Jason is a sociocultural anthropologist whose work focuses on the situated histories, places, institutions, narratives and cultures that shape American social life.  His most recent research has examined the everyday politics of aging in the United States, looking at the elderpublics, aging lifeworlds and welfarist futures coming into being in San Francisco, California.  Approaching ethnography as a mode of research and a genre of writing, he aims to get students to understand the tradeoffs embedded in fieldwork alongside the representational choices made by ethnographers.  Jason also brings ongoing interests in film and media, racial formations and queer forms of critique to the table.  He recently edited the special dossier “Aftereffects: The Pulse Nightclub Shootings” for the journal GLQ and is presently at work on a book exploring the precarities and possibilities around aging in queer and non-queer America.