Jason Steinhauer

Jason Steinhauer is the author of the bestselling book "History, Disrupted: How Social Media & the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past." He is a Global Fellow at The Wilson Center and a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the Founder & CEO of the History Communication Institute, expert speaker for the U.S. Department of State, and frequent media contributor.

Jason is passionate about creating an educated, informed and historically and media literate citizenry. He formerly served as Founding Director of the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest; has contributed to TIME and CNN; is a past editorial board member of The Washington Post "Made By History" section; and is a Presidential Counselor of the National WWII Museum.

In 2014, he coined the term "History Communicators" and has worked with colleagues worldwide to found the new field of History Communication. He is the founder and CEO of the History Communication Institute. His bestselling book, History, Disrupted, examines how history gets communicated on the World Wide Web.

Jason travels with the U.S. Department of State as part of diplomatic exchanges between the United States and the European Union, meeting with government officials, scholars and students to discuss the effects of the Web and social media on public understandings of history, news and information. He has spoken at events across the United States and Europe and appears frequently in the media. A native New Yorker, he is a long-suffering New York Jets fan.