Jessica Stern

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<p>Jessica Stern is a leading expert on terrorism and trauma. Stern is the coauthor with J. M. Berger of<em> ISIS: The State of Terror</em> and the author of <em>Denial: A Memoir of Terror</em> and <em>Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill,</em> selected by the <em>New York Times</em> as a notable book of the year. She has held fellowships awarded by the Guggenheim Foundation, the 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 is a research professor at Boston University. Prior to teaching, she worked in government, serving on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff and as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.</p>