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Professor Andrew Bickford’s article The tentacles of surveillance: Cephalopods and United States satellite intelligence was named one of the top 25 articles of 2025 according to Anthropology News and the top read article in the Journal for the Anthropology of North America.

February 18th, 2026

News Archive

2/29/2019 – Denise Brennan quoted in NBC News article “What could be next for massage parlor workers discovered in Florida sex-trafficking bust”

2/28/2019 – Denise Brennan quoted in Boston Globe article “‘It will be horrific’: How will women caught up in spa scheme move on?”

2/9/2018 – Denise Brennan featured on McClatchy’s article on Trump words hurt fight against human trafficking

7/26/2017 – Denise Brennan interviewed in KCRW/To The Point’s The San Antonio tragedy: How to make a border safe for everyone

7/24/2017– Denise Brennan featured on NPR’s “The Takeaway” for a segment on A Smuggling Tragedy in San Antonio

7/24/2017 – Denise Brennan quoted in NBC News’ Human Trafficking or Human Smuggling? Why the Two Crimes Aren’t Interchangeable

7/1/2017 – Denise Brennan and GU Anthropology alumna Citlalli Alvarez Almendariz’s essay  Life Without Papers published by the Latin American Studies Association Forum

6/16/2017 – Denise Brennan’s piece Migrant Resilience and Refuge in the Trump Era in Anthropology News

4/25/2017 – Denise Brennan gives the keynote at Trust Conference/America Forum, an event committed to finding real solutions to fight modern-day slavery and solve human rights issues worldwide

4/25/2017 – Denise Brennan’s research profiled in Thomson Reuters Foundation’s “U.S. immigration crackdown undermines fight to end human trafficking“

4/23/2017 – Denise Brennan’s piece “Want to fight trafficking? Fight for immigration reform” for the Thomson Reuters Foundation

3/2/2017  – Ben Harbert featured in Smithsonian Magazine’s “Finding Music Behind Prison Bars” 

12/12/2016 – Susan Terrio’s “Whose child am I?: unaccompanied, undocumented children in U. S. immigration custody” is named to the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2016 list.

9/14/2016 – Sylvia Onder featured in Course Cluster Challenges Thinking on Disability

3/5/2016 – Susan Terrio is quoted in the Washington Post: Can a 3-year-old represent herself in immigration court? This judge thinks so.

11/2/2015 – Denise Brennan is quoted in the Christian Science Monitor: Trafficking: One woman’s journey from Staten Island slavery to her own boss

6/4/2015 – Launch of Susan Terrio’s New Book at Georgetown

5/27/2015 – Denise Brennan on The Diane Rehm Show

5/23/2015 – Interview with Susan Terrio on Children in US Immigration Custody

8/19/2014 – Denise Brennan is quoted in Rolling Stone Magazine: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Human Trafficking

7/10/2014 – Susan Terrio’s article in Politico Magazine about Unaccompanied Minors entering the United States: Life Ended There: Rare interviews with the children of America’s border disaster

4/24/2014 – Denise Brennan is interviewed by Kira Zalan in this U.S. News & World Report article: Working in the Shadows

4/2014 – Susan Terrio Awarded Reflective Engagement Grant

3/24/2014 – Denise Brennan’s piece in Dissent Magazine: Migrants at Risk: How US Policies Facilitate Human Trafficking

3/12/2014 – Mark Sicoli’s research is featured in this New York Times Article: Pause Is Seen in a Continent’s Peopling

2/28/2014 – Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer’s essay in Anthropology News: Lessons on the Anthropology of Violence from Shamans

2/21/2014 – Susan Terrio is quoted in this Los Angeles Times Article by Molly Hennessy-Fiske: More youths crossing U.S.-Mexico border alone

12/23/2013 – Susan Terrio is quoted in this Mother Jones article by Ian Gordon: Why Are More and More Children Walking Across the Border?

3/5/2013 – Gwendolyn Mikell co-authored this piece for Global Brief Magazine: “In 2020, the DRC will…

2/21/2013 – Young and Undocumented: The New American Story, an event organized by Professor Susan Terrio

2/2/2013 – Denise Brennan featured in this article from the Miami Herald about sex tourism in the Dominican Republic: In Dominican Republic seaside village, a virtual supermarket of sex

1/28/2013 – Rochelle Davis co-authored this article for the Middle East Research and Information Project: The Many Roles of Turkey in the Syrian Crisis

1/20/2013 – Fida Adely’s book was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books: Gendered Paradoxes: Educating Jordanian Woman in Nation, Faith, and Progress

8/30/2012 – Denise Brennan featured in the San Francisco Free Press: Without long-term support, human trafficking survivors at risk of re-exploitation

5/12/2012 – Gwendolyn Mikell featured on PJCMedia’s Faith Complex: Nigeria & Boko Haram – The Massacre of Christians and Oil

2/21/2012 – Denise Brennan featured in the San Francisco Free Press: U.S. visas help trafficking victims, if applicants can vault legal hurdles

11/17/2012 – Fida Adely on Jaddaliya, an independent ezine produced by the Arab Studies Institute: When is Something, Something? Jordan’s Arab Uprising