Finn Brunton

Finn Brunton Portrait

Position Title
Professor

1246C, Social Sciences and Humanities
1 Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616
Office Hours
Spring Quarter 2026: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12-2PM.
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Bio

About

You can find some of my recent papers and other publications to download on my site. Please feel free to contact me if there's a particular older publication you're looking for.

Publications

Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency. Princeton University Press, 2019

Communication. With Mercedes Bunz and Paula Bialski. University of Minnesota / Meson Press, 2019

Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest. With Helen Nissenbaum. MIT Press, 2015

Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet. MIT Press, April 2013