Jennifer S. Bryson Explained

Jennifer S. Bryson
Nationality:American
Known For:served as an interrogator at Guantanamo
Occupation:Academic, U.S. government, interrogator

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. She is also a professional translator, specializing in the works of the twentieth-century German writer Ida Friedericke Görres. She founded Let All Play, an anti-LGBT organization that targets rainbow flags on uniforms.[2] Bryson has a Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic studies, from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University. From 2004 to 2006, she served as an interrogator at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps and has since become an outspoken supporter of humane, rapport-building interrogation, and an opponent of the use of torture.[3] [4] [5] She is an adult convert to Catholicism.[6]

Education

Education
Stanford University
Medieval European intellectual history Yale University
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

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 PBS NewsHour and CBS's 48 Hours.

Embassy work

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

Career at the Department of Defense

Bryson served as an interrogator in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, from 2004 to 2006.[5] In an interview, she noted that her conscience as a Roman Catholic led her decisions and actions at Guantanamo,[9] where she managed a counter-terrorism interrogation and analysis team.[4] [10] [11] Her last position with the Defense Department 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]

Children's books

She is the creator of the Marvel, Believe, Care Creation Coloring Book (2023).[19]

Translations

Her translation of "Anti-Semitism Among Islamists in Germany," a 2019 report by the German government, was published by the Hudson Institute.[20]

Her translation of the 1970 lecture "Trusting the Church"[21] by Catholic writer Ida Friederike Görres and Joseph Ratzinger's 1971 Eulogy for Ida Friederike Görres[22] were published in 2020.

Anti-LGBT activism

Bryson is the founder[23] of Let All Play, a project of the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture that works to discourage the coerced use of political (including LGBT) symbols at soccer matches.[24] She has also served on the advisory board of CanaVox,[6] a reading group run by the Witherspoon Institute, promoting a natural law view of marriage and sexuality.

Political views

While Bryson was a columnist for the Yale Daily News in 1989–1990, her columns included a defense of motherhood against feminism[25] and a defense of the right of Yale's secret societies such as Skull and Bones to remain all-male.[26]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jennifer Bryson Appointed as Fellow in EPPC's Catholic Women's Forum . May 14, 2021.
  2. Web site: US Soccer's Rainbow Pride Jerseys Exclude and Divide. June 13, 2017 . Public Discourse.
  3. News: The Witherspoon Institute. . 2011-09-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111009084758/http://www.winst.org/religion_and_civil_society/islam_and_civil_society/scholars.php . 2011-10-09 .
  4. News: В Америке депутат-мусульманин расплакался, давая показания . In America, a Muslim member [of Congress] bursts into tears, testifying . 2011-03-14 . 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. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120402102226/http://islam.com.ua/news/8810/ . 2012-04-02 . 2011-09-12.
  5. Web site: 2011-09-09 . My Guantanamo Experience: Support Interrogation, Reject Torture . Public Discourse. live . 2011-09-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110925073907/http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/09/3934 . 2011-09-25.
  6. Web site: Bryson. Jennifer. May 21, 2020. Conversion from Studying Marxism in East Germany into the Catholic Church. AliveintheLord.com. from 00:31:17 - 00:55:27. Bryson said she was raised in Lutheranism before forgoing church attendance altogether in her late teens until she found God in an otherwise godless East Germany early in her adulthood and first encountered Catholicism during her time elsewhere in Europe.
  7. News: The Risks and Rewards of Freelance Careers in Media . Hadass Sheffer . . 2011-10-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121016044106/http://chronicle.com/article/The-RisksRewards-of/45433 . 2012-10-16 . 2011-09-13.
  8. Phi Alpha Theta Initiate . . 2005-12-02 . 67 . 4 . 821–830 . 10.1111/j.1540-6563.2005.00131.x . 218496271 .
  9. Web site: Osborne . Jason . January 12, 2023 . Trying to follow conscience's guiding light at Guantanamo Bay . The Irish Catholic.
  10. News: About iDiplomacy . November 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110522072326/http://idiplomacy.org/about-2/ . 2011-05-22 . 2011-09-12.
  11. News: King's Muslim Probe May Antagonize With Broad 'Semantic' Theme . . Jeff Bliss . 2011-03-14 . 2011-09-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120321053228/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aNO6xief_W8Q . 2012-03-21.
  12. News: Jennifer Bryson . Institute for Global Engagement . 2011-09-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120331164906/http://www.globalengage.org/about/board/908-jennifer-bryson.html . 2012-03-31.
  13. News: About the authors . Religion, Faith and International Affairs . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727215958/http://www.rfiaonline.org/authors . 2011-07-27 . 2011-09-12.
  14. News: Board of Directors . Institute for Global Engagement . 2009 . 2011-09-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111006190423/http://www.globalengage.org/about/board.html . 2011-10-06.
  15. News: Christians must reject "Burn a Quran Day" . . August 2011 . 2011-09-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110902072132/http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/08/christians_must_reject_burn_a_quran_day.html . 2011-09-02.
  16. News: Thinking Christianly about Islam, Muslims, and the Ground-Zero Mosque – Part 2 . Michael Craven . . 2010-09-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120905025144/http://www.christianpost.com/news/thinking-christianly-about-islam-muslims-and-the-ground-zero-mosquepart-2-46658/ . 2012-09-05 . 2011-09-12.
  17. News: IGE and Georgetown Co-host Honest Conversation Between Evangelicals and Muslims . Institute for Global Engagement . 2009-06-23 . 2011-09-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120331165218/http://www.globalengage.org/pressroom/events/941-ige-and-georgetown-co-host-honest-conversation-between-evangelicals-and-muslims.html . 2012-03-31. mirror
  18. News: Roles of Non-Muslim Scholars in Islamic Studies Today: Featuring Dr. Jennifer Bryson . . 2011-09-16 . 2011-09-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110925120401/http://www.zaytunacollege.org/event/islamic_studies . 2011-09-25.
  19. Web site: Kids Zone: Marvel, Believe, Care . The Creation Theology Fellowship.
  20. Web site: Anti-Semitism Among Islamists in Germany . Jennifer S. . Bryson . Hudson Institute . 2019 .
  21. Görres. Ida Friederike. 2020. Translated by Jennifer S. Bryson. Trusting the Church: A Lecture. Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture. 23. 4. 123–147. 10.1353/log.2020.0034. 243289416.
  22. Ratzinger. Joseph. 2020. Translated by Jennifer S. Bryson. Eulogy for Ida Friederike Görres. Logos. 23. 4 . 148–151. 10.1353/log.2020.0036 . 241709476 .
  23. Web site: About . Let All Play.
  24. Web site: FIFA Report . Let All Play.
  25. Web site: Bryson . Jennifer . Women's Liberation: Stop Kidding Yourself .
  26. Web site: Bryson . Jennifer . No Need for Androgynous Societies .

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