Susan D. Blum

Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director of the Center
for Asian Studies
(PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994)
614 Flanner Hall
574-631-3762
email: sblum@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~anthro/faculty/Blum.html

Geographic focus: Asia (China) and the US.

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

Selected publications: My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture (Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2009); Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication (Oxford University Press, 2008); Lies that Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007 ); China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom (University of Hawai'i Press, 2002); Portraits of "Primitives": Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).