Mia Bloom

Mia Bloom is the International Security Fellow at the New America Foundation, a professor at Georgia State University, and a member of the Evidence-Based Cyber Security at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Bloom conducts research in Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia and speaks eight languages. She is the author of several books and articles on violent extremism including Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror (Columbia 2005), Living Together After Ethnic Killing (Routledge 2007) Bombshell: Women and Terror (UPenn 2011), and Small Arms: Children and Terror (Cornell 2019) and Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon with Sophia Moskalenko (Stanford 2021). Her next book, Veiled Threats: Women and Jihad is expected in 2022. Bloom is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has held appointments at Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, and McGill Universities. She serves on the Counter-Radicalization boards of the Anti Defamation League, the UN Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (UNCTED), Women Without Borders, and WASL – Women’s Action and Security Leadership Network. Bloom has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, a Masters in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, and a Bachelors degree from McGill in Russian, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies