Brenden Kuerbis

Postdoctoral Researcher and Fellow
Syracuse, NY USA
bnkuerbi[at]syr.edu

Brenden Kuerbis is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Internet Security Governance at the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Blending theories of principal-agent delegation, standardization, and social network analysis techniques, Kuerbis's research focuses on critical Internet resources and how governments influence their governance. His dissertation examined efforts of United States government agencies to secure the Domain Name and routing systems (i.e., DNSSEC, RPKI). He is currently researching efforts to shape digital identity to secure cyberspace, as well as Internet address scarcity and the transition to IPv6.

Brenden is a contributor to the Internet Governance Project, a leading source for coverage and analysis of the management of critical Internet resources and political economy of global Internet policy that is widely read by governments, industry and civil society. He is also the Communications Committee Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) and is a member of the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) at ICANN, serving as its North America region Executive Committee member. His work has been presented at TPRC, ICA, ITS, and appeared in Communications & Strategies, Circle ID, Telecommunications Policy, The Information Society, the International Journal of Communication, and in the forthcoming book, Opening Standards: The Global Politics of Interoperability, by MIT Press. Kuerbis earned his Ph.D. at the Syracuse University's School of Information Studies.