Jason Old is a history Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Florida. His main areas of interests are 20th century US history, U.S.-Latin American relations, and Modern Latin American history. Jason's current dissertation project aims at contextualizing the rise of a transnational surfing community in the Emerald Coast of Nicaragua within the longer history of US transnational engagement with Nicaragua. His research also focuses on the impacts of “surf transnationalism” on Nicaragua’s tourism economy in the aftermath of the socio-political upheaval of April, 2018.
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