Jason Old, Ph.D. • Surfing Historian

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Jason Old, Ph.D. • Surfing Historian

I'm a historian of twentieth- and twenty-first century US and Latin American history. I hold a Ph.D. in History from the University of South Florida.

My research centers around the cultural and economic impacts of surfing and surf tourism in the Tola Municipality of southwestern Nicaragua. My research has three principal aims: First, to show how external conditions created an economic framework conducive to buying property and developing this part of Nicaragua. Second, to explain the inextricable link between surfing and Tola's evolution from a

rural costal periphery to an international tourism hotspot. Third, to track the proliferation of a robust surfing subculture among the rural residents along the coast and its evolution into a Nicaraguan national sport as a result of these cultural and economic changes. In addition to my scholarly work, I am the host of "The Surfing Historian" podcast, which brings together international scholars from an eclectic range of academic fields to share their most recent research.

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https://surfinghistorian.com/

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