She is an Internet governance scholar whose books include Opening Standards: the Global Politics of Interoperability (MIT Press 2011); Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance (MIT Press 2009); Information Technology in Theory (Thompson 2007); and a forthcoming Yale University Press book on Global Internet Governance. Before joining American University, she held a joint teaching and research appointment at Yale Law School where she served for three years as the Executive Director of the Yale Information Society Project. An engineer and social scientist, Laura DeNardis holds an A.B. in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College, a Master of Engineering degree from Cornell and a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech, and was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale Law School.