Mia Bloom

Mia Bloom

Mia M. Bloom (born 1968) is the author of Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror, a critically acclaimed study on suicide terrorism and Bombshell: The Many Faces of Women Terrorists.

Bloom is currently an associate professor of women's studies and international studies at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA and a fellow at the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at Penn State. Previously she was an assistant professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.

With research specialties in ethnic conflict, rape in war, and child soldiers, Bloom was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations from 2003-2008.

Bloom has a PhD in political science from Columbia University, a Masters in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and a Bachelors from McGill University in Russian and Middle East Studies. She completed a year in the overseas program at Tel Aviv University and a semester at the Arab Language Institute (ALI) at the American University of Cairo. She has held research or teaching appointments at Rutgers, Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, and McGill Universities and speaks eight languages. She regularly appears on Fox News, CNN, CSPAN, CBC and CTV and has been interviewed by Jim Lehrer for PBS, Ted Koppel for Nightline, and Jesse Pearson for MTV.

Bloom is researching many aspects of political violence including the growing phenomenon of child terrorists, the radicalization of Muslims in Europe and America, and "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland. Her third book:Bombshell: The Many Faces of Women Terrorists [1] is published by Penguin (Canada) and in the US by the University of Pennsylvania Press and in the UK by Hurst (forthcoming summer 2011). Bloom is currently writing a book on the deliberate use of Rape during War tentatively called "Gendercide: the Strategic Logic of Rape During War".

Publications

  • "Bombshell: The Many Faces of Women Terrorists" Toronto: Penguin (Canada), 2011
  • "Death Becomes Her: Women, Occupation, and Terrorist Mobilization." PS: Political Science & Politics, Volume 43, Issue 03, July 2010, 445-450 available online
  • "What the Tigers Taught Al-Qaeda" Washington Post Op-Ed, May 24, 2009
  • "Chasing Rainbows and Butterflies: A Critique of Arie Kruglanski et al." Political Psychology, 2009, 30(3), 387-395
  • With Horgan, J. (2008). "Missing their Mark: The IRA Proxy Bomb Campaign 1990" Social Research: International Quarterly of the Social Sciences. Special Issue: Martyrdom, Self-sacrifice, and Self-Denial, 75, 2, 579-614.
  • "Female Suicide Bombers: Global Trends" Daedalus, vol. 136:1 (2007) available online
  • "Terror's Stealth Weapon: Women" Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, November 29, 2005
  • Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror. NY: Columbia University Press, 2005 [2].
  • "Mother, Daughter. Sister, Bomber" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist Volume 61, Number 6, November / December 2005
  • "Saudi’s Grimm Brothers: Suicide Bombers." Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, July 17, 2005.
  • Palestinian Suicide Bombing: Public Support, Market Share and Outbidding. Political Science Quarterly, volume 119 number 1, Spring 2004, 61-88.
  • Ethnic Conflict, State Terror and Suicide Bombing in Sri Lanka. Civil Wars, Frank Cass, (Volume 6 No. 2, Spring 2003), 54-84.
  • In the Belly of the Tigers World Press Review, available online

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