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: Women and Terrorism .
Bloom is currently a Professor of Security Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Prior to this appointment in July 2013 Bloom was an associate professor of 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.
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 is known for her work on suicide terrorism, women and terrorism, the growing phenomenon of child terrorists, the radicalization of Muslims in Europe and America, and the role of women in"the Troubles" in Northern Ireland.
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, C-SPAN, CBC and CTV and has been interviewed by Jim Lehrer for PBS, Ted Koppel for Nightline, and Jesse Pearson for MTV. Bloom analyzed the changing role of women and terrorism in a TEDxPSU talk in December 2011 .
Bombshell is published by Penguin (Canada) and in the US by the University of Pennsylvania Press and in the UK by Hurst. She is writing a book on the deliberate use of Rape during War tentatively called "Gendercide: the Strategic Logic of Rape During War" and articles on the growing exploitation of children by terrorist networks in Pakistan and the MENA region.
Publications
- Bombshells: Women and Terror. Gender Issues Vol. 28, Numbers 1-2, 1-21
- "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 .
- "Mother, Daughter. Sister, Bomber" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist Volume 61, Number 6, November / December 2005
- "Saudi’s Grimm Exports: 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
References
- International Center for the Study of Terrorism, Penn State
- Bio at ICST
- Mia Bloom at CU
- Review of Dying to Kill (Foreign Affairs)
- Review of Dying to Kill by Joseph T. McCann, Binghamton University (Journal of Conflict Studies)
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