Jeannette Estruth
Jeannette Alden 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.
Estruth's writing has appeared in the Washington Post, The Drift, Urban History, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, California History, 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. Prior to joining the faculty at Santa Clara, Estruth was an Assistant Professor of History at Bard College. Her experience in the historical profession spans over a decade, including work at Harvard University Press, the Radical History Review, and Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Her research has been made possible by the generosity of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Huntington Library, the University of Virginia Miller Center, and the Kluge Center at the United States Library of Congress.
Education
Doctorate in History, New York University
BA, Vassar College