Susan Blum

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Director, Center for Asian Studies
Acting Chairperson, Department of Anthropology (Fall 2008)

Degrees

B.A., Stanford University; M.A. (Far Eastern Languages and Literatures ), M.A. (Anthropology), University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of Michigan

Research Profile

Blum is a cultural and linguistic anthropologist whose research focuses on China and the United States. Her books include My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture (forthcoming), Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication (Oxford, 2008), Lies that Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), Portraits of 'Primitives': Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) and China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom (Hawaii, 2002), co-edited with Lionel M. Jensen. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society, among other agencies. She has published articles in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Language in Society, The Journal of Asian Studies, Modern China, Journal of Anthropological Research, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, and elsewhere. In addition to directing the Center for Asian Studies, she teaches courses on anthropological theory, linguistic anthropology, psychological anthropology, childhood and education, food and culture, and China.

Contact Information

614 Flanner Hall
631-3762
sblum@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~sblum