Jennifer S. Bryson

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]

Jennifer S. Bryson
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

Education
Education[3]
B.A.Political ScienceStanford University
M.A.medieval European intellectual historyYale University
PhDGreco-Arabic and Islamic studiesYale 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 Office of the Secretary of Defense in Support to Public Diplomacy.[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 Institute for Global Engagement.[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. "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. "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. 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. "My Guantanamo Experience: Support Interrogation, Reject Torture". The Public Discourse. 2011-09-09. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
  10. "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". Institute for Global Engagement. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
  13. "About the authors". Religion, Faith and International Affairs. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-12.
  14. "Board of Directors". Institute for Global Engagement. 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". Institute for Global Engagement. 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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