Curriculum Vitae
JEANNETTE ALDEN ESTRUTH
Assistant Professor of History
Bard College
Faculty Associate
The Harvard University Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
jestruth@cyber.harvard.edu
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Assistant Professor of History 2019-Present
The Harvard University Berkman Klein Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Faculty Associate 2020-Present
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar 2018-2019
The Harvard University Berkman Klein Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Affiliated Scholar 2018-2020
EDUCATION
New York University, New York, New York
Dissertation: “A New Utopia: A Political History of the Silicon Valley, 1945-1995”
Doctor of Philosophy in History, July 2018, with Honors
Faculty Advisors: Professors Thomas Bender, Linda Gordon, Andrew Needham, Julia Ott, and Dean Maria Montoya
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Bachelor of Arts in History, Cum Laude, 2007
Minor in Spanish
Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C. and Quito, Ecuador
Language Certification in Spanish and International Studies, Summer 2005
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
The Forest History Society, Weyerhaeuser Library, Alfred D. Bell Jr. Travel Grant, Award Grantee 2024
The Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany, Visiting Scholar, Awarded 2022-2023
The American Historical Association and the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, 2021-2022 Washington, D.C., J. Franklin Jameson Fellow
The National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C., Summer Program, Internal Finalist Summer 2020
The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, Chancellor’s Five-Year Fellowship, Finalist 2018
New York University Global Research Institute, London, United Kingdom, Provost’s Fellowship 2018
The University of California Science and Justice Research Center, Visiting Scholar, Awarded 2018
New York University, New York, New York, Spring Travel Grant 2018
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York, New York, Dissertation Fellowship in History 2017-2018
The University of Virginia Miller Center and Hagley Library, Virginia, National Dissertation Fellowship 2016-2017
The American Association of University Women, Washington, D.C., Dissertation Fellowship, Alternate 2016-2017
New York University, New York, New York, Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship 2011-2016
New York University, New York, New York, Fall Travel Grant 2016
Huntington Library-Western History Association, San Marino, California, Martin Ridge Fellowship 2016
The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Provo, Utah, Annaley Naegle Redd Award in Women’s History 2015
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, Eliza Buffington Alumni Fellowship for Original Research 2015-2016
New York University, New York, New York, Summer Travel Grant 2014
New York University Global Research Institute, Washington, D.C., Provost’s Fellowship 2014
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Toronto, Canada, Travel Grant 2014
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York, New York, Pre-Dissertation Writing Fellowship 2013
American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, San Marino, California, President’s Travel Award 2013
Fulbright Fellowship, Budapest, Hungary, Teaching Fellow 2007-2008
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Think Different: Silicon Valley Activism and the Making of Modern American Politics, book manuscript in progress.
Scholarly Articles
“New Organizing in the New Economy: Technology Toxicity and the Formation of Labor and Environmentalist Coalitions in the Silicon Valley,” Journal of American History, invited to revise and resubmit.
“Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act in Historical Perspective,” California History, Vol. 101, No. 2, May 2024.
“The Removal of San José’s Thomas Fallon Statue in Historical Perspective,” California History, passed peer review, currently in preparation for re-submission.
“Technology, Globalization, and Replicating Silicon Valley’s Urban Model,” in Capitalism and the American Century, eds., Alex Beasely and Jessica Levy. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. Forthcoming, under contract, and passed peer review.
“The Roots of Inequality: How Silicon Valley’s Built Environment Privatized Public Wealth and Created High-Tech’s Racist Labor Hierarchies,” accepted with revisions for Urban History.
“The Galactic Commons: From the Cold War to the American Technology in Deep Space Act,” invited and in preparation for Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory.
“From the Gold Rush to the Colonization of Mars: How Silicon Valley Imagines Away the Working Class.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. May-June 2022.
“A New Utopia,” Enterprise and Society, December 2019, pages 777-785.
“Visions for the Suburban City in the Age of Decolonization: Chicana Activism in the Silicon Valley, 1965–75.” In Women’s Activism and “Second Wave” Feminism: Transnational Histories, edited by Barbara Molony and Jennifer Nelson. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2017, pages 216-230.
Journalism
“The Real Developmental Engine,” The Drift Magazine, New York, New York, February 2023.
“COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Silicon Valley renews fight for health, racial justice.” Spotlight Magazine, February 2021.
“5 Surprising Historical Moments that Defined the Silicon Valley.” Interview with Business Insider, New York, New York, December 2019.
“Who Cleans Up After the Technology Industry?” Nichons-Nous Dans L’Internet (Keeping Abreast of the Internet), Paris, France. Vol. 3, Summer 2019.
“Subcontracting: Silicon Valley’s Riskiest Work.” The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., November 16th, 2017. Peer reviewed.
Co-Edited Journal Issues
Sexing Empire, Radical History Review, Volume 2015, Issue 123, October 2015.
Queering Archives: Intimate Tracings, Radical History Review, Volume 2015, Issue 122, May 2015.
Sound Politics: Critically Listening to the Past, Radical History Review, Volume 2015, Issue 121, January 2015.
Queering Archives: Historical Unravellings, Radical History Review, Volume 2014, Issue 120, Fall 2014.
Book Reviews
“Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America,” by Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner. Business History Review, Harvard Business School, 2021.
“The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America,” by Margaret O’Mara. Enterprise and Society, Spring 2021.
“Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture,” by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela. Southern California Quarterly, Volume 99.4, Winter 2017.
Manuscript and Proposal Reviews
MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Exhibitions
Think Different Exhibition and Book Launch Fall 2026
Stanford University, Silicon Valley Archives, Palo Alto, California
Congressional Briefings
The History of Social Media Regulation, Washington, D.C. June 2024
The Mellon Foundation and the American Historical Association
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
The Radical History Review, New York, New York, Associate Editor 2014-2015
Harvard University Press, New York, New York, Editorial Assistant to the Senior Executive Editor in History 2008-2011
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, New York, Intern to the Publisher of the Hill and Wang Imprint Summer 2006
INVITED TALKS
Chatham House and the Harvard Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society September 2023 Feminist Futures, Invited Speaker
Harvard Kennedy School, Science, Technology, and Society Program October 2022 Technoscience: Re-centering the Social in Crises Times, Chair and Commenter
The University of Southern California, History Department, Los Angeles, California April 2022 Anti-Black Racism and Health Care in the United States, from Medicare to the Present
The Harvard Berkman- Klein Center for Internet and Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts May 2021
Critical Thought, Action, and Neoliberal Organizations
Future Narratives Lab, London, United Kingdom April 2021 The Ideologies of Silicon Valley: Artificial Intelligence, Privacy, and Big Tech
Science, Technology, and Society Circle, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government March 2021 Worker Coalitions in the Reagan-Era Silicon Valley
The Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts February 2021 Data, Race, and Public Health
Festival of Ideas, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts November 2020 The Temporal Historical Imagination of the Shelby versus Holder Supreme Court Ruling
The University of Southern California, History Department, Los Angeles, California November 2020 Race, the State, and Public Health in the United States, 1960 to the Present
Community Forum on the Thomas Fallon Statue, San José, California November 2020 Speaker
The Western History Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico October 2020 Plenary Session: The State and Future of the Field, Invited Commenter
The University of Virginia, Miller Center, Charlottesville, Virginia September 2020 Technology and Democracy in the Contemporary United States, Invited
The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Annual Meeting, Johns Hopkins University May 2020 Invited Discussant for Gender, the Politics of Business, and Women’s Entrepreneurship in United States History
Saint Petersburg State University, Smolny College, Saint Petersburg, Russia May 2020 Cities, COVID- 19, and Contingency: An Historical Perspective
The United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Conference, Bard College April 2020 Invited Chair, Postwar American and Russian Relations
Science, Technology, and Society Circle, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government March 2020 Rethinking Labor in the American Technology Industry, Invited
Solve Climate Change by 2030 Conference, Bard Center for Environmental Policy February 2020 Cities and Climate
Bard College, Lecture to the Faculty, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York February 2020 The Self in History: The Constitution of the United States and the Federalist Papers
The Harvard Berkman Klein Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts January 2020 Evaluating Labor Structures, Community Organizing, and Environmental Regulation during the Pre-History of the Internet
Business History Initiative, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts May 2019 Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism: “Feminist Capitalism, Capitalist Feminists”
History Department, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Texas February 2019 The Silicon Valley, Women, and the Grassroots Transformation of the Twentieth Century
History Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts November 2018 Invited Discussant for Balraj Gill, Corporate Crossings: The Transmission of Settler Colonialism Common Sense
Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut November 2018 The New Economy, High-Technology and the Decline of the American Middle Class
Festival of Ideas, Harvard Berkman Klein Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts October 2018 Citizen Boards and Workers’ Unions
The New-York Historical Society, New York, New York May 2018 Environmental Externalization and the Making of the Silicon Valley
History Department, New York University, New York, New York April 2018 Invited Discussant for Pedro Monaville, Adventures in Totality: The Situationist International and the Third World
Hagley Museum and Library Center for Business, Technology, and Society, Wilmington, Delaware May 2017 Silicon Valley Conservation: Redefining Environmental and Labor Politics, 1970-1995
PANELS AND EVENTS ORGANIZED
Community Organizing in the Hudson Valley, Bard College, New York September 2023 A Conversation with Emma Kang-Rosenthal, For the Many
The 'World Republic': Radical Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America March 2022 A Conversation with Dr. Pamela Nogales, The University of Chicago Winner of the Dean of the College’s Academic Program Grant for Inclusive Curriculum
Surplus, Vulnerability, and the Political Economy of the American Response to COVID November 2021 A Conversation with Beatrice Adler Bolton, The City University of New York Winner of the Dean of the College’s Academic Program Grant for Inclusive Curriculum
Black Lives Matter and the Muslim Ummah: Historical Roots of Contemporary Connections December 2020 A Conversation with Professor Alaina Morgan, The University of Southern California, and Professor Jeannette Estruth Winner of the Dean of the College’s Academic Program Grant for Inclusive Curriculum
Archives of the Self: Short Film as Historical Source, Bard College, New York November 2020 A Conversation with filmmaker Dr. Swetha Regunathan Winner of the Dean of the College’s Academic Program Grant for Inclusive Curriculum
“Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States” September 2020 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Book Talk and Conversation with author Julia Rose Kraut
No Useless Mouth: A Discussion of Food, Slavery, and Diplomacy in Early American History April 2020 The Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project and Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York A Conversation with Professor Rachel Hermann, The University of Cardiff, Wales, and Professor Jeannette Estruth Organized and Postponed
Saving America’s Cities: The Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, New York April 2020 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York An evening of conversation with Professor Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University, and Professor Jeannette Estruth Organized and Postponed
Urban History Association Meeting, Detroit, Michigan October 2020 An Urban History Methods Roundtable, Accepted
Art, Philanthropy, Absolution, and Accountability: A Conversation, Bard College, New York December 2019 Co-organizer and Chair
The Western Historical Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada October 2019 LGBTQ History Tour of Las Vegas, Co-Organizer
Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 2019 The Work of Freedom: Disability, Care, and Organizing around Health and Safety in the Postwar United States
Business History Conference, Baltimore, Maryland April 2018 Global Finance and the Cold War World
Urban History Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois October 2016 The Emerging Literatures of the Silicon Valley Roundtable
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada May 2014 Defining Feminism: Varieties of Activism in the Second Wave
American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado August 2013 Transforming Environmental Suburbia
PAPERS PRESENTED
The American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York January 2025 The History of Social Media, Invited by the American Historical Association
The American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California January 2024 Silicon Valley as Place, Phenomenon, and History: With Margaret O’Mara, Leslie Berlin, Louis Hyman, and Fred Turner
The American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California January 2024 Media and Movements in the American City, 1957-1999
The Society for the History of Technology Conference, Los Angeles, California October 2023 Money Machines: The Political Economy of Computational Media
The Western History Association Conference, Los Angeles, California October 2023 Music in California: Rediscovering Early Twentieth-Music Scenes
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Annual Meeting, Santa Clara, California July 2023 Gender, Labor and Occupational Mobility
The American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania January 2023 State of the Field: Methodologies of Writing Recent United States Business History
The Business History Conference, Mexico City, Mexico April 2022 White Collar Tech, Blue Silicon Valley: How the Clinton-Era Fusion of Technology and Economic Policy Produced Today’s Democratic Party
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas November 2021 Capitalism and the American Century Workshop. From Technopole to Metropole: The Global Science Park.
