Jennifer S. Bryson

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Jennifer S. Bryson
Jennifer S. Bryson at the Amiriya Madrasa/Mosque in Rada, while working for the U.S. Embassy in Yemen.
Jennifer S. Bryson at the Amiriya Madrasa/Mosque in Rada, while working for the U.S. Embassy in Yemen.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationAcademic, U.S. government, interrogator
Known forserved as an interrogator at Guantanamo

Jennifer S. Bryson is a Fellow in the Catholic Women's Forum of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.[1] She previously worked at the Witherspoon Institute, and now works for their Canavox group as an advisor, as well as her own anti-LGBT group, Let All Play.[2] She spent the years 2004–2006 as an interrogator at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps.[3][4] Bryson's PhD was in Arabic and Islamic studies, from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Bryson has written in favor of humane, rapport-building interrogation, and against the use of torture.[5] She is an adult convert to Catholicism.[6]

Education[]

Education[3]
B.A. Political Science Stanford University
M.A. medieval European intellectual history Yale University
PhD Greco-Arabic and Islamic studies Yale University

Bryson spent two years in Egypt learning the Arabic language in between her M.A. and Ph.D.[7]

Bryson is a member of the Phi Alpha Theta honor society.[8]

Careers[]

Bryson has described fruitless job searches, following earning her PhD, in the late 1990s, only to find that al Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001 put her skills in demand.[9]

Television career[]

According to an article from the October 29, 2001 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Bryson started working for as a television journalist and researcher in 2000.[7] She worked for the PBS NewsHour and CBS's 48 Hours.

Embassy work[]

Bryson worked at the U.S. Embassies in Egypt and Yemen in 2002.[10]

Career at the Department of Defense[]

Bryson served as an interrogator in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, from 2004–2006.[9] She managed a counter-terrorism analysis team.[4][10][11] Her last position with the DoD was as the lead Action Officer for countering ideological support to terrorism within the .[12]

Academic career[]

After her public service Bryson became the Director of the Islam and Civil Society Project at the Witherspoon Institute.[10] She was previously a member of the Board of Directors of the .[13][14] In August 2010 the Washington Post published an op-ed by Bryson, counseling tolerance for Muslims, after a Florida pastor had called on Americans to burn Qurans.[15]

The Christian Post described Bryson as a "Christian scholar".[16] In 2009 Bryson was on a panelist in a dialogue between evangelicals and Muslims.[17] In September 2011 Bryson was a presenter at a conference on the role of non-Muslim scholars in Islamic Studies.[18]

Translations[]

Her translation of "Anti-Semitism Among Islamists in Germany," a 2019 report by the German government, was published by the Hudson Institute.[19]

Her translation of the 1970 lecture "Trusting the Church"[20] by Catholic writer Ida Friederika Görres and Fr. Joseph Ratzinger's 1971 Eulogy for Ida Friederike Görres[21] were published in 2020.

Anti-LGBT Activism[]

Bryson is the founder[22] of "Let All Play", a project of the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture that works to discourage the use of rainbows or other pro-LGBT symbols at soccer matches.[23] She also serves on the "Advisory Board" (although she is not featured on its Website) of Canavox.[24] Canavox is a reading group run by the Witherspoon Institute which promotes man-woman marriage, with a reading list featuring several anti-LGBT titles.[25]

References[]

  1. ^ "Jennifer Bryson Appointed as Fellow in EPPC's Catholic Women's Forum". Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  2. ^ "US Soccer's Rainbow Pride Jerseys Exclude and Divide". 13 June 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Archived copy". Witherspoon Institute. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-11.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ a b "В Америке депутат-мусульманин расплакался, давая показания" [In America, a Muslim member of tears, testifying]. 2011-03-14. Archived from the original on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2011-09-12. According to a former employee of the Anti-Terrorism Security Department Bryson Jennifer (Jennifer Bryson), King provides service to bin Laden, acting on his method, 'namely dividing the world into Muslims and non-Muslims,' which facilitates radicalization.
  5. ^ Bryson, Jennifer (September 11, 2011). "My Guantanamo Experience: Support Interrogation, Reject Torture". Public Discourse.
  6. ^ Bryson, Jennifer (May 21, 2020). "Conversion from Studying Marxism in East Germany into the Catholic Church" (from 00:31:17 - 00:55:27).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ a b Hadass Sheffer (2011-10-29). "The Risks and Rewards of Freelance Careers in Media". Chronicle of Higher Education. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-13.
  8. ^ "Phi Alpha Theta Initiate". The Historian. 2005-12-02. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2005.00131.x.
  9. ^ a b "My Guantanamo Experience: Support Interrogation, Reject Torture". . 2011-09-09. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
  10. ^ a b c "About iDiplomacy". November 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-12.
  11. ^ Jeff Bliss (2011-03-14). "King's Muslim Probe May Antagonize With Broad 'Semantic' Theme". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
  12. ^ "Jennifer Bryson". . Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
  13. ^ "About the authors". . Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-12.
  14. ^ "Board of Directors". . 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
  15. ^ "Christians must reject "Burn a Quran Day"". Washington Post. August 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
  16. ^ Michael Craven (2010-09-07). "Thinking Christianly about Islam, Muslims, and the Ground-Zero Mosque – Part 2". Christian Post. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-12.
  17. ^ "IGE and Georgetown Co-host Honest Conversation Between Evangelicals and Muslims". . 2009-06-23. Archived from the original on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2011-09-24. mirror
  18. ^ "Roles of Non-Muslim Scholars in Islamic Studies Today: Featuring Dr. Jennifer Bryson". Zaytuna College. 2011-09-16. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
  19. ^ "Anti-Semitism Among Islamists in Germany," trans. Jennifer S. Bryson. Hudson Institute, 2019. https://www.hudson.org/research/15073-anti-semitism-among-islamists-in-germany
  20. ^ Görres, Ida Friederika (2020). Translated by Jennifer S. Bryson. "Trusting the Church: A Lecture". Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture. 23:4 (4): 123–147. doi:10.1353/log.2020.0034. S2CID 243289416.
  21. ^ Ratzinger, Joseph. Translated by Jennifer S. Bryson. "Eulogy for Ida Friederike Görres". Logos. 23:4: 148–151.
  22. ^ "Let All Play | About".
  23. ^ "Let All Play | FIFA Report".
  24. ^ "TheSpiritWills — Alive in the Lord".
  25. ^ "Reading List".

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