Jessica Stern is a research professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, and a fellow at both Hoover Institution and Harvard’s School of Public Health. She is the coauthor, with J.M. Berger, of ISIS: The State of Terror, and the author of Denial: A Memoir of Terror, Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, and The Ultimate Terrorists. In 2009, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on trauma and terror. At MacDowell, she completed a section of a book she is writing on war criminal Radovan Karadzic. Stern taught at Harvard University from 1999-2015. She served on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff in 1994-1995. She was included in Time Magazine’s 2001 series profiling 100 people with bold ideas. Stern advises a number of government agencies on issues related to terrorism. She has a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College in chemistry, a master’s degree from MIT in technology policy, and a doctorate from Harvard University in public policy.
Jessica Stern
Studios
Mansfield
Jessica Stern worked in the Mansfield studio.
The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…