Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Costs of War

Megan K. McBride

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a Research Analyst

Megan McBride is currently working on her Ph.D. in Religious Studies, focusing on religious violence and terrorism, at Brown University. She has an M.A. in Liberal Arts from the Great Books program at St. John's College, and an M.A. in Government from Johns Hopkins University where her thesis led to the article, "The Logic of Terrorism: Existential Anxiety, the Search for Meaning, and Terrorist Ideologies" (Terrorism and Political Violence, 2011).

Areas of Interest: Terrorist threats, Iraq war