I write about archaeology, history, and science.

I am the author of Samuel Smedley, Connecticut Privateer (The History Press, 2011), a historical biography of the great sea captain, patriot, and privateer of the American Revolution.

My work has been published in Connecticut Magazine, Hartford Courant, National Geographic News, New York Post, and Reason. I am a frequent contributor to Dig and Calliope, magazines about archaeology and history for middle-grade readers.

My articles and photographs have also appeared in The Australian Financial Review, Black Gate, Fairfield County Weekly, Fairfield Minuteman, FoxNews.com, Stamford Advocate, and TCS Daily, as well as various publications that have gone the way of the woolly mammoth.

My essays have been published in The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism (Sage Publications, 2008) and Current Perspectives: Cultural Anthropology and Globalization (Wadsworth Publishing, 2005).

Prior to becoming a freelance journalist, I was the Senior Producer and the Sci-Tech Producer for FoxNews.com. Before that, I worked freelance for several years editing, writing, and banging out code for Ernst & Young, Union Carbide Corporation, Jeffrey Norton Publishers, and others. I began my career in publishing as an assistant editor in the logic department of a puzzle-magazine press.

I have a Bachelor’s in philosophy and religion from Ithaca College with minors in anthropology and writing. I have conducted post-graduate work in archaeology.

I’ve participated in several archaeological investigations, including cultural resource management projects and work at the Henry Whitfield Museum.

I am a member of The Association for the Study of Connecticut History and the Fairfield Museum and History Center.

I like to run. I’ve competed in races ranging from 5Ks to 13.1-milers like the Philadelphia Half Marathon to the 2009 New York City Marathon. I have never won, placed, or showed.

You can follow me on Twitter or e-mail me at jk at jacksonkuhl dot com.