Rate My Professor Jessica Anania

Anania's academic interests encompass transitional justice, the treatment of intimate partner violence and sexual exploitation in truth commissions and peacekeeping operations, and gender-based violence in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Key publications include "Transitional justice and the ongoing exclusion of sexual exploitation and abuse by international intervenors" published in International Affairs (2022), "Private violence, public justice: addressing intimate partner violence in truth commissions" in the International Feminist Journal of Politics (2024), "Preventing sexual exploitation and abuse by male peacekeepers" (United States Institute of Peace, 2020, co-authored with Angelina Mendes and Robert U. Nagel), "Gender-based violence and COVID-19 in fragile settings: A syndemic model" (USIP, 2021, co-authored with Luissa Vahedi and Jocelyn Kelly), and "Gender Violence in Truth Commissions (GVTC): An introduction to the database" (2021). Additional works feature "Gendered truth?: Analyzing the inclusion of gender-based violence across truth commissions" (2023) and co-authorship of "Conflicts and Trends to Watch in 2026" (GIWPS, 2026, with Vicka Heidt, Anna Tuohey, and Jessica M. Smith). Her scholarship and tools like the GVTC database bolster gender-sensitive approaches in conflict analysis and peacebuilding.