Denise Brennan

Meet Denise Brennan, a member of the new @JANA_Anthro Editorial Collective at @SANA_Anthro! Denise is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Georgetown University, where she is also Co-Director and Founder of the Gender+ Justice Initiative. She is author of Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States and What’s Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic, both with Duke University Press. She currently is finishing a co-authored book with her JANA co-editor, Xitlalli Almendariz Alvarez, Policing Political Possibility: Borders, Classrooms, and Communities. She also is writing a book that builds on her research with undocumented workers and trafficking survivors that asks if working through and after climate disasters constitutes forced labor, Work through Disaster: Labor and Trafficking Amidst Climate Ruin. She is on the Advisory Board to the Best Practices Policy Project, and has been a board member of Different Avenues, and HIPS -- organizations that work to protect the rights of people who engage in the sex sector. She also founded the Trafficking Survivor Leadership Training Fund that provides support for trafficking survivor-advocates.