Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Cynthia Miller-Idriss

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss is an award-winning author and scholar of extremism and radicalization. She is the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) at the American University in Washington, DC, where she is also a Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education. She regularly testifies before the U.S. Congress or briefs policy, security, education and intelligence agencies in the U.S., the United Nations, and other countries on trends in domestic violent extremism and strategies for prevention and disengagement. 

Miller-Idriss is the author of Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right and Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism. She is an opinion columnist for MSNBC and writes for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, Politico, USA Today, The Boston Globe, and . Cynthia appears regularly in the media as an expert source and political commentator, including regular appearances on as well as other news programs, PBS News Hour, NPR’s and , MSNBC’s , NBC’s , C-SPAN’s , NBC’s  ABC’s , CBS’ Morning Show, and in global news outlets in over a dozen countries, including BBC News, Deutsche Welle, France 24, and al Jazeera.

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