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Jeannette Alden Estruth is an Assistant Professor of American History at Bard College and a Faculty Associate at the Harvard University Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She is currently working on her book manuscript, "The Soul of Silicon Valley: The First Fights for the Future of Big Tech," which explores the history of social movements, the technology industry, and economic culture in the United States. In 2021-2022, Estruth was the American Historical Association Jameson Fellow at the Kluge Center at the United States Library of Congress, and she 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 research has been supported by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Huntington Library, and the University of Virginia Miller Center. Her writing on the history of technology and economic culture has appeared in the Washington Post, Business Insider, the Drift, Public Seminar, the Business History Review, and Enterprise and Society, among others. Prior to her doctoral work, she worked at Harvard University Press and the Radical History Review.