Selected Publications

• Laura DeNardis, editor, Opening Standards: The Global Politics of Interoperability.  Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2011.
• Laura DeNardis, Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2009. 
• Laura DeNardis, co-authored with Pelin Aksoy, Information Technology in Theory. Boston: Thomson, 2007. 
• Laura DeNardis, "The Study of Internet Governance," in William Dutton, editor, Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012.
• Laura DeNardis, "Hidden Levers of Internet Control: An Infrastructure-based Theory of Internet Governance," Information, Communication & Society, Volume 15, Issue 3, February 2012.
• Laura DeNardis, "Standards and eHealth," International Telecommunication Union Technology Watch Report, Volume 16, January 2011.
• Laura DeNardis, "e-Governance Policies for Interoperability and Open Standards," Policy and Internet Volume 2, Issue 3, Article 6, 2010.
• Laura DeNardis, "The Privatization of Internet Governance," Referred paper presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network in Vilnius, Lithuania.  September 2010.
• Laura DeNardis, "The Global Politics of Interoperability," in Gaelle Krikorian and Amy Kapcznski, editors, Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property. Cambridge: Zone Books, 2010.
• Laura DeNardis, "A Case Against Internet Address Markets," Paper presented at Internet: Critical, the 10th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 2009.
• Laura DeNardis, "Opening Standards, Opening Human Liberty," in Global Information Society Watch 2009, the Annual Scholarship Publication of the Association of Progressive Communications, APC, 2009. 
• Laura DeNardis, "Open Standards and Global Politics," International Journal of Communications Law and Policy, Issue 13, Special Internet Governance Edition, 2009.
• Laura DeNardis, "IPv6: Standards Controversies around the Next Generation Internet," in Ian Inkster, Graeme Gooday, and James Sumner, editors, History of Technology, Vol. 28. London: Continuum, 2008.
• Laura DeNardis, "Architecting Civil Liberties, " Referred paper selected for presentation at the Third Annual Meeting of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network in Hyderabad, India.  December 2008.
• Laura DeNardis, "A History of Internet Security," in Karl de Leeuw, editor, The History of Information Security. New York: Elsevier 2007.  

Executive Experience

Executive Director, Yale Information Society Project, New Haven, CT, Yale Law School (2008-2011)

Research Interests

• Global Internet Governance
• Internet Architecture and Freedom of Expression
• Internet Technology Policy (Infrastructure, Access, Privacy, Reputation, Domain Name System)
• Internet Standardization and Critical Internet Resources
• Global Politics of Cybersecurity Technologies

Work In Progress

Current Book Project

Laura DeNardis, Global Internet Governance, Yale University Press (forthcoming 2013).

Graduate Research Assistants: Simone Andrews, Alison Ring, and Virginia Seger

Doctoral Research Assistant: Paula Orlando

Professional Presentations

Invited keynote address, World Health Organization and International Telecommunication Union Joint Workshop on e-Health Standards and Interoperability, Geneva, Switzerland, April 26, 2012.

"Technical Architectures of Censorship." Invited panel presentation, Global Censorship Conference, Yale Law School, March 31, 2012.

"Beyond the Internet: Innovative Ideas for Democratizing Communication & Society." (VIEW VIDEO ) Invited panel presentation, Rutgers University, November 16, 2011.

"The Social Media Challenge to Internet Governance." (VIEW VIDEO at 11:16) Invited presentation at Governance of Social Media Workshop, Washington, DC, November 11, 2011.

"Who Should Govern the Internet?" Invited presentation, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, November 3, 2011.

Invited keynote address at A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society. (VIEW VIDEO) Oxford University, Oxford, England September 21-24, 2011.

“The Place of the Internet in World Affairs: Cybersecurity, WikiLeaks, and Internet Freedom.” Presentation at Global Internet Governance: Research and Public Policy Challenges for the Next Decade, GigaNet workshop in Washington, D.C. May 5, 2011.

“Opening Standards: The Global Politics of Interoperability.” Presentation at Standards and Consortia Roundtable at Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, April 7-8, 2011.

“WikiLeaks and the Politics of Denial of Service Attacks.” Invited presentation in WikiLeaks Symposium Minding the Gaps: WikiLeaks and Internet Security in the 21st Century.  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, February 4, 2011.

