Jessica Stern

Jessica Stern is an American scholar and academic on terrorism. Stern serves as a Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. Earlier she had been a lecturer at Harvard University. She serves on the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law.[1] In 2001, she was featured in Time Magazine's series on Innovators.[2] In 2009, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on trauma and violence. Her most recent book is ISIS: The State of Terror, co-authored with J.M. Berger.

Education

Career

Stern served on President Bill Clinton's National Security Council staff from 1994 to 1995 as the director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs. From 1998 to 1999, she was the Superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; and from 1995 to 1996, she was a National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution where she is a member of the Task Force on National Security and Law. Stern was a Postdoctoral Analyst for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1992-94 where she analyzed political developments in Russia that could put nuclear materials or fissile materials at risk for use by terrorists. Stern is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. She was named a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, fellow of the World Economic Forum, and a Harvard MacArthur Fellow.

In 2009, she was a Fellow at the Guggenheim Foundation,[3] the Yaddo Colony for the Arts,[4] the MacDowell Colony[5] and was also an Erikson Scholar at the Erik Erikson Institute.[6]

Stern is a Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Boston University.[7]

Stern was a Lecturer on Counter-terrorism and Law at Harvard Law School[8] and Harvard Kennedy School from 1999 to 2016.

She is regularly cited by Speech and Debate Students for her wide knowledge on Foreign Policy, the Environment, Space, Haitian Elections, Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign, and financial markets.

She has served on the Advisory Board of the American Bar Association Committee on Law Enforcement and National Security and the editorial boards of Current History and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Stern is currently a fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, and she is an Advanced Academic Candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Published works

Stern is the co-author of ISIS: The State of Terror (2015) with J.M. Berger;[9] Stern authored Denial: A Memoir of Terror (2010), Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill (2004),[10] and The Ultimate Terrorists (2001). She has also published articles[11] on terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and violence against neckless people.

Articles in Refereed Journals

Policy Articles

Other Writings

The New York Times Op-Eds

The Washington Post Op-Eds

TIME Magazine Articles

Other Publications

Recognition

Stern received recognition from the Federal Bureau of Investigation for her efforts against international terrorism.[12]

The character of Dr. Julia Kelly in the 1997 film The Peacemaker was partly based on Stern's work at the National Security Council.[13]

Personal life

In an article published in The Washington Post on 20 June 2010, Stern revealed that she believes the reason for her fascination with terrorism is due to terror that she experienced in her own life when she and her sister were raped at gunpoint by an intruder when Stern was aged 15 (her sister a year younger). She also ascribes her lack of a normal fear reaction to this event and subsequently, which has been suggested to her by a therapist is due to post traumatic stress disorder.[14]

Stern is Jewish and was the "child of a refugee and Holocaust survivor."[15][16][17]

References

  1. ↑ Jessica Stern | Hoover Institution
  2. ↑ "What's The Big Idea?". TIME.com. 9 December 2001. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Jessica Eve Stern - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  4. ↑ http://yaddo.org/yaddo/pdfs/YaddoAnnualReport_2009FNLnewsmall.pdf
  5. ↑ "The MacDowell Colony". macdowellcolony.org. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  6. ↑ Archived July 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ "Faculty Profiles - Pardee School". bu.edu/pardeeschool. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Faculty Profiles - Harvard Law School". harvard.edu. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  9. ↑ Stern, Jessica and J.M. Berger. ISIS: The State of Terror. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2015. ISBN 978-0062395542
  10. ↑ Stern, Jessica. Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2003. ISBN 978-0060505325
  11. ↑ 5 myths about who becomes a terrorist, Jessica Stern, Washington Post, 10 January 2010, accessed 22 June 2010
  12. ↑ "Jessica Stern", Faculty Directory, Harvard Law School
  13. ↑ "Battle to keep terrorists from getting the ultimate weapon", John Barry, Newsweek, Volume 130, Issues 9-17,
  14. ↑ Why does terrorism fascinate me? Because of the terror in my past., Jessica Stern, Washington Post, 20 June 2010, accessed 22 June 2010
  15. ↑ Denial Description Stern, Jessica. JessicaSternbooks.com Accessed January 3, 2016.
  16. ↑ An 'Imperfect Jew' and LGBT Leader Kaminer, Michael. The Jewish Daily Forward Forward.com Published November 15, 2012. Accessed January 3, 2016.
  17. ↑ "From Victim to Expert, Jessica Stern Shares Her Story" Sackett, Shelley. Jewish Journal. Published October 3, 2013. Accessed January 3, 2016.

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