Brenda Oude Breuil is Cluster Chair at University College Utrecht and Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Utrecht University. As Cluster Chair, Brenda leads a team of academic lecturers who teach in the disciplines of law, history, anthropology, media studies, performance studies and religious studies. She is member of the Board of Studies and jointly responsible for the development of the curriculum within and between the clusters of UCU. As Assistant Professor in Criminology (since 2009) she teaches (among others) Cultural Criminology in the MA Programme Global Criminology. She participates in the research schools Utrecht Centre for European Research into Family Law (UCERF) and Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE), and is a fellow at the Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges (UGlobe) where she participates in the flagship Contesting Governance.
Brenda is an interdisciplinary researcher with a strong drive to conduct community engaged research. Her expertise concerns current (and future) forms of exploitation and power abuse in the global economy, in particular: human trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation, and exploitation in criminal activities. She also published on trafficking in minors, transgender (sex work) migrants, illegal tobacco trade, (representation of) sex work etc. She aims to contribute to the further development of the fields of cultural and sensory criminology. She is co-founder and member of Re-Imagining Sex Work (a sex worker led group aiming at destigmatisation of sex work in the Netherlands). Brenda Oude Breuil is member of the UU Commission Interpersonal Integrity.
Anti Trafficking Review - Special Issue (16, 2021): Trafficking in Minors. Editors: Brenda Oude Breuil & Borislav Gerasimov. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201221161