Cynthia Hess

Cynthia Hess is Consulting Study Director at the Institute for Women?s Policy Research in Washington DC. She has directed IWPR?s research on women?s activism and is the principal investigator for its new project on women, immigration, and religion, both supported by the Ford Foundation. Her academic publications include Sites of Violence, Sites of Grace: Christian Nonviolence and the Traumatized Self and articles on terrorism, traumatic violence, and religious peacemaking.