Publications

Books | Articles and chapters | Essays

For a complete list of my scholarship, please see my CV.

Books

Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism

University of Oklahoma Press, 2024

Few places symbolize the twentieth century American West like Silicon Valley. Stretching between the communities of Palo Alto to San Jose, this dense California region is home to the nation’s most consequential high-tech industrial corridor. In the four decades following World War II, the region rapidly transformed from an agricultural economy to an industrial one fueled by government funding into defense-related research and development. Boosters of the new industrialization promised a modern, clean, and future-facing economy in the wake of declining steel-age industries and an emerging space-age arms race. New industries drove new populations who flocked to the valley as much for work as they did for its pleasant environment.

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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.

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A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign

Wiley, 2015

Chapter, “The National Monument.” This volume provides an accessible and authoritative overview of the scholarship that has shaped our understanding of one of the most iconic battles in the history of the American West. A chapter I contributed, co-authored with Douglas Seefeldt, examines the history of the National Monument. We examine the competing interpretations of Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn among Native peoples, Custer enthusiasts, and the National Park Service. Over time, individuals and groups remember the past in different ways and compete with one another to shape the dominant public memory of an event or a place. Often these disparate interpretations become entangled with conversations about identity and society. The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument has long been the focus of passionate debates and roundly criticized for its one‐sided storytelling, encapsulated in its former name the Custer Battlefield National Monument. The constructed past at Little Bighorn has changed frequently since Little Bighorn. This essay examines the tangled process of making memory, landscape, and identity at the site of the Little Bighorn battlefield.

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Selected articles and book chapters

1. Farooq, Omer, Jason A. Heppler, and Kate M. Ehrig-Page, “Creating Capacity for Research Data Services at Regional Universities: A Case Study,” in Teaching Research Data Management (ALA Editions, 2022) https://www.alastore.ala.org/trdm.

2. Blackburn, Heidi and Jason A. Heppler, “Who Is Writing About Women in STEM in Higher Education in the United States? A Citation Analysis of Gendered Authorship,” Frontiers in Psychology 10 (January 2020) https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02979.

3. Blackburn, Heidi and Jason A. Heppler, “Women in STEM in Higher Education: A Citation Analysis of the Current Literature,” Science & Technology Libraries 38 (3) (Summer 2019), https://doi.org/10.1080/0194262X.2019.1645080.

4. Locke, Brandon and Jason A. Heppler, “Teaching Data Literacy for Civic Engagement: Resources for Data Capture and Organization,” KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 2 (1) (Fall 2018), http://doi.org/10.5334/kula.23.

5. Arguing with Digital History working group, “Digital History and Argument,” white paper, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University (November 13, 2017): https://rrchnm.org/argument-white-paper/. (primary authors Lincoln Mullen and Stephen Robertson)

6. “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), https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2017.0179. published version

7. “Machines in the Valley: Community, Urban Change, and Environmental Politics in Silicon Valley, 1945-1990.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (May 2016). Digital Commons version

8. Heppler, Jason A. and Gabriel K. Wolfenstein, “Crowdsourcing Public Digital History,” The American Historian (2015). published version

9. Heppler, Jason A., Alex Galarza, and Douglas Seefeldt, “A Call to Redefine Historical Scholarship in the Digital Turn,” The Journal of Digital Humanities vol. 1, no. 4 (2012). published version

10. “The American Indian Movement and South Dakota Politics,” in The Plains Political Tradition, edited by Jon Lauck, John E. Miller, and Donald Simmons (Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2011).

11. The Rubyist Historian: Ruby Fundamentals for Humanities Scholars (2010), https://doi.org/10.5281/zendo.9987.

Essays

1. “Spoiled Fruits: Environmental Inequality in Silicon Valley,” AHA Perspectives, November 15, 2023. published version

2. “How Silicon Valley provides the blueprint for cleaning up our drinking water,” The Washington Post (April 26, 2019). published version

3. Heppler, Jason A., Sarah Melton, Rachel Mattson, and Brandon Locke, “Advocacy, Training, and Awareness Through Endangered Data Week,” Parameters (February 26, 2018). published version

4. “How Silicon Valley Industry Polluted the Sylvan California Dream,” The Conversation (November 13, 2017). published version