Ott, J. (2024). A First Lady’s Rise, Fall, and Reemergence: Fatma Karume’s Diplomatic and Political Evolution in Zanzibar. International Journal of African Historical Studies 57(3): 307-330. https://www.bu.edu/phpbin/ijahs/publications/?pid=818.

Ott, J. (2024). “You Don't Need Money to Give Alms”: The Protective Capacity of Faith and Spiritual Kinship Among Domestic Workers in Zanzibar. Anthropology of Work Review 45(2): 69–78. https://doi.org/10.1111/awr.12274.

Ott, J. (2022). Umoja: A Swahili feminist ethic for negotiating justice in Zanzibar. Feminist Anthropology 3: 389-403. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12080.

Ott, J. (2021). “Anything That Departs from Justice to Injustice Is Not Part of the Shari’a”: Women’s Rights Activism and Islamic Legal Reform in Zanzibar. In E. Cloete, M. Ndakalako-Bannikov, & M. C. Stember (Eds.), African Women and Their Networks of Support: Intervening Connections (pp. 43–66). Lexington Books.

Ott, J. (2024). Health Research at the Nexus of Humanitarian Crises and Climate Change. Global Forum on Humanitarian Health Research Background Paper. Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health.

Kupfer, L.E., Anand, N., Ott, J., et al. (2024). The case for global health reciprocal innovation: BMJ Global Health 8, Issue Supplement 7. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013582

Ott, J., Champagne, S.N., Bachani, A.M. et al. (2022). Scoping ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ in rehabilitation: (mis)representations and effects. Int J Equity Health 21, 179. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01787-1