Jennifer S. Bryson

Jennifer S. Bryson is Director of Operations and Development at the Center for Islam and Religious Freedom. She previously worked at the Witherspoon Institute and spent the years 2004–2006 as an interrogator at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps.[1][2] 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.

Jennifer S. Bryson
Jennifer S. Bryson, while working for the U.S. Embassy in Yemen.
NationalityUSA
OccupationAcademic, U.S. government, interrogator
Known forserved as an interrogator at Guantanamo


Education
Education[1]
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.[3]

Bryson is a member of the Phi Alpha Theta honor society.[4]

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.[5]

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.[3] 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.[6]

Career at the Department of Defense

Bryson served as an interrogator in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, from 2004–2006.[5] She managed a counter-terrorism analysis team.[2][6][7] 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.[8]

Academic career

After her public service Bryson became the Director of the Islam and Civil Society Project at the Witherspoon Institute.[6] She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Global Engagement.[9][10] 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.[11]

The Christian Post described Bryson as a "Christian scholar".[12] In 2009 Bryson was on a panelist in a dialogue between evangelicals and Muslims.[13] In September 2011 Bryson was a presenter at a conference on the role of non-Muslim scholars in Islamic Studies.[14]

References
  1. . Witherspoon Institute https://www.webcitation.org/query. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-11. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. "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.
  3. 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.
  4. "Phi Alpha Theta Initiate". The Historian. 2005-12-02. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2005.00131.x.
  5. "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.
  6. "About iDiplomacy". November 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24.
  7. 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.
  8. "Jennifer Bryson". Institute for Global Engagement. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
  9. "About the authors". Religion, Faith and International Affairs. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24.
  10. "Board of Directors". Institute for Global Engagement. 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
  11. "Christians must reject "Burn a Quran Day"". Washington Post. August 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
  12. 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.
  13. "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
  14. "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.
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