Dr. DeNardis, has received more than a million dollars in external funding to support her research. With a background in engineering and digital technology policy, her research examines the social and political implications of emerging technologies. DeNardis has written numerous books and peer-reviewed journal articles on contemporary problems around technology and society. Her research has appeared in prestigious peer-reviewed journals such as New Media & Society, Internet & Policy, Journal of Information, Communication & Society, I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Telecommunications Policy, International Theory, the Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies, the International Journal of Communications Law & Policy and many book chapters. As the Director of Research for The Global Commission on Internet Governance, she commissioned 50 original Internet governance research articles.
Public-Facing Research
In 2016, Slate Magazine listed Dr. DeNardis as one of the seven most influential “key people” in Internet governance, along with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Chinese President Xi Jinping. For more than two decades, she has been viewed as a global authority and thought leader in digital architecture and governance, through intellectual contributions and executive leadership in the field and as an expert advisor to industry, foundations, and government. She has done security clearance work for the U.S. Department of Defense and has been engaged in large projects for the United Nations International Telecommunication Union, the National Academies of Science, and a host of companies including IBM, AT&T, Fidelity, NASD, Siemens, Prudential, and Dreyfus, among others. She served as a State Department advisor and also the Research Director of the Global Commission on Internet Governance from 2014-2016.
Center for Digital Ethics
Dr. DeNardis is the inaugural Director of the Center for Digital Ethics at Georgetown. The Center for Digital Ethics is a dynamic, university-wide community of scholars addressing the pressing ethical implications of emerging technologies as they reshape policy, scholarship, and human experience. Our goal is to help the world cope with technological challenges and opportunities, from artificial intelligence to cybersecurity, that are outstripping social, legal, and ethical guidelines.