Jacob Bruggeman is a third-year PhD candidate in history at Johns Hopkins University. His dissertation examines hacker communities in US politics, from the phone phreaks in the 1970s to hacktivists during the dot-com boom in the late 1990s. Jacob is also conducting interviews for a history of the Free-Net, a movement for public and community-oriented computing in the 1980s and early 1990s. At Hopkins, Jacob is the Research Coordinator and an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise, and a Graduate Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute and Center for Economy and Society. His popular writing can be found in the Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Chronicle of Higher Education, City Journal, USA Today, Washington Times, Detroit News, Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch, and BELT Magazine. You can find him on Twitter @jacob_bruggeman.

Main Advisor: Professor Burgin, Professor Furstenberg