{"id":19911,"date":"2015-11-18T17:03:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T22:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=19911"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:51:15","slug":"jessica-stern","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jessica-stern\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Stern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Stern is a research professor at Boston University\u2019s Pardee School of Global Studies and a globally leading expert on perpetrator psychology. She is a 2024-2025 Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar. Stern has taught courses on counter-terrorism for 25 years \u2013 at Boston University, Harvard, and CIA University. She is currently offering courses at the Pardee School on the psychology and history of terrorism. Her research has been supported by DOJ, DHS, NATO, NSF, and MacArthur Foundation. Stern\u2019s current research on a book on preventing public violence is under contract with Harvard University Press. She is the coauthor with J.M. Berger of <em>ISIS: The State of Terror<\/em>; and the author of <em>My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide<\/em>; <em>Denial: A Memoir of Terror<\/em>; <em>Terror in the Name of God<\/em>; and <em>The Ultimate Terrorists<\/em>. Stern served on President Clinton\u2019s National Security Council Staff in 1994-95. She was included among seven \u201cthinkers\u201d in Time Magazine\u2019s 2001 series profiling 100 innovators. She was selected as a John Simon Guggenheim fellow in 2009, a World Economic Forum fellow from 2002-2004, an International Affairs fellow in 1994, and elected to Sigma Xi, an engineering honors society, in 1986. Stern advises a number of government agencies on issues related to terrorism. She has a bachelor\u2019s degree from Barnard College in chemistry, a master\u2019s degree from MIT in technology policy, and a doctorate from Harvard University in public policy. She is a 2016 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Stern\u2019s areas of expertise include terrorism, trauma, rape, atrocities, and post-traumatic growth.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62472,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19911\/revisions\/62472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}