Rate My Professor Jessica Greenberg

A legal and political anthropologist, Greenberg's research focuses on revolution, social change, democracy, justice, and human rights in the Balkans and Europe more broadly. Her ethnographic work explores the everyday lives of social movements, democratic activism after the Cold War, and legal institutions such as the European Court of Human Rights. She is the author of Justice in the Balance: Democracy, Rule of Law, and the European Court of Human Rights (Stanford University Press, 2025) and After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia (Stanford University Press, 2014). Key publications include "Disappointment" (with Sarah Muir, Annual Review of Anthropology, 2022), "Law, politics, and efficacy at the European Court of Human Rights" (American Ethnologist, 2020), "Counterpedagogy, Sovereignty, and Migration at the European Court of Human Rights" (Law and Social Inquiry, 2021), "On the Road to Normal: Negotiating Agency and State Sovereignty in Postsocialist Serbia" (American Anthropologist, 2011), and "Beyond East and West: Solidarity politics and the absent/present state in the Balkans" (with Ivana Spasić, Slavic Review, 2017). Greenberg has received two Fulbright Fellowships, including one to the University of Strasbourg in 2020, a National Science Foundation Law and Social Sciences grant (2018-2020), the LAS Conrad Humanities Scholar award (2018-2023), and a UIUC Campus Research Board Award (2013).