Susan D. Blum

Professor of Anthropology, Department Chair
(PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994)
614 Flanner Hall
574-631-3762
email: sblum@nd.edu
http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-staff/blum_susan/index.shtml
http://SusanBlum.com

Geographic focus: Asia (China) and the US; cross-cultural comparison.

Thematic interests: Cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, ethnicity and nationalism, multilingualism, deception and truth, censorship, new media, childhood and education, plagiarism, food and culture, and social theory.

Selected publications: My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture (Cornell University Press, 2009); Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication (Oxford University Press, 2009); Lies that Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007 ); China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom (co-edited with Lionel M. Jensen; University of Hawai'i Press, 2002); Portraits of "Primitives": Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).

Selected videos:
http://video.nd.edu/288-academically-speaking-susan-d-blum 03/31/2010
http://video.nd.edu/48-2008-olympics-susan-blum 08/03/2008