Stern on WBUR’s Weekend Edition on Trauma and Terrorism
Jessica Stern, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed for a recent radio segment on how to prevent people on the fringe of society from becoming terrorists.
Stern was interviewed for a May 4, 2019 segment on WBUR’s Weekend Edition entitled “To Prevent Terrorist Attacks, Researcher Says We Should Look To Trauma.”
Stern has held fellowships awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Erik Erikson Institute, and the MacArthur Foundation. She was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, a National Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a Fellow of the World Economic Forum. Stern taught as a Lecturer at Harvard University from 1999-2015. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, she worked in government, serving on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff and as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Stern has nearly completed her training as an Advanced Academic Candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis. Learn more about her here.