Books, articles & essays
Books
Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
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.
Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy
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.
Articles & Book Chapters
- Omer Farooq and Kate M. Ehrig-Page and Jason A. Heppler, Creating Capacity for Research Data Services at Regional Universities: A Case Study, Teaching Research Data Management (ALA Editions) (2022).
- Heidi Blackburn 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 (2020).
- Heidi Blackburn and Jason A. Heppler, Women in STEM in Higher Education: A Citation Analysis of the Current Literature, Science & Technology Libraries (2019).
- Brandon Locke and Jason A. Heppler, Teaching Data Literacy for Civic Engagement: Resources for Data Capture and Organization, KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies (2018).
- Digital History and Argument, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University (2017). white paper; primary authors Lincoln Mullen and Stephen Robertson
- Green Dreams, Toxic Legacies: Toward a Digital Political Ecology of Silicon Valley, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (2017).
- Machines in the Valley: Community, Urban Change, and Environmental Politics in Silicon Valley, 1945-1990, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2016).
- Gabriel K. Wolfenstein and Jason A. Heppler, Crowdsourcing Public Digital History, The American Historian (2015).
- Douglas Seefeldt and Jason A. Heppler, The National Monument, A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign (Wiley) (2015).
- Alex Galarza and Douglas Seefeldt and Jason A. Heppler, A Call to Redefine Historical Scholarship in the Digital Turn, The Journal of Digital Humanities (2012).
- The American Indian Movement and South Dakota Politics, The Plains Political Tradition (South Dakota State Historical Society Press) (2011).
- The Rubyist Historian: Ruby Fundamentals for Humanities Scholars (2010).
Essays & Criticism
- Digital History Review of ClioVis: Visualizing Connections, The Journal of American History (2024).
- Spoiled Fruits: Environmental Inequality in Silicon Valley, AHA Perspectives (2023).
- Review of Timeline of Empire, Reviews in Digital Humanities (2022).
- Digital Community Engagement in a Pandemic, History@Work, NCPH (2021).
- How Silicon Valley Provides the Blueprint for Cleaning Up Our Drinking Water, The Washington Post (2019).
- Advocacy, Training, and Awareness Through Endangered Data Week, Parameters (SSRC) (2018).
- How Silicon Valley Industry Polluted the Sylvan California Dream, The Conversation (2017).