Rate My Professor Jessica Anania

Dr. Jessica Anania serves as the Conflict and Security Fellow at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS), an institute within Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. In this capacity, she leads the institute's conflict tracking initiative, which monitors and analyzes global conflict dynamics through a Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) lens. Anania holds a PhD from the University of Oxford's Department of Sociology, where her doctoral research centered on domestic and multilateral responses to gender-based violence amidst armed conflict. Her career includes positions at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), as well as consulting for the UK national government.

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.