Education
McGill University; Georgetown University. Columbia University.
author professor of Communication
McGill University; Georgetown University. Columbia University.
She is currently professor of Communication at Georgia State University. Prior to this appointment, Bloom was an associate professor of international studies at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania and a fellow at the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at Penn State. Bloom has written two books - Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror, a study on suicide terrorism and Bombshell: Women and Terrorism.
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. Bloom analyzed the changing role of women and terrorism in a TEDxPSU talk in December 2011.
Bombshell is published in the United States by the University of Pennsylvania Press and in the United Kingdom by Hurst. Bloom is writing a book on children"s involvement in violent extremism and the growing exploitation of children by terrorist networks in Pakistan and the Middle East and North Africa region entitled "Small Arms: Children and Terror" with Doctor John G. Horgan for Cornell University Press and articles on the strategic use of rape for recruitment by violent extremist organisations.
Bloom has a Doctor of Philosophy in political science from Columbia University, a Master"s in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and a Bachelors from McGill University in Russian, Islamic studies and Middle East Studies. She regularly appears on Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, Fox News, Cable News Network, Canadian Broadcasting Company and CTV and has been interviewed by Jim Lehrer for Public Broadcasting Service, Ted Koppel for Nightline, and Jesse Pearson for Music Television.
