Jennifer S. Bryson
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Jennifer S. Bryson is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) in Washington, DC.
She is currently translating works by the Catholic author Ida Friederike Görres from German to English and studying the work of Oda Schneider (1892–1987). Schneider wrote what may be the first book ever (1934) against the ordination of women and several books of insightful spiritual reflections.
In 2026, she plans to translate work by Joseph von Görres, Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI), and Oda Schneider.
She is an adult convert to Catholicism. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Books Translated by Jennifer Bryson
Jennifer has a BA from Stanford University in Political Science, an MA from Yale University in History, and a PhD from Yale in Greco-Arabic and Islamic Studies from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. As an undergraduate at Stanford, she studied Marxism-Leninism for two semesters at the Karl Marx University in the former East Germany. A list of Jennifer's translations and academic publications is at Academia.edu.
She writes on the Catholic Church, questions of man and woman in society, foreign affairs, and how to keep politics out of sports for journals such as Crisis Magazine, One Peter Five, The Lamp, and Public Discourse. She is a Contributor to Creation Theology Fellowship, where readers can find her Marvel, Believe, Care Creation Coloring Book and her puppet show, The Days of Creation.
She was a 2019 Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow. In 2019 She was a Visiting Fellow at the Hudson Institute. From 2009 - 2018 she studied and worked with Muslims who support religious freedom. From 2009 - 2014 she was Director of the Islam and Civil Society Project at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ, and from 2014-2016 she was founding Director at the Zephyr Institute in Palo Alto, CA.
She taught part-time 2010-2017 and was a Visiting Professor 2012-2013 at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, PA. From late 2001-2008 she worked for the U.S. Department of Defense. Her assignments included strategic outreach to media and civil society institutions in Egypt and Yemen, working at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and serving on the Policy staff of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
While working for DIA, she was an interrogator at Guantanamo from 2004 - 2006. She has written about her experience at Guantanamo at The Public Discourse and The Lamp. In 2023, The Irish Catholic published a feature article about her work on this topic. She is a member of the Group of Friends Experts for the Convention against Torture Initiative 2024 (cti2024).
From 2021 to 2023 she was a Visiting Researcher at the European Institute for Philosophy and Theology at Hochschule Heiligenkreuz in Austria.
Jennifer is the Founder of the Sports Policy Initiative, a project advocating to get activist causes out of sports, for example, ending the placement of symbols and messages of activist causes on sports uniforms and equipment. She wrote the 2025 report, "Reclaim Team USA Sports from Activism."
Outside the office, Jennifer enjoys gardening, walking her dog Poppy, ice skating, and riding her bicycle for day-to-day transportation.