The Western History Association Conference, Portland, Oregon October 2021 Gay Rights and Reactions in the West: High Tech Gays
Labor and Working-Class History Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois May 2021 High Tech as Management Ideology and Workplace Praxis
The Organization of American Historians Meeting, Chicago, Illinois April 2021 Digitizing Democracy: Technologies of Citizenship at the End of the 20th Century
Urban History Association Meeting, Detroit, Michigan October 2021 Commenter, Racial Capitalism and Urban History, Accepted
Urban History Association Meeting, Detroit, Michigan October 2021 Chair and Commenter, Contested Cities of the 1970s: Conflicting Responses to the Urban Crisis, Accepted
The Western History Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico October 2020 The AK-47: A Global Weapon in the American Context, Accepted
The American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York January 2020 History for the 21st Century: Redesigning the College History Curriculum
The Western Historical Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada October 2019 Violence, Race, and the Neoliberal State
The Western History Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas October 2018 Technological Metropolis: Silicon Valley Connections
European Association for Urban History Annual Conference, Rome, Italy September 2018 Infrastructure, Culture, Identity in the Modern City: The Built Environment and Marketized Individualism, Accepted
American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Annual Meeting, Santa Clara, California August 2018 Memories of Political and Cultural Protest
The International Committee for the History of Technology Symposium, Saint-Étienne, France July 2018 Anti-War Activism and the Business of Anti-Statism, Accepted
Sarah Lawrence College Women’s History Conference, Bronxville, New York March 2018 Democracy on the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the Global Challenge to Democratic Freedoms
Labor and Working Class History Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington June 2017 Spaces of Work and Struggle: Community Coalitions, Technology, Flexibility, and Place-Based Labor Movements
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Annual Meeting, Hempstead, New York May 2017 Surviving Silicon Valley: Women’s Labor and Environmental Activism in the Semiconductor Industry
The University of Virginia Miller Center National Fellowship Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia May 2017 The Environmental Movement and Corporate Altruism
Urban History Association Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania October 2014 Visions for the Suburban City in the Age of Decolonization: Third Worldist Activism in the Silicon Valley, 1960s and 1970s
A Revolutionary Moment: Women’s Liberation Conference, Boston, Massachusetts March 2014 Pushing Their Limits: Toward an Expanded Understanding of the Women’s Movement
Kruekeberg Policy and Planning Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey February 2013 Environmental Suburbia: Gender, Policy, and the City in Late-Century California
Graduate Student Conference, New York University, New York, New York April 2012 Home-Made: Gender, Transportation, and Suburbanization in Mid-Century California
Fulbright Commission Conference, Budapest, Hungary Spring 2008 Classroom Politics: Gender Inequities in Hungarian Higher Education
PRIZES AND HONORABLE MENTIONS
Herman Krooss Prize, Best Dissertation in Business History, Business History Conference, Finalist 2019
The Vassar Fund, Vassar College, Annual Volunteer Award 2017
MEDIA
PBS, Rewire Magazine. Twin Cities, Minnesota. Interview with Emily Wilson for ‘Abolish Silicon Valley’: Reimagining Big Tech for the Public Good November 2020
Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Wilmington, Delaware Stories from the Stacks Podcast December 2016
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Researcher Spotlight, blogs.loc.gov July 2014
Lower East Side Stories, New York, New York, and Washington, D.C. Historical Consultant, Pilot Script April-August 2014
REFERENCES
Professor Thomas Bender
University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History, Emeritus
New York University History Department
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Professor Linda Gordon
University Professor of the Humanities and Florence Kelley Professor of History, Emerita
New York University
History Department
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Professor Andrew Needham
Associate Professor of History
New York University
History Department
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Dean Maria Montoya
Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History
New York University
1555 Century Drive
Shanghai, China 200122
Professor Julia Ott
Associate Professor of History and Director of the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies
The New School for Social Research
Department of Historical Studies
80 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
Professor Kim Phillips-Fein
Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History
Columbia University
413 Fayerweather Hall
1180 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 2527
New York, New York 10027
Mrs. Joyce Seltzer
Senior Executive Editor in History, Emerita
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138