# Audrey Kurth Cronin **Entity class:** Person; terrorism and security-technology scholar ## Definition **Audrey Kurth Cronin** is Director and Trustees Professor of Security and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University's Institute for Strategy and Technology. Her work examines terrorism, political violence, and the way widely available technologies change conflict, organization, recruitment, mobilization, and counterterrorism. Her books include *How Terrorism Ends* and *Power to the People*. ## Why This Person Is Included Cronin supplies the collection's terrorism-and-technology bridge. Bryant McGill includes her because terrorism and counterterrorism are adaptive sociotechnical systems: tools change organizational possibilities, communication structures, operational capability, recruitment, and vulnerability. Her work gives a documented scholarly lineage to the collection's decision to treat technology as part of terrorism's morphology rather than as equipment added after the fact. ## Relationships - **studies:** [[wiki/Terrorism|Terrorism]], [[wiki/Counterterrorism|Counterterrorism]], [[wiki/Terrorist Organization|Terrorist Organization]], and [[wiki/Future of Political Violence|Future of Political Violence]]. - **technology bridge:** [[wiki/Emerging Technology|Emerging Technology]], [[wiki/Innovation and Terrorism|Innovation and Terrorism]], [[wiki/Social Media and Terrorism|Social Media and Terrorism]], and [[wiki/autonomous systems and military simulation|Autonomous Systems]]. - **collection role:** close subject-matter neighbor in [[wiki/Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection|Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Carnegie Mellon University, “Audrey Kurth Cronin”](https://www.cmu.edu/cmist/about-us/people/director/audrey-cronin.html) (accessed 2026-09-23). **As of:** 2026-09-23