Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a professor in the School of Public Affairs and the School of Education at American University in Washington, D.C., where she is also the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). She is a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Entrepreneur and recently served as the inaugural creative lead for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s residency program on social cohesion in Berlin, Germany. Miller-Idriss regularly testifies before the U.S. Congress and 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. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of six books, including Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right (Princeton University Press, 2022), and she is currently at work on a new book on the gendered dimensions of violent extremism. Miller-Idriss is also an opinion columnist for MSNBC and has recent bylines in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, Politico, USA Today, and The Boston Globe.