Ithaca City of Asylum

Jason Freitag is the Chair of the Advisory Board of Ithaca City of Asylum, and has served on the Board from 2012-2018, and again from 2023 to the present. He is Associate Professor of History at Ithaca College, with an academic specialty in South Asian and Islamic History, and he is the author of Serving Empire, Serving Nation: James Tod and the Rajputs of Rajasthan (Leiden: Brill, 2009).  He was awarded a Presidential Fellowship to study Global Engagement at Ithaca College (2018-19), and served as the co-chair of the Ithaca College Strategic Planning Committee (2018-19), as well as the co-chair of the Ithaca College Presidential Transition Team (2017-18).  In Fall 2025 he will begin a three-year appointment as Robert Ryan Professor in the Humanities at Ithaca College