Jennifer Bryson
Fellow
Jennifer Bryson, Ph.D., is a Fellow in EPPC’s Catholic Women’s Forum. Currently, she is translating the works of Ida Friederike Görres (1901–1971) from German to English. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Jennifer Bryson, Ph.D., is a Fellow in EPPC’s Catholic Women’s Forum. Currently, she is translating the works of Ida Friederike Görres (1901-1971) from German to English. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Dr. Bryson grew up in California. She has studied and worked in Egypt and Yemen, been an intelligence agent for the Defense Intelligence Agency, including two years as an interrogator at Guantanamo, and worked at several research institutes, including the Witherspoon Institute and Religious Freedom Institute. Dr. Bryson has written extensively on foreign affairs, sex, marriage, and other issues. Her articles are at jenniferbryson.net.
Dr. Bryson earned her B.A. from Stanford in Political Science, her M.A. in medieval European intellectual History from Yale, and her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Yale, with a focus on Greco-Arabic and Islamic studies. She learned German in high school in Austria and while studying Marxism-Leninism for a year in former East Germany as an undergraduate. Bryson was an Earhart Fellow, a Richard M. Weaver Fellow of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and a Fulbright Scholar. Her Ph.D. work included the study of translation theory.
From 2021–2023 she was a Visiting Researcher at the Pope Benedict XVI Philosophical-Theological Institute, known as Hochschule Heiligenkreuz, in Austria, while translating several works by Ida Görres. Her translations include the German government’s report, “Anti-Semitism among Islamists in Germany,” Görres’ 1970 lecture “Trusting the Church,” and Görres’ book The Church in the Flesh.
Bryson is an adult Catholic convert.
Discussion Guide: John Henry Newman: A Life Sacrificed
Jennifer Bryson
Ida Friederike Görres / October 18, 2024
Reintroducing Secularized Catholics to the Angels
Jennifer Bryson
Me and the Angels My spiritual background is an example of how much our secular culture and our ailing Church…
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OnePeterFive / October 2, 2024
Newman and the Work of Ida Friederike Görres
Jennifer Bryson
In Munich in the 1990s, a previously unknown manuscript of an unpublished book about John Henry Newman written fifty years…
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Newman Review / September 30, 2024
Why the 2024 Nebraska Pro-Life Ballot Initiative Matters for the Whole Country
Jennifer Bryson
This November voters in Nebraska will be in the unprecedented position of being able to choose between a pro-life and a pro-abortion constitutional amendment.
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Crisis Magazine / July 31, 2024
The “Perfect!” Missal and the Future of the TLM
Jennifer Bryson
There will be a future.
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OnePeterFive / July 15, 2024
Through Lent with the Stations of the Cross
Jennifer Bryson
This book is not about helping Catholics compete in some sort of Lenten Olympics, in which the gold medal goes to the person who can tallying up the most laps around the Lenten track.
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OnePeterFive / February 20, 2024
Ida Friederike Görres: A Forgotten Catholic Rediscovered
Jennifer Bryson
Ida Friederike who??
OnePeterFive / October 24, 2023
Does Modern Man Have a Capacity for Liturgy?
Jennifer Bryson
Does modern man still have a capacity for liturgy?
OnePeterFive / August 17, 2023
Fratelli Non Tutti: Trads Not Included
Jennifer Bryson
Though American tradition-loving Catholics, truly on the margins in the era of Pope Francis, know that we are not included in the “margins” deemed worthy of being “listened” to.
OnePeterFive / August 12, 2023
Teach Children About Creation: Why and How
Jennifer Bryson
Complicated debates about creation rage.
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One Peter Five / July 10, 2023