Jessica Stern | |
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Born | February 11, 1958 |
Education | Columbia University (BS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS), Harvard University (PhD) |
Spouse | Chester G. Atkins |
Children | 1 |
Website | jessicasternbooks |
Jessica Eve Stern (born February 11, 1958) 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 book ISIS: The State of Terror (2015), was co-authored with J.M. Berger.