
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 while in residence at the Pope Benedict XVI Philosophical-Theological Institute, known as Hochschule Heiligenkreuz, in Austria.
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 while in residence at the Pope Benedict XVI Philosophical-Theological Institute, known as Hochschule Heiligenkreuz, in Austria.
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. Her translations include the German government’s report, “Anti-Semitism among Islamists in Germany” and Görres’ 1970 lecture, “Trusting the Church.”
Bryson is an adult Catholic convert.
Faith, terrorists, and mercy at Guantanamo Bay
September 15, 2023 | BBC News World Service
EPPC scholar and former Guantanamo Bay interrogator Dr Jennifer Bryson appeared on BBC News World Service to discuss torture, faith,…
Jennifer Bryson on Feminism and Marxism
September 11, 2023 | The European Conservative
On September 11, 2023, Fellow Jennifer Bryson was interviewed for The European Conservative about the failures of feminism and how…
VIDEO: Latin study group
July 3, 2023 | SpiritusTV
AUDIO: Jennifer Bryson on Son Rise Morning Show
6/20/2023 |
On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome Jennifer Bryson, a Catholic convert who once worked in interrogation at…
VIDEO: Interrogating Terrorists at Guantanamo Bay
May 30, 2023 | EWTN
AUDIO: Jennifer Bryson on Ida Friederike Görres: The Church in the Flesh
April 28, 2022 | Radio Maria Austria
On April 28, 2022, EPPC Fellow Jennifer S. Bryson spoke with the German-language program “Radio Maria Spektrum” on Radio Maria…
AUDIO: Jennifer Bryson Discusses Ida Friederike Görres on Deep Down Things Podcast
May 18, 2021 | Deep Down Things podcast
EPPC Fellow Jennifer Bryson appeared on the Deep Down Things podcast to discuss the life and work of Ida Friederike Görres, whose work Dr. Bryson is translating from German to English.