Mia M. Bloom 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

Women's studies

Women's studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field which explores politics, society and history from an intersectional, multicultural women's perspective...

 and international studies at the Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University

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 in University Park, PA

University Park, Pennsylvania

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 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

University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs

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 at the University of Georgia

University of Georgia

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 in Athens

Athens, Georgia

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, Georgia

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With research specialties in ethnic conflict, rape

Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or with a person who is incapable of valid consent. The...

 in war, and child soldiers, Bloom was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations

Council on Foreign Relations

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 from 2003-2008.

Bloom has a PhD

PHD

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 in political science from Columbia University

Columbia University

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, a Masters in Arab Studies from Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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 and a Bachelors from McGill University

McGill University

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 in Russian and Middle East

Middle East

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 Studies. She completed a year in the overseas program at Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

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 and a semester at the Arab Language Institute (ALI) at the American University of Cairo.
She has held research or teaching appointments at Rutgers

Rutgers University

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, Princeton

Princeton University

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, Cornell

Cornell University

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, Harvard

Harvard University

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, and McGill

McGill University

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 Universities and speaks eight languages.
She regularly appears on Fox News, CNN

CNN

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, CSPAN, CBC

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 and CTV

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 and has been interviewed by Jim Lehrer

Jim Lehrer

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 for PBS, Ted Koppel

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 for Nightline

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, and Jesse Pearson

Jesse Pearson

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 for MTV

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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

The Troubles

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" in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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. Her third book:Bombshell: The Many Faces of Women Terrorists http://www.amazon.ca/dp/0670069825 is published by Penguin

Penguin

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 (Canada) and in the US by the University of Pennsylvania Press

University of Pennsylvania Press

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 and in the UK by Hurst

Hurst

-People:* Alan Hurst * Alan Hurst , British politician* Brian Desmond Hurst, an Irish film director* Bruce Hurst, a former Major League Baseball pitcher* Charles Angas Hurst, an Australian Mathematical Physicist...

(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 http://www.amazon.com/dp/0231133219.
• "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