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Prescott Campus

College of Arts and Sciences

About the Dean

Dr. Richard W. Bloom is Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Professor, Political and Clinical Psychology; and Director, Terrorism, Intelligence, and Security Studies, at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Ariz.  Dr. Bloom has worked for the United States government as an intelligence operations manager, intelligence analyst, special operations planner, special planner, politico-military planner, and military clinical psychologist.Dr. Richard Bloom

Dr. Richard W. Bloom is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the Prescott, Ariz., campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Dr. Bloom conducts and reviews applied research and policy analysis and provides consultation services on aviation intelligence and security systems. His specialties include threat, vulnerability, and risk assessment; personnel security and counterintelligence; collection and analysis; covert action; antiterrorism and counterterrorism; and the psychology of information warfare. Dr. Bloom also teaches courses covering clinical, political, philosophical, and theoretical psychology as well as critiques of postmodern approaches to autobiography and biography.

Before joining Embry-Riddle, Dr. Bloom worked for the U.S. government as an intelligence operations manager, intelligence analyst, psychological operations planner, special planner, politico-military planner, and military clinical psychologist.

He is an appointee on the Governor of Arizona’s Homeland Security Coordinating Council and Vice Chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Aviation Security and Emergency Management Task Force under the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Bloom is a past president of the Military Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association; a fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology, the Society of Personality Assessment, and the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society; a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology; and a member of the Association for Intelligence Officers.