Biography

Jennifer is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College and a researcher affiliated with SEXHUM, a project that investigates migration, sex work, and sex trafficking in the United States, France, Australia, and New Zealand. Her research interests are situated at the intersections of gender, sexuality, technology, law, and migration and an animating question that shapes her work are the ways in which laws, technologies, and collaborative modes of governance are leveraged to respond to exploitation, intimacy, violence, and vulnerability, broadly defined. Her first book, Control and Protect: Collaboration, Carceral Protection, and Domestic Sex Trafficking in the United States (University of California Press, 2016), documents the ways in which carceral paradigms of protection are leveraged to respond to domestic sex trafficking in the United States. Prior to joining the Wellesley College faculty, Jennifer was an External Faculty Fellow at Rice University. She was also a postdoctoral researcher at USC’s Annenberg Center on Communication & Leadership Policy and a Visiting Scholar in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University.