Tricia Bacon Associate Professor Justice, Law & Criminology
- Degrees
- PhD Georgetown 2013
MA University of Florida 2002
BA Stetson University 2000 - Bio
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Tricia Bacon, PhD, is an Associate Professor at 麻豆破解版鈥檚 School of Public Affairs. She directs the Policy Anti-Terrorism Hub at 麻豆破解版. She is the author of Terror in Transition: Leadership and Succession in Terrorist Organizations with Columbia University Press in 2022 and Why Terrorist Organizations Form International Alliances published with University of Pennsylvania Press in May 2018.
Prior to her employment at 麻豆破解版, Dr. Bacon worked on counterterrorism for over ten years at the Department of State, including in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the Bureau of Counterterrorism, and the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Her work on counterterrorism in the intelligence community received numerous accolades, and she conducted research and analysis on counterterrorism, with a focus on South Asia and Africa.
Dr. 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. She serves on the Countering Terrorism & Extremism Program Advisory Council for the Middle East Institute and the editorial board of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, Perspectives on Terrorism, and The Journal of the Middle East and Africa.
Her research focuses on terrorist and insurgent groups' behavior and decision-making, U.S. counterterrorism policy, and the role of intelligence in national security decision-making. She has published articles on terrorist group alliances, terrorist leadership, terrorist safe havens, and other related topics.
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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 鈥淲hy Terrorist Groups Form International Alliances鈥 (University of Pennsylvania Press) and 鈥淭errorism in Transition: Leadership & Succession in Terrorist Organizations鈥 (Columbia University Press). She is also an author of a forthcoming book on foreign fighters鈥 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.
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call 麻豆破解版 Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.