Jeannette Estruth is an historian of the twenty- and twenty- first century United States, with an emphasis on technology, labor, and the history of Silicon Valley. She is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Santa Clara University, a Faculty Associate at the Harvard Berkman- Klein Center for Internet and Society, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society.
She is also the co-founder and co-director of the Political Economy of Contemporary Technology Working Group at the Stanford University Silicon Valley Archives. She received her doctorate in History from New York University in 2018, and in 2019, her book project was a finalist for the Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History. Estruth’s research has been supported by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bard College, the Huntington Library, the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, and the University of Virginia Miller Center, among others.
Her scholarly work has appeared in The Business History Review, California History, Enterprise and Society, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, and Urban History. Estruth’s public- facing writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Drift, Business Insider, and Public Seminar, among others. Prior to her doctoral work, she worked at Harvard University Press and the Radical History Review. Estruth is now completing her first book, Think Different: Silicon Valley Activism and the Making of Modern American Politics, which explores the history of social movements, the technology industry, and economic culture in the United States.