Jason Steinhauer

Historian

Jason Steinhauer is an American public historian and author, founder of the History Communication Institute. He was formerly a Global Fellow at The Wilson Center and a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He served as an expert speaker on disinformation and media literacy for the U.S. Department of State from 2017 - 2024. He is an adjunct professor at the Maxwell School for Citizenship & Public Affairs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington, teaching a course on bringing history into policymaking. His 2021 book, History, Disrupted: How Social Media & the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past, examines how social media shape perceptions of history.