assistant professor, Department of Justice, Law & Criminology
Area of Expertise:
U.S. counterterrorism policy, strategies, tactics, and sanctions; U.S. intelligence community; terrorist group leadership, succession, alliances, and cooperation; foreign fighters, state sponsorship of terrorism.
Additional Information:
Prof. Tricia Bacon worked on counter-terrorism for more than a decade at the Department of State, including in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the Bureau of Counterterrorism, and the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. During that time, she worked on counter-terrorism issues in South Asia, Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Her research focuses on U.S. counterterrorism policy as well as terrorist groups' relationships, terrorist group leadership, foreign fighters, and state sponsorship of terrorism. She has expertise in the following terrorist groups: Al-Qaida and affiliates, the Islamic State and affiliates, the Afghan Taliban, the Islamic State in Khorasan, al-Shabaab, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, the Pakistani Taliban; and regions: Africa, South Asia, & the Middle East. Prof. Bacon is the author of “Why Terrorist Groups Form International Alliances” (University of Pennsylvania Press) and “Terrorism in Transition: Leadership & Succession in Terrorist Organizations” (Columbia University Press). She is also an author of a forthcoming book on foreign fighters’ influence on insurgencies (Stanford University Press). Prof. Bacon is a non-resident associate fellow with the International Centre for Counter-terrorism and a Senior Associate (non-resident) with the Transnational Threats project at Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Foreign Language Fluency:
n/a
Academic Credentials:
PhD Georgetown 2013, MA University of Florida 2002