Bio
Denise Brennan is associate professor of anthropology. Her research interests include trafficking to the United States, labor issues related to migration, and women's sexual labor in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Her first book, What’s Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic, was published with Duke University Press (2004).
Professor Brennan's recent fellowships include support from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the Center for Democracy and the Third Sector (CDATS) to conduct field research for her current book project on life after trafficking to the United States.
Professor Brennan teaches courses on migration, gender, and field research.