“Protocol Politics.” Invited lecture at Cornell University Information Science Colloquium.  Ithaca, NY, 3:45 P.M.,  January 31, 2011.

“Technologies of Dissent.” Presentation at Access to Knowledge Global Academy Workshop in Cape Town, South Africa, January 19, 2011

“Protocol Politics.” Invited lecture at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton, NJ, 4:30 p.m. November 18, 2010.

“The Globalization of Internet Governance.” Invited lecture in Communications Studies Speaker Series at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 11, 2010.

“Infrastructures of Free Expression.” Invited lecture at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, November 3, 2010.

“Opening Internet Video Codecs.” Invited panel presentation at the Open Video Conference, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, New York, October 2, 2010.

“Technologies of Dissent” Invited panel presentation at Innovate/Activate: An Unconference on Intellectual Property and Activism, New York Law School. September 25, 2010.

“Core Internet Values across Generations.” Invited panel presentation, Youth Coalition on Internet Governance, Fifth Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Vilnius, Lithuania.  September 17, 2010.

“The Privatization of Internet Governance.” Paper presented at Fifth Annual Symposium of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet), Vilnius, Lithuania. September 13, 2010.

“eGovernnace Policies for Interoperability.” Invited Inaugural Lecture of the Open Forum Academy, Brussels, Belgium, June 29, 2010.

“What is Internet Governance Research and What do Different Academic Disciplines Contribute to it?” Opening Panel at the Third International Global Internet Governance  Workshop, Montreal, Canada, May 30, 2010.

“The New Politics of Internet Governance,” Invited Lecture at Fundação Getulio Vargas University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 4, 2010.

“Technologies of Dissent.” Invited Lecture at Columbia Communications Colloquium, Columbia University, New York, NY, April 19, 2010.

“Mapping Dissent: Internet Mapping Technologies and Political Activism” talk at Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference at Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, February 12, 2010.

“Internet Governance: Where Digital Labor Determines Digital Freedom“  Talk at The Internet as Playground and Factory: A Conference on Digital Labor. Eugene Lang College, The New School, New York, NY, November 14, 2009. Video and audio available here.

“Technologies of Dissent.”  Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Washington, DC, October 31, 2009.

“A Case Against Internet Address Markets.”  Paper presented at Internet: Critical, the 10th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Milwaukee, WI, October 8, 2009.

“Measuring and Reducing the Standardization Gap in the Developing World.” Invited talk at the International Telecommunication Union’s Bridging the Standardization Gap forum in Nadi, Fiji, September 16-17, 2009.   Laura DeNardis picture in FijiTimes article about event.

“Opening Innovation through Opening Standards.” Keynote address at Paris Workshop on Interoperability, June 24, 2009.

“Thinking about Standards,” National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, May 8, 2009.

“Privacy and Technology Roundtable on Data Fusion Centers,” University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, MD, April 16, 2009.

“Architecting Civil Liberties.” Paper presented at the Third Annual Meeting of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) in Hyderabad, India. December 2, 2008.

“Global Internet Standards and Developing Nations.” Invited talk at the University of Illinois School of Information Studies, Urbana, IL, November 10, 2008.

“IP is the New IP.” (Internet Protocol is the New Intellectual Property) Panel presentation at the Third Access to Knowledge Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, September 10, 2008.

“The Future of Internet Governance.” BEA-NAB Convention Broadcast Education Association-National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas, NV, April 17, 2008.

“The Global Politics of Interoperability: Intellectual Property and Openness in an Information Society,” Invited Talk at International Intellectual Property Society (IIPS) Lecture Series, New York, NY, February 19, 2008.

“Open Documents and Democracy.” Invited keynote address at the Standards and the Future of the Internet conference, Geneva, Switzerland, February 27, 2008

“Open ICT Standards, Development, and Public Policy.” U.N. Internet Governance Forum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 11, 2007.

“Digital Inclusion: Accelerating Global Participation & Access.” Invited Talk at the Standards Edge Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 11, 2007

“Internet Standards and Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunities.” Paper presented at the Second Annual Meeting of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. November 12, 2007.

“Interoperability and Democracy.” University of Calgary 5th Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technologies Calgary, Ontario, Canada, October 19, 2007.