Media, Policy, Public Writing
2024. "Deserted": The U.S. Military's Sexual Assault Crisis as a Cost of War. Costs of War Project. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs: Brown University.
“The sexual assault crisis should draw our attention to the contradiction of military policies aimed at greater gender and racial equity when this institution waged post-9/11 wars that displaced 38 million people, directly killed 929,000 people, and indirectly killed 4.5-4.7 million people worldwide. These are casualties primarily among people of color in the Global South, with women and children disproportionately impacted by violent conflict,” writes report author Jennifer Greenburg, an assistant professor of international relations at the University of Sheffield. “One justification of the so-called ‘War on Terror’ was to restore Afghan women’s rights. Yet 20 years of war made Afghan women’s lives significantly worse. The wars waged by the U.S. are existentially linked both to the military as an institution and to racism and sexism within the United States.”
Press Release, Costs of War Project at Brown University, August 14, 2024
Image credit: Costs of War
2023. "If Kenya wants to help Haiti, it should push for colonial reparations not send in the police." The Conversation, 25 November.
2023 “The gendered work of war: how the US military used women to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Political Insight. September.
2023 “Women’s secret war: the inside story of how the US military sent female soldiers on covert combat missions to Afghanistan. The Conversation, 22 May 2023.
2022 “Instability or Ensekirite? The securitization of Haiti as an object of international intervention.” Society for Cultural Anthropology Editor’s Forum: Hot Spots, 3 May 2022.
2021 “The international community must resist calls for ‘muscular intervention’ in Haiti.” Responsible Statecraft, 13 July 2021 (with Laura Wagner).
2017 “‘Bad Papers’”: The Invisible and Increasing Costs of War for Excluded Veterans.” Costs of War Project. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs: Brown University.
2014 “The Student Strike at Damien.” In Haiti: An Island Luminous. Digital Library of the Caribbean: Florida International University.
2008 Migrant Access to Housing in South African Cities. Johannesburg: Migrant Rights Monitoring Project Special Report. With Tara Polzer.
2005 “Homeworkers Out in the Cold.” South African Labour Bulletin 29 (5): 52-55.
2005 “Sweating it Out For a Hundred a Week.” South African Labour Bulletin 29 (4): 39-42.
2005 Godfrey, Shane, Marlea Clarke and Jan Theron, with Jennifer Greenburg. On the Outskirts But in Fashion: Homeworking in the South African Clothing Industry: The challenge to organization and regulation. Cape Town: Institute of Development and Labour Law Monograph Series: 1-46.
2023 “Women’s secret war: the inside story of how the US military sent female soldiers on covert combat missions to Afghanistan. The Conversation, 22 May 2023.
2022 “Instability or Ensekirite? The securitization of Haiti as an object of international intervention.” Society for Cultural Anthropology Editor’s Forum: Hot Spots, 3 May 2022.
2021 “The international community must resist calls for ‘muscular intervention’ in Haiti.” Responsible Statecraft, 13 July 2021 (with Laura Wagner).
2017 “‘Bad Papers’”: The Invisible and Increasing Costs of War for Excluded Veterans.” Costs of War Project. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs: Brown University.
2014 “The Student Strike at Damien.” In Haiti: An Island Luminous. Digital Library of the Caribbean: Florida International University.
2008 Migrant Access to Housing in South African Cities. Johannesburg: Migrant Rights Monitoring Project Special Report. With Tara Polzer.
2005 “Homeworkers Out in the Cold.” South African Labour Bulletin 29 (5): 52-55.
2005 “Sweating it Out For a Hundred a Week.” South African Labour Bulletin 29 (4): 39-42.
2005 Godfrey, Shane, Marlea Clarke and Jan Theron, with Jennifer Greenburg. On the Outskirts But in Fashion: Homeworking in the South African Clothing Industry: The challenge to organization and regulation. Cape Town: Institute of Development and Labour Law Monograph Series: 1-46.