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Kerry Ann Carter Persen
Research Affiliate
Kerry Ann Carter Persen is an affiliate of the Digital Intelligence (DigIntel) Lab at IFTF. She is also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Her research focuses on countering violent extremism and misinformation in the Islamic World.
She is a Junior Fellow at the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies, a 2017 United States Institute for Peace Scholar, a 2017 Young Southeast Asia Fellow at the Southeast Asia Research Group, and a Junior Research Affiliate at the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Horowitz Foundation, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, and the Vice Provost for Graduate Education at Stanford University, among others.
She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from Stanford University. Prior to graduate school, she spent a year in Central Java, Indonesia on a Fulbright Scholarship and graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin College with a double major in Government and Economics.