Laura DeNardis joins the Center for Digital Ethics at Georgetown

Renowned scholar of internet governance will help start the Center for Digital Ethics

Georgetown University has announced that Laura DeNardis, Ph.D., a globally-recognized technology and society scholar, is joining Georgetown University’s faculty as the inaugural endowed Chair in Technology, Ethics, and Society in Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences. 

DeNardis will hold several appointments at Georgetown, including as a Professor in the Communication, Culture and Technology Program housed within the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, which explores the relationship between changing technology and changing cultures. She will also work as a Research Professor in the Center for Digital Ethics and will become a member of the Georgetown Initiative on Technology & Society steering committee. 

DeNardis is widely recognized as a leading technology and society expert in both the United States and around the world. Wired UK named her one of 32 Global Innovators Who are Building a Better Future and her book The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch (Yale University Press) was recognized as a Financial Times Top Technology Book of 2020. Her book The Global War for Internet Governance (Yale University Press) is widely considered the definitive source for understanding power struggles over technical infrastructure. 

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