The Alaska World Affairs Council Presents

Mia Bloom

"Assistant Professor in the
School of International and Public Affairs
at the University of Georgia"

"Suicide Terrorism"

Friday, 30th May, 2008 – Hilton Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 a.m. - Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
RSVP by Wednesday, 28th May to the Alaska World Affairs Council
by telephone 276-8038 or by email to AlaskaWorldAffairs.org .
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only

Mia Mellissa Bloom is the author of Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror (NY: Columbia University Press 2005 and 2007) and an edited volume entitled: Living Together After Ethnic Killing with Roy Licklider (London: Routledge 2006) regarding post civil war reconciliation. Her research on female terrorists appears in the June/July 2007 issue of the Department of State’s: Countering the Terrorists’ Mentality. Bloom is currently completing a book on rape and war, articles on women and terrorism, and the 1990 "proxy bomb" campaign in Northern Ireland co-authored with Dr. John Horgan (Social Research, forthcoming).

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 or teaching appointments at Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, and McGill Universities.

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 and speaks nine languages. She regularly appears on CNN, Fox News, CSPAN, NBC Nightly News, and has been interviewed by Jim Lehrer, Ted Koppel, and Jesse Pearson for MTV.