Jeannette Estruth is an Assistant Professor of History at Santa Clara University and a Faculty Associate at the Harvard Berkman- Klein Center for Internet and Society.
Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, The Drift, Urban History, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, the Business History Review, and Enterprise and Society, among others. She is currently completing her book manuscript, Think Different: Silicon Valley Activism and the Making of Modern American Politics, which explores the history of social movements, the technology industry, and ideological formation in the United States. Estruth received her doctorate in History, with honors, from New York University in 2018. In 2019, her book project was a finalist for the Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History. Estruth's experience in the historical profession spans over a decade, including work at Bard College, Harvard University Press, and the Radical History Review. Her research has been made possible by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Huntington Library, the University of Virginia Miller Center, the Kluge Center at the United States Library of Congress, and the Rachel Carson Center. She is also the co-founder of the Political Economy of Contemporary Technology Working Group.