Affiliated Scholars

Dr. Jennifer Bryson

Email: jbryson@winst.org
Articles on Public Discourse

Jennifer Bryson studied Political Science as an undergraduate at Stanford, medieval European intellectual history for an M.A. in History at Yale, and Greco-Arabic and Islamic studies for a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale. She has worked in journalism and for the Department of Defense. For Department of Defense she has provided outreach to and analysis about Egyptian Islamic newspapers, as well as outreach in Yemen to media, madrasas, and civil society institutions. She managed a counter-terrorism research team for two years for Department of Defense and for this work twice received the Defense Civilian Meritorious Service Award. She most recently worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense where she was the lead Action Officer for countering ideological support to terrorism in the Office of Support to Public Diplomacy. Dr. Bryson has near-native fluency in German, professional-fluency in Arabic, and has reading knowledge of Latin, Greek, Syriac, French, and Persian.