react) to such changes. I am currently completing my second book on the environmental history of Silicon Valley following World War II. Generally, I am interested in the ways computation, data, and design can be employed to help us understand space and place through maps, texts, and visual culture.
You can read more about me, check out my books and articles, my other digital history and data visualization projects, or subscribe to my occasional newsletter Breve.
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