Laura DeNardis, now the Interim Dean at the School of Communications, is globally recognized as one of the most influential scholars in Internet governance. Slate Magazine named her—along with Mark Zuckerberg and Chinese President Xi Jinping—as one of the seven most influential people in controlling or influencing the Internet. In 2018, she received American University’s highest faculty award, Scholar-Teacher of the Year. Among her six books are, The Global War for Internet Governance (Yale University Press 2014) and The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch (Yale University Press 2020).