Austin Mason currently holds the position of Robert A Oden Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovation in the Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities at Carleton, where he teaches an introductory course called “Hacking the Humanities,” as well as courses on the Vikings and Anglo-Saxon material culture.
Austin is an early medieval historian by training, with an interdisciplinary research agenda encompassing religious history, material culture, archaeology and the digital humanities. He is currently working on a book project titled “Listening to the Early Medieval Dead: Religious Practices in England, c.400-900 CE,” which leverages archaeological evidence and cutting-edge GIS mapping techniques to rewrite the history of the Anglo-Saxon conversion as a complex story of locally-negotiated, lived religious practices.
You can find him in Weitz 239B or contact him at amason@carleton.edu.