Anna is an author of the book Terrorist Propaganda, Recruitment and Branding: Selling Terror Online and has a PhD in International studies from Queen’s University Belfast. She also holds an MA in International Conflict Studies from King’s College London and MSc in Security Studies from UCL.

Anna’s research interests are focusing on terrorist propaganda. She is particularly interested in exploring the role of marketing and social media in the recruitment process and extremists’ content creation as well as the role of disinformation and misinformation. In her research, Anna is looking at jihadist, far-right and mixed ideology groups in the West and in Russia/post-Soviet space.

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Bloom conducts research in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia and speaks eight languages. She is the author of six books and over 80 articles on violent extremism including Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror (Columbia 2005), Bombshell: Women and Terror (University of Pennsylvania 2011), 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 in expected in 2024 with Cornell University Press. 

Bloom was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and has held research or teaching positions at Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, and McGill Universities. She advises national and international human rights organizations and serves on the Counter-Radicalization working group of the Anti-Defamation League, the UN Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate (UNCTED), and on the board of Women Without Borders.

Bloom has a PhD in political science from Columbia University, Masters in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and Bachelors in Russian, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from McGill University.

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