Denise Brennan

Denise Brennan is Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University. She is the 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. She and Xitlalli Almendariz Alvarez are finishing a book on undocumented life in the U.S.: Policing Political Possibility: Borders, Communities, and Classrooms. She will be a Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute in 2025-26 to write a new book on exploitation and climate change: Work through Disaster: Labor and Trafficking Amidst Climate Ruin.