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 teaching 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 of UCU. As Assistant Professor in Criminology (since 2009) she teaches (among others) Cultural Criminology in the MA Programme Global Criminology and supervises thesis students. She participates in the research schools Utrecht Centre for European Research into Family Law (UCERF) and Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE), is active in the EQUALS platform and involved with the IOS themes Contesting Governance and Gender and Diversity.

Brenda is an interdisciplinary researcher with a strong drive to conduct community engaged research. Her expertise concerns current (and future) forms of inequality, exploitation and power abuse in the global economy. She focuses in particular on: human trafficking for sexual, labour and criminal exploitation; (the representation of) sex work; sex worker homicide and cold case research; transgender (sex work) migrants and illegal tobacco trade. She aims to contribute to the further development of the fields of cultural and sensory criminology, and is methodologically at home in (‘ghost') ethnography. 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).