Mia Bloom

Mia Mellissa Bloom is Professor at Georgia State University and the International Security Fellow at New America. She has written six books on terrorism and extremism including: Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror (Columbia University Press 2005), Living Together After Ethnic Killing edited with Roy Licklider (Routledge 2007), Bombshell: Women and Terror (University of Pennsylvania Press 2011, Small Arms: Children and Terrorism (Cornell University Press 2019 ), and Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon (Stanford/Redwood Press 2021) co-authored with Sophia Moskalenko. Mia is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a board member for Women without Borders and has held research or teaching appointments at Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, and McGill Universities. 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 Islamic, Russian & Middle East Studies. Her next book, Veiled Threats: Women and Jihad, is expected in the summer of 2024 with Cornell University Press. Her DoD Minerva Research is ongoing and explores insider threats in the US military, How weaponized conspiracy theories impact democracies, & AI and foreign malign influence operations.