Dr. Mia Bloom – Univ. of Georgia

Dr. Mia Mellissa Bloom is the author of Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror (NY: Columbia University Press 2005 and 2007), an edited volume entitled Living Together After Ethnic Killing (with Roy Licklider) (London: Routledge 2006) on post civil war reconciliation, and articles on the 1990 "proxy bomb" campaign in Northern Ireland (Social Research, July 2008) co-authored with John Horgan. Bloom is currently completing a book on the deliberate use of rape during war tentatively entitled Gendercide: the Strategic Logic of Rape and War for Cornell University Press and Bombshell: Women and Terror for Penguin Press.

Bloom is an assistant professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at the University of Georgia in Athens and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has held research and teaching appointments at Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, and McGill Universities. She 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 and speaks nine languages. She appears regularly on CNN, Fox News, CSPAN, NBC Nightly News, and has been interviewed by Jim Lehrer, Ted Koppel, and Jesse Pearson for MTV